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Jihad Rahsheed, 7, holds a poster of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as he attends a wreath laying at the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP)

Republican field rides full force into Florida

International Herald Tribune

Democrats turn to South Carolina, Republicans to Florida

NPR

Businesses support cap and trade

U.S. businesses are betting the federal government soon will put mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and they're making sure they have a say in shaping a new regulatory system.

McClatchy Newspapers

King's vision 'unfinished'

Four decades later, the rioting sparked by the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is a fading memory to many Americans, preserved on grainy photographs and film.

USA Today

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.: 40 days of nonviolence

ABC News

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

TIME

Highly skilled and out of work

Once concentrated among manufacturing workers and those with little work history, long-term unemployment is growing most rapidly among white-collar and college-educated workers.

MSNBC

LA Times editor fired in budget dispute

The Los Angeles Times fired its top editor after he rejected a management order to cut $4 million from the newsroom budget, the newspaper said.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Egypt adds voice to Gaza outcry

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has telephoned the Israeli prime minister to warn him of the humanitarian effects of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

BBC

NATION

Bodies fall out of sky as planes collide

Investigators picked through the gnarled wreckage of two small planes that collided about a mile from an airport, killing five and raining debris and bodies down on car dealership parking lots, in Corona, Calif.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Canadian linked to al-Qaida, plots gets life

A Canadian who briefly became an informant against al-Qaida leaders was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up U.S. Embassies in Singapore and the Philippines.

Seattle Times

POLITICS

How Bush stacks up

A growing stack of Bush books reveals very different presidents as authors try to explain his failures. There’s an even grimmer version — the story of his "success."

Vanity Fair

Bush urges Congress to pass stimulus package 'as soon as possible'

President George W. Bush urged Congress to work with his administration to enact an economic stimulus plan "as soon as possible" to counter growing threats to an economic expansion.

Bloomberg

State Department number 3 leaves

Nicholas Burns, the third-highest State Department official and top U.S. negotiator in talks aimed at thwarting Iran's nuclear program, is resigning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Unimpressed by US stimulus plan, world's markets dive

Asian and European stock markets plunged following declines on Wall Street amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.

Houston Chronicle

Asia stocks drop on recession fears

Reuters

Bank of Japan succession unclear

As Japan struggles with tanking stock markets and spillover from the United States, yet another problem awaits: Who will take charge of the country's central bank?

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Novak Djokovic puts Lleyton Hewitt's Open campaign to bed

Lleyton Hewitt refused to blame exhaustion for his fourth-round Australian Open defeat to Serb Novak Djokovic after punting on raw courage to deliver a miracle win.

Herald Sun

Special section:

Australian Open scoreboard

CBS SportsLine

Pats earn 4th Super Bowl berth in 7 years

Despite a shaky Tom Brady, the New England Patriots were still too much for the banged-up San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship Game, pulling out a 21-12 victory.

ESPN

Special section:

AFC championship stats

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Will you eat meat from cloned animals?

While the movement of meat and milk derived from cloned animals into supermarkets is expected to be slow, the reaction to the news has been swift.

Reuters

Surgery helps woman drop 135 pounds, 10 dress sizes

Standing near the coffin of one of her closest friends, Patty Hill made a promise that would forever change her life.

CNN

RELIGION

2 congregations, 1 message of unity

The Rev. Oliver White of Grace Community Church remembers the first time his black congregation held a joint worship services with a white congregation in St. Paul, Minn., which has continued for 17 years.

Star Tribune

More join fight of 'under God' in Pledge

Interveners won permission to join a federal court case over the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance recited by students and teachers.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Monkey brains make robot walk in Japan

New research allows rhesus monkeys in North Carolina -- just by thinking -- to control robotic arms and legs all the way in Japan.

Good News Network

WORLD

Rising anti-Americanism in Russia

Russia is witnessing a revival of the anti-Americanism that had dissipated with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost half of Russians believe America's objective is Russia's destruction.

U.S. News & World Report

China Web population tops 200 million

The number of Internet users in China soared past 200 million in 2007, a new report from the country's quasi-government Internet overseer said.

PC World

China urges language lessons

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

Brit Prime Minister Brown hails environmental work with China

Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed a new era of environmental cooperation between Britain and China and called for a renewed drive for a world trade deal.

Reuters

Maiden voyage for first commercial ship powered partly by a giant kite

Higher fuel costs and mounting pressure to curb emissions are leading modern merchant fleets to rediscover the ancient power of the sail.

International Herald Tribune

Oil boomtown

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Science and UFO sightings

UFO sightings make the news several times a year. In 2007, eight such episodes attracted headlines. But experts in physics and human psychology say the experiences have scientific explanations.

Newsweek

Astronomy book the blind can appreciate

A new book called "Touch the Invisible Sky" is helping everyone appreciate those pictures, even people who can't see.

Good News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

U2's 3D concert film debuts at Sundance

U2 did what their fans have done for years — stood in line to see U2 perform. That concert was "U2 3D," a film of the band's Vertigo tour, shot with new 3-D technology.

Billboard

'Brady Bunch' actor dies at 84

Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He was 84.

CNN

Suzanne Pleshette dies at 70

CNN

EDUCATION

Dreaming of college? Behave

College applicants with an A-plus in algebra, but C-minus in conduct may discover rejection letters waiting in their mailbox this spring.

San Jose Mercury News

Duct tape on student mouth gets sticky

The lauded Brookline, Mass., school system is weathering embarrassment after a science teacher allegedly stuck duct tape over the mouth of a seventh-grade girl.

Boston Herald

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