The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Fireman Nathaniel Lasseur carries a child who was rescued from under the rubble of a school that collapsed in Petionville, Haiti. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa / AP)

Haiti rescuers search for survivors after school collapse

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Haiti rose to at least 75. 500 people were believed to be inside the three-story La Promesse college in Petionville, on the outskirts of Port au Prince.

Guardian

Democrats' victory triggers gun sales

Gun enthusiasts nationwide are stocking up on firearms out of fears that the combination of an Obama administration and a Democrat-dominated Congress will result in tough new gun laws.

MSNBC

With Obama's win, gun sales go way up

YouTube

US automakers ask Congress for bailout

The heads of Detroit's automakers asked congressional leaders for "immediate and necessary funding" to help the troubled auto industry weather the economic crisis.

CBS News

GM reports $2.5B 3Q loss, says company running out of cash

Google News

Obama: US faces 'greatest economic challenge'

After meeting with his economic advisers about a strategy to right the economy, President-elect Barack Obama warned about the gravity of the situation in his first press conference since his election.

MSNBC

Barack Obama's first press conference as president-elect

CNN

Meet the new chief of staff

ABC News

Gay-marriage ban protesters target Mormon church

More than 2,000 people marched and chanted in front of the West Los Angeles Mormon temple in California, criticizing the church for what they see as its relentless support of discrimination.

NPR

Iraqi forces kill senior al-Qaeda leader

A statement said the Iraqi army and members of a U.S.—backed Sunni Arab neighborhood patrol shot Abu Ghazwan as he hid in the grass near a house they were searching north of Baghdad.

Reuters

Black coach numbers lowest in 15 years

Days after the election of the country's first black president, a study shows the number of African-American coaches in major college football is the lowest in 15 years.

Google News

NATION

US unemployment rate climbs to 14-year high of 6.5 percent

The jobless rate rose to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent the previous month, the Labor Department reported.

Bloomberg

A few bright spots for job seekers

TIME

8-year-old arrested in double-homicide

An 8-year-old Arizona boy may face double-murder charges in the shooting death of his father and another man at the family residence.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Even with mandate, Obama faces difficulty implementing health care plans

President-elect Obama promised to bring health insurance to millions of Americans and to spend $50 billion to take American health records electronic, but he will struggle to find the money to do it.

Reuters

Brokaw reflects on the American presidency

MSNBC

President-elect Barack Obama accepts the mantle

CBS News

MORE POLITICS

Pelosi backs including tax cut in stimulus

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will add a tax cut to an economic stimulus measure Congress will consider early next year.

Bloomberg

Sen. Byrd steps down from Appropriations Committee chairmanship

Sen. Robert Byrd cited the victory of President-elect Barack Obama as the time for new leadership of the committee that doles out more than $1 trillion a year in federal spending.

Google News

Lieberman to Republican caucus?

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman have been talking. McConnell and other Senate Republican leaders have previously said they'd welcome Lieberman to their caucus.

MSNBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Lights out: Activists are showing the darker side of Paris

Meet Le Clan du Néon, a popular environmental movement that wants to make the City of Lights a little darker.

Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google abandons deal with Yahoo

Google has decided to abandon its advertising partnership with Yahoo to avoid a "protracted legal battle" with regulators.

BBC

Obama's win means future elections must be fought online

He may be older than most Facebook users, but Barack Obama understood the potential of social media to communicate and to raise funds — and left his 72-year-old opponent floundering.

Guardian

EDUCATION

Experts recommend strengthening students' critical thinking skills

Experts recommend that Texas schools retain controversial language calling on students to examine the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories to strengthen their critical thinking skills.

MarketWatch

Orleans Parish School Board approves $2 billion schools plan

The Orleans Parish School Board voted to approve a public school facilities master plan, pushing ahead on the largest school-building effort in New Orleans history.

Nola.com

ENVIRONMENT

Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections

In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants, uranium mining and coal mining.

McClatchy

Montana State scientist discovers fungus that could fuel a car

A Montana State University researcher found a microorganism in a South American plant that could fuel vehicles one day.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

Brains are back!

Newsweek

Column:

An open apology to boomers everywhere

Salon.com

Column:

Motor City needs a good ol' fashion shotgun weddin'

Wired

Column (William Pesek):

5 reasons why the Obama victory will relieve Asia

Bloomberg

Column:

Party like it's 2009, 'cuz baby, now the real work begins

San Francisco Chronicle

Column:

Confessions of a drama queen on life without the ACM

Examiner

Editorial:

Recipe for rescuing our reefs

BBC

Editorial:

The Republicans' future

Economist

Column (Richard Kim):

Behind Prop 8's win

The Nation

Column (Timothy Noah):

The uncabinet

Slate

Column (David Johnson):

How McCain lost: message, funding woes

USA Today

Editorial (Nancy Gibbs):

How Obama rewrote the book

TIME

Site edited by: Andrew McMillan, Erin La Rosa, Beverly Stiles, Joe Gold, Tom Moran, Lauren Thurmond, Carlos Wall, Walt Chiu, Orion McClure, Zahra Jaferi and Binal Ghelani.

GOOD NEWS

A tradition of service to Baltimore

It is not in one grand gesture that communities are built or cities develop. Rather, it is by collecting the good will over the years to serve others in a future not even imagined.

Baltimore Sun

India school teaches women to improve their lives and towns

Barefoot College in northern India teaches women skills to bring solar power to their villages and to manage the energy system in rural areas.

PBS

NATION

With voter approval, it's full steam ahead for California's high-speed rail

Even before the final ballots were tallied, California high-speed rail advocates were laying the foundation for a bullet train connnecting San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 2020.

Wired

Spitzer won't be charged in scandal