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File photo of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was wiretaped scheming to sell now President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. (Photo by Randy Squires / AP file)

Obama seeks to avoid taint from Illinois governor

President-elect Obama did his best to distance himself from the spectacular public drama playing out in his home town, refusing to talk about the indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

CBS News

Blagojevich plans to return to work

CNN

Obama reacts to Governor's arrest

Reuters

Obama, Gore meet to talk energy and global warming

Obama pledged to use part of his economic stimulus package to develop green technologies. Aides said the private meeting would help shape the president-elect's economic policies.

CBS News

Deal reached on $14 billion auto bailout

The White House and leading congressional Democrats have reached an agreement on legislation to provide a stopgap bailout to U.S. automakers, according to officials from the administration and Congress.

CNNMoney

Auto bailout deal rescued

MSNBC

Wanted: czar for a crumbling auto empire

Reuters

Pakistan officials confirm details of terrorism arrests

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan confirmed that the police had arrested two members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group named by India as suspects in the attacks on Mumbai.

International Herald Tribune

Pakistan comfirms Mumbai arrests

CNN

Berkeley Council urges war crimes prosecution over torture memos

After a rancorous debate over torture and academic freedom, Berkeley's City Council passed a measure imploring the U.S. to prosecute former White House official John Yoo for war crimes.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Credit unions get $40 billion to aid mortgage losses

Federal regulators said they are making more than $40 billion available to support several credit unions that suffered losses from mortgage securities.

USA Today

Musicians protest their songs used to irritate Guantanamo prisoners

The tactic has been common in the U.S. war on terror, with forces systematically using loud music on hundreds of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

Google News

POLITICS

Kennedy move deals blow to immigration reform plan

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s leaving the Judiciary Committee worries his allies on immigration reform, who are searching for a new champion on the controversial issue.

The Hill

The Bill Clinton loopholes

Bill Clinton pledged to dial back his international charity work so Hillary Clinton can go to State. But a set of Obama-backed restrictions leaves a lot more that the ex-president can do than cannot.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

EU carbon trading system brings windfalls for some, with little benefit to climate

The European Union's carbon trading system has created a multibillion-euro windfall for some of the continent's biggest polluters, with little or no noticeable benefit to the environment so far.

International Herald Tribune

Oil spill off California reminder of offshore drilling danger

More than 70 people from federal, state and private sector organizations worked to clean up an undetermined amount of oil that spilled from a platform off the coast of Santa Barbara County.

Environment News Service

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Fauxbamas: search for an Obama mimic

If there's one thing this country needs — other than a cosmic bailout — it's a decent Obama impersonator.

TIME

How the baby boom generation is changing the concept of retirement

As hippie vans, long hair, Woodstock music and "the generation that swore it would never grow old" head into their 60s, marketers portray them as free spirits defying the stereotypes of old age.

Newsweek

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

'Rhythms' in Martian rocks mark out past climate swings

Giant stairsteps on Mars are evidence of ancient climate cycles, suggest images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

New Scientist

Wikipedia article censored in UK for the first time

For the first time, U.K. Internet service providers have censored a Wikipedia article, one that includes an album cover image of a naked and possibly underage girl.

Computerworld

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

All those letters to God find a home

Once a year, usually just before Hanukkah and Christmas, a handful of Jerusalem postal workers leave their dreary letter-sorting station for a few hours and head to the Western Wall.

Religion News Service

Church shooting puts spotlight on Knanaya religion

When a gunman attacked parishioners at a church, word of the shootings spread quickly among two communities that share a little known bond.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Creative conservatism

Weekly Standard

Column:

Have bailout balls, not inaugural balls

Huffington Post

Column:

Can we handle the truth?

USA Today

Editorial:

Success of bailout rides on 'car czar'

USA Today

Editorial:

Pump up the federal gas tax

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Debra Saunders):

Farewell to fiscal responsibility

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Andrew Breitbart):

I believe Hillary's cardboard cutout

Real Clear Politics

Column (Arianna Huffington):

Rewarding those who got it right

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Terrorist death wish

NY Daily News

Editorial:

GOP must do its share for Detroit 3

Detroit News

Editorial:

A deal for Detroit?

Economist

Column (Joseph E. Stiglitz):

Capitalist fools

Vanity Fair

Column (Robert Gates):

Preparing the Pentagon for a new age

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

In New Mexico canyon, a novel way to prevent roadkill

Lobbied by a group of concerned New Mexico students, the state created a critter-friendly underpass.

Christian Science Monitor

China launches food safety drive

China has launched a four-month food safety drive in its latest effort to restore consumer confidence badly hurt by a tainted milk scandal three months ago.

Al Jazeera

WORLD

Greek capital hit by major strike

Greece is braced for further turmoil after days of violence as unions stage a general strike in protest against the government's economic policies.

BBC

Greek PM on edge with riots