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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives at a press conference at U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Manish Swarup / AP)

Rice arrives in India, calls for cooperation from Pakistan

Pakistan must act with “urgency and resolve” to help catch the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that bore the hallmarks of al Qaida, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

Bloomberg

Rice stops in India to defuse Mumbai tensions

NPR

Rice: Pakistan must cooperate fully

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California Democrat, Becerra, considered for trade job

Rep. Xavier Becerra, who once declared U.S. trade policy was “broken completely,” has reportedly been offered the job as Barack Obama’s top trade official.

Bloomberg

Obama nominates Richardson for Cabinet

CNN

US carmakers head back to Congress

The state of the U.S. auto industry, a pillar of the country's manufacturing industry, is growing increasingly desperate.

International Herald Tribune

GM workers face grim future

CBS News

Some in Michigan oppose auto bailout

International Herald Tribune

Report: Private sector loses 250,000 jobs

The U.S. economy shed a quarter-million private-sector jobs in November, according to a payroll processor's report that was worse than economists expected.

CNNMoney

Nations sign cluster bomb treaty

The first of more than 100 countries signed a treaty banning current types of cluster bombs at a conference in Oslo, Norway.

BBC

Canada PM Harper to address nation

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will address his country as rumor mounts of temporary suspending Parliament to prevent the opposition from taking power.

Reuters

NATION

EPA to gut mountaintop mining rule that protects streams

The Environmental Protection Agency approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks leftover from mining.

McClatchy Newspapers

US builds cases on dangerous detainees

The U.S. military launched a massive review to build cases against at least 5,000 detainees considered dangerous to keep them behind bars when Iraq's government assumes legal authority.

USA Today

POLITICS

A touchy path for Obama: taking charge of the CIA

The president-elect must take charge of the agency in one of the more treacherous patches of the transition.

International Herald Tribune

Obama, governors confer on economy

The nation's governors met with President-elect Barack Obama to help craft an economic stimulus plan that would include money for transportation projects and programs for the poor.

Baltimore Sun

Biden addresses governors

CNN

Nixon's tapes reveal his reservations

Nearly 200 hours of tapes and 90,000 pages released by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and the National Archives offer a glimpse into Nixon's views on the Vietnam War and his colleagues.

ABC News

Newly-released 1972 Nixon tapes

MSNBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Smart mobile can turn on heating

A system that could eventually control home heating, security cameras and curtains has been demonstrated by phone maker Nokia.

BBC

Vista SP2 beta out this week, final release by June

Beta versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 service pack 2 are available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers, Microsoft announced.

PC World

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change now the main driver of natural disasters

Ministers from more than 40 Asia-Pacific countries gathered in Kuala Lumpur to reduce the social and financial impact of natural disasters in the region.

Environment News Service

Antarctic penguin colonies to disappear?

Up to 75 percent of major Antarctic penguin colonies may disappear if climate change continues to heat up the continent, according to a recent report.

National Geographic

HEALTH

Generic heart medicines found equal to brand-name counterparts

Generic heart drugs work just as well as brand-name treatments at a fraction of the cost, according to an analysis that challenges why people still have doubts about generics’ after almost 25 years.

Bloomberg

Patient photos help docs read CT scans

An intriguing Israeli study found that adding photos of patients' faces to their file made these doctors more meticulous when looking at the X-rays.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Cheating on the rise in high schools

A new survey of American teenagers finds that academic dishonesty is rampant and getting worse at high schools.

U.S. News & World Report

Ads on tests add up for teacher

"Tough times call for tough actions," says Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo High School. So he started selling ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 for a semester final.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Peter Wehner):

The limits of pragmatism

Commetary

Column (Rich Lowry):

Barack the realist

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Groveling is price Detroit 3 must pay

Detroit News

Editorial:

The Wal-Mart horror

NY Daily News

Column (Henry Blodget):

Why Wall Street always blows it

Atlantic Online

Column (Robert L. Borosage):

The change we need

Huffington Post

Column (Christopher Hitchens):

We must stand by our friends in Bombay

Slate

Column:

Impeach Bush for Christmas

Salon.com

Column:

UAW's place in the auto bailout

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Can Obama create a truly transformational presidency?

Newsweek

Column (Robert Shrum):

The Hillary test

Week

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GOOD NEWS

From Duke hoops and NFL bid to Obama's right-hand man

At 26, Reggie Love's NFL dreams are long over, cut by the Green Bay Packers and released by the Dallas Cowboys. Then he took a job in the mail room of freshman Sen. Barack Obama.

MSNBC

Kick the procrastination habit — now

Biology is partly to blame for habitual procrastination, but anyone can learn to quit. Or should you think about it later?

Scientific American

WORLD

First flight reaches Bangkok as airport blockade ends

Thousands of anti-government protesters left Bangkok's international airport, ending an eight-day siege that stranded hundreds of thousands of foreign travelers.

Guardian

Mumbai: Where are the 14 other Pakistani-trained terrorists?

The lone gunman captured in Mumbai has told interrogators only 10 of the 24 young men in his year-long terrorist training course were sent to Mumbai last week, leaving 14 still in Pakistan, ready to strike.

ABC News

Explosives defused at Mumbai's station

Reuters

BUSINESS

Auditors fault Treasury oversight of bailout funds in first review

The government must toughen its monitoring of the $700 billion financial bailout to ensure banking institutions limit their top executives' pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said.

International Herald Tribune

Yahoo! shares climb on hopes for $30 billion takeover bid

Yahoo! stock rallied on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much as $30 billion.

TIME

SPORTS

Giants suspend Burress 4 games in wake of weapons charges

The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress for four games — the rest of the regular season — after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub.

ESPN

NFL suspends 6 players for violating steroid policy

Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL for violating the league's anti-doping policy.

ESPN

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The voice of a generation: Odetta dies at age 77

The influence of many modern masters of folk and blues, singer, songwriter and civil rights icon, Odetta, 77, died in New York.

Monsters and Critics

Life in pictures

MSNBC

Apple's iPod problem

The iPod music player cemented the company's reputation for innovation in recent years. But now, legions of iPod owners see little reason to upgrade, especially with the rocky economy.

BusinessWeek

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Does God run Homeland Security?

A group of atheists sued to remove part of a state anti-terrorism law that requires Kentucky's Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can't keep the state safe without God's help.

Examiner

Raised on yoga

Just a decade ago yoga families were on the fringe. Today yoga is influencing family values across the country, and kids are reaping the benefits.

Yoga Journal

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