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Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Bob Nardelli arrives outside the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington prior to testifying on a rescue package. (Photo by Kevin Wolf / AP)

Rice says Pakistan pledges to help find Mumbai suspects

Condoleezza Rice says that the Pakistani government has pledged to cooperate in rounding up suspects of the Mumbai terror attacks who operated from Pakistani territory or were of Pakistani origin.

International Herald Tribune

New template for terror?

Christian Science Monitor

Rice on the 'sophisticated' attack in Mumbai

BBC

Suicide bombers blast Iraq police stations

Two suicide bombers in explosives-laden trucks took aim at police stations in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 100.

CBS News

Dodd backs aid for Big 3 automakers

Humbled U.S. automakers pleaded with Congress for approval of an expanded $34-billion rescue package but heard fresh skepticism from lawmakers in a bumpy encore appearance.

Detroit Free Press

Scenarios: Where Washington stands on the auto bailout

Reuters

Driving a hard bargain

MSNBC

Saving General Motors

CNBC

Canadian PM Harper expected to ask Gov. Gen. to suspend Parliament

Stephen Harper is expected to visit Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean and submit a formal request to have Parliament suspended in an attempt to prevent a confidence motion that could bring down the government.

CTV

Harper's address

CBC

AT&T plans to reduce 12,000 jobs, spending as slump deepens

AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, will cut 12,000 jobs and reduce spending next year, striving to become leaner as the U.S. economy falters.

Bloomberg

NATION

LAX bomb plotter gets 22 years

Ahmed Ressam was resentenced to 22 years in federal prison, despite telling a judge that he recanted everything he has told previously about terrorist activities.

Seattle Times

Ex-FBI agent faces 30 years to life for Fla. mob hit

John Connolly, whose fall from celebrated mob-buster to paid gangland flunky played out in a South Florida courtroom, will learn whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in a mob hit.

CNN

GM workers face grim future

CBS News

POLITICS

Obama plots green jolt to US economy

The plan might include weatherizing hundreds of thousands of homes and providing billions of dollars to state and local governments for transit and infrastructure.

MSNBC

Obama team considers changes to interrogation policy

CNN

Jeb Bush interest in Senate seat could clear GOP field

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said he's interested in the seat Sen. Mel Martinez is giving up, and the field of possible candidates could quickly narrow to make way for the president's younger brother.

Fox News

Biden: US must do more to halt spread of nuclear, bio weapons

The U.S. must do more to prevent weapons of mass destruction from spreading, Vice President-elect Joe Biden said about a congressional report.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hawaii joins electric car network

Hawaii became the second state to link to the Better Place network of plug-in electric vehicles. The plan was presented as a scaled model for the adoption of battery-powered transport nationwide.

PC Magazine

Building an electric car infrastructure

ZDNet

Apple yanks antivirus advice

Apple Inc. yanked a controversial support document from its Web site that had urged Mac users to run antivirus software because the recommendation was "old and inaccurate," a company spokesman said.

Computerworld

ENVIRONMENT

Bush to ease 'mountaintop mining' rule; environmentalists protest

Angry environmentalists deplore an EPA rule that expands when coal companies can dump mining waste in streams, calling it a "parting gift" from the Bush administration.

CBS News

Feds halt plan to drill Utah canyons

A section of whitewater rapids tucked between high cliffs and a canyon decorated with thousands of ancient rock art panels has been pulled off the auction block by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

MSNBC

HEALTH

Rogue stem-cell clinics spur need for global rules

Renegade stem-cell scientists are victimizing desperate patients by promoting treatments without properly citing risks and inflating results.

Bloomberg

Cleveland Clinic discloses doctors' business ties

The Cleveland Clinic says it is publicizing the business ties its 1,800 doctors and researchers have with drug companies and device makers.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

In high-tech schools, Facebook in class is boosted — not banned

Pushed by social networking and successes in e-learning among universities, K-12 schools are starting to adopt high-tech tools that let students create their own curriculums.

Computerworld

'The world is moving past' US in higher ed

The United States made only modest gains since the early 1990s in preparing students for college, a report says. But other countries are advancing more quickly.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Obama's team of talent

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

Detroit's crisis puts Pelosi to the test

Sacramento Bee

Column (Daniel Henninger):

America needs its frontier spirit

Real Clear Politics

Column (Michael Medved):

Will talk radio get wake-up call?

USA Today

Column (Steve Kornacki):

Why Charlie Rangel is still smiling

New York Observer

Column (Daniel Gross):

Detroit's delusion

Newsweek

Editorial:

Will Congress help the auto makers?

Economist

Column (John Harris):

Hillary Clinton: the new survivor

Politico

Column (Steve Malanga):

Mumbai, terrorists and capitalists

Real Clear Markets

Column:

Bailout may wind up on Obama's plate

TIME

Column:

India: the other side of glory

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

Youth 'aged out' of foster care get a helping hand at transitional home

Jeremiah's Promise is one of several local organizations that try to smooth the rough edges of the jarring aging-out process with transitional housing, a life skills program and a supportive environment.

San Jose Mercury News

Generic heart medicines found equal to brand-name counterparts

Generic heart drugs work just as well as the brand-name treatments they mimic at a fraction of the cost.

Bloomberg

WORLD

Thai king ill, misses annual speech

Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej has a throat infection and is on a drip, his daughter said after he failed to make his traditional birthday eve address amid a crippling political crisis.

Reuters

Israel reports to be 'prepared to attack' Iranian nuclear plants