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Militants in Peshawar, Pakistan, torched more than 160 vehicles, such as this Humvee, destined for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad / AP)

Pakistani militants strike supply lines

Militants blasted their way into two transport terminals in Pakistan and torched more than 160 vehicles destined for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan.

CBS News

NATO supply convoy torched in Peshawar

YouTube

Sci-fi number 1 fanboy Forrest J. Ackerman passes away

Forrest J. Ackerman was literary agent for sci-fi authors Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, A.E. van Vogt and L. Ron Hubbard; editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland and creator of the Vampirella comic book.

TIME

Montana judge rules man has right to assisted suicide

A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state argues that the legislature, not the court, should decide the matter.

International Herald Tribune

Obama gives peek at huge works plan

"We need to act with the urgency this moment demands to save or create at least two and a half million jobs so the nearly two million Americans who've lost them know that they have a future."

Philadelphia Inquirer

Obama unveils 21st century New Deal

Politico

Speech:

The full speech: key parts of the economic recovery plan.

Change.gov

World leaders try to ban nuclear arms

A new international group committed to eliminating nuclear weapons over the next 25 years has enlisted scores of world leaders as its campaign gets under way at a conference in Paris.

MSNBC

Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory

About 250 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and Doors plant. Union leaders outside said the Wall Street bailout is leaving laborers behind.

CBS News

Angry laid-off workers occupy factory in Chicago

YouTube

Car dealers suffer Detroit's uncertainty

As lawmakers and the White House close in on a deal to extend aid to U.S. automakers, concerns about the survival of the companies are compounding problems for their cash-strapped dealers.

Reuters

NATION

Obama calls on citizens to offer input on health-care reform

Gearing up for major health reform legislation next year, Obama is encouraging average Americans to host informal gatherings to brainstorm on how to improve the U.S. system.

MSNBC

Dems, White House agree to downsize auto bailout to $15-17B

The breakthrough came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accepted President Bush's condition that any aid come from a fund intended to help Detroit produce more fuel-efficient cars.

CBS News

When a job disappears, so does the health care with it

As jobless numbers reach levels not seen in 25 years, another crisis is unfolding for millions of people who lost their health insurance along with their jobs.

International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Biden to limit role of vice president

Vice Pres.-elect Joe Biden plans on “restoring the Office of the Vice President to its historical role” as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate, an aide to Biden says.

Politico

Report: Obama takes Shinseki for Cabinet

CNN

Minnesota Senate race recounting is done (or maybe not)

Like the election itself, the Senate recount has ended, except that it hasn't. Officials continue to search for 133 Minneapolis ballots that apparently are missing.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Missing ballots prolong Minnesota recount

MSNBC

Senate campaign chief open to Chris Matthews bid

The incoming Senate Democratic campaign chairman suggested that he is open to the prospect of Chris Matthews launching a bid for the upper chamber.

The Hill

ENVIRONMENT

The short life of the Hummer

Since its debut in the early '90s as the manly man's answer to what to drive, the mighty Hummer has been celebrated and reviled as a metaphor for American bravado — and wretched American excess.

Salon.com

No deal amid EU climate deadlock

France's Nicolas Sarkozy, the current European Union president, says he has failed to break a deadlock with Eastern states over a climate change deal.

BBC

Dalai Lama to meet Sarkozy in EU

Al Jazeera

2008 will be coolest year of the decade

Global average temperature for 2008 should come in close to 57.7 degrees Fahrenheit, but cooler temperature is not indicative that global warming is slowing down.

Guardian

Interview:

Better off Ted

Grist

HEALTH

Many treatment options available to prostate cancer patients

A diagnosis of prostate cancer may prompt an understandable feeling of dread, but patients actually have a wide array of options at their disposal for tackling the disease, medical experts say.

HealthDay

Happiness is contagious

New research from Harvard Medical School and the University of California San Diego suggests that happiness is influenced not only by the people you know, but by the people they know.

WebMD

EDUCATION

Is technology rewiring our brains?

What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they're coming from brain scientists.

E-School News

Teach for America surges on better recruiting, worse economy

More than ever, graduating college seniors are signing up to spend two years in America's poorest communities as part of Teach for America.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Advice to the incoming administration

Newsweek

Editorial:

After Mumbai

The Nation

Blog:

O.J.: the end of an era

Economist

Column:

Nepotistic succession in the political class

Salon.com

Column (Michael Hirsh):

Obama's economic team missing Stiglitz

Newsweek

Blog:

Minnesota recount update

Weekly Standard

Editorial:

Why a Big 3 rescue is so hard

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Fred Kaplan):

Gates' plan to fix the Pentagon

Slate

Column (Eleanor Clift):

Nixon and Bush

Newsweek

Editorial:

Taking down the Blogfather of Iran

International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Restored organ heralds new era for New York cathedral

Music from a 98-year-old organ fills the St. John the Divine cathedral in New York, reopening for worship after a 2001 fire.

Times Online

Parasitic illness reaches all-time low

Cases of Guinea worm disease, a horrifying infection, have reached an all-time low, former President Jimmy Carter announced.

ABC News

WORLD

Pakistan 'feared Indian attack' and spiraling reprisals

Pakistan feared India was planning a military strike in reprisal for the Mumbai attacks, a senior diplomat says.

BBC

Mugabe must be toppled now, says Archbishop of York

In a passionate outburst, the Archbishop of York called for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to resign and face trial for crimes against humanity.

Guardian

Zimbabwe 'set for cholera jump'

BBC

BUSINESS

Small is beautiful

Netbooks were aimed at children but are proving popular with power users who want something small, lightweight and cheap.

Economist

Falling interest rates renew problem for US banks

Worries of a long global recession pushed investors to sell stocks and flee to the relative safety of U.S. Treasuries, which compressed Treasury yields.

Reuters

SPORTS

No. 2 Florida upends No.1 Alabama

Tim Tebow gave No. 2 Florida a shot at its second national title in three years, handed No. 1 Alabama its first loss of the season and made a strong case for another Heisman Trophy.

Sports Illustrated

Maddux set to retire

Greg Maddux has thrown his last pitch. The four-time Cy Young winner will announce his retirement at the baseball winter meetings, near his home in Las Vegas.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Web database catalogs slaves' trans-Atlantic treks

Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions closer to their heritage with African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships.

Associated Press

New field could explain how salmon, turtles find home

Sea turtles and salmon may use their sensitivity to Earth's magnetic field to guide them home at the end of their epic coming-of-age journeys, suggest biologists.

National Geographic

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

After 27 years in a coma, Sunny von Bülow dies

Twenty-seven years after slipping into a coma that sparked two of the most sensational attempted murder trials of the Eighties, Sunny von Bülow, the Manhattan heiress, has died in New York.

London Independent

An injection of hard science boosts TV shows' prognosis

It's no fiction: Scientific fact has usurped science fiction as TV's favorite inspiration for prime-time story lines.

Wired

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Muslims begin Hajj pilgrimage

Thousands of Muslims began the Hajj pilgrimage, heading to the holy city of Mecca to follow a route Prophet Muhammad took 14 centuries ago.

MSNBC

Special section:

Map of the pilgrimage

CNN

Muslim pilgrimage of Al-Hajj explained

YouTube

Religious violence rages in Nigeria

A week after violent clashes left at least 300 people dead in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the fires have yet to be put out, both literally and figuratively.

TIME

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