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In this file photo, Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., react to applause from the crowd in the Kodak Theater prior to their debate in Los Angeles. (Photo by Elise Amendola / AP)

Survivors rescued 8 days after China earthquake

International Herald Tribune

Incredible video of China quake

ABC News

Blog:

Scare leads to public camping

NPR

South Africa moves to quell deadly attacks on foreigners

South Africa's police and the ruling ANC party intensified efforts to quell deadly violence against foreigners and a government minister said the unrest could damage the key tourism sector.

Epoch Times

Johannesburg violence

BBC

Clinton fights on, Obama returns to Iowa

Sen. Hillary Clinton will be in Kentucky to celebrate what's expected to be a big win in that state's primary. But Sen. Barack Obama won't be in Oregon, even though he's favored to win that state's contest.

CNN

Top Democrat: race is over

CBS News

40,000 troops told of fall deployment

The Pentagon alerted about 40,000 active-duty troops yesterday that they will be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, a sign that the military expects hard fighting to continue through late next year.

Baltimore Sun

Iraqi troops fan out in Sadr City

BBC

White House takes swipe at NBC News

The White House sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.

The Hill

NBC responds to White House criticism

Times Online

New York governor in Manhattan hospital

New York Gov. David Paterson experienced migraine-like symptoms and was taken to a Manhattan hospital for tests, his office announced. Paterson, who just turned 54, was evaluated at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

USA Today

NATION

Hearings begin in custody decision for sect children

Massive custody cases got underway in five Texas courtrooms, with parents learning what they must do to regain custody of their children. The hearings are expected to last three weeks.

USA Today

14 injured in big explosion at hotel construction site

Fourteen people were injured — three critically — when an explosion knocked out the northern face of the fourth through seventh floors of the 30-story hotel.

San Diego Union-Tribune

NYC's Lower East Side, California parks make endangered historic places list

Manhattan's Lower East Side, California's entire park system, an art-deco theater in Philadelphia, and a modernist hotel in Dallas made the list of 'America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.'

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Rep. Vito Fossella won't run again

Embattled Rep. Vito Fossella, who recently admitted to fathering a love child despite being married with three kids, has decided against seeking reelection.

NY Daily News

Deal struck on mortgage relief bill Bush once opposed

The Senate Banking Committee is expected to pass a bipartisan measure that creates a $300 billion loan program to refinance distressed mortgages and stem foreclosures.

McClatchy Newspapers

Sen. Obama’s backers see dream ticket as nightmare

Sen. Barack Obama’s allies in Congress do not want Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate, even though many Clinton supporters are pushing the “dream ticket.”

The Hill

Obama campaign draws huge crowds at Portland Waterfront

Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Oil and gasoline prices could still climb

World oil prices are bouncing between $125 and $127 a barrel, shrugging off Saudi Arabia's pledge to add another 300,000 barrels to global supplies.

McClatchy Newspapers

Consumers not satisfied with airlines

Following a year of choppy sentiment, consumers are finally becoming more satisfied with many industries with one notable exception: airlines.

CNNMoney

The world's worst airports

Yahoo! News

Supreme court maintains municipal bond tax breaks

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities and states can keep offering special tax breaks on their municipal bonds, a decision that preserves a top incentive for investors in the $2.5 trillion municipal bond market.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Google health beta service goes live

Google launched an ambitious initiative that aims to give people a central place online to store their health records and then share them with health-care providers.

PC World

Bid to ban hybrid embryos fails

A British member of Parliament's attempt to outlaw the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos has been defeated by 336 votes to 176.

BBC

EDUCATION

The changing face of historically black colleges and universities

Faced with increased competition from historically white schools, historically black colleges are actively recruiting white, Hispanic and Asian students.

ABC News

Head of the class

MSNBC

Former World War II internees receive honorary degrees

More than six decades after their lives were shattered by the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, about 450 former students have been awarded honorary degrees.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

HEALTH

Groups to expand free mental health services to veterans

A significant number of soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with mental health problems could benefit from an expanding program offering them free counseling.

USA Today

Military wives fight army to help husbands

NPR

Erectile dysfunction could be sign of far worse problems

Men with diabetes know that erectile dysfunction can be a distressing side effect of the illness, adding insult to injury for about 80 percent of those who suffer from the disease.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Burger flipper saves neighbor from fire

Daniel Bateman, a 19-year-old In-N-Out employee rammed his neighbor's door and pulled him out of his apartment to save him from a fire.

San Francisco Chronicle

College student's research helps save bog turtles

For her honors project, Shannon Pittman has studied threatened bog turtles in Gaston County, monitoring their habits and survival rates.

Charlotte Observer

Morning sickness may protect embryos

As irritating as morning sickness may be for pregnant women, it may protect embryos.

AOL News

WORLD

Ma sworn in as Taiwan's new president, ends DPP rule