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A Palestinian man inspects the rubble following an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp. Southern Israel came under renewed rocket fire after one of its quietest nights in the two-week offensive against Hamas. (Photo by Eyad Baba / AP)

Obama proposes ambitious economic plan

President-elect Barack Obama's economic team announced its goal for new jobs, increasing the target to 3.5 million new American jobs to help boost the nation's troubled economy.

ABC News

Obama says stimulus package creates four million jobs

Bloomberg

Obama pieces together economic plan

YouTube

Key moment: GOP chooses its leaders

The contest for Republican Party chairman comes as Republican leaders try to figure out what the party stands for and what face to put forward in an increasingly diverse country.

MSNBC

Gaza hit by new strikes as death toll rises

Three Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured by new Israel tank fire and air strikes on the Gaza Strip. The deaths came hours after Israel warned of escalation.

BBC

Hamas rejects international observers in Gaza

International Herald Tribune

Israel tells Gazans to brace for war escalation

YouTube

Operation in Gaza

Financial Times

US rejected Israeli plan to raid Iran

President George W. Bush rejected helping Israel raid Iran's main nuclear complex. Bush instead authorized U.S. covert sabotage on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.

Reuters

Why China works

China is the only major economy that is likely to significantly grow in 2009, because it is the only one that routinely breaks every rule in the economic textbook.

Newsweek

Strapped states may free prisoners

Their budgets in crisis, officials across the nation are considering policies to remove thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision.

MSNBC

NATION

In US city, a ballot measure may quiet all but those who speak English

In a proposal that dominated local politics for two years, city Councilman Eric Crafton hopes to make Nashville the largest city in the U.S. to prohibit the government from using languages other than English.

International Herald Tribune

Biden arrives in Afghanistan for talks with leaders, troops

Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan to talk with the country's leaders. Surging Taliban violence claimed the lives of more American troops.

International Herald Tribune

Missions leave no child behind in Afghanistan

NPR

POLITICS

Burris may return to demand seat

Roland Burris may return to Washington to demand that he be sworn into the Senate as the legitimate appointee to replace President-elect Barack Obama.

Politico

Roland Burris moves towards Obama's Senate seat

Guardian

Feinstein grabs committee reins

There's a new, yet familiar face of female political power in Washington. Calif. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the first woman to chair the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Examiner

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Review: 'Gran Torino'

Eastwood gives Dirty Harry a fresh turn in this tale of a recently widowed racist retiree who reluctantly befriends and defends his immigrant neighbors.

Christian Science Monitor

Godard's 'Made in U.S.A.' shows in USA

Four decades after its local premiere at the 1967 N.Y. Film Festival, the least-seen, quintessential movie of Jean-Luc Godard's great period gets an American distributor and even a limited run.

Village Voice

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft postpones Windows 7 public beta introduction

Microsoft postponed rolling out the Windows 7 beta, citing "very heavy traffic" on its Web site. The company did not offer a new schedule for delivering the beta of its newest operating system.

Computerworld

How did life begin? RNA that replicates itself indefinitely developed for first time

One of the most enduring questions is how life began on Earth. New findings clarify the biochemical side of life's origins.

Science Daily

HEALTH

Peanut butter distributor recalls product amid salmonella scare

Peanut butter from King Nut Companies of Solon, Ohio, was recalled after testing positive for salmonella; it could be the cause of an outbreak in Minnesota.

USA Today

Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight

The number of obese American adults outweighs the number of those who are merely overweight, according to the latest statistics from the federal government.

Reuters

Americans consuming more sugary beverages

HealthDay

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Spirituality, not religion, makes kids happy, say psychologists

To make children happier, we may need to encourage them to develop a strong sense of personal worth, research at the University of British Columbia suggests.

LiveScience

Cleveland clergy fail in bid to ditch domestic partner registry

A group of Cleveland pastors who tried to launch a referendum to overturn the city's domestic-partner registry came up short of the required signatures.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Last secrets of the Bush administration

Washington Monthly

Column:

The exit interview we wish Bush would give

Rolling Stone

Column (Joe Conason):

Al Franken stole the election? Prove it

Salon.com

Editorial:

Good luck, Mr. President-elect

San Diego Union-Tribune

Blog (George Packer):

How to help Iraqis who helped us?

New Yorker

Editorial:

Spending us to prosperity

OC Register

Blog:

Spidey and Barack

Economist

Column:

The case for bigger government

Time

Column:

Schwarzenegger's failure

Reason

Column:

The man in the middle

The Atlantic

Column (Abraham Cooper):

Hamas' human shield strategy

U.S. News & World Report

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GOOD NEWS

Comeback for Pooh after 80 years

The late A.A. Milne's beloved character Winnie the Pooh is set to return to bookshelves, 80 years on from his first literary appearance.

BBC

Man, grandson nab suspected killer in San Francisco

A 64-year-old Universal Anglican minister and his grandson defended themselves as a bloodied man came at them in California.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Somali pirates drown with ransom

Six Somali pirates who hijacked a Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of the ransom when their boat capsized as it left the vessel, their leader said.

Times Online

Accord signed in Russia gas conflict

Russia and E.U. officials signed a deal that could re-open gas supplies to Europe.

BBC

Russia signs deal opening flow of natural gas

YouTube

BUSINESS

New index tracks performance of bailed out companies

NASDAQ unveiled a new Government Relief Index (GRI) to track the performance of 24 major U.S. companies that received $1 billion in federal financial assistance.

Epoch Times

Ron Paul says US in for big trouble

Peacefreedomprosperity.com

US lost 2.6M jobs in 2008

U.S. employers shed 2.6 million jobs in 2008, the worst year since 1945, the government reported, and a rapidly deteriorating economy promises more significant losses ahead.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Taking a walk on the green side at CES

The electronics industry improved their gadgets' energy efficiency as showcased during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

NPR

China's electronic waste village

TIME

Before the levees break again: A plan to save the Netherlands

"As far as you can see, in both directions, we're going to push the coast out 3, maybe 4, kilometers," coastal engineer Marcel Stive says. "We have to — just to keep the water out."

Wired

SPORTS

AP's NFL All-Pro Team includes 15 newcomers this year

A changing of the guard — and tackles and running backs and receivers — saw 15 first-timers make the Associated Press 2008 NFL All-Pro team.

Sporting News

Busy Red Sox add reliever Saito

Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein continued his post-holiday shopping spree, signing Takashi Saito, a highly successful reliever during his three years with the Dodgers, to a one-year contract.

MLB.com

EDUCATION

As home schooling surges, the evangelical share drops

Experts say that the home-schooling scene is diversifying. A new report shows the number of home-schooled students surged by 74 percent over the past eight years, to 1.5 million students nationwide.

U.S. News & World Report

English learning case hits high court

The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into Arizona's divisive legal battle about how much money public schools should spend teaching English to children who enter school unable to speak the language.

Arizona Republic

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