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From left, first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden, former President Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton attend the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. (Photo by Jae C. Hong / AP)

Geithner calls for tougher bailout terms

The treasury secretary nominee tells the Senate Finance Committee that the greatest risk to the economy is not doing enough, and apologizes for his 'unintentional' tax problems.

CNNMoney

Column:

Tax tips for Tim Geithner

TIME

Geithner: 'I should have been more careful'

MSNBC

Israel to probe phosphorus claims

The Israeli army will investigate claims it illegally used white phosphorus during its three-week Gaza offensive.

BBC

President Obama tackles first day

Barack Obama has signed his first executive orders ahead of talks with his military and economic advisers on a packed first full day as US president.

BBC

First day as president

Politico

Obama's first interview as president

ABC News

Guantanamo trial halted for 9-11 accused

A U.S. military judge halted the trial of five prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks, giving President Obama time to decide whether to scrap the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals.

Reuters

Switzerland to consider hosting Gitmo inmates

Bloomberg

Senate to vote on Clinton confirmation

The Senate is set to vote on confirming Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, as President Obama's secretary of state.

CNN

NATION

NTSB confident that sonar found plane's engine in Hudson River

Investigators are confident that sonar located the missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 in about 60 feet of water near the Hudson River crash site.

CBS News

US Airways to give each flier on ditched jet $5,000

USA Today

Obama unveils new presidential Web site

In keeping with the theme that swept President Obama into the Oval Office, change has come to the official White House Web site.

CNN

POLITICS

Reid to let Republicans offer amendments to fair pay bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid extended an inaugural olive branch to Republicans, and will no longer block their amendments on the chamber floor.

The Hill

Sen. Kennedy OK after seizure at Obama's luncheon

After testing, we believe the incident was brought on by "simple fatigue," Dr. Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at Washington Hospital Center said in a statement released by the senator's office.

San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Inauguration experienced online

In an inauguration defined by change, watching President Obama take office was fittingly revolutionary. As never before, Americans watched the inauguration on their computers.

Forbes

Technology to stop phone use in cars not yet perfected

One product to hit the market is $10-a-month software by Dallas-based WQN Inc. that can disable a cell phone while its owner is driving.

ABC News

HEALTH

First image of a bleeding heart

Doctors have captured the first images of bleeding inside the heart muscle following a heart attack.

LiveScience

Peanut processor faces lawsuit in salmonella outbreak

A lawsuit stemming from the national salmonella outbreak has been filed against the Peanut Corp. of America as companies recalled more peanut-related products.

Newsday

Peanut butter recall list growing

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Testimony scheduled in public school curriculum debate

The debate over teaching evolution in public schools takes center stage at a Board of Education hearing on proposed revisions to Texas' science curriculum.

Houston Chronicle

Colleges to help cash-strapped students

Facing job losses, dwindling college savings and a tight credit market, students and parents streamed into financial aid offices, with colleges trying to help.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

American parents who chose faith over medicine face trial

Kara Neumann grew so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe God alone can heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor.

International Herald Tribune

With Warren and Lowery, Obama sends signals about religious outreach

When President Obama spoke between prayers by evangelical pastor Rick Warren and civil rights veteran Joseph Lowery, he indicated — without saying a word — the breadth of the religious outreach ahead.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Josh Patner):

Fashion advice for Michelle Obama

Slate

Column (Michael Lind):

An economic Bill of Rights

Salon.com

Column (Howard Fineman):

The old lines are getting blurry

Newsweek

Column (Jay Winik):

Lincoln's lessons for our new president

Wall Street Journal

Column (Jean Marbella):

Obama inauguration is a promise fulfilled

Baltimore Sun

Column (Jonah Goldberg):

What Obama brings to conservatives

National Review

Column (Christopher Hitchens):

Happy now that Bush beat Gore and Kerry

Slate

Column (Declan McCullagh):

Obama can talk, but can he walk?

CBS News

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

Obama's refusal to investigate Bush crimes

Salon.com

Column (Christopher Dickey):

Arabs in the Middle East could learn from Martin Luther King

Newsweek

Column:

Summoning the US up from childishness

Real Clear Politics

Column:

What's new is old again

Slate

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GOOD NEWS

Future Muslim leaders seek fresh path

The Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference plans to be a catalyst for social change in the Islamic world by inspiring the activists and giving them opportunities to network.

Christian Science Monitor

Struggling Americans get a taste of inauguration celebration

Virginia businessman Earl W. Stafford and his nonprofit foundation paid more than $1.6 million so people who otherwise might have been excluded from the festivities would get a chance to celebrate.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

'We have made a transition'

CNN

WORLD

Women may win seats, but not rights, in Iraqi election

More than a quarter of the candidates registered for Iraq's provincial elections are women, but college students see few women's faces on the posters plastered across their neighborhood.

Reuters

Obama speech censored in China

China has censored parts of the new US president's inauguration speech that have appeared on a number of websites.

BBC

BUSINESS

Obama team pushes to complete rescue

President Obama's economic team is pushing to complete a bank-rescue plan to work with the $825 billion stimulus package being negotiated in Congress.

Bloomberg

Markets tumble on Obama's big day

CBS News

Treasury seeks accounting from banks with TARP funding

The U.S. Treasury, under pressure to revive lending, is demanding monthly reports from the banks that received the most capital from the government's $700 billion rescue program.

Cincinnati Enquirer

Bank stocks: the trouble with TARP

BusinessWeek

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The Jonas Brothers surprise the Obama girls on their first White House night

On their first night in the White House, Malia and Sasha Obama quickly learned the perks of being the first daughters.

People

First lady of fashion

A nation hungry for style looked to the first lady and she didn't disappoint, wearing a gold dress and matching overcoat of satin-backed wool lace to see her husband sworn in as president.

Chicago Sun-Times

First lady ' could do no wrong'

MSNBC

Inauguration fashion

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Could cows heal the West?

If livestock mimicked wild herbivores grazing patterns — bunched together for safety, intensely grazing an area briefly and then moving on — rangeland health might improve.

Christian Science Monitor

Thousands of scientists affirm human-caused global warming

A survey of scientists found overwhelming agreement that in the past 200 years, mean global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a "significant contributing factor."

Environment News Service

SPORTS

How super are the Arizona Cardinals?

Two questions about the Arizona Cardinals: Are they the worst Super Bowl team of all time? And how badly are they going to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers?

Salon.com

Steroids dealer tells Congress that trainer injected Clemens

Brian McNamee, a former personal trainer to Roger Clemens, told a congressional hearing last February that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone.

ABC News

Photo of the Day

Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush wave as they board a Marine helicopter after Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

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