The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Palestinian fisherman Mohammed Zayid returns to his son's house in the Gaza Strip. Gaza's residents are returning to find their homes damaged and neighborhood wrecked after the painful end of three weeks of war. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

In northern Gaza, a family wonders how to rebuild

While thousands of Palestinians remain homeless, competition for hearts and minds that plagued and propelled Palestinian politics for 20 years shapes how quickly Gaza will be rebuilt – and by whom.

Christian Science Monitor

Time running out for a 2-state solution?

CBS News

Downturn accelerates around the globe

The burst of the biggest credit bubble in history is seeping into economies around the world, bankrupting businesses and throwing millions of people out of work.

MSNBC

US-China ties off to shaky new start

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said no nation is more important to the United States than China, but ties between the two powers may be off to a rocky start just days into the Obama administration.

USA Today

Republicans question stimulus

MSNBC

Hackers place millions at risk

The cyber-thieves went straight to the heart of one of the biggest credit and debit card processing companies in the country, Heartland Payment Systems.

CBS News

White House clears way for Pentagon deputy: senator

The White House removed an obstacle that held up confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominee, William Lynn, to be deputy Pentagon chief.

Reuters

Pentagon nominee agrees to sell Raytheon stock

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Obama orders his first air strikes on Pakistan villages

Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action, missile strikes against Pakistan militants that killed at least 18 people. He consulted U.S. commanders before launching the attacks.

Guardian

Musharraf: Pakistan 'treated unequally' in war on terror

CNN

Obama's vision for Pakistan

YouTube

Whistleblower: Bush's NSA surveillance program targeted journalists

A whistleblower has revealed that the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program targeted journalists.

Wired

POLITICS

Blagojevich: Cowboy justice and the insider plot to raise taxes

As his impeachment trial draws near, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich compared himself to "an honest, hardworking cowboy about to be lynched by a band of black-hatted political insiders eager to raise taxes."

Associated Press

Blagojevich's lead defense lawyer to resign

CNN

White House Web site tries to create transparency in bureaucracy

The new White House Web site gives citizens better access to services their taxes pay for, and lets them comment on legislation before it becomes law.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

EPA objects to new SD coal plant

Environmentalists claim victory after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed South Dakota's approval of a big coal-fired power plant.

Reuters

New federal rules protect sea mammals from US Navy sonar

Federal fisheries regulators have announced rules to protect marine mammals during Navy sonar training along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

60 million carry heart disease mutation

About 60 million people worldwide carry a gene mutation that almost always causes heart disease, a mutation most common among people in India, says a recent study.

HealthDay

Hospitals hurt by economy put off projects

Hospitals are delaying expansion plans, putting new equipment purchases on hold and freezing hiring to ride out the ongoing credit crunch.

USA Today

Hospitals want "up front" cash

CBS News

Mmm, the food looks good, so I eat it

Weight gain is not always just a matter of lacking willpower, but has more to do with how your brain reacts to what it sees, according to a new study.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Lakers' Phil Jackson will retire from coaching after next season

Phil Jackson, 63, is a Hall of Famer tied with the late Red Auerbach with a league-record nine titles. His Lakers have the NBA's best record at 34-8.

Sporting News

Phelps will not defend all 8 medals

Michael Phelps, who made history when he won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, will not attempt to repeat the feat when he competes at London 2012.

Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Methodist women seek to crack 'stained-glass ceiling'

The United Methodist Church, which boasts a history of ordaining women clergy, seeks to shatter the so-called "stained-glass ceiling" blocking female pastors from its largest pulpits.

USA Today

A YouTube channel for the pope?

If President Obama can launch a White House YouTube site, why can’t the pope? Pope Benedict XVI debuted his own channel with 12 videos and a promise to update the site daily with new videos.

Christian Science Monitor

The Vatican's new channel

YouTube

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Site edited by: Orion McClure, Joe Gold, Walt Chiu, Emily Kirby, Eli Greenlaw, Max Miller, Emily Naughton, Carlos Wall, Binal Ghelani and Danny Bittker.

GOOD NEWS

Giving is the gift

A quiet change in volunteerism is underway in many charitable organizations. Think volunteers are retired with time on their hands and a desire to help the community? Think again.

Sacramento Bee

‘You opened a door’

Teachers at Alain L. Locke school in Harlem, N.Y., asked third, fourth and fifth graders to write letters to the president.

Newsweek

WORLD

Europe slow opening to Gitmo inmates

Across Europe, President Obama's decision to shut the Guantanamo Bay prison raises an awkward question: Who will offer new lives to released prisoners?

International Herald Tribune

Trading bombs for crayons: terrorists get 'art therapy'