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A Palestinian police officer from Hamas prays next to the rubble of houses destroyed in the Israeli military operation in east Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)

Obama quick to tighten financial rules

The new administration wants wide-ranging changes, including stricter rules for hedge funds, credit rating agencies and mortgage brokers, and greater oversight of complex financial instruments.

MSNBC

Great power has great limits, Obama finds

International Herald Tribune

President's weekly address: American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan

YouTube

Car sales plunge, dealers try to survive

At 2009's version of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, survival has passed maximizing profits as the focus of the annual event.

TIME

Toyota Japan output to drop 60 percent in April: report

Reuters

Hamas 'set for Gaza truce talks'

Members of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and the rival Fatah faction meet Egyptian officials to shore up a fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

BBC

UN schools reopen in the Gaza Strip

BBC

Gaza children return to school after war

YouTube

Al-Qaeda hurls insults at Obama

The torrent of hateful words is part of what terrorism experts now believe is a deliberate, even desperate, propaganda campaign against a president who appears to have gotten under al-Qaeda's skin.

MSNBC

Indian PM recovering after successful heart surgery

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is "stable, comfortable and making rapid progress," his office said.

CNN

Cult leader's mother killed, aunt charged

The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt is in custody on the murder charge.

ABC News

NATION

Security experts skeptical on Gitmo detainee report

Security experts question a Pentagon claim that 61 former Guantanamo Bay detainees returned to terrorist activities.

CNN

Miss America crowned

Katie Stam, a University of Indianapolis senior, was crowned Miss America at the annual pageant in Las Vegas.

Indianapolis Star

22-year-old Miss Indiana crowned Miss America

YouTube

POLITICS

Obama gets his opening grade

Gallup released the first job-approval rating for President Obama for his first three full days in office: 68 percent.

Politico

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Arabs skeptical of Obama after Gaza War

US News

Partisan, playful and profane, White House chief of staff tries to hold it in

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is arguably the second most powerful man in the country. Days into his tenure, already he is one of the highest-profile chiefs of staff in recent memory.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

China dams reveal flaws

China's new Xiaoxi dam may do nothing to lower global-warming emissions as advertised. And as many as 7,500 people may be displaced by the project.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Killer whales: the allure of the search

Studying animals in nature isn't always about close encounters. For the field biologist, there is passion in the search for the quarry and the lengths to which people will go to find it.

NPR

HEALTH

Rare disease's resurgence leads to warning: Vaccinate your children

An unexpected resurgence of a rare but dangerous childhood illness has prompted Minnesota health officials to issue a public warning for parents to make sure their children are fully vaccinated.

Star Tribune

China reports 4th bird flu death in 2009

A woman in China's far west has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the country's fourth death from the virus this year as the biggest festive season approaches.

Las Vegas Sun

SPORTS

Beloved women's basketball coach Kay Yow passes away

North Carolina State University women's basketball coach Kay Yow, who won more than 700 games in nearly four decades of coaching, died after a long struggle with breast cancer, the university said.

CNN

Super Bowl tickets are a bargain

A wilting economy and two Super Bowl teams from less-than-glitzy markets, Phoenix and Pittsburgh, are two factors behind some bleak forecasts in host city Tampa and betting capital Las Vegas.

NY Daily News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Pope offends Jews by reinstating bishop

Pope Benedict XVI has reinstated four bishops, one of whom, British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, denies that the Nazi Holocaust ever happened.

TIME

Groups scramble to pay for Holocaust victims’ care

Of the 138,000 Holocaust survivors left in the United States, health and social welfare needs jumped, prompting the Claims Conference to allocate $18 million more to service providers worldwide.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Obama's pledge is far too costly

Plain Dealer

Column:

How fast can we spend $1 trillion wisely?

Detroit Free Press

Column:

New SCHIP expansion is mission gallop

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column:

Lower expectations for first 100 days

Houston Chronicle

Column:

Reversing Bush's assault on the UN Population Fund

International Herald Tribune

Column:

What Obama means for Africans

Denver Post

Column (Bill Saporito):

The deeper truth about John Thain's ouster from BofA

TIME

Column (Clive Crook):

Why Obama must be radical

National Journal

Column (Robert D. Kaplan):

Our torture dilemma

Atlantic Online

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GOOD NEWS

US Air pilot gets hero's welcome

A crowd of friends, neighbors, relatives, and strangers threw airline pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III a hero's welcome at the Danville, Calif., town square.

San Francisco Chronicle

Activists seek to overhaul food programs that feed 35 million

In soup kitchens, food pantries and universities across the country, activists plant the seeds to overhaul how America feeds its 35 million hungry people.

MSNBC

WORLD

Bolivia nationalizes energy firm

Bolivia's government has seized control of a foreign-owned energy company two days before the country votes on a proposed new constitution.

BBC

Pakistan urges Obama to halt drones

In the smoldering wreckage of the 40th American drone attack in Pakistan in a year, the government here learned that some things don't change.

ABC News

European storm death toll mounts

The fiercest storm to hit Spain and south-western France in a decade has killed 15 people, including four children.

BBC

BUSINESS

China says Geithner's got it wrong

The central bank responded to the Treasury secretary-designate's accusations of yuan manipulation by calling him, diplomatically, a liar.

Forbes

BOA axes Thain as Merrill deal sours

John Thain was ousted from Bank of America, just three weeks after closing the sale of Merrill Lynch to B.O.A., raising new questions about the government's efforts to save the banking industry.

Financial Times

Obama shames Thain

CNBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Obama lifts abortion funding restrictions

President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of former President George W. Bush.

Reuters

Microsoft extends Windows 7 beta download deadline

Microsoft Corp. extended the deadline for downloading the public beta of Windows 7 by more than two weeks, citing continued interest in the preview.

Computerworld

EDUCATION

Studies: Schools not providing enough physical education

Most elementary schools are not providing enough P.E. classes, according to two studies and educators who cite a lack of time, space and teachers along with competing demands of academics.

Newsday

An 'Obama effect' on test scores?

The “Obama Effect” suggests that maybe, just maybe, Obama will do more for the scholastic achievement of African-Americans than anything since Brown v. Board of Education.

Newsweek

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Indiana student wins Miss America crown

Katie Stam of Indiana was crowned Miss America, fighting off a throat infection, laryngitis and 51 other contestants to win the 88-year-old pageant.

Newsweek

Suspects held in alleged extortion plot against John Travolta

Two prominent Bahamian citizens and a paramedic were detained in the Bahamas in an alleged extortion scheme targeting John Travolta following the death of his son, according to reports.

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