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Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken addresses supporters Democratic election night party in St. Paul, Minn. (Photo by Jim Mone / AP)

Senate GOP prepared to fight if Democrats try to seat Franken

Sen. John Cornyn weighed in on Minnesota's unresolved U.S. Senate race, saying no one should be seated until a winner is made official by Minnesota's secretary of state and governor.

CNN

Minn. election still in limbo

CBS News

5 governors seek $1T federal bailout

Five Democratic governors are asking the federal government for a $1 trillion bailout package, including $250 billion for education and $150 billion in middle class tax cuts.

Forbes

US faces imminent debt 'time bomb'

The national debt is projected to grow to nearly $2 trillion in 2009, which could test the world's appetite for financing U.S. government spending.

MSNBC

Manufacturing index drops to 28-year low

Houston Chronicle

Obama sketches out recovery plan

CNNMoney

Obama, Congress leaders to meet Monday on economy

Reuters

Polite leaflets forecast bombs in Gaza

The Israeli air force is dropping thousands of leaflets over Gaza warning people to leave their homes before targeted bombing raids.

Reuters

Targeting Hamas leaders

CNN

Pakistan reopens NATO supply route

Pakistan reopened the supply route in the Khyber Pass, four days after shutting the vital link to Afghanistan in order to fight Taliban militants.

CNN

NATION

9 Muslims removed from flight receive apology from AirTran

AirTran Airways apologized to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security.

USA Today

Muslim taken off plane by AirTran speaks out

NPR

Raise gasoline tax 10 cents, commission urges Congress

Members of the infrastructure financing commission will urge Congress to raise the gas tax by 10 cents a gallon and the diesel tax by 12 cents to 15 cents a gallon.

TIME

POLITICS

Educator Bennett appointed senator

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet has been chosen to fill the Colorado U.S. Senate seat of Ken Salazar.

Denver Post

Clinton's high wire act in Middle East

Having secured her standing as a friend of Israel, Hillary Clinton must show that she can also be a mediator in her next role as secretary of state, when her first challenge may be the violence in Gaza.

International Herald Tribune

Israeli ambassador outlines demands

NPR

Why Senate can't ignore Blago pick

Roland Burris, the former Illinois Attorney General appointed under a cloud by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, intends to show up to be sworn into the U.S. Senate to finish Barack Obama's Senate term.

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

With new chip technology, Hollywood digital effects are almost lifelike

Movie makers and video game developers are getting closer to achieving the holy grail of animation: creating computer-generated actors that are visually indistinguishable from real people.

San Jose Mercury News

Wikipedia raises $6.2 million, exceeds 2008 fundraising goal

The Wikimedia Foundation announced that with the help of over 125,000 donors from around the world, it has reached its goal of raising over $6 million to sustain Wikipedia.

CNET News

HEALTH

Hypothermic storage machine may improve kidney transplantation

A special storage machine could be better than ice for keeping donor kidneys fresh for transplantation, say scientists.

MedPage Today

'Bug' could combat dengue fever

Humans could be protected from dengue fever by infecting the mosquitoes carrying it with a parasite which halves their lifespan, say researchers.

Scientific American

SPORTS

Bryant bags 40 in Lakers' win over Jazz

Kobe Bryant picked up where he left off last time he faced the Utah Jazz, scoring a game-high 40 points to pace the surging Los Angeles Lakers in a 113-100 home victory.

Reuters

State produces rich crop of QBs

As one era of Texas football history comes to a close with the final Cotton Bowl Classic at Fair Park, the game’s quarterbacks represent the vanguard of a new chapter in football’s development.

Houston Chronicle

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

John Travolta's son dies in the Bahamas

John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died Friday morning at the family's vacation home in The Bahamas after what the family's lawyer says was a seizure-related incident.

ABC News

Sales of music albums drop as single songs rise

Sales of music albums fell in 2008 as more fans went online to buy single copies of their favorite songs.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Following Jesus is one thing; living like him is quite another

The Rev. Ed Dobson has spent most of his life following Jesus. Only now does he realize how hard it is to live like him.

Religion News Service

Where there's a will, there's a way

It has always been possible to draw up a will that follows Quranic guidelines, but because of the complex formulas, and questions of how it fits into Australian law, it has not been common practice.

Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

A Chinese family's hard path to riches

In the 1950s, the Liu family in China's Sichuan province were so short of food that they sent one of their sons to be raised by another family. Today, the Lius are among the richest families in China.

International Herald Tribune

Big gifts in 2008 despite recession

Even as the economy slipped into recession, America’s wealthiest individuals gave record sums to charity. At least 16 gave $100 million or more in 2008.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

WORLD

Girls to marry militants, orders Taliban

The Taliban have now issued new dictum in the areas under their sway, asking parents of the grown up daughters to marry them to militants or "face dire consequences."

Times of India

Successfully fighting terrorists, but not their ideology

International Herald Tribune

Teen boy trained to be suicide bomber feels tricked

CNN

Once booming Dubai goes bust

Following wave of speculation, real estate collapses in Middle East's capital of the ultra-rich.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Chrysler gets initial $4 billion loan

Chrysler LLC. received an initial $4 billion emergency loan from the U.S. government, two days after the government completed a parallel payout to its larger rival General Motors Corp.

MarketWatch

Auto sales for '08 may have plunged 3M vehicles

USA Today

Investors to buy IndyMac - $13.9 billion

IndyMac has come full circle as the failed lender is being returned by government regulators to the private-sector whence it came, and for what seems to be a pretty price.

Forbes

Some economists find reasons to be optimistic for 2009

In the midst of the deepest recession in the experience of most Americans, many professional forecasters are optimistically heading into the new year declaring that the worst may soon be over.

International Herald Tribune

Bonds in 2009: Waiting by the exits

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

115 groups ask Obama's agriculture secretary to end wildlife killing

A coalition of 115 conservation, animal protection and faith-based organizations called on Pres. Barack Obama's agriculture secretary to halt the government slaughter of millions of wild animals.

Environment News Service

A spurt of earthquake activity raises fears of a Yellowstone cataclysm

A wave of recent earthquakes raises fears with origins 642,000 years ago — when a Yellowstone "supervolcano" erupted with 1,000 times more power than the explosion of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

TIME

Top 10 places already affected by climate change

Scientific American

EDUCATION

Can iStanford take on Facebook Mobile?

Stanford sophomores Kayvon Beykpour, Aaron Wasserman and five other friends built a free iPhone application that has the academic world buzzing.

TIME

New scholarships aid students committed to service

Colleges are catching up to a generation of civic-minded students, building curricula around service-learning and eager to attract the most ambitious students.

USA Today

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