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Lt. Col. William McCollough, right, talks with the Nawa District governor Haji Abdul Manaf, left, with the aid of a translator, in southern Afghanistan. (Photo by Brennan Linsley / AP)

US, Israeli scientists win Nobel for laying ribosome bare

Two Americans and an Israeli won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on how the DNA code is translated into life, findings that have been used to fight infectious disease.

Bloomberg

Special section:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Nobelprize.org

Supreme Court hears 1st Amendment case on dogfight videos

In a very important case, the Supreme Court argued a case concerning the constitutionality of a 1999 federal law that bans commercial trafficking in “depictions of animal cruelty.”

New York Times

Animal cruelty vs. free speech

CNN

Obama decides against cutting troops

President Barack Obama has ruled out cutting the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan or turning the war into a counter-terror campaign.

Telegraph.co.uk

Afghan insurgents pushed into US base

CNN

Leaders divided on Afghan war strategy

St. Augustine Record

The war in Afghanistan close up

TIME

US threatens to derail climate talks by refusing to include Kyoto targets

The U.S. threatened to derail a deal on global climate change in a public showdown with China by expressing deep opposition to the existing Kyoto protocol.

Guardian

New ring detected around Saturn

A colossal new ring has been identified around Saturn. The dusty hoop extends some 8 million miles from the planet, about 50 times further out into space than its more familiar rings.

BBC

Saturn stunners

MSNBC

NATION

Support increases for tax credit to boost job creation

The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs is gaining support among economists and officials grappling with the highest unemployment in a generation.

New York Times

Schriro report critical of scope of immigration detention

A new report on immigration portrays a costly, inappropriately penal system growing without basic management tools, while the agency nominally in charge struggles with turnover and lack of expertise.

New York Times

Homeland Security proposes reform of immigration detention system

Los Angeles Times

Border crossing 'game'

ABC News

Parents help adult children with money

Despite a faltering economy and unemployment numbers that continue to creep higher, parents are still likely to help children who fall into a financial quagmire, a new study finds.

Denver Post

POLITICS

Senate passes $626B Pentagon budget

As President Barack Obama weighs major shifts in strategy in the deteriorating mission in Afghanistan, the Senate passed a bill bringing the total U.S. tab for that war to about $300 billion.

TIME

Democrats vow to ban domestic violence as 'pre-existing condition'

Top House Democrats slammed insurers who claim that domestic violence is a preexisting condition that can be used to deny coverage to battered women.

CNN

More taxes on health care companies

Reuters

Obama's 'czars' are nothing new

President Barack Obama is not abusing his authority by appointing so-called "czars" to oversee certain issues or problems, a Senate panel was told.

McClatchy Newspapers

White House snubs Sen. Feingold

The Hill

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Filming of García Márquez novel delayed by anti-prostitution group

Filming of the latest novel by Gabriel García Márquez has been delayed by an anti-prostitution group that claims the movie would promote child prostitution.

Guardian

Jude Law is tackling 'Hamlet' from the inside out

He's a well-known movie star who's fodder for the tabloids, but Jude Law wants you to think of him — for the next few months, at least — as the Prince of Denmark.

NPR

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Fossil provides giant step forward

An exceptional collection of dinosaur footprints that could be the biggest recorded has been found by two amateur enthusiasts on an expedition near France's Jura mountains.

Sydney Morning Herald

Stone circle suggests Stonehenge part of burial complex

Archaeologists have found a new stone circle near Stonehenge that adds to the theory that the famous monument in Britain was part of a funeral complex.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Green roofs shown to offset warming

A news study found that filling rooftops with plants and dirt can help pull a modest amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Discovery News

Crazy green-energy ideas that just might work

MSNBC

Carbon emissions to fall due to recession

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will drop three percent in 2009 largely because of the worldwide financial crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.

Guardian

Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans

Scientists have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles, which are more readily used by plankton.

ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Innovation grant ground rules proposed

The U.S. Department of Education is proposing high hurdles for school districts and nonprofit organizations that want a piece of the $650 million Investing in Innovation grant program.

Education Week

Hispanic students aspire to higher education but face barriers

Nearly nine in 10 Hispanics say it's "necessary" to get a college education to get ahead in life, but Hispanic students' plans to get an actual diploma fall well below those of other groups.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Angel service dogs help kids with allergy

Nicco, a Portuguese Water Dog, has been trained as a peanut-detection dog and will go to his new owner, Ethan Rines, 5, later this month. "He'll help keep me from dying," says Ethan.

USA TODAY

Mormon church sending humanitarian aid to Samoa

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is partnering with Islamic Relief Worldwide to aid the victims of an earthquake and a tsunami in Samoa.

KTVB

WORLD

North Korea may have bacterial weapons

North Korea is in the final stage of restoring its nuclear capabilities, and its armed forces are capable of carrying out 13 kinds of viral and bacterial attack, reports say.

Sydney Morning Herald

France warns of new terror threat from 'body bombs'