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President Barack Obama speaks about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Taliban can't be eliminated, White House concludes

The Obama administration has concluded that the Taliban cannot be eliminated from Afghanistan as a political or military movement, regardless of how many combat forces are sent into battle.

Denver Post

Taliban takes credit for latest suicide bomb

NBC

NASA ready to shoot the moon

A spacecraft is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in the moon's south pole to a crater that has not seen sunlight in billions of years. The purpose: to find out whether ice is hidden there.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Direction of NASA’s future at an impasse

Wired

Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama

President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Nobel Committee said.

Bloomberg

Poll: Is President Barack Obama deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize?

MSNBC

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Obama

BBC

Around the world, Obama's Nobel wins surprises

NPR

More troops in Afghanistan?

Ever since President Barack Obama outlined his new strategy for Afghanistan in March, the notion that the U.S. would deepen its involvement there seemed like a foregone conclusion.

Christian Science Monitor

Some lawmakers hesitant to send more troops

The Hill

US mortgage backer may need bailout

A year after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac teetered, industry executives and Washington policy makers are worrying that another government mortgage giant could be the next housing domino.

The Ledger

NATION

Schwarzenegger goes public with blanket veto threat

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened publicly what he has hinted privately for days: He will veto many of the 700-plus bills on his desk unless a water deal is struck.

Sacramento Bee

Arrest at Sea-Tac Airport yields huge cocaine bust

Officials from the Port of Seattle say they have made the biggest drug bust ever at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

House widens hate crimes law to cover sexual orientation

Congress is on the verge of significantly expanding hate crimes law to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation.

CBS News

The future of a movement

Newsweek

Senate Dems reach deal on jobless aid

Senate Democrats have reached a deal to extend unemployment insurance benefits to workers in every state who are in danger of seeing their benefits run dry.

MSNBC

Jobless claims hit 9-month low, retail sales rise

Reuters

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

German author Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize

Herta Mueller, a little known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature.

MSNBC

Profile: Herta Müller

Telegraph.co.uk

Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch,' still fresh at 50

First published 50 years ago, William S. Burroughs' novel "Naked Lunch" is a dark, wild ride through heroin addiction and withdrawal, filled with paranoia, erotica and drug-fueled hallucinations.

NPR

Utah Symphony musicians propose their own pay cuts

Union musicians made a proposal in the face of the nation's continuing economic downturn to donate $1.3 million in salary and benefits to their employer.

Salt Lake Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

No agreement at Bangkok climate talks

The United Nations climate talks in Bangkok have failed to deliver consensus between developing and developed nations.

ABC News

US Senate panel likely to delay debate on carbon dioxide bill

The Senate environment committee likely will put off considering a landmark climate bill officials and Democratic aides close to the matter said.

easyBourse

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

We Energies: carbon-capture works

An $8 million pilot project in Wisconsin showed that carbon dioxide can be captured from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, We Energies and two partners said.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The human genome in 3 dimensions

By breaking the human genome into millions of pieces and reverse-engineering their arrangement, researchers have produced the highest-resolution picture ever of the genome’s three-dimensional structure.

Wired

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Scientist recreates Turin Shroud to show it's a fake

An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in.

CNN

Catholic bishops demand changes to health bill, threatening opposition

Roman Catholic bishops wrote lawmakers, warning them to change key provisions in health reform legislation or risk the opposition of the church.

The Hill

Ex-Bishop's travel to child porn 'source countries' led to arrest

Ottawa Citizen

Muslim population worldwide grows

The global Muslim population has hit 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly one in four people in the world practices Islam, a study has claimed.

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

3 banks help Habitat for Humanity buy empty homes

Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco said that three banks had given donations to help fund its plans to acquire and renovate foreclosed homes for use as low-income housing.

San Francisco Chronicle

Boomers redefine retirement with philanthropic 'encore' careers

According to a new poll, half of Americans ages 50 to 70 want work that has a social impact after their primary career ends.

U.S. News & World Report

WORLD

Landslides leave 160 dead in Philippines

Rescuers in the Philippines struggled through pounding rain and mud to clear mountain roads and retrieve the bodies of more than 160 people left dead after dozens of landslides struck.

CBC News

Floods in Philippines kill over 100