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From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)

Obama seeking good job ideas

President Barack Obama has invited business, labor, financial, academic and nonprofit leaders to Washington to discuss job creation.

Columbus Dispatch

Does creating jobs mean creating more debt?

NPR

Special section:

Jobbed: how America works now

Newsweek

Comcast gains majority stake in NBC

Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable-television company, will start a joint venture with General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal unit, creating an entertainment company valued at about $37 billion.

Bloomberg

Obama team defends Afghan policy

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the nation's top military officer defended President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

Gainesville Sun

Italy may send 1000 more to Afghanistan

New York Times

Obama: Withdrawal to begin in July 2011

Telegraph.co.uk

Bernanke defends Federal Reserve, vows 'careful' exit

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended the central bank's response to the global crisis and told a Senate panel that raising interest rates "will require careful analysis and judgment."

Bloomberg

Bernanke under fire

Politico

Shale: answer to the energy question?

Oil and gas companies are vying to stake out territory where they can tap natural gas trapped in shale rock. Thanks to technological advancements, vast gas reserves are suddenly within reach.

MSNBC

NATION

Bank of America to repay $45B in taxpayer bailout funds

Bank of America Corp. said it would repay $45 billion of taxpayer bailout funds, a move that could free the top U.S. lender from pay curbs as it looks to hire a new CEO but also makes it more vulnerable.

Reuters

Army Major Hasan faces new charges in Fort Hood shootings

The alleged Fort Hood shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, was charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, on top of the 13 murder counts he already faced.

ABC News

Fort Hood suspect's lawyer raises fairness issues

Houston Chronicle

Killer with low IQ executed in Texas

Bobby Wayne Woods was executed in Texas after his lawyers lost a battle to persuade the courts that he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.

New York Times

POLITICS

NY Senate votes against gay marriage

In a major blow to the gay rights movement, the New York Senate overwhelmingly killed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

NY Daily News

DC votes to allow gay marriage, issue unsettled

Christian Science Monitor

Al Franken fallout has GOP fuming

The Republicans are steamed at Senator Al Franken, D-Minn., because partisans are using a measure he sponsored to paint them as rapist sympathizers — and because he isn't doing much to stop them.

Politico

BUSINESS

Ford bets big on small cars

The new Fiesta will be the first subcompact Ford has built in North America since the Pinto, and a test of whether it can make money on small cars.

BusinessWeek

In Denmark, ambitious plan for electric cars

New York Times

10 truly strange-looking foreign cars

MSNBC

17M Americans have no bank account

Eighteen percent of Americans that have bank accounts still use non-traditional banking services like pawn shops and payday lenders, says an FDIC survey.

CNNMoney

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1st new stem cell lines approved for research funding

Thirteen new human embryonic stem cell lines have been approved for use in federally funded research — the first to be approved under an executive order from President Barack Obama.

CNN

Opposing views on federally funding embryonic stem cell research

ABC News

Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon prototype chip

Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores onto a postage stamp size chunk of silicon.

BBC

SPORTS

NFL's new guidelines on concussions

The National Football League imposes its most stringent rules to date on managing concussions, requiring players who exhibit any significant sign of concussion to be removed from a game or practice.

New York Times

Paid like a champion: Big bucks await ousted Notre Dame coach

Charlie Weis was fired after four straight losses. Now Notre Dame will have to pay big bucks to boot its coach out the door.

ABC News

Notre Dame's glory fades without a conference

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dreidel for the blind

Artist and Jewish scholar Marsha Plafkin Hurwitz's version of the dreidel is more than child's play. It's also a conceptual sculpture, disability aid and sensitivity training tool.

Religion News Service

New Bible: blessed are the conservative

The Conservative Bible Project is an online effort to create a Bible suitable for contemporary conservative sensibilities.

Yahoo! News

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GOOD NEWS

Efforts under way to stem US school dropout problem

Groups such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Colin Powell's America's Promise Alliance have analyzed the school dropout rate and are funding programs to reinvigorate schools.

Reuters

Unique gift card makes charitable giving easy this holiday season

Trying to find that perfect gift for friends and family? A recent study found that almost half of all Americans would love a charitable donation in place of a gift.

USA TODAY

WORLD

What to do about Europe's secret nukes

It is Europe's dirty secret that the list of nuclear-capable countries extends beyond those — Britain and France — who have built their own weapons.

Times Online

Long shadow of Chernobyl