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Amanda Knox's mother Edda Mellas reacts as she answers journalists questions after visiting her daughter in the jail in the outskirts of Perugia, Italy, were Amanda is detained. (Photo by Pier Paolo Cito / AP)

Amanda Knox's aunt says hearing verdict was 'gut-wrenching'

Sitting at her home in West Seattle, Washington, Amanda Knox's aunt Janet Huff was watching the live television news coverage that her niece had been convicted of murder.

CNN

Kercher's family 'pleased' at verdict

BBC

Expert explains Italian courts

MSNBC

5 detained in probe of Russian deadly nightclub fire

Russian investigators picked through the remains of a burned-out nightclub in the aftermath of an explosive inferno, the result of an alleged misuse of fireworks that claimed more than 100 lives.

CNN

Nuclear arms treaty ends amid scramble for new deal

In President Barack Obama's attempt to reset relations between the U.S. and Russia, an agreement to cut nuclear weapon arsenals is overshadowed.

Times Online

Iran says it needs 20 nuclear sites

Reuters

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Nuclear weapons

Guardian

Obama to unveil job-creation ideas

President Barack Obama said that he plans to do more to ensure that the economy finally starts adding jobs despite a report that showed the fewest unemployment claims since the recession began.

The Hill

Many workers will try to change jobs in 2010

Kansas City Star

Blog:

Obama: good trends not good enough

ABC News

College campus smoking bans have some saying 'lighten up'

At many colleges, smokers are being run not just out of school buildings, but off the premises entirely.

TIME

NATION

CBO: financial overhaul would hike deficit by $4.5 billion

A wide-ranging House bill to crack down on Wall Street and revamp the nation's financial markets will increase the nation's deficit by $4.5 billion over the next decade.

The Hill

Neb. abortion doctor to expand practice

An abortion doctor has said that he will likely perform more late-term procedures at his Nebraska practice to meet the demand left when a Kansas physician was shot and killed earlier in 2009.

MSNBC

Bullet-proof abortion clinic?

CBS News

Pastor offers sex offenders a 'miracle': a new start

In Miami, dozens of homeless sex offenders live under a bridge because there are few, if any, options nearby. But 90 miles away, there's a community dedicated to housing sex offenders.

NPR

POLITICS

Aide: Sen. Baucus nominated girlfriend for US attorney

U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., was romantically involved with a former staffer when he recommended her to become the next U.S. attorney for Montana, a spokesman said.

USA TODAY

House extends estate tax — a blow to Bush-era plan to abolish it

The House voted to continue the estate tax — an attempt to foil the Bush-era cuts that would have led to the expiration of the estate tax in 2010. But complications remain.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Economists who foresaw US payroll surprise now see job gains

Some of the economists who anticipated the U.S. job market would see marked improvement in November now say that job gains are around the corner, and possibly in the rearview mirror.

Bloomberg

Apartments seen as good investment

With rising apartment rents far outpacing the rise in the prices of goods and services, investing in multi-family properties can serve as a hedge against inflation, industry experts say.

Denver Post

Slim-Fast launches recall of 10 million cans

The maker of Slim-Fast announced a recall of its canned, ready-to-drink products due to possible bacterial contamination.

CNNMoney

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A window that washes itself?

A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car?

ScienceDaily

Mysterious 'strange' stars may rival black holes for weirdness

If quark stars exist, it could prove a theory that normal matter — the stuff of people, planets and stars — isn't stable and could help explain the existence of dark matter filling much of the universe.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Calling out America's worst schools: a $3.5 billion plan

Like a family that has hit the lottery, the Department of Education is dropping money all over the place.

TIME

Education news falling off front pages

Education Week

Secretary Duncan: Principals must act like CEOs

U.S. News & World Report

CSU students, staff split as board moves toward concealed weapons ban

Colorado State University's past refusal to ban concealed weapons on campus makes sense to students, but not necessarily to adults on campus.

Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New churches: Chicago seen as a fertile field for congregations to branch out

There are more than 50 congregations considering planting churches in Chicago in the year ahead, and the city has already seen a boom in new, hip churches.

Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles diocese of Episcopal Church elects 1st female bishop

The LA diocese of the Episcopal Church voted at its Riverside convention to elect its first female bishop.

PE.com

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GOOD NEWS

111-year-old conservatory reopens

More than a century ago, an inventor built a whimsical conservatory with eight sides and a soaring ceiling. Time, vandals and the threat of a wrecking ball nearly brought the structure to ruin.

San Francisco Chronicle

The power of 2

Separated at birth, twin sisters born in China never doubted that they were somehow part of a pair. Four years, two continents, and a high-speed Internet connection later, they finally met.

Newsweek

Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson'

In a conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian's equivalent to a needle in a haystack.

CNN

WORLD

13 dead in Mexico shootout