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Vermont moves one step closer to legalizing gay marriage

Nine years after becoming the first state to permit civil unions, Vermont moved a step closer toward legalizing gay marriage.

San Francisco Examiner

Poll: Same-sex marriage, gay rights

Polling Report

Weighty judicial choices loom for Obama

Weighty judicial choices loom for the president, who must fill urgent vacancies on federal trial courts as well as potential seats on the nation's highest court.

MSNBC

Doctor loses license in abortion case

A doctor's license was revoked in the case of a teenager who planned to have an abortion but instead gave birth to a baby she says was killed when clinic staffers put it into a plastic bag and threw it away.

CNN

Obama weighing Iraq withdrawal plans

One plan would preserve President Barack Obama's campaign pledge to get all combat brigades out within 16 months and a second would stretch it to 23 months, officials said.

TIME

General Motors plans salaried-job cuts as it presses UAW

General Motors Corp., trying to cut enough costs by a March 31 deadline to keep $13.4 billion in U.S. aid, is readying a plan to fire thousands of salaried employees, people familiar with the plans said.

Bloomberg

Special section:

In depth: US downturn

Financial Times

Senators appear to have a stimulus deal

Bipartisan negotiators appear to have reached a compromise to cut $140 billion from the Senate economic stimulus bill, but the plan needs to clear rank-and-file Democrats before announcing a deal.

Roll Call

FDA: Peanut plant knowingly sold salmonella-laced food

In 2007, Peanut Corp. of America shipped salmonella-laced products that they knew probably contained tainted peanuts, an updated FDA report said.

ABC News

Peanut factory linked to rats

CBS News

NATION

Judge upholds Congress' ban on toys with certain chemicals

Stores may not sell toys or products for kids under 12 that contain chemicals that interfere with the human hormone system, a federal judge in New York ruled.

ABC News

Obama orders new energy standards for household products

The president ordered the Department of Energy to set standards improving energy efficiency of bulbs and other power-sucking household appliances.

Scientific American

POLITICS

Blair beats Brown to Obama meeting and reveals true depth of his faith

Tony Blair, who converted to Catholicism last year, told his audience why — in his decade on Downing Street — he had never been able to properly express his faith.

Times Online

US Rep. Davis seeks to be first black Alabama governor

U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, an early supporter of President Barack Obama, announced his Democratic candidacy for governor in a bid to become the first African-American to win Alabama's top office.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

Obama team overturns several Bush-era environmental decisions

President Barack Obama put teeth back in America's environmental protection regime, revisiting two widely criticized decisions on car exhaust and mercury emissions.

Guardian

San Francisco looking to convert 'brown grease' into green fuel

"Brown grease" is left over from foods cooked in oil. Officials say we are not taking full advantage of the potential energy in it.

BusinessWeek

The next big biofuel?

TIME

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Here comes the e-book revolution

Six trends are conspiring to drive electronic books into the mainstream.

Computerworld

Blog:

Access e-books through smartphones

Wired

Privacy group: concerned Google Latitude could track unsuspecting users

A day after Google released Latitude, a new feature that lets users find their friends from a smartphone, a privacy group claims it can endanger user privacy.

Channel Wire

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

DreamWorks close to Disney deal

DreamWorks is scrambling to find another distribution partner to replace Universal Pictures, which abruptly severed its ties with DreamWorks just four months after hammering out a deal with the company.

Variety

Movie review: 'Coraline'

Neil Gaiman's children's novel becomes an animated stop-motion fantasy, directed by Henry Selick, that's both creepy and seductively beautiful.

Salon.com

Interview:

director Henry Selick

LA Weekly

Crafting the world of 'Coraline'

Rotten Tomatoes

EDUCATION

'English only' contract stirs controversy at N.J. school

One unofficial guideline has caused a stir at Vineland High School North, the rule that said any language other than English was not allowed.

MSNBC

Reasons that the Tories must win their battle on schools

Good education for all should be an end in itself; but in the post-credit crunch world, a country with poorly educated children will be left struggling.

Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Venezuela's Jews fear more attacks

As President Hugo Chavez intensifies his anti-Israel campaign, some Venezuelans are threatening Jews in the street and vandalizing Caracas' largest synagogue.

CBS News

Obama has faith in reshaped office

President Barack Obama, seeking to make God more bipartisan, turned George W. Bush's White House Office of faith-based initiatives into something even an atheist could love.

The Globe and Mail

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GOOD NEWS

America's last draftee: 'I'm a relic'

"When I tell my wife it's my last assignment, she just rolls her eyes," concedes the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army.

TIME

Family doing great 1 year after ‘miracle’ baby helped save mom’s life

Astra Alice Alfreda Follett was named “miracle baby” because if it wasn’t for her, doctors wouldn’t have known her mother Roxanne had a tear in the wall of her heart’s main vessel.

Herald-Tribune

WORLD

Antarctic patents strain shared science

Fifty years into a treaty demanding freely sharing all scientific findings on Antarctica, governments are trying to end a dispute over a surge in company patents on life in the continent.

MSNBC

Mormonism attracts many Latin Americans

Globally the LDS claims 13.5 million members, a similar number to the Jewish population. Since the 1950s Mormonism has spread rapidly in Latin America, mostly because of its strong family base.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

What does Obama's plan on executive compensation mean?

The Administration's attempt to deal with excessive pay is more about procedure than substance and will allow most companies to self-govern.

BusinessWeek

Young bosses push elder employees to embrace technology

President Barack Obama, 47, is younger than most of the people in his Cabinet. But that dynamic of younger, tech-savvy bosses and older employees isn't unique to the White House.

NPR

Time for Geithner to show his cards

The Obama administration is about to face its first significant financial test. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will lay out the government's strategy for reviving the failed banking system.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

National 'wear red day' promotes heart disease awareness

The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, promotes the red clothing day to spread the message that "heart disease doesn't care what you wear."

CNN

FDA approves drug from genetically engineered animal

The Food and Drug Administration made history as it approved the first drug made with materials from genetically engineered animals, clearing the way for a new class of medical therapies.

Associated Press

SPORTS

Phelps banned from competition for 3 months after marijuana pipe photo

Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals swimming in the Beijing Olympics, was banned from swimming competition after a photograph surfaced showing Phelps smoking a marijuana pipe.

Bloomberg

USA swimming suspends Phelps for 3 months

Associated Press

NFL hopeful of Pro Bowl in Hawaii

"Aloha" means many things in Hawaiian, including farewell and hello. It's a fitting word these days for the Pro Bowl, which will be played in Miami beginning next year, with only a slim chance of returning.

Associated Press

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