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President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., after returning from an eight-day European trip and a five-hour visit to the Iraq war zone. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Ship carrying 20 Americans believed hijacked off Somalia

Pirates near Somalia's coastline attacked a cargo ship with a crew of at least 20 U.S. nationals, according to the company that owns the vessel.

CNN

Spies penetrate US electrical grid

The U.S. electrical grid is under attack from Russian and Chinese cyber spies who have inserted software that could disrupt the system, current and former national security officials said.

CBS News

Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing

Workers with dwindling wages are paying for groceries, yoga classes and fuel with locally printed currencies such as Detroit Cheers, Ithaca Hours in New York, or Plenty in North Carolina.

USA Today

Special section:

10 winners in the recession

U.S. News & World Report

Obama's Europe trip: 'good opening act'

President Obama returned from a rousing eight-day trip to Europe with his global political capital intact, even enhanced. He also confronted limits of star popularity.

Christian Science Monitor

Welcome to Iraq, Mr. President

CBS News

Obama visits Baghdad

Telegraph.co.uk

Panel: Financial crisis is 'far from over'

Though some economic measures are improving, the financial crisis "is far from over" and "appears to be taking root in the larger economy," according to the Congressional oversight panel.

ABC News

Treasury looks set to extend TARP

CNBC

Wall Street investors lose nerve

Reuters

Red Cross: medical ethics violated at US rendition prisons

Medical personnel who monitored harsh CIA interrogations of "high value" prisoners at secret overseas sites violated medical ethics, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported.

MSNBC

Climate change, emission cap bill introduced, money wrangling begins

House Democrats outlined their much- awaited climate change bill and are already wrangling over how to spend potentially hundreds of billions of dollars.

Politico

NATION

Vermont legalizes gay marriage

Vermont became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature's vote.

Hartford Courant

Special section:

State by state: gay marriage legal battle

NPR

Special section:

Gay marriage timeline

San Francisco Chronicle

States could retool lotteries, earn billions more for ailing programs

Facing serious budget shortfalls, states could rake in $14 billion more by tweaking lottery programs, says an industry report.

TIME

POLITICS

Biden rebukes Cheney, guarantees we're 'safer today'

Vice President Joe Biden brushed aside criticism by predecessor Dick Cheney that the Obama administration put the United States at risk, telling CNN that the former vice president was "dead wrong."

CNN

Jesse Jackson Jr. faces ethics probe

An independent panel that reviews possible ethical lapses launched a preliminary review of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s efforts to be appointed to the U.S. Senate by ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Seattle Times

Stevens' prosecutors now face charges

The judge in the corruption trial against former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, filed criminal contempt of court charges against the government prosecutors.

The Hill

HEALTH

Take a walk

The scheme of nature and humans' place in it is built around humans using their legs to move. It's a great unspoken assumption. The earth expects humans to walk.

Salon.com

Push for digital records sparks debate

President Obama wants doctors' offices and hospitals to go paperless by 2014. Naysayers claim computerization is full of false promise.

USA Today

Program extends seniors' lives

A home-based program for seniors that includes occupational and physical therapy, plus minor home modifications, can help people live longer.

HealthDay

EDUCATION

Student debt and defaults surge

Student debt in the U.S. surged in recent decades, and now tops $500 billion. The share of young adults with educational debt almost tripled since 1983.

Christian Science Monitor

US schools chief Arne Duncan says kids need more class time

American children need to be in school more — much more — if the nation is to compete with students abroad, the nation's top educator said.

Education Week

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Brian Williams named Walter Cronkite Award winner

The “NBC Nightly News” anchor says he grew up idolizing Cronkite and there is no greater name in broadcast journalism.

MSNBC

Kal Penn joins Obama administration, will work with arts communities

Actor Kal Penn, who stumped the country for the Obama presidential campaign, is leaving Hollywood to work in the Obama White House.

Chicago Sun-Times

ENVIRONMENT

Empire State Building going green

The Empire State Building is getting a $20 million green makeover to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and save $4.4 million annually in energy costs.

Telegraph.co.uk

Two Calif. rivers among most endangered

California's two longest rivers were listed as the country's "most endangered" waterways because of outdated water management and poor flood planning.

MSNBC

Special section:

America's most endangered rivers: 2009

American Rivers

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteer tutors evaluation: They help poor readers improve

A program that uses older volunteers as tutors has significantly improved the reading skills of students in the early grades, according to a study.

Education Week

Cat found alive under rubble

A cat named Felix was found alive and well beneath the rubble of a six-story building in Cologne that collapsed five weeks ago, the fire brigade in the German city said.

Reuters

WORLD

N. Korea threatens 'strong steps'

A North Korean diplomat warns "strong steps" would follow any U.N. action against the country after its launch.

BBC

UN raises alarm: Sri Lanka near final anti-Tamil assault, 100,000 could die