DailySource: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, looks on as Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly speaks during a press conference at the Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx, New York. (Photo by David Goldman / AP)

FBI foils NYC bomb plot

Four men arrested on charges of plotting to bomb a Jewish temple and shoot down military planes are expected to appear in federal court in White Plains, New York.

Forbes

Blog:

Obama's speech on terrorism: a preview

The Atlantic

Arrests in New York attack plot

BBC

Increase in top indicators show growth

The recession will be less intense in the near term, and there could even be some growth in the second half of the year, the Conference Board said.

MarketWatch

Fed doubts economy’s ‘stabilization’ will persist

Bloomberg

Obama to lay framework for closing Gitmo

President Obama will try to take the reins on the debate over national security and rally support for his plan to shutter the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

CNN

Gitmo detainee to be tried in US court

CBS News

Senate says no to closing Gitmo

MSNBC

Photos are fresh evidence of growing Pakistani nuclear program

New evidence has emerged that Pakistan is "greatly expanding" its nuclear weapons program even as Islamic insurgents advance toward the country's heartland from the Afghanistan border.

McClatchy Newspapers

Senate to approve war funding

President Barack Obama is likely to get a sweeping bipartisan endorsement when the Senate votes on his request for continuing military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Las Vegas Sun

Addition to war spending bill raises questions

USA TODAY

NATION

California weighs painful budget choices

California voters rejected five of the six state budget propositions being pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, forcing state lawmakers to weigh their options among a number of painful spending cuts.

Politico

New Hampshire lawmakers reject gay-marriage bill

New Hampshire lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a bill that would have made the state the sixth in the United States to authorize gay marriage.

Reuters

POLITICS

Credit card curbs a done deal

Congress sent to President Obama a bill that makes it tougher for credit card issuers to raise fees and interest rates.

CNNMoney

Specter defends Pelosi

Sen. Arlen Specter took the opportunity to defend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has come under fire in recent weeks.

The Hill

Blog:

Should Pelosi lose security clearances?

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Sony considers music downloads for PSP

Sony is considering offering music on the PlayStation Network. Such a move could place the PSP in direct competition with other multiuse music players, most notably the iPhone.

CNET News

Google CEO Eric Schmidt rules out newspapers, sticks with advertising

Google has decided against moving into the newspaper business, instead choosing to work with publishers to optimize their Web sites for online advertising, according to Eric Schmidt, its chairman and CEO.

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Texas Senate to allow guns on campus

The long-debated guns-on-campus bill made its way through the Texas Senate as Sen. Jeff Wentworth stood his ground against several amendments. After two hours of debate, the bill passed 20-10.

WOOD-TV

Secretary of Education to monitor how public schools use restraint

After testimony about a student who died after a teacher pinned him to the floor, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he will monitor use of seclusion and restraint in public schools.

KWTX.COM

HEALTH

Down syndrome yields key cancer clue

Solid tumors are very rare in people with Down syndrome. Why? The answer almost certainly lies among the 231 extra genes they inherit with their extra copy of chromosome 21.

WebMD

H1N1 flu deaths and cases rise

The number of confirmed cases of the new Influenza A (H1N1) flu has risen to 10,243 and the death toll has edged up to 80, the World Health Organization said.

Reuters

Regular flu lingers, but it’s not too late for shots

MSNBC

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Laid-off religious workers denied unemployment benefits

Religions may provide, but the state may not when it comes to unemployment benefits for employees laid off by tax-exempt religious organizations.

Religion News Service

Mainline clergy OK with gay rights, cautious on gay marriage

Mainline Protestant clergy are generally likelier than most Americans to endorse gay rights, but only one in three supports same-sex marriage, a study finds.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Site edited by: Rachel Wright, Emily Naughton, Eli Greenlaw, Jeff Bromberg, Jessie Wright-Mendoza, Sevim Yolacti, Emily Kirby, Heather Norberg, Andreea Chirita and Binal Ghelani.

GOOD NEWS

For Lilly employees, a day of service to better the world

Thousands of Eli Lilly and Co. employees took to the playground, the interstate and the underpass to beautify and better Indianapolis on Lilly's second annual Global Day of Service.

Indianapolis Star

Alzheimer's drug hints at breakthrough

Few diseases are as dreaded as Alzheimer's, a slowly progressive incurable disease that damages the brain. But scientists have made some progress in lessening its effects.

The Republican

WORLD

Sri Lanka to resettle most refugees

Sri Lanka plans to resettle most of the 280,000 refugees who fled the war with the defeated Tamil Tigers within six months, the government said after meeting visiting Indian officials.

Reuters

Paramilitaries 'abducting children from camps'