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Fed could become finance supercop

The Federal Reserve could become the supercop for giant companies under a proposal considered by the White House.

San Francisco Chronicle

Banks move to pay back TARP funds

Christian Science Monitor

Obama set to revive military commissions

The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer terrorism suspects greater legal protections.

MSNBC

Wildfire scorches 8,600 acres in California

A wildfire that has engulfed dozens of homes and displaced thousands of people kept roaring in Southern California, scorching about 8,600 acres, according to fire officials.

CNN

Southern California wildfires

ABC News

Special section:

Wildfires: appetite for destruction

CBS News

Pakistan moves against Swat militants, civilians flee

Pakistani forces attacked Taliban militants in the Swat valley as concern grew about the fate of nearly a million people displaced by an upsurge in violence.

Reuters

Swat exodus

BBC

Senators weighing 3 health plans

Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NATION

Panel finds trouble in consumer lending

A panel set up by Congress to oversee the $700 billion financial bailout package said one of the government's main efforts to support credit markets is meeting a host of problems and slim demand.

The Hill

Obama makes push for credit card legislation

USA TODAY

Obama wants to ease rules on jobless aid

President Obama said he wants to make it easier for people to collect unemployment benefits while they go to school, promising to "lay a new foundation for our economic growth by investing in our citizens."

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover

The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week is out of a job. He insisted the flyover was a "classified" mission and should not be disclosed to the public.

NY Daily News

CIA documents spark fight over what politicians knew about waterboarding

CIA records show Democratic House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on harsh interrogation techniques being used on terrorist suspects.

Guardian

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tensions brew in US-Russian space partnership

After the U.S. space shuttle program is retired, scheduled to happen next year, the space station will rely solely on Russia's Soyuz launch vehicle until the next generation of U.S. spacecraft is built.

NPR

NASA set for dramatic shuttle rescue

As NASA prepares for its final call to the Hubble Space Telescope, it's also preparing for something never attempted in the history of the shuttle program: a rescue.

MSNBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Bunker becomes modern mansion

In 1982, a schoolteacher drove out to investigate a decommissioned nuclear missile bunker that was up for sale near Topeka, Kansas. He took his first tour of what would soon become his family home.

Wired

Living down below

Dark Roasted Blend

The best movies to experience HD theater

These great movie scenes pinpoint exactly why your new HDTV, sound system, or Blu-ray player is worth the money. HDTV, check. Great sound system, check. Prepare to show off!

PC World

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Official thanks pope for his 'regret'

The top religious adviser to Jordan's king has thanked Pope Benedict XVI for his expression of "regret" after a 2006 speech that many Muslims deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

Forbes

Pope expresses respect for Islam in Jordan

TIME

In pictures: Pope visits Jordan

BBC

Obama to deliver speech to Muslim world

Obama is to deliver in Egypt his long-anticipated appeal for reconciliation between the Muslim world and the west after more than a decade of growing tension and violence.

Guardian

EDUCATION

NAEP scores fodder for reform debate

High school reform advocates are using long-term-trend data from the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress to argue for stepped up accountability for high schools.

Education Week

Obama meets with Sharpton, Gingrich, Bloomberg on education

President Obama has been getting input on ways to improve the U.S. education system from an unlikely political trio.

khq.com

Sharpton, Gingrich, Bloomberg on education

Politico

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GOOD NEWS

Poetry returns to Basra, a city of poets

In the southern Iraqi city, poetry and music have returned since Iraqi forces gained control from extremists.

Christian Science Monitor

Honest taxi driver reaps rewards

Hundreds of Argentines have been donating to a taxi driver who found a bag with $32,500 in cash in his taxi and returned it to its owners in what is seen as an extraordinary act of honesty.

BBC

WORLD

Zuma sworn in as SA's president

The controversial Jacob Zuma has been sworn in as the latest South African president after a remarkable political comeback, taking over a faltering economy plagued by crime, poverty and AIDS.

Reuters

Zuma's inauguration