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Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor is escorted on Capitol Hill in Washington, by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, prior to the start of the committee's confirmation hearing. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

CIA had secret al-Qaida plan

A secret CIA initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al-Qaida operatives, according to former intelligence officials.

Wall Street Journal

Cheney hid program from Congress: senator

Reuters

Seymour Hersh: Bush administration considered operation to provoke Iran war

YouTube

Roadside bomb misses US ambassador

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq escaped unharmed from a roadside bomb that targeted his convoy in a southern province, the U.S. Embassy said.

CNN

Iraq violence takes toll on Christian minority

Press TV

Judging Sonia: Senate confirmation hearings begin

Judge Sonia Sotomayor will face grilling on polarizing issues such as affirmative action, abortion, the death penalty and gun rights as Republican senators seek to portray her as a radical activist.

ABC News

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Sotomayor timeline

CBS News

Missteps, ignored advice on Palin’s exit

Much of the advice sent Sarah Palin’s way by supporters appeared to be happily received and then largely discarded, barely slowing what was, in retrospect, an inexorable march toward resignation.

MSNBC

Media report: North Korea's Kim Jong Il has cancer

North Korea's reclusive dictator Kim Jong-il has been diagnosed with life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a South Korean TV station reported.

Christian Science Monitor

Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer

Reuters

Alleged mass grave probe ordered

President Obama has ordered an investigation of the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban POWs during the opening days of the war in Afghanistan.

MSNBC

NATION

Impatience builds over stimulus

President Obama's first signature achievement, the stimulus, is drawing fierce GOP attack and stirring agitation on the left for a second stimulus.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama: Recovery to take years, not months

FOX News

Obama on stimulus

CNN

Wash. officer's children recant sex abuse stories 20 years later

Former police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

GOP, Holder battle over New Black Panther party

Key House Republicans are charging Attorney General Eric Holder of playing politics at the Justice Department.

The Hill

Obama in Africa: short on specifics

President Barack Obama's maiden presidential voyage south of the Sahara was keenly watched across Africa as the first test of how this son of the soil will wield his star power on the continent.

Christian Science Monitor

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Black culture lights up Broadway stages

When President Obama took his wife, Michelle, to a Broadway play by African American playwright August Wilson about a black father's search for freedom, ticket sales for the production spiked.

MSNBC

Kempner says 'Yoo-Hoo' to unsung heroine in new film

In Kempner's new film, "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg," Gertrude Berg takes center stage as the film tracks the rise of one of America's most underrated creative forces.

NPR

HEALTH

High stakes: A call to legalize marijuana

At issue in cash-strapped California is the narrowly-defined liberty people have to grow and sell a certain plant and the desire of some folks to tax it.

CBS News

For Obama, failure not an option

With the economy struggling and his poll numbers dipping, the president who made "change" his campaign mantra cannot afford to come up empty on health care, his top legislative priority.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Merit pay has pitfalls for schools

Some school policymakers are promoting a new idea for improving the schools: merit pay plans that would tie teachers’ pay to the scores their students earn on standardized math and reading tests.

EducationNews.org

Community colleges: Can they help save the US economy?

Community college graduates earn up to 30 percent more than high school grads which helps state and local governments reap a 16 percent return on every dollar they invest in community colleges.

TIME

Bleak economy squeezes community colleges

NPR

SPORTS

Acta out as Nationals manager

In the middle of his third year as manager, Manny Acta was fired by the Washington Nationals. The dismissal came as the Nationals headed into the all-star break with a 26-61 record, worst in the majors.

Baltimore Sun

Lesnar entertains, but UFC isn't laughing

Brock Lesnar is on his way to becoming mixed martial arts' biggest name. He's already its biggest jerk.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Big Ben rings in 150th birthday

A giant birthday message has been projected on to Parliament's clock tower to mark 150 years since the first ringing of Big Ben.

BBC

Homeless reconnect to society, jobs, shelter via soccer team

Less than a year ago, most of the players on Sara Silvennoinen's soccer team were sleeping on the streets, or in nearby woods, or at the city's homeless shelter.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Displaced Pakistanis head home

Pakistan's army is keeping up its offensive against suspected Taliban positions as the first of around two million refugees start returning to the Swat valley and surrounding areas.

Al Jazeera