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President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Tim Sloan, Pool / AP)

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Hackers infiltrate House Web sites with anti-Obama pages

Hackers infiltrated the Web sites of dozens of House members overnight, replacing their usual pages with attacks on President Barack Obama.

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Politico

Ford posts $2.7 billion 2009 profit after record loss

Ford Motor Co., the only major U.S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy last year, reported annual net income of $2.7 billion after a record 2008 loss and forecast a pretax operating profit for 2010.

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Bloomberg

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Ford’s 1st annual profit in 4 years.

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Market News

Obama to America (and Congress): Yes, we still can

President Barack Obama showed little inclination to downscale his ambitious agenda and, strikingly, devoted a fair bit of his speech to the need to change the partisan tone in Washington.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Deficit worries could crush Obama's jobs plan

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MSNBC

Special section:

State of the Union: highlights, reactions, analyses

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CNN

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Obama's 1st State of the Union address

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Afghanistan: Brown says 'tide must turn'

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said mid-2011 should be the deadline for "turning the tide" in the fight against insurgents in Afghanistan.

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BBC

Energy-harvesting rubber chips could power pacemakers, cell phones

Power-generating rubber films developed by engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers and mobile phones.

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ScienceDaily

NATION

Uncle who vouched for terror suspect has been arrested

In Brooklyn, N.Y., an uncle of Najibullah Zazi was arraigned in a sealed courtroom, a sign he may be helping the U.S. government.

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Calorie information leads to lower calorie selections for children

When menus clearly showed each item's calories, the amount of calories selected by parents for their child's hypothetical meal at McDonald's restaurants was reduced by an average of 102 calories.

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ScienceDaily

POLITICS

Democrats to raise debt limit $1.9 trillion to record $14.3 trillion

Senate Democrats are expected to vote to increase the nation’s debt limit to a record $14.3 trillion. Without the hike, the government could hit its borrowing limit by mid-February.

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The Hill

State of health reform: still grim

With Democrats in Congress looking for a way out of the health care impasse, President Barack Obama offered them words of encouragement but little else.

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Politico

BUSINESS

Toyota's troubles rise

Toyota's problems deepened as the automaker added 1.1 million vehicles to an existing recall even as it dealt with recalling 2.3 million cars and trucks for a different issue also linked to sudden acceleration.

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Detroit Free Press

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Toyota recall spreads to China, Europe

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Times Online

Fed official says banks still not lending

Despite a more stable financial system, banks are still not lending and the quality of loans on their books continues to get worse as the U.S. housing market remains in the doldrums, says one Federal Reserve official.

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Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A little 'i' to teach about online privacy

The advertising industry has agreed on a standard icon — a little "i" — that it will add to most online ads that use demographics and behavioral data to tell consumers what is happening.

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Author Howard Zinn dies

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a mainstream text, died. He was 87.

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

PETA pushes for Punxsutawney Phil to be replaced with ... a robot

PETA says it's unfair of the Groundhog Day festival organizers to subject the furry critter to the bright lights and huge crowds that descend on the tiny Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney every Feb. 2.

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Big Northwest waves get bigger

A lot has been said about warming temperatures and rising sea levels, but a new study puts the spotlight on a more imminent threat to coastal communities: extreme waves.

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MSNBC

EDUCATION

Teacher-dismissal powers found to affect absent rate at schools

Chicago teachers who didn’t have tenure took fewer days off after principals were given more flexibility to dismiss probationary teachers, a new study has found.

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Obama to seek $4 billion for education

Despite a pledge to hold down spending on most domestic programs, President Barack Obama called for greater investment in public schools.

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Obama pushes $10,000 college tax credit and student debt relief

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Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Caucasians and Asians don't examine faces in the same way

Caucasians and Asians don't examine faces in the same way. Ph.D. student Caroline Blais, of the Universite de Montreal Department of Psychology, has published studies on the subject.

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ScienceDaily

Dinosaur true colors revealed

Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs, a discovery that may prove that dinosaurs' hair-like filaments are related to bird feathers.

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National Geographic

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GOOD NEWS

PJs to fight homelessness in Denver

Denver's fifth-annual pajama party may pour as much as $1 million into the city's homeless initiative.

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Denver Post

Girl pulled out alive 15 days after quake

French rescuers pulled a teenage girl from the rubble of a home near the destroyed St. Gerard University in Haiti, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

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Girl rescued 2 weeks after Haiti quake

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Yahoo! News

WORLD

WHO calls H1N1 response imperfect

The World Health Organization says its response to the H1N1 pandemic could have been better, but was not unduly swayed by drug manufacturers.

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Former prime minister of France acquitted on smear charges

In a setback for President Nicolas Sarkozy, a French court acquitted the former prime minister Dominique de Villepin of charges that he was part of a conspiracy to sabotage Sarkozy's 2007 election.

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London ceremonies mark Holocaust Memorial Day

The 10th annual U.K. Holocaust Memorial Day and 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, were marked by an array of events across the U.K.

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Auschwitz survivor tells of her 'guardian angel'

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Shortage of Roman Catholic priests: Who will anoint the sick?

Finding a priest to be at the bedside of the dying is becoming harder and harder across the country.

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Star Tribune

Clergy merge body, mind, soul in class

This class is called InterPlay, and it is an interactive, creative method of movement bridging the spiritual and the physical.

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HEALTH

Shoes may have changed how we run, research suggests

Using slow-motion footage, scientists have discovered that experienced barefoot runners tend to strike the ground with their forefoot or mid-foot, rather than their heel.

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BBC

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Barefoot running laced with health benefits

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WebMD

'The Barefoot Professor'

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Nature

High blood pressure linked to dementia

If the cardiologist's warnings don't scare you, consider this: Controlling blood pressure just might be the best protection yet known against dementia.

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USA TODAY

Rotavirus vaccine could save millions of children worldwide

Vaccinating infants against rotavirus could save the lives of millions of children in developing nations who would otherwise die from the diarrhea-causing disease, two new studies show.

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HealthDay

SPORTS

Serena and Henin to meet in Australian Open final

Defending champion Serena Williams and Belgian great Justine Henin will meet in the final of the Australian Open.

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South Carolina's Downey pours in 30 to surprise No. 1 Kentucky

Top-ranked Kentucky found out it's got some growing up to do. And college basketball will most likely find a new No. 1.

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USA TODAY

Special section:

America's most powerful athletes

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BusinessWeek

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Storming floor nets Gamecocks fine

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

'Ethical' stem cell crop boosted

U.S. researchers have found a way to dramatically increase the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue.

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BBC

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The ocean liner Queen Victoria makes its way beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (Photo by Eric Risberg / AP)

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