The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Seen intact in this file photo, the Minneapolis Metrodome collapsed during a blizzard which dumped up to 20 inches of snow on the Midwest. (Photo by Ann Heisenfelt / AP)

China’s army of graduates struggling to find work

Despite robust growth, China‘s economy doesn’t generate enough good professional jobs to absorb the wave of highly educated young adults.

MSNBC

Meet China‘s ’ant tribe’

ABC News

Holbrooke critical after torn aorta surgery

Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, special envoy on the Afghanistan war, was in critical condition after undergoing over 20 hours of surgery to fix the large artery that moves blood from the heart.

Houston Chronicle

Factbox: Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke

Reuters

Metrodome deflates after snowstorm

The inflatable roof of the Metrodome, where the Minnesota Vikings play, collapsed following a snowstorm that dumped 17 inches on Minneapolis.

Detroit Free Press

Blizzard grips Midwest

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blizzard blasts Midwest

The Weather Channel

WikiLeaks backlash: 1st global cyberwar has begun, claim hackers

As Julian Assange is held in solitary confinement at Wandsworth prison, the anonymous community of hacktivists takes to the cyberbattlefields.

Guardian

Spain protests over Assange arrest

BBC

Blog:

Obama tries to repair WikiLeaks damage

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Congress expected to pass tax deal

White House adviser David Axelrod said he expected the House of Representatives will pass President Barack Obama’s tax deal without significant changes.

CNBC

NATION

Passengers stranded on Mo. cruise boat

Sleeping on floors and using tablecloths as blankets, more than 600 people stranded on a showboat in a Missouri lake were awaiting rescue after the cruise ship ran aground a day earlier.

CNN

Williamsburg: new front line of the gentrification battle

New York’s long cycle of gentrification has a new frontier — but the tattooed bloggers of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, know their chances of halting the march of commerce are slim.

Guardian

Blog:

What happens when artists move in

(Economist)

Prospero

Fallen troops honored at Arlington wreath ceremony

Solemn rows of headstones in Arlington National Cemetery were adorned with holiday decorations as hundreds of volunteers laid wreaths on the gravesites of America’s fallen troops.

CNN

Wreath-laying ceremony honors fallen vets

YouTube

POLITICS

Wal-Mart shoppers: Homeland Security wants you

If you‘ve ridden the subway in New York City, you’ve probably seen the signs: “If You See Something, Say Something.” Now, Wal-Mart shoppers will see the message in a video as they stand in the checkout line.

NPR

Social Security advocates fear tax cuts

President Barack Obama’s plan to cut payroll taxes for a year would provide big savings for many workers but makes Social Security advocates nervous that it could jeopardize the retirement program’s finances.

CBS News

EDUCATION

Are school librarians headed for the history books?

As schools cut budgets, librarians find themselves on the chopping block. A study shows that over the last decade the loss of librarians is slowly increasing.

Star Tribune

Undergrads hitting the books less often, study says

Over the last five decades, the average study time for full-time undergraduates nationally at four-year colleges has fallen dramatically, from 24 hours a week in 1961 to 14 now, according to new analysis.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Atheism signs spread to Lincoln Tunnel

This year, the season’s biggest religious controversy is in an unlikely place: the Lincoln Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York.

NPR

St. Lucia: Swedish tradition a time of peace, plenty

With a crown of flaming candles, glittering garlands of tinsel and flowing white gowns, the traditional St. Lucia ceremony brought a glow to the winter dark.

Seattle Times

HEALTH

Doctors shocked by spread of swine flu — and its severity

The H1N1 virus has returned, already claiming lives of 10 British adults with early signs that illness has spread to other European countries.

The Independent

Researchers study the effects of salvia

Johns Hopkins researchers say the first scientific study of salvia on humans seems to show the brief mind alteration is not harmful short or long term.

Baltimore Sun

Health Canada issues stop-sale on 10 hair straightening products

Health Canada has put a stop-sale order on 10 hair-straightening products after they were found to contain excessive levels of formaldehyde.

Vancouver Sun

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Prince Charles’s life in a Christmas card

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, took to the slopes for this year’s royal Christmas card.

Daily Mail

Bottoms up to Salt Lake City

Looser liquor laws and a bustling restaurant scene have awakened life in the traditionally sleepy mountain town.

Star Tribune

The changing Gypsy world

The story of the Gypsies reflects creeping change within Europe’s downtrodden minority, offering a glimmer of hope that coming generations may be able to empower themselves to escape squalor.

Telegram & Gazette

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

A socialist he’s not

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Steve Clemons):

Not ready for Richard Holbrooke to go

Huffington Post

Column (Lisa Rochon):

Architects: They can’t stop bullets, but they can create hope

Globeandmail.com

Blog (James Fallow):

An unfortunate decision by Peter Orszag

The Atlantic

Column (Nancy Hellmich):

How many holiday calories are you eating? And how to burn it off

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Bad dream

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (David Roberts):

New report shows dirty coal doing even more damage than you thought

Grist

Column (Joe Rodriquez):

Our Lady of Guadalupe represents mother, friend and lawyer

San Jose Mercury News

Site edited by: Kristen Toland, Elizabeth Quinn, Alexa Even, Laura Hardman, William Ellis, Priya Joshi, Adrian Smith, Kathie Raikes, Walt Chiu, Tanya Flowers, Charles Weiss and Brigitte Leschhorn.

GOOD NEWS

Man donates part of his liver to stranger

The double doors into the operating rooms are about to open. The anaesthetist is wheeling John Cooper down the hall as his wife walks quickly beside the gurney, trying to keep up.

Toronto Star

Foster kids’ new benefactor

As an early Christmas present, muralist and real estate agent Bernadette Younker sketched a giraffe on a bedroom wall and painted it yellow for the two foster girls who watched from their beds.

The News Journal

Father camps in blizzard to help school

Hospital executive Robert Stevens donned four layers of long underwear, heavy boots and a down coat before climbing on the roof of a Minnesota coffee shop to raise money for his daughter’s school.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Swedish say bombs were terror-related