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U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division ask an Afghan motorist to leave their outpost in southern Afghanistan. (Photo by Pier Paolo Cito / AP)

Afghans near Marjah urged to keep Taliban out

With the military offensive to drive Taliban fighters from their sanctuary in Marjah continuing, the Marines are moving to prevent the Taliban from returning to other communities in Helmand Province.

Los Angeles Times

A burst of gunfire, and a Marine lost in Marjah

NPR

Inside enemy bunkers in Afghanistan

CBS News

Insurance rates attract federal scrutiny

Dramatic increases in health insurance rates aren't limited to California, according to a recent report found insurers had asked for large rate hikes in at least six other states.

San Francisco Chronicle

States consider Medicaid cuts

New York Times

Justice Department clears Bush lawyers

Two former high-level Bush administration officials who provided legal justification for harsh interrogations of terror suspects are likely to escape formal punishment.

McClatchy

Using ladder, vet rescued people from Texas office building

Robin De Haven was driving the company truck to a job when he saw something that didn't look right — a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.

ABC News

Blog:

Joe Stack is a 'True American Hero': Facebook groups support domestic terrorist

CBS News

WHO may declare post-peak H1N1 pandemic phase

Flu experts will advise whether the world is in a post-peak phase of the H1N1 pandemic, signaling infections are falling in most countries.

Reuters

Ancient fish fossil found in Kan.

Paleontologists announce the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits near Wichita, Kan.

Wichita Eagle

NATION

Alexander Haig, former secretary of state, dies at 85

Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, a four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own, died of complications from an infection. He was 85.

Houston Chronicle

New law allows guns in national parks

The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges if they are allowed by state law.

MSNBC

FBI closes anthrax letter attacks case in new report

More than eight years after anthrax-laced letters killed five people and terrorized the country, the F.B.I. finally closed its investigation of the matter after releasing a 92-page report.

New York Times

Interview:

Q-and-A: anthrax and Ivins case

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Rejuvenated conservatives see good times ahead

Conservative activists, united in opposition to President Barack Obama's agenda, celebrated their rising political prospects and confidently predicted big Republican gains in congressional elections.

Reuters

Obama to post health plan as Democrats try for accord

President Barack Obama is preparing to release his own proposed health care bill as Democratic lawmakers say they may be unable to agree on a plan to offer at an upcoming bipartisan White House meeting.

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Award for best Oscar prediction

As the British Academy of Film and Television Arts rolls out its red carpet for its annual film awards, the eyes of Oscar judges will no doubt be trained on the glittering ceremony.

The Independent

Millennial generation less likely to claim religion, study finds

The millennials — those born after 1980 who began to reach adulthood around the year 2000 — are less likely to claim a religion than their parents and grandparents were at the same age, a new report says.

Denver Post

WINTER OLYMPICS

Carbon offsets and recycling bins do not a green Olympics make

The pressure to green-up the Olympics builds with each games, forcing the host cities to get creative. Like using beetle-chewed wood for a skating center's roof.

Calling the Olympic sliding track "stupid fast," American women's bobsledder Shauna Rohbock said the venue where a luger was killed could generate speeds that are too dangerous for racing.

CBS News

Thousands gather for somber ceremony

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA says it's a candy store for WISE

The first photographs of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer were announced by NASA astronomers.

iTWire

Youngest extra-solar planet discovered

ScienceDaily

Protein is key to fly forgetfulness

A protein responsible for forgetting has been identified in flies, and it's been used to speed up and slow down the erasure of painful memories.

New Scientist

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Australia gets first saint — she's a rebel

It has taken nearly a century, but Australia is to get its first saint: Mary MacKillop, a nun who spent her life helping impoverished children and who was also briefly excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The Independent

Ayatollah: Islam forbids Iran from seeking nuclear bombs

Iran's supreme leader said the Islamic republic isn't seeking and doesn't believe in pursuing nuclear bombs.

CNN

EDUCATION

Co-ops: a career before graduation

Cooperative learning programs, also known as co-ops, allow undergraduate students the opportunity to try their hand at working full-time in the real world while pursuing their college degree.

BusinessWeek

When seniors tutor kids, they sharpen their own minds as well

A recent study found that among seniors, tutoring might help delay or even reverse some of the signs of aging in the brain.

HealthDay

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GOOD NEWS

Haas family gift to boost UC Berkeley diversity studies

A $16 million donation will help UC-Berkeley study diversity and related issues and, university leaders hope, make minority students feel more welcome on campus.

San Jose Mercury News

Cyclists’ charity bike ride is in gear

Bill Irwin Jr. and his friend Ed Ott dipped their back tires into the Pacific Ocean and then set out across the country on a bicycle ride that will hopefully raise big money for philanthropic causes.

San Diego Union-Tribune

WORLD

The Mekong transformed

From its source in China's central highlands, the Mekong passes through six countries on its way to the South China Sea, a journey of nearly 3,000 miles.

NPR

US urges Cuba to release 'spy suspect' Alan Gross