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Soldiers arrive outside a prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Inmates were killed in a shootout with security forces and others were wounded, a doctor confirmed. (Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe / AP)

Where America’s racist tweets come from

The day after Barack Obama won a second term as president of the U.S., Jezebel published a slideshow. The gallery displayed a collection of screen-capped tweets — all racist.

The Atlantic

Supreme Court to rule on scope of federal powers in Voting Rights Act case

A landmark civil rights-era law will come before the U.S. Supreme Court later this year, when the justices will consider if Congress was out of bounds in renewing part of the Voting Rights Act.

Christian Science Monitor

Sri Lanka deploys troops as prison riot kills 27

Heavily armed troops guarded Sri Lanka’s lone maximum security prison after helping crush the country’s worst jail riot in three decades, which left 27 people dead and 43 wounded.

IOL

Prison gunbattle stuns Sri Lankan capital

Khaleej Times

Toll rises in Sri Lanka prison riot

YouTube

States get 3 weeks for health exchange

States have to decide if they are going to run their own health insurance marketplaces, called exchanges, or have the federal government do it for them.

(NBCNews.com)

Vitals

Rally to support expansion of Medicaid

Lawrence Journal-World

Interplanetary internet: giant leap for space exploration

By remotely controlling a small robot on Earth from the International Space Station, astronaut Sunita Williams demonstrated a technology that may lead to a space Internet.

TechNewsWorld

NATION

CIA Director Petraeus resigns, citing affair

CIA Director David Petraeus, the retired four-star general commended for his oversight of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned from his position due to an extramarital affair.

BusinessWeek

Blog:

Senate Intelligence Chairwoman calls Petraeus’ resignation ‘tragic’

(CNN)

Politicalticker

Special section:

Highlights of Petraeus’ career

Boston.com

Occupy Sandy: protesters find new cause

The social media savvy that helped Occupy protesters create a grass-roots global movement is proving a strength to Superstorm Sandy aid as well.

USA TODAY

Alleged WikiLeaks source pleads guility

A U.S. army private facing court-martial for allegedly leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website has offered to plead guilty to less serious offenses, his lawyer said.

Al Jazeera

POLITICS

Where are the millennial feminists?

Progress in gender equality has led some millennials to dismiss the feminist movement.

CNN

Elections to look different with changing face of US

The 2012 elections drove home trends that have been embedded in the fine print of birth and death rates, immigration statistics and census charts. America — and its electorate — is more diverse.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BUSINESS

Why ESPN is worth $40 billion as the world’s most valuable media property

ESPN is worth $40 billion, or barely ten times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $3.9 billion, according to a research report.

Forbes

Consumer sentiment at 5-year high

Americans’ perceptions of the outlook for the economy and employment improved in early November with consumer sentiment rising to its highest level in more than five years, a survey showed.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Strange, meat-eating sea sponge found in deep ocean

A new carnivorous sponge species shaped like a candelabra has been spotted in deep ocean waters off California’s Monterey Bay.

CBS News

New sponge species discovered

LiveScience

Ash dieback: ‘impossible to eradicate’

It will be impossible to eradicate the fungus threatening to destroy Britain’s ash trees, the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, acknowledged.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Criminal minds: Use of neuroscience as a defense skyrockets

Criminal defense lawyers are increasingly using brain scans and other neurological evidence to defend their clients, according to a new study.

U.S. News & World Report

Ignoring the inbox

The work email inbox is a “pandora’s box” of nitty-gritty detail, gossip and distractions that are best dealt with later in the morning.

The Age

SPORTS

NHL talks hit snag on 4th day of meetings

A fourth straight day of NHL labor talks failed to bring the league and its locked-out players any closer to a deal that would put hockey back on the ice and save the season.

Huffington Post

NASCAR: Busch wins pole, Keselowski outqualifies Johnson

Brad Keselowski locked down the 14th starting spot, while Jimmie Johnson was in 24th. Neither championship contender was near the front of the field when Kyle Busch set a track record in winning the pole.

Kansas City Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Katy Waldman):

Jezebel rats out teen tweeters, crosses line

(Slate)

XX factor

Column (Sarah Fane):

Malala Yousafzai and education for girls — an unstoppable movement

Huffington Post

Column (Dan Morain):

It is a Citizens United world

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Marc Tracy):

Meet the Corgi who helped California raise taxes

The New Republic

Column (Peter Levine):

Why young people turned out — again

NY Daily News

Column (Ruth Marcus):

Following the ka-ching of this election cycle’s ‘dark money’

Seattle Times

Blog (Matthew Yglesias):

The folly of odd-even gasoline rationing

(Slate)

Money Box

Column (Don Tapscott):

Why a naked Apple would be a better company

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

San Francisco digs for veterans in need

The nonprofit Swords to Plowshares has opened a supportive housing complex for homeless military veterans that restores the unshakable sense of togetherness that their past military life instilled.

San Francisco Chronicle

Man finds mission in life by helping the ‘poorest of the poor’

Ruben Garcia founded Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, which aids immigrants fleeing violence in Mexico and Central America.

Christian Science Monitor

Dominican native enjoys success of his auto-repair business

Fausto Batista arrived in Camden, N.J., about a dozen years ago with a rare advantage in a city with chronically high unemployment — he had a job lined up.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Pakistan ‘to pay cash to poor to send kids to school’