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Audience members listen to President Barack Obama speak about immigration reform at Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / File / AP)

Hispanic electorate likely to double by 2030

The record number of Latinos who cast ballots for president this year are the leading edge of an ascendant ethnic voting bloc that is likely to double in size within a generation, according to research.

Pew Hispanic Center

Popular vote 2012 — results breakdown

Latinos Post

Many NJ piers withstood storm

The fate of the half-submerged Star Jet roller coaster does not represent the performance of all piers in South Jersey. Most of them withstood the Superstorm Sandy’s fury with only minimal damage.

San Francisco Chronicle

For some survivors, medicine’s the big worry

NPR

Congress may be ready to negotiate

Congress’ rank and file — which will decide whether the nation avoids plummeting off a fiscal cliff — is showing a new willingness to negotiate and compromise.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

Going over the ‘fiscal cliff’

Washington Post

President Obama on the fiscal cliff

CBS News

Facebook: the unspoken college admissions test

Amid decades-old worries about GPAs, extracurricular activities and campus interviews, college applicants must reckon with a new dilemma: Are colleges judging me based on my online activities?

TIME

Facebook links users with jobs

Bloomberg

Auction busters: record-breaking sales in the art market

Contemporary art is the darling of the art collectors’ world. The excitement of the auction room can prove an irresistible playground for millionaires, as some recent record-breaking sales attest.

BBC

NATION

New census calculation finds higher rate of poverty in US

The ranks of America’s poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on a new census measure that takes into account medical costs and work-related expenses.

CBS News

Blog:

California’s poverty rate highest in US by new federal measure

(Sacramento Bee)

Capitol Alert

US credit rating could take a hit again

In 2011, the U.S. emerged from a damaging budget battle with a downgrade of its pristine triple-A rating for the first time in history. In 2013, it could be dealt an even bigger blow.

Reuters

Americans buckling up

More Americans are buckling up than ever before, according to the nation’s traffic safety agency, hitting an all-time record 86 percent, in part due to a significant increase in the South.

NBCNews.com

POLITICS

Americans remain generally optimistic after national election

Confidence has waned in the U.S. since President Barack Obama’s historic election four years ago, but most Americans are still optimistic about the next four years as he heads into his second term.

Detroit Free Press

Senate Republican election lesson is to work on fielding better candidates

The Hill

Swept in by a hurricane, climate change set to return to Washington

After two years as the new third rail of American politics, climate change is poised for a return to Capitol Hill.

Center for Investigative Reporting

BUSINESS

How shadow banks rule the world

Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds, prompting authorities to plan new rules to prevent the obscure sector from triggering a new crisis.

Spiegel International

Zombie towers live as taxpayers fund flightless skies

More than 100 U.S. airport towers and radar rooms have so few flights that they could be shut down at night under the government’s own guidelines, a move that would save taxpayers $10 million a year.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

The nation’s top prescription

It is up for debate whether Americans are more depressed than they were 20 years ago, but according to the National Center for Health Statistics, they are certainly taking more antidepressants.

San Francisco Chronicle

The truth about antidepressants

WebMD

Meditation may reduce risk of dying from heart attack, strokes

Transcendental meditation may help black people with heart disease avoid an early death from heart attack or stroke, new research shows.

CBS News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Stopping TV viewers from skipping ads

A recent study of TV-viewing habits offers some hope to networks and advertisers used to being on the losing end of any battle with new technology.

TIME

Millennials: the new American dreamers

In a recent MTV study entitled “Generation Innovation,” HLN set off to look at the resiliency of a Millennial generation that is pushing back against a system in need of repair.

HLN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Transgender Jews seek a place at table

For many years, those knowledgeable on the subject say that Jewish organizations largely met their transgender co-religionists with silence. Slowly, that is beginning to change.

Forward

Lawyer alleges church cover-up of sex abuse as late as 2005

The senior lawyer who reviewed the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing protocols says the church was still covering up sexual abuse as late as 2005.

ABC.net.au

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Rob Brooks):

China’s biggest problem is too many men

(CNN)

On China

Column (Amory Lovins):

How to end blackouts in the US forever

TIME

Blog (Art Brodsky):

The mystery of the missing ‘used’ e-book

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Column (Mary Elizabeth Williams):

Hollywood’s real-life hunger games

Salon

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Infidelity overload

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Ruth Spencer):

Social media: Can public shaming go too far?

Guardian

Blog (Hassina Sherjan):

Education crucial to ending extremism in Afghanistan

(The Hill)

Congress Blog

Blog (Amanda Hess):

What happens to women who are denied abortions?

(Slate)

XX Factor

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GOOD NEWS

Diabetic alert dog to help young girl and family manage disease

Kaleigh Buckminster was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 13 months old. She will soon receive a diabetic alert dog who will tell her parents when her levels are too low or high.

News OK

For gamers with autism, online worlds are a cycle of attraction and fear

For many gamers with autism, Massive Multiplayer Online games are a double-edged sword. The good part for gamers dealing with interaction problems is that MMOs let them talk to people.

Wired

Surgeon repairs voices of children

If your voice is lost, silence can seal you off from the world. One innovative surgeon has repaired the voices of children and superstars, and all of them are singing his praises.

CBS News

WORLD

US rethinks security as Middle East oil imports drop

In the next two decades, the U.S. may barely need any oil from the Persian Gulf, due to increased domestic production. That shift could shake the foundation of U.S. interests in the Middle East.

NPR

Fears of another war in the Middle East

ABC.net.au

How water could bring Israelis, Palestinians together

A sole joint committee between Israelis and Palestinians survives 17 years after the Oslo Accords: the one on water.

Christian Science Monitor

Laying the ground for war in Israel

The Global Mail

Meet the men who will rule China

The new Politburo Standing Committee was unveiled at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. A look at the men who made the cut, and those who were passed over.

TIME

In rural China, new leaders are not familiar

NPR

EDUCATION

Getting more complete

Improved data shows that America is doing better on college completion than previously revealed, according to a major report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Inside Higher Ed

Common standards drive new approaches to reading

The Common Core State Standards are not new; they have been in place since most states adopted them. But it took two years for the standards to trickle down from abstraction to daily practice.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

Ocean still suffering from Fukushima plant fallout

Radioactivity is persisting in the ocean waters close to Japan’s ruined nuclear power plant at Fukushima Daiichi.

Nature

Map:

Japan falls down female life expectancy rankings after tsunami

Datablog (Guardian)

Green building to surge amid new LEDs and smart windows

As new LED light bulbs and smart windows debut, new surveys say the lure of lower utility bills is prompting a boom in green building despite a weak global economy.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Surging storms: Can the US adapt to avert coastal damage?

Damage from severe storms like Sandy is likely to escalate by the end of the century as people continue to build along the Eastern Seaboard. How do we adapt?

Christian Science Monitor

Orphan planet spotted

A newly detected planet is four to seven times larger than Jupiter and has no parent star, though it travels with a young stellar pack. This phenomenon is believed to be common, but is difficult to detect.

Discovery News

The strangest alien planets

SPACE.com

SPORTS

NHL, union cease communication, including calls

With the lockout about to enter its third month, communications between the fighting sides have come to a halt, with no clear sign of what the next step will be.

Sports Illustrated

Storybook year ends in Cy Young Award for R.A. Dickey of the Mets

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America named Dickey the 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner, lifting him over other finalists.

MLB.com

R.A. Dickey on winning NL Cy Young

ESPN

Photo of the Day

An Ethiopian Jewish man prays during the “Sigd” holiday in Jerusalem. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate the biblical union between the Jewish people and God. (Photo by Sebastian Scheiner / AP)

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