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Syrian rebels march in a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. President Obama has renewed his call for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, to step down (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

Pentagon wants shift in women’s combat roles

The Pentagon is recommending to Congress that women be allowed to serve in more jobs closer to the front lines. The change would open up about 14,000 additional jobs to women.

San Francisco Chronicle

The new formal roles for women in combat

The Atlantic

Blog:

Women not-quite-in combat

(TIME)

Battleland

Navy Yard developing as the booming city by the sea

Philadelphia‘s Navy Yard is the one place in the city that’s a boomtown of commercial real estate — and the pace and quality of development is raising the stakes for architecture and design.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Obama condemns onslaught on Homs

President Barack Obama has described the Syrian army’s mortar and rocket attacks in Homs as “outrageous bloodshed.”

Guardian

Syria’s complex and bloody crisis

BBC

Wounded activist pleads for help

CNN

Arab Spring image wins photo award

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for his photo Arab Spring.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

A painterly World Press photo winner

(New York Times)

Lens

Obama announces compromise on contraception policy

President Barack Obama announced a compromise in the dispute over whether to require full contraception insurance coverage for female employees at religiously affiliated institutions.

CNN

EPA bans waste dumping off state coast

A federal rule banning ships from flushing their sewage within three miles of the California coast was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Foreclosures to climb before bank deal helps housing market heal

The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent borrowers while making long-term housing recovery more likely.

Bloomberg

US banks agree to $25B in homeowner help

Reuters

US jobs gap between young and old is widest ever

Young Americans are struggling in the current job market. They have suffered bigger income losses than other age groups and are less likely to be employed than at any time since World War II.

Google News

Young, underemployed and optimistic

Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project

Unemployment aid applications hit 4-year low

TIME

Path to legal status a dangerous one for some immigrants

Tania Nava has one piece of advice for anyone seeking to come out of the shadows and pursue a path to U.S. citizenship: Don’t do it.

CNN

POLITICS

Foreign donations at risk in nation’s super PAC landscape

Foreign political donations have been outlawed in the U.S. since 1966, but it’s easier than ever to conceal the source of contributions, making conditions ripe for illegal foreign donations.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What to watch for at CPAC 2012

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off with thousands of conservative activists, pundits and candidates descending on Washington.

Washington Post

BUSINESS

Wall Street drops as Greek talks stall

U.S. stocks dropped as the most recent flare-up in Greek negotiations for a financial bailout package put the S&P 500 on track to snap a three-day winning streak.

Reuters

China laces up its Chuck Taylors

Last year, about 5 million pairs of Chuck Taylors were sold in China — not counting all the fakes. That’s not a huge number in this giant market, but it’s up 50 percent from 2007.

NPR

Adobe reborn

To reinvent itself, Adobe reoriented its tools business to focus on emerging Web development and digital marketing. Changing horses midstream resulted in 2011 fourth quarter record growth.

InformationWeek

EDUCATION

AP enrollment grows along with questions of privilege

New data shows that 80 percent of black high school graduates, whose PSAT scores suggested they could have succeeded in advanced placement courses, never enrolled in the classes.

Inside Higher Ed

10 states out of ‘No Child Left Behind’

Ten states are being granted waivers to free them from some requirements of the No Child Left Behind education reform law.

CNN

Obama frees 10 states from ‘No Child Left Behind’

USA TODAY

HEALTH

A possible breakthrough made in treatment of Alzheimer’s

Destructive plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have been rapidly cleared by researchers testing a cancer drug on mice.

BBC

More than half of America’s pets are obese

American people aren‘t the only ones with an obesity problem. A new survey shows 54 percent of our nation’s pets are overweight or obese.

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic TV network sues to block US contraception rule

A U.S. Roman Catholic television network said it has filed suit in federal court to block President Barack Obama’s new rule on contraceptives, while top Republicans stepped up their criticism.

Reuters

Bay Area Catholic clerics join contraception fray

San Francisco Chronicle

Westboro Church to protest funeral; Occupy Seattle to counter protest

A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket the funeral for Charlie and Braden Powell and will be counter-protested by Occupy Seattle.

McClatchy Newspapers

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Melinda Henneberger):

Santorum and women in combat: You want ‘other emotions’?

She the People (Washington Post)

Editorial:

Will more money really buy an Alzheimer’s cure?

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Private faith and public expressions of faith

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Washington’s gay-marriage bill shows support growing

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

‘Occupy’ movement fading out in a whimper

USA TODAY

Column (Philip Hensher):

Do you want an experience or just to film it?

The Independent

Column (James Warren):

Why Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad was pitch perfect

The Atlantic

Column (Peter Van Buren):

Obama’s unprecedented war on whistleblowers

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Making a living from rubbish

What the inhabitants of Mexico’s capital throw away gives a livelihood to the city’s army of refuse collectors. Euphemistically called “volunteers,” these men live on what they can recycle from the waste.

BBC

Salvation Army expanding Houston women’s shelter

Tired of turning away numbers of homeless women, the Salvation Army will break ground to begin expansion of a downtown women‘s shelter.

Houston Chronicle

Study: Skin cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice

Scientists say they “serendipitously” discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer quickly reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

CNN

WORLD

The toughest place to be a train driver