The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

This edition was published on 11/19/08 at 9:28 a.m. [ Go to the front page ]

Home

About us

Our Team

Volunteer

Ways to help

Opinion

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Barack Obama during the annual NAACP convention in Washington. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

Email_icon

Clinton said unsure about cabinet job

Sen. Hillary Clinton has reservations about accepting an appointment as secretary of state in the Obama administration, said a Clinton adiviser.

Email_icon

MSNBC

Symbol_story

Cabinet post for Clinton roils Obamaland

Email_icon

Politico

India 'sinks Somali pirate ship'

The INS Tabar sunk the pirate "mother ship" after it failed to stop for investigation and opened fire instead, an Indian navy statement said.

Email_icon

BBC

Symbol_story

Somali Pirates Take Another Ship

Email_icon

ABC News

Symbol_video

Crime pays for Somalia's pirates

Email_icon

Al Jazeera

Big 3 automotive CEOs flew luxury private jets to ask for public funds

CEOs of the big three automakers flew to Washington in luxury private jets to make their case to Congress that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

Email_icon

ABC News

Symbol_story

Clash over $25 billion car firm bailout

Email_icon

BBC

UN confirms DR Congo pullback

United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that rebel fighters have started withdrawing around two eastern towns.

Email_icon

Al Jazeera

Why the Democrats — and Obama — forgave Lieberman

Obama wasn't just acting out of bipartisan good will. Supporting Lieberman's inclusion in the Democratic caucus may have defanged his toughest potential opponent in the Senate Democratic caucus.

Email_icon

TIME

Symbol_video

Despite hard feelings, Lieberman keeps chair

Email_icon

MSNBC

Al-Maliki supports US pact in TV address

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made a nationally televised address to rally support for a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, calling it a step toward Iraqi sovereignty.

Email_icon

NATION

US 'cyber-bullying' case begins

Jury selection started for the trial of a Missouri woman who allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to bully a girl who later killed herself.

Email_icon

BBC

Symbol_video

MySpace suicide trial starts

Email_icon

YouTube

Government proposes steps to ease air travel congestion

The government is opening some military airspace to ease airline congestion during Thanksgiving and Christmas, though they expect limited results. If the weather's bad, all bets are off.

Email_icon

San Francisco Chronicle

Symbol_story

AAA predicts slight drop in holiday travel

Email_icon

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama picks Eric Holder, former prosecutor, for attorney general

President-elect Obama selected Eric Holder as his attorney general, which would make the veteran Washington lawyer the first African-American to head the U.S. Department of Justice.

Email_icon

Newsweek

Stevens loses Senate seat to Democrat

Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich after the last batch of votes was counted.

Email_icon

MSNBC

Symbol_story

Jurors says Stevens hurt his case by testifying

Email_icon

International Herald Tribune

Symbol_video

Countdown: Stevens out

Email_icon

YouTube

Obama’s 250 tough calls

President-elect Obama should and probably will renounce all brutal interrogation methods, well beyond those that the Bush administration defines as torture.

Email_icon

Newsweek

Symbol_story

Obama: Swift action on climate change

Email_icon

International Herald Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Tyra finds doctor to transform transgender 'top model'

Tyra Banks found a doctor to pay for Isis King, the first transgender contestant on "America's Next Top Model," to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

Email_icon

ABC News

Rock stars jam for Les Paul at Rock Hall’s American music masters concert

The Rock Hall of Fame in Clevelend assembled six decades of six-string greats for their American music masters tribute concert honoring Les Paul.

Email_icon

SPORTS

Cubs now the only suitors for Jake Peavy

With the Braves leaving Jake Peavy trade talks, the Padres general manager says only the Cubs remain in the hunt to acquire the right-handed pitcher.

Email_icon

Tiger Woods aiming for February return

Tiger Woods won't be back on the PGA Tour in time to defend his Dubai Desert Classic title in January, but he is aiming for a February return.

Email_icon

EDUCATION

Community colleges must expect more

Though many community college students call their coursework challenging, a report cites "ample evidence" that colleges help students do their best work.

Email_icon

USA Today

Union backs Obama teacher pay plan

A teachers' union said it is open to President-elect Barack Obama's effort to tie pay raises to student performance.

Email_icon

Google News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Obama's complete sentence controversy

Email_icon

Huffington Post

Launching Hillary at the world

Email_icon

Economist

Column (E.J. Dionne):

The post-Obama GOP

Email_icon

New Republic

Column (Ross Douthat):

Presidents and heretics

Email_icon

Atlantic Online

Column (Anna Quindlen):

Gay marriage: inevitable in the long run

Email_icon

Newsweek

Secretary of State Clinton?

Email_icon

Investor's Business Daily

No more free lunches

Email_icon

San Diego Union-Tribune

Should Obama chase Osama?

Email_icon

Salon.com

2004 loss turned out great for Dems

Email_icon

CBS News

Pirates a growing menace

Email_icon

International Herald Tribune

Obama's team of rivals

Email_icon

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A new New Deal for America

Email_icon

Christian Science Monitor

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Yagmur Guller, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn, Samantha Floyd and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Famed Lincoln letter found in Texas

A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.

Email_icon

CBS News

Students earn bicycles with extra effort

A holiday tradition has turned into a way to get students to improve their grades.

Email_icon

KPRC

WORLD

Drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan

A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least four suspected foreign militants.

Email_icon

Reuters

Hu signs China-Cuba trade deals

China's president has signed a range of trade deals with Cuba and pledged millions of dollars in aid to the Caribbean nation as it struggles to recover from the impact of three hurricanes.

Email_icon

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

NYSE may de-list Fannie Mae stock

The New York Stock Exchange notified Fannie Mae that its stock failed to satisfy price-related requirements, and may lose its listing on the exchange.

Email_icon

CNNMoney

Shelby favors changing automaker management teams

The senior Republican on the Banking Committee said he doesn't believe there will be a turnaround in the auto industry until it revamps manufacturing operations.

Email_icon

Regulators: Bailout is working

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers that the $700 billion bailout program was making progress despite increasing criticism.

Email_icon

CNNMoney

Symbol_video

Congress questions bailout

Email_icon

CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists map kangaroo's DNA

Scientists have unraveled the DNA of a small kangaroo named Matilda and found the Aussie icon has more in common with humans than they thought.

Email_icon

USA Today

World wide tangled web

The spiders found on the space station are welcome guests, though one of them is missing at the moment.

Email_icon

ABC News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Italian nuns refuse to carry out court order in 'right-to-die' case

Despite a court order, a hospice in Milan has refused to discontinue life support for Eluana Englaro, a disabled woman whose father won legal permission to end her life.

Email_icon

LifeSiteNews.com

Leading the black church: Can it be a woman’s place?

Black women activists say change is long overdue for equality in their church.

Email_icon

Religion News Service

ENVIRONMENT

Dow CEO calls for comprehensive US energy policy

Dow Chemical Co. called on the incoming administration to implement a new national energy policy.

Email_icon

Reuters

Environmental leaders to meet as emissions rise

Emissions from industrialized countries reached a peak in 2006 after six years of growth, the United Nations said.

Email_icon

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Woman gets unique trachea transplant

A Colombian woman received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant grown from her own stem cells to prevent her body from rejecting it.

Email_icon

Reuters

Symbol_video

Woman gets windpipe transplant

Email_icon

BBC

Superbug found in grocery meats

A potentially deadly intestinal germ increasingly found in hospitals is also showing up in a more unsavory setting: grocery store meats.

Email_icon

MSNBC

Photo of the Day

Astronaut Stephen Bowen maneuvers down the cargo bay of the space shuttle Endeavour to store an empty nitrogen tank in the shuttle's cargo bay. (Photo by NASA TV / AP)

Email_icon

DailySource Most Popular

Most viewed

Most recent

Connect with Us

Nonprofitdonate

Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us.

Amazon.com Widgets

Take a Quick Tour

Tour

The Daily Quote

Email Newsletters

Browse Past Content

Scroll through recent items from your favorite sections:

Columns and Op-ed

The Daily Quote

Photo of the Day

Browse past editions

Makehomepage

Ways to Help

Spread the word

Other ways

Copyright © 2006-2025 The Daily Source. All rights reserved. Terms of Service

Website monitoring for The Daily Source provided for free by Nimsoft