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Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses a crowd during a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H. (Photo by Steven Senne / AP)

Kenya independent vote probe

Kenya's Attorney General Amos Wako has called for an independent investigation into vote results that led to President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.

BBC

Kenyan opposition calls off protest

Reuters

Musharraf calls on Scotland Yard to investigate Bhutto assassination

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has called on Britain's Scotland Yard to aid an investigation into the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

NPR

NATION

Md. inmate who fled hospital is killed

An inmate who escaped from a hospital, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, died after a shootout with police, authorities said.

Yahoo! News

After 36 years, FBI reopens D.B. Cooper airplane hijacking case

After 36 years, the FBI reopens one of the great unsolved mysteries of American crime: How a man hijacked an airliner, then parachuted off with $200,000 in cash. Who was he? Did he survive?

International Herald Tribune

Snowstorm wallops Midwest, heads east

A Midwestern storm that brought up to 16 inches of snow on New Year's Day snarled traffic on highways and at airports and extended the winter vacation at dozens of schools.

CBS News

Whiteout hits Midwest, Northeast

ABC News

POLITICS

Democratic trio sprints toward finish line

The trio of frontrunning Democratic presidential candidates did battle over undecided voters in concurrent campaign events with 48 hours to go until Iowa’s much-anticipated caucuses.

The Hill

Lantos ill, announces retirement

California Democrat Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, will be retiring at the end of his term after receiving a recent diagnosis that he has cancer.

CBS News

Democrats say Bush can’t pocket veto defense bill

House Democrats and the Bush administration appear on the verge of a new constitutional fight over whether President Bush can pocket-veto the defense authorization bill.

The Hill

BUSINESS

The coming Apple versus Research In Motion battle

Some analysts predict a brawl between iPhones and BlackBerrys; others say the real fight pits the smartphones against open-source handsets.

BusinessWeek

Home prices: Where's the bottom?

One of the big questions that hangs over both the U.S. economy and individual Americans is a seemingly simple one: What's a house really worth?

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Flagrant foul leads to Odom suspension

Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom was suspended for one game without pay for committing a flagrant foul in the fourth quarter of his team's 110-91 loss to the Boston Celtics.

Sporting News

No. 5 Georgia pounds Colt Brennan, Hawaii in Sugar Bowl

The game was decided long before, even though it dragged on as fifth-ranked Georgia pummeled the Warriors, 41-10, in the Sugar Bowl.

NY Daily News

Hawaii suffers loss to Georgia in Sugar Bowl

ESPN

Peterson named top NFL rookie

After a record-setting first NFL season, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson won USA TODAY's NFL Rookie of the Year award for 2007.

USA Today

HEALTH

FDA approves 2-hour staph blood test

Becton, Dickinson and Co. said it received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a test to identify the presence of MRSA.

Reuters

Colon cancer gene in America traced back to early settlers

A couple who sailed to America from England around 1630 took with them a gene that has put their thousands of descendants at an increased risk of colon cancer.

Times Online

Patients and staff flee wards as blaze hits top cancer hospital

Scores of patients face delays to their life-saving treatment after a massive fire swept through the Royal Marsden Hospital, Britain’s leading cancer treatment center.

Times Online

In pictures: Royal Marsden fire

BBC

RELIGION

A handbook for Muslim teens

Being a young Muslim in the United States got much tougher after 9/11, so a brother-sister team came up with a book to help peers in their faith.

Christian Science Monitor

Priest lied in court about mob ties

A Roman Catholic priest was arrested on perjury charges, accused of lying about his relationship with a mobster in testimony to a grand jury investigating a casino owner's possible ties to organized crime.

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Susan Estrich):

Issues are not the issues

Real Clear Politics

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Undecided in Iowa

Newsweek

Column (David Warren):

Bhutto's real legacy

Ottawa Citizen

Editorial:

About that peace process

International Herald Tribune

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Mormonism's Al Smith moment?

San Francisco Chronicle

Column:

What about the nukes?

Newsweek

Column:

Is anyone listening?

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Issue ads represent free speech

Des Moines Register

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Katrina disaster relief remains a disgrace

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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24 helicopters

Houston Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

2007: safest year to fly since 1963

Last year was one of the safest in more than four decades to fly, with just 136 serious accidents occurring around the world, the Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) said.

ABC News

Vick's pit bulls go to Utah sanctuary

Twenty-two pit bulls seized from suspended NFL star Michael Vick's dogfighting operation boarded a chartered flight for a new home at a no-kill sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.

Sporting News

WORLD

Indonesia flood death toll climbs as waters recede

At least 112 people have been killed and nine are still missing after landslides and floods hit Indonesia's Java Island over the past week, officials said.

Reuters

Police probe US diplomat's death

Sudanese authorities questioned witnesses in the slaying of an American diplomat who was shot by gunmen in a drive-by attack in the capital.

TIME

Sri Lanka ends cease-fire with rebels

Sri Lanka's government has decided to formally withdraw from a Norway-brokered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels amid escalating violence, an official said.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

16 states challenge US on car emissions

California and 15 other U.S. states sought to overturn a Bush administration decision that denied California's attempt to set tough new standards for auto emissions.

Reuters

Climate set to alter California landscape

As scientists try to forecast how global warming might affect the nation's most geographically diverse state, they envision a landscape that could look quite different by the end of this century.

AOL News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Big Brother gets bigger, says international privacy study

According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly monitoring citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving private data.

CNET News

'Laughs' not exclusive to humans

The basis for laughter may have originated in an ancient primate ancestral to both humans and modern apes, a study suggests.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Paul McCartney undergoes heart surgery

Britain's Sun newspaper says the former Beatle has undergone a coronary angioplasty after complaining of not feeling well.

ABC News

Gay Muslims party in Berlin, nervously

Most of the people filling the dance floor at the club SO36 in Berlin were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and of Turkish or Arab background. They were there for the monthly club night known as Gayhane.

International Herald Tribune

Male belly dancing makes comeback in Egypt, defying suppression

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Purdue University students sniff manure for science

Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs -- by sniffing livestock excrement.

CBS News

Japan's new education model: India

Despite an improved economy, Japan is suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals. One result has been demand for Indian education.

International Herald Tribune

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