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Obama review clears staff in Blagojevich corruption probe

President-elect Barack Obama and a top aide were interviewed by prosecutors who were investigating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but a report cleared them of wrongdoing.

Reuters

Feds to impeachment panel: Hold off on Blago probe

New YorkPost

Report details Obama-Blagojevich dealings

NPR

Weather disrupts airl schedules, strands holiday travelers

Hundreds of travelers spent the night in airports, facing delays or cancellations and highways choked by snow kept up their assault on northern states.

TIME

Midwest, Northwest brace for Xmas eve snow

CBS News

Unemployment claims highest since '82

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose to a new 26-year high, according to a government report.

CNNMoney

Uncertain economy hits consumers and retailers

MSNBC

Retailers selling second 'black Friday' to up holiday sales

Day-after-Christmas sales will rival those of the real Black Friday and can put retailers into money-making territory for the year.

USA Today

Expect big sales

MSNBC

Obama says goodbye to late grandmother in Hawaii

President-elect Barack Obama paid his last respects to his grandmother who helped raise him, before scattering her ashes from a Hawaiian shoreline.

Reuters

Shirtless Obama causes a stir

CNN

Bush pardons Israel bomber seller

President George W. Bush pardoned Charles Winters, an unlikely revolutionary in the fight for a Jewish state 60 years ago, a quarter-century after his death.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Wal-Mart settles suits of up to $640 million

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said it will pay between $352 million and $640 million to settle 63 wage and hour abuse lawsuits against the company.

Examiner

Tennessee sludge spill runs over homes

A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.

CNN

POLITICS

Resistance to Caroline Kennedy grows among Democrats

Resistance is emerging among Democratic officials against Caroline Kennedy as she pursues Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat in the United States Senate.

MSNBC

Caroline Kennedy education record disputed

CBS News

Congress moves to crack down on bailout money recipients

Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, will propose a law forcing companies that receive money from the TARP fund to report how they spent it.

Fox News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Performing arts charging more for premium seats

Just like airlines, many performing arts venues are beginning to charge more for ticket-holders to stretch out their legs.

Kansas City Star

The SAG strike for dummies

To strike or not to strike? That was the question the Screen Actors Guild was to decide on Jan. 2, but it appears the guild’s leadership is retrenching because of divisions in its ranks.

Vanity Fair

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Building a machine that can learn and grow from experience

Scientists are studying the brain to build the computer of the future, one that combines the brain's abilities with its low power consumption and compact size.

Science Daily

Rainy-day rice

After years of testing in muddy fields, genetically enhanced flood-resistant rice is about to hit agricultural markets in tropical Asia, following Indonesia, with India and Bangladesh up for approval.

Popular Science

On Earth, evolution booms in bursts

Life on Earth went from single microscopic cells to blue whales and giant sequoias in 3.5 billion years in two distinct bursts tied to the planet's geological evolution, according to a new study.

Discovery Channel

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Does faith have a role in medicine?

Prayer, meditation and religious attendance appear to lengthen life expectancy, strengthen immunity, improve the body's response to stress, and boost other measures of physical health.

US News

The Pope condemns transsexuals at pre-Christmas address

Without using the word, Pope Benedict XVI took a subtle swipe at those who might attempt to alter their God-given gender in his annual pre-Christmas address to top Vatican officials.

TIME

Pope urges defense of heterosexuality

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Man is a cruel animal

Truthdig

Column (David Brin):

Is the Web helping us evolve?

Salon.com

Column (Lawrence Lessig):

Reboot the FCC

Newsweek

Column:

If Obama is pro-science and honest, he'll put the kibosh on the drug war

AlterNet

Column:

Rabbi Marc Gellman's letter to Madoff

Newsweek

Column:

Even Blago is presumed innocent

Daily Beast

Editorial:

Fighting obesity, creatively

Economist

Blog (Ken Rudin):

Questions remain on Obama / Blago report

NPR

Column (David Aaronvitch):

The shoe is mightier than the grenade

Times Online

Column (Froma Harrop):

Welcome to 'nepotism nation'

Real Clear Politics

Blog (Mark McKinnon):

The problem with the GOP is me

Daily Beast

Column (Joel Kotlin):

Unrest against well-heeled liberals

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Presidential pardon for 'unsung hero'

Charles T. Winters, who died in 1984, was convicted of violating the U.S. Neutrality Acts for helping Jews working to establish the state of Israel.

ABC News

Meet Lula Mae Walker, who’s been a foster parent to 300 kids

The Fort Lauderdale woman had nine kids of her own and adopted 11 others. Happy holidays ... from a busy household.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Tutu says threaten Mugabe with force

Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu said that the international community must use the threat of force to oust Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe from office.

Houston Chronicle

Zimbabwe activist to appear in court on plot charge

Reuters

Zimbabwe's cholera crisis

CBS News

New Somali prime minister resigns over power struggle

One of Somalia's two prime ministers resigned, bringing the feuding, divided government one step closer to reunion.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Flaunting, sales of luxury goods down

Some have dubbed it luxury shame. Others say it's anxiety and fear over dwindling fortunes. Either way, many wealthy consumers are "feeling a tad defensive about luxury."

News Observer

Mortgage applications hit 5-year high

Mortgage applications surged to the highest level in over five years, as potential borrowers came out in droves to refinance at record-low interest rates.

ABC News

SPORTS

Hayden ready to fight for place

Veteran Australia opener Matthew Hayden insists he is not ready to retire, despite his recent lack of form.

BBC

The crazy bowl system, explained

The bowls make money hand over fist, and the committees spend it just as fast on a lot more than those tacky colored blazers the old guys on the committees wear.

Salon.com

ENVIRONMENT

Court reinstates EPA clean-air rule

A federal appeals court temporarily reinstated a Bush administration rule that sought to cut harmful pollution from power plants in the U.S.

Christian Science Monitor

A Japanese town that kicked the oil habit

Over the past decade, the Japanese town of Kuzumaki has transformed itself into a living laboratory for developing sustainable energy sources.

TIME

HEALTH

Brain power: why proteins are smart

The brain and its long spidery neurons are essentially made of fat, but they communicate with each other via proteins that we eat.

Psychology Today

Sleep turns out to be good for the heart

Just one extra hour of sleep a day appears to lower the risk of developing calcium deposits in the arteries, a precursor to heart disease, U.S. researchers said.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Reading to preschoolers leads to early school achievement

A study found a correlation between achievement at age five and mothers who read to their toddlers regularly.

Telegraph.co.uk

Seattle, Minneapolis most literate cities

Minneapolis and Seattle are the country's most literate cities, according to a study examining the "culture and resources for reading" in the largest metro areas.

USA Today

Photo of the Day

A couple watches illuminations on Christmas Eve in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Shizuo Kambayashi / AP)

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