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Pedestrians come to the aid of Cleveland Police officers who managed to get their cruiser stuck in snow and ice during a storm. A winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow across most of the state, closing roads, canceling airline flights and causing many Ohio counties to declare snow emergencies. (Photo by Mike Levy / AP)

Bush vetoes U.S. bill outlawing CIA waterboarding

U.S. President George W. Bush vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques.

Reuters

The unstudied art of interrogation

New York Times

Torture debate at heart of Bush veto

NPR

'Person of interest' sought in death of UNC-Chapel Hill student

Police are looking for a young man who used an ATM card belonging to slain UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson, but they have stopped short of calling him a suspect in her homicide.

Houston Chronicle

Arrest made in killing of Auburn student

CNN

Storm drops 20 inches of snow in Midwest; 4 dead

A heavy winter storm walloped the Midwestern state of Ohio with more than 20 inches of snow. Four people died after shoveling the heavy snow, authorities said.

International Herald Tribune

Severe storms, tornados cause minor injuries in north Florida

AOL News

Countrywide is questioned by FBI for possible fraud

Countrywide Financial Corp., the largest U.S. mortgage lender, is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for possible securities fraud.

Bloomberg

Woman earns Silver Star in Afghan war

A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second woman since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor.

Yahoo! News

China: Terrorists targeted Olympics

Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week.

Yahoo! News

Chinese 'foiled airline attack'

BBC

NATION

Man held in deaths of brother, 5 others

Police have arrested a 33-year-old man accused of killing his brother and five other people, including two children, at a Memphis, Tenn., home.

CNN

Census Bureau: gadget's failure could triple cost of 2010 census

The hand-held mobile computers that are supposed to replace the pens and paper long used by census takers aren't working properly, and delays could send the cost from $600 million to as much as $2 billion.

McClatchy Newspapers

Affirmative action ban heads for ballot in several states

Ballot initiatives have been proposed in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that would allow voters to decide whether they want to do away with affirmative action.

CNN

POLITICS

Obama takes Wyoming caucuses

Sen. Barack Obama got his presidential campaign back on the winning track in the country’s least populated state, routing Sen. Hillary Clinton in Wyoming’s caucuses.

The Hill

Angry Boeing supporters target McCain

Angry Boeing supporters vowed revenge against John Sen. McCain over Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.

Newsweek

The stalemate continues

Hillary Clinton has battled back to a virtual dead heat with Barack Obama, according to the latest Newsweek poll. And on the major issue, the economy, neither candidate is pulling ahead.

Newsweek

BUSINESS

Lawmakers forgot VA in loan package

Oops! When Congress and the White House put together the recent bipartisan $150 billion economic stimulus package, they raised the maximum mortgage limits but did not include the VA.

San Francisco Chronicle

US economy has less impact on oil prices now, Iran says

U.S. economic performance has less impact on oil prices than in the past because growth in demand has recently come mainly from countries like China and India, a senior Iranian oil official said.

Reuters

SPORTS

Shipp's unconvential shot helps UCLA rally past Cal

California took it to UCLA for 38 minutes and 17 seconds. The Bruins escaped with a shot worthy of highlight reels for years to come.

ESPN

Roddick rallies past Lopez to claim Dubai tennis crown

Andy Roddick rallied from a set down to beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez in the final at the Dubai Tennis Championships.

Sports Network

Serena outlasts Venus, will face Schnyder in Bangalore Open final

CBS SportsLine

HEALTH

Flesh-eating strep bacteria may be defanged by man-made protein

A vaccine using an altered protein found on the streptococcus A bacteria could protect people from strep throat, toxic shock syndrome and flesh-eating bacteria, researchers said.

Bloomberg

Vaccine settlement complex, not the first

For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence.

CNN

EDUCATION

Pay for performance in Texas promising

Independent studies of the nation’s largest performance-pay system suggest that the state-backed plans in Texas could be having positive effects on teachers.

Education Week

College loan crisis

Bay State students are reeling in the wake of news that the hard, expensive slog of higher education may get even harder thanks to economic threats to the student loan business.

Boston Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Cynthia Tucker):

American empire comes at a very high price

Yahoo! News

Column (Daniel Mendelsohn):

Stolen suffering

International Herald Tribune

Column (Ed Husain):

It's Arabs who are showing us how to tackle extremism

Guardian

Column (Scott Shoshnick):

Barry Bonds reveals true self with testimony

Bloomberg

Editorial:

Oceans at risk: many studies, little action

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

When cheers turn to abuse, colleges need to take action

USA Today

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

But enough about us, let's talk about the candidates

Slate

Editorial:

America's economy is heading in the wrong direction

Economist

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GOOD NEWS

Komen for the Cure to help women

The world's largest breast cancer organization has launched a fund for breast health and breast cancer programs and services in countries with high breast cancer incidence and death rates.

PNN

Man's class ring returned after 33 years

Some investigative work by a New York couple has led to return of a McKinley High School ring to its owner, Bernard Yuen, 33 years after it was lost on Waikiki.

Associated Press

WORLD

Why were Mexican students at rebel camp in Ecuador?

At least five Mexican nationals were present at a rebel camp where a top insurgent commander was killed in Ecuador, leaving Mexicans to speculate on why they were there.

McClatchy Newspapers

Military: recent massacres in Baghdad not a trend

The U.S. military said that it does not think that a recent wave of deadly attacks in Baghdad reflects an overall increase in violence.

USA Today

Karbala pilgrimage

McClatchy Newspapers

Serbia PM Kostunica to step down

Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has announced his resignation and called for new elections.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Invention captures carbon dioxide from power plants

Researchers have developed a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants.

Environmental News Network

Is daylight savings time actually bad for the environment?

The annual time change has long been sold as a way to save energy, but the opposite might be true.

Toronto Star

Daylight savings time no bargain

MSNBC

Extended daylight saving time not an energy saver?

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

European cargo capsule begins mission to space station

A European Space Agency cargo freighter hurtled into orbit on its inaugural mission, bound for the international space station for resupply.

Houston Chronicle

Space freighter's complex mission

BBC

Endeavour ready for launch early Tuesday

USA Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Hot wines' are raising concerns

California's big reds are coming on strong these days as winemakers pursue riper, fuller-flavored fruit.

CNN

Poet's verses explore grief, salvation

In "Behind My Eyes," Li-Young Lee's first collection of poetry in seven years, the acclaimed poet reflects on his extraordinary family history in meditations on suffering, prayer, death and love.

NPR

"Immigrant Blues"

NPR

Is it better to rent, buy or download?

With so many options available for seeing movies, it’s hard to know where to start and which site or service makes the most sense for you.

MSNBC

RELIGION

Professor says he found Ark of the Covenant -- maybe

Brushing back a thick layer of dust, Tudor Parfitt revealed a distinctive interwoven pattern carved around the outside of the wooden artifact tucked away on the bottom shelf of a Zimbabwe warehouse.

Beliefnet

Photo of the Day

Thousands of sportsmen and women are on their way from Maloya to S-Chanf in southeastern Switzerland as they participate in the annual Engadin skiing marathon. (Photo by Alessandro Della Bella / AP)

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