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President Obama will overturn the executive order signed by President George W. Bush during his first year in office which restricted the use of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP )

Surging US unemployment rate puts pressure on Obama

The jump in the U.S. unemployment rate to the highest level in a quarter century last month suggests the recession is deeper than the Obama administration forecasts.

Bloomberg

Signs the recession is ending

TIME

Dead banks in '09: 17 and counting

Smaller banks have failed at a rapid clip — 25 last year. Already 17 failed in 2009, yet Republican senators have urged the White House to let at least some of the bigger banks fail too.

ABC News

GM's big assumptions

Carmakers will have to adapt to a world where only people who can truly afford a new car will buy one.

BusinessWeek

Obama ends Bush's stem cell research ban

President Obama signed an executive order ending his predecessor's divisive stem cell policy, and signaling that science, not political ideology, guides his administration.

CBS News

Obama reverss Bush's stem cell stance

MSNBC

Iraq drawdown: 12,000 to return by fall

The top U.S. commander in Iraq is sending two combat brigades home from Iraq, marking the first major drawdown of U.S. troops since the "surge."

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Iraq's unspeakable crime

TIME

Baghdad police attacked, many killed

Reuters

Developing countries '$270 billion short'

Developing countries may face a financing gap of $270B to $700B this year as trade income dwindles and rich nations vie for capital to deal with a global slump, the World Bank says.

Al Jazeera

McCain reclaims a place in Washington

If anyone wondered which John McCain would return to the Senate — the coalition-building deal maker or the gloves-off bruiser from the campaign trail — the answer is now clear: both.

MSNBC

NATION

Have a buck? Buy a house!

A dollar doesn't buy much these days, but in Detroit, it can buy a house. The seller, a bank, was losing thousands each month in maintenance costs and taxes and sold the property for the cost of a Citi share.

ABC News

Older job-seekers face special hurdles

Americans in increasing numbers are forced to work past retirement, and retirees whose nest eggs cracked are dusting off resumes in hopes of re-entering the workforce.

San Francisco Chronicle

Church shooting leaves pastor dead

The pastor of a Maryville, Ill., church was shot to death during a service in front of horrified parishioners who then tackled the gunman, state police said.

ABC News

Gunman kills pastor during church service

CNN

POLITICS

Alaska Sen. Murkowski moves into GOP leadership role

Hard work, lucky political timing and deft-but-understated maneuvering have paid off handsomely for Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the only woman now in the Senate's top Republican leadership ranks.

McClatchy

White House scores on GOP bickering

Infighting in the Republican Party between RNC Chairman Michael Steele and conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh is a win for Democrats.

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

The recession’s green lining

Recession is not exactly a long-term environmental strategy. The challenge is to use the downturn to emphasize cleaner economic activities.

Newsweek

Gray wolf to be kept off endangered list

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the Obama administration will let stand a last-minute Bush administration decision to remove the gray wolf from the list of threatened and endangered species.

The Hill

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Obama to receive cybersecurity report

A much-anticipated cybersecurity update will be delivered to Congress by Melissa Hathaway, the military collaboration expert assigned by President Obama to conduct a 60-day review of U.S. cybersecurity policy.

USA Today

Recession turns IT workers into hackers

The economic downturn is pushing former IT workers into cybercrime for revenge and profit against former employers. Whether it be through theft of direct funds or propriety information, the threat is real.

ABC News

HEALTH

Medicare fraud flourished in Miami due to lax oversight

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cited 18 medical equipment suppliers in a critical report concluding that Medicare's appeals system was flawed because it lacked strict rules of evidence.

McClatchy

The appeal of the bad boy

Every decade offers an iconic bad boy who gets the girl. The template can morph, but the guy's got genes that make women weak in the knees, and the power and confidence that signal them.

Psychology Today

EDUCATION

Control of NYC schools up for renewal

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pushing hard to get lawmakers to reauthorize a 2002 law giving him sweeping powers to reorganize the schools and hire his own chancellor to run them.

Kansas City Star

Students 'get wiggles out' on exercise balls

Teachers are replacing chairs with exercise stability balls as an innovative way to improve student posture and attention.

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Economy inspires public service

Applications are soaring at service programs. The stimulus package includes $200 million to boost those efforts and Congress is looking for more ways to expand opportunities to help others.

USA Today

The science behind our generosity

Psychologists call it the bystander effect — if I hear someone calling for help, and I am the only one around, I am more likely to help than if there is someone else with me who also hears the call.

Newsweek

WORLD

North Korean forces on alert for joint US-South Korea exercises

North Korea's military command has put its armed forces on full combat readiness to defend the country against any incursion by U.S. and South Korean forces due to start annual drills.

Reuters

Kim Jong-il's son 'chosen as successor'

ABC Online

Fear descends on Ciudad Juarez as more girls go missing

Drug warfare is a plague in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and a familiar terror has been rekindled in the city. Young women are disappearing at an alarming rate, with at least 18 missing in the past 14 months.

NPR

Mexico under siege

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Pharmaceutical company Merck to buy out rival Schering-Plough for $41 billion

Merck, the U.S. pharmaceutical giant, will pay $41 billion to acquire its rival Schering-Plough. The deal would be the second big combination in the pharmaceutical sector in recent months.

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Merck's statement

Financial Times

Detroit's other crisis

A GM failure would deal a staggering blow to the economy. A collapse of its supplier network would be just as devastating, causing the auto industry to collapse from the bottom.

Forbes

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Top 'Dancing with the Stars' contestants try for career turnaround

No one could have imagined it at the start, but ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" has become a go-to for career rehab.

NY Daily News

New Internet problem for music industry

Music sites with freely accessible content have a growing number of listeners as a substitute for buying music.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

No. 2 Tar Heels grab regular-season crown in Hansbrough's final home game

Tyler Hansbrough walked off the court after his final home game at North Carolina celebrating another Atlantic Coast Conference championship and another win against the Tar Heels' fiercest rival.

ESPN

Yankees have the means to compensate for loss of A-Rod

Alex Rodriguez will have surgery to repair his right hip, which could be a decisive blow against the Yankees. Then again, it may not matter much at all.

Sports Illustrated

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Most US religious groups have lost ground, survey finds

The number of people who call themselves Christian dropped more than 11 percent in a generation. More people are exploring spiritual frontiers — or falling off the faith map completely.

USA Today

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