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In this photo, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi votes over a crucial austerity package. Pressure mounted on Berlusconi to resign so that a new Italian government can pass economic reforms aimed at helping the country avoid financial disaster. (Photo by Andrew Medichini / AP / File)

Defending the rhino

As demand for rhino horn soars, police and conservationists in South Africa pit technology against increasingly sophisticated poachers.

Smithsonian Magazine

Boxing champ Joe Frazier dies at 67

Joe Frazier, the heavyweight boxing champion who in 1971 became the first fighter to defeat Muhammad Ali, has died after a brief battle with liver cancer.

CBS News

Remembering Joe Frazier

ESPN

Top 10 boxing matches of all time

TIME

Silvio Berlusconi faces calls to resign

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is facing growing calls for his resignation, after apparently losing his majority in the lower house of parliament.

BBC

Berlusconi exit no quick fix for Italy’s woes

Reuters

Blog:

Why is Italy in trouble?

(Guardian)

Reality Check

Italy’s Berlusconi fights for political survival

YouTube

Do police need judicial warrants for GPS tracking devices?

The U.S. Supreme Court is examining whether police must get a warrant from a judge before they can attach a GPS tracking device to a suspect’s car for an indefinite period of time.

NPR

Hypnosis may be altered state of consciousness

The true nature of hypnosis has eluded scientists. It’s clear people can be hypnotized, but it’s not clear how this happens.

LiveScience

NATION

New census measure gauges poverty level more accurately

A new, more accurate way of measuring poverty shows that antipoverty programs are working to keep children from falling into absolute deprivation.

Philadelphia Inquirer

New measure shows higher poverty rate in US

NPR

Blog:

Poverty’s changing profile in the US

(PBS)

The Rundown

Conrad Murray found guilty of Michael Jackson manslaughter

Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of the star by a jury in Los Angeles.

BBC

Race a factor in Texas death sentence?

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a death row inmate who claimed authorities in Texas improperly used race in trying to convince a jury to impose capital punishment.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Aid package for vets, business contractors unites Senate

The Senate voted to temporarily set aside its partisan standoff over President Barack Obama’s jobs plan and give a modest economic spark to two interest groups — veterans and businesses.

MSNBC

Election Day may hold 2012 clues

A year before President Barack Obama’s fate is decided, the most dedicated voters will begin to show their hands in a number of down-ballot races across the country.

Politico

Blog:

4 storylines you shouldn’t miss

(MSNBC)

First Read

BUSINESS

US companies confidence unexpectedly rose in October

Confidence among small companies rose in October for a second month, reflecting less pessimism about overall sales and the economy, a private survey found.

Bloomberg

The plutonium problem: Who will pay for space fuel?

When NASA’s next Mars rover blasts off later this month, scientists feel that it’s easier to chart a course across the solar system than to navigate the budget process in Washington.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists puzzled by recent seismic activity after Oklahoma earthquake

Earthquakes were among the strongest yet in a state that has seen a dramatic, unexplained increase in seismic activity.

NY Daily News

Man-made earthquakes?

PlanetSave.com

BP wants probes barred from spill suits

The companies involved in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history are trying to prevent government investigations from being used against them by the people and businesses who are suing them.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

New museum funded by Wal-Mart heir to open in small Arkansas town

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, funded by Wal-Mart heir Alice Walton, is regarded as the nation’s most important new art museum in a generation.

MSNBC

The man in charge

Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar” is, of all things, a portrait of a soul. The movie is a nuanced account of J. Edgar Hoover as a sympathetic monster — a compound of intelligence, repression and misery.

The New Yorker

Leonardo DiCaprio inhabits Hoover

Star Tribune

YouTube, Disney join forces in Web family-friendly video entertainment

Google’s YouTube and Disney Interactive are collaborating to provide Web video entertainment tailored to Disney audiences in a new partnership.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ken Jennings):

Free yourself from GPS

NY Daily News

Editorial:

Keystone Pops: grumpy old men to would-be terrorists

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Ross Douthat):

The ‘best and brightest’ phenomenon strikes again

Star Tribune

Blog (Anastasia Tsioulcas and Tom Huizenga):

Music over money: our debt to the Greeks

NPR

Blog (Michael J. Formica):

The negative side of self-evolution

(Psychology Today)

Enlightened Living

Column (Paul Krugman):

That’s right: Solar power is now cost-effective

Seattle Times

Editorial:

For now, gas tax hike should be an option to fund roads

Detroit Free Press

Column (Michael Levenson):

Read Dickens now!

Slate

Editorial:

Finally, real Americans can pick fruit: is the job crisis over?

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Baltimore theater uses new grant to give nonprofits a broader stage

Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theater aims to be a hub for local arts groups, becoming much more than just a stopping-off spot for touring artists and productions.

Baltimore Sun

School on a bus brings classes to children in India’s slums

A school on wheels brings education to the doorstep of disadvantaged children every day, halting in different parts of the sprawling Indian city of Hyderabad.

Reuters

PC has changed the world of man with cerebral palsy

Viewing a tablet computer, Kevin Berg watches himself struggling to complete a home-therapy exercise. As his eyes begin to tear up at the video from his childhood, he laughs.

Seattle Times

WORLD

Gender segregation on rise in Israel