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A man walks past housing blocks on an estate in a working class district of Madrid, Spain. His country’s borrowing costs rose sharply as investors fretted about the $125 billion bailout package, which was deployed to save troubled Spanish banks. (Photo by Paul White / AP)

50 years later, mystery of Alcatraz escape endures

Fifty years ago, three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S. history.

NPR

Alcatraz escape, 50 years later

Yahoo! News

As drone strikes increase, so do concerns over use

Drones have become the U.S. weapon of choice in the fight against terrorism. But as the technology of this new form of warfare improves, so do concerns about how others will use it in the future.

NPR

Relief over Spain bank rescue fades

A burst of enthusiasm over a rescue of Spanish banks is dissipating as investor anxiety about the troubled finances of Europe grows on both sides of the Atlantic.

USA TODAY

Worry for Italy quickly replaces relief for Spain

CNBC

Special section:

The eurozone crisis and you

BBC

Financial crisis erases 2 decades of accumulated prosperity for US families

The recent financial crisis left the median U.S. family in 2010 with no more wealth than it had in the early 1990s, the Federal Reserve said.

Economic Times

Crisis wiped out 18 years of US household-wealth gains

San Francisco Chronicle

America’s love affair with motor cars running on empty

The country once wedded to driving is having its eye turned by other forms of transport — but policymakers are both dumbfounded and oblivious.

Guardian

Where’s my driverless car?

Discovery News

NATION

Homeless feeding bans

Laws tightening regulations on aid to the homeless are increasingly popping up across the country. Many critics ask: Are American officials trying to help the poor — or legislate them out of sight?

Los Angeles Times

US cities crack down on homeless

WXIA-TV

Justice Department to sue Florida over voting rolls purge

In the latest volley in the ongoing battle over Florida voter lists, the Justice Department has sent a letter stating it will take legal action against the state, citing violations of voting rights laws.

CNN

Feds, Fla. in dueling lawsuits over voter purge

Palm Beach Post

Wildfires out of control as Forest Service adds air tankers to fight blazes

Massive wildfires in drought-parched Colorado and New Mexico are testing the resources of state and federal crews.

Star Tribune

Colorado wildfire

Reuters

POLITICS

FEC allows campaigns to raise money via text message

The Federal Election Commission voted to allow Americans to make political donations via text message, making cellphones the newest weapon in the battle to raise unprecedented amounts of money.

Politico

Blog:

Why George Bush still matters in 2012

TIME

Supreme Court declines case accusing Donald Rumsfeld of torture

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal arguing that the U.S. government violated the constitutional rights of a citizen by subjecting him to harsh interrogation as an enemy combatant.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

WSJ: JP Morgan knew of trading risks

Top JPMorgan Chase & Co. executives and directors were alerted to risky wagers by a team of London-based traders two years before that group’s botched bets cost the bank more than $2 billion.

MarketWatch

IEA calls for $36 trillion more in clean energy investments

The International Energy Agency said the word’s clean energy investments are sorely lacking and this week called for an additional $36 trillion of funding by 2050.

CNNMoney

River basins ‘vital for growth’

The world’s top river basin regions have a vital role in terms of sustaining economic growth in the future, a report has suggested.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Local governments repurpose federally funded parks

With an increase of business development wiping out city parks, local governments are renewing efforts to provide citizens with public parks.

InvestigateWest

Old Japanese composting method may be new way to solve food waste problem

Bokashi is based on an ancient Japanese practice that ferments food waste by covering it with a mix of microorganisms that suppress its smell and eventually produce soil.

Star Tribune

EDUCATION

New education standards end rote learning, cursive writing

Like fashion, trends in public education come and go. What’s in vogue depends on the decade and often reflects which way the political wind blows and what shiny gadgets have hit the market.

San Francisco Chronicle

Chicago teachers authorize strike

Ninety percent of teachers in the nation‘s third-largest school district voted to authorize a strike if their union and the city can’t quickly reach a contract deal.

Associated Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

War on religion? ND Measure 3 aims to strike back

Measure 3, a North Dakota ballot initiative, would demand that the government have a “compelling interest” before it puts a “burden” on people following religious beliefs.

Christian Science Monitor

Black Mormons face tough political, religious choice

Black Mormons are looking at Obama, the Democrat, and Romney, the Republican, and finding themselves caught between political and religious perspectives.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Too many roadblocks before the ballot box: new voter ID law

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Michael Moran):

Peripheral damage goes global: eurozone crisis

(Slate)

The Reckoning

Column (Jules Witcover):

Confidence in the Supreme Court shaken

Baltimore Sun

Column (Joshua Foer):

How to train your mind to remember anything

CNN

Column (William Saletan):

Soda scold Mike Bloomberg’s bizarre elegies to gluttony

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Alexandra Petri):

The most secure password of all time

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Rolling the dice at the ‘Times-Picayune’

The Nation

Blog (Erin Wayman):

Old McHominid’s farm

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Hominid Hunting

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GOOD NEWS

Utah teacher honored for raising $100K for abused kids

Teacher Katie Borgmeier and student body officers at Riverton High School raised $107,000 for the Christmas Box House. The organization was the focus of a communitywide charity marathon.

Salt Lake Tribune

Colorado group offers horse-riding therapy to special-needs students

Sheryl Clossen saw a television program years ago about a therapeutic horse-riding program that impressed her so much, she wanted to work in the field.

Denver Post

Deserted by parents, she went from homeless to Harvard

Dawn Loggins endured her family being evicted from their home many times. When the electric bill didn’t get paid, she studied by candlelight; when her parents lost their jobs, she subsisted on noodles.

Msnbc.com

WORLD

Greece’s ‘potato movement’ grows