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Israeli Air Strike Near UN School Kills At Least Thirty
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Milky Way Galaxy as Big as Andromeda
An Israeli bombardment struck outside a U.N. school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge on Tuesday, the U.N. and Palestinian medics said, killing at least 30 people - many of them children whose parents wailed in grief at a hospital filled with dead and wounded. An Israeli official said its soldiers came under fire from militants hiding in the school and that the building stored Palestinian munitions.
Israel Rejects Intensified Push for Cease-Fire
Israeli Troops, Tanks Slice Deep Into Gaza

New Congress Faces Economic Crisis
The new Democratic-controlled Congress opened for business at the stroke of noon on Tuesday, eager to join President-elect Barack Obama in tackling the worst economic crisis in generations.
Obama Says Deficits Will Last Years
Burris Denied US Senate Seat
Obama's Intel Picks Short on Experience
Obama Nominates Four To Senior Justice Posts

Social Security Begins Taking Online Applications
Timber Firm Drops Road-Use Request
A controversial U.S. Forest Service plan that would have made it easier to build houses in Western mountain forests was dropped Monday when the nation's largest private landowner abruptly backed off the request that sparked the issue. Plum Creek Timber Co., which owns 8 million acres nationwide, withdrew its request for an explicit legal understanding that it has the right to use roads across Forest Service lands for residential development, not just for logging. The Seattle firm cited widespread opposition to the proposal it negotiated behind closed doors over two years with Forest Service chief Mark Rey.

Select Regional News
Missing Decatur Cop Arrested in Vegas
NRC to Meet with TVA on Problems at Browns Ferry
Hospitalized Civil Rights Leader Shuttlesworth Improves
Former Gov. Hunt Transferred to Nursing Home
Landowners Sue TVA for $165 Million Over Coal Ash Spill

Regional Political Roundup
Schmitz Asks For Trial Delay
Results of Siegelman Probe Due Soon
Editorials, Columns, Blog Posts of Note
Making Democracy Work: Part Seven
Rich: A President Forgotten but Not Gone
Why Another War in the Middle East?
Fredo's Defense: Affable Ignorance?
The Argus-Eyed University of Alabama Birmingham
Should Bush Be Tried for Torture?
Smoky Mountains Celebrate 75th Anniversary
Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration
Bob Riley Continues His Anti-Gambling Charade

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In Case You Missed It
Politics, Public Opinion
Virginia's Gov. Kaine to Lead DNC
Richardson Drops Commerce Secretary Bid
Security Agencies Brace for Inauguration
Good Luck Getting Around D.C. on Inauguration Day
Franken Leads as Minnesota Recount Nears Finish

War, Intel, National Security
Thousands Across Mid-East Protest Gaza Attack
Israel Invades Gaza, Hamas Wants Suicide Attacks
Arabs Demand UN Call for Cease-Fire

Cops and Court
Corporate America Settles With Bush Justice Department
Rather's Lawsuit Deals Blow to Bush Legacy
Madoff Investor Commits Suicide in Manhattan Office
Economy, Labor, Technology
AirTran Apologizes for Removing Muslim Passengers
Mums Furious: Facebook Bans Breastfeeding Photos
Consumer Confidence Drops to All-Time Low

Science, Health, Environment
Group Sues EPA Over Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
Killing Mosquitoes' Early the Natural Way
Gems Point to Comet as Answer to Ancient Riddle

Arts, Media, Entertainment
Life's A Beach for Press Corps
Philip Seymour Hoffman: A Higher Calling

Sports, Travel, Outdoors
Utah Goes 13-0, Burying Alabama 31-17

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Telescope
Fighting the Final Battles of the Civil War
Federal Judges Take Siegelman Appeal Under Advisement
With a New Day Dawning in DC, Will Rove Escape Justice?
With a new day dawning in Washington, D.C., due to the election of Barack Obama as the first black president in American history, who looks determined to govern like Lincoln and make changes in that corrupt town, is it possible that Bush administration officials will totally escape the long arm of justice for their roles in high crimes and misdemeanors more damaging than any corruption in our history?
Will the Obama Administration Defend Karl Rove?

Political Justice Archives
The Nation: A Whistleblower's Tale
Justice Off the Tracks in Alabama
Siegelman-Scrushy Archives
Our focus for the past year has been on covering the legal travails of Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy. To go back and see the best coverage anywhere, check out this archive and this archive, which goes even further back to the original Scrushy trial in Birmingham.

On A Lighter Note
The Coolest Animated Editorial Cartoons in Any Newspaper Online: Ann Telnaes for The Washington Post

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