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Gov. David Paterson listens to a question during a news conference in New York. (Photo by Frank Franklin II / AP)

Gov. David Paterson drops campaign

New York Gov. David Paterson plans to drop his campaign for election to a full term amid news that he and the State Police intervened in a domestic violence case involving a close aide, sources say.

Politico

Iceberg breaks from Antarctic glacier

An iceberg the size of Luxembourg has broken off from a glacier in Antarctica after being rammed by another giant iceberg, scientists said, in an event that could affect ocean circulation patterns.

New York Times

Vast iceberg 'may disrupt ocean currents'

BBC

Icebergs could mean cold winters

Daily Mail

Calif. insurers subpoenaed in rate probe

California Attorney General Jerry Brown subpoenaed financial records and other documents from the state's seven largest health insurance companies as part of a widening investigation of the industry.

Reuters

Health insurance hikes stun small businesses

San Francisco Chronicle

Pittsburgh tops housing markets list

The best place to buy right now: Pittsburgh. In the metro area, 85 percent of homes are affordable to those making the median family income of $62,500.

MSNBC

January home sales fall 7.2 percent

CBS News

VA to reopen 'Gulf War Illness' cases

The Veterans Affairs Department will re-examine the disability claims of what could be thousands of Gulf War veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service.

CBS News

Gmail holds 'graduations' and 'funerals'

A color system filter has graduated to become a full-time part of Gmail. At the same time, Google also held "funerals" for five Gmail Labs features that were unpopular with e-mail users.

CNN

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Visitors look at works by Pablo Picasso at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP)	Men with snow shovels wait to cross Broad Street during a winter storm in Philadelphia. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)	Seen at the New York Stock Exchange is the AFLAC duck on the 10th anniversary of its use. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

NATION

High court to take up gun-control laws

In June 2008, the Supreme Court struck down a handgun ban and declared an individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms. They now appear poised to revisit the Second Amendment.

USA TODAY

Prominent Harvard law professor joins Justice Department

Prominent Harvard law professor Laurence H. Tribe will join the Justice Department to lead an effort focused on increasing legal access for the poor, federal sources say.

Washington Post

Justice to launch indigent defense program

NPR

POLITICS

Holder, Gates urge House not to restrict terror trials

Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged House leaders to block legislation to limit their ability to try suspected terrorists in federal court or before U.S. military tribunals.

BusinessWeek

US court sets hearing date for Tahawwur Rana

Daily News & Analysis

Senators to FAA: Address exhausting airline pilot commutes

Senators are demanding that federal regulators do something about airline pilots who regularly make exhausting commutes of hundreds — and sometimes thousands — of miles to work.

USA TODAY

HEALTH

Study: Preventive double mastectomy may not improve survival

In a new study, researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston provide the first evidence that preventive mastectomy prolongs life, but only for a subset of breast-cancer patients.

TIME

Be open to sesame

The tiny ivory-colored sesame seed may actually be one of the oldest condiments and one of the most nutritious seeds known to man.

Baltimore Sun

Study: Exercise less, but harder

CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Van Gogh experts authenticate previously unknown work

Dirk Hannema was known as a brilliant art curator but a bit of a fool. He claimed he had seven Vermeers in his collection, several Van Goghs and a few Rembrandts, but no one believed him.

MSNBC

'Letters to Jackie': nation's grief over JFK poured onto paper

"Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation" is the product of research into how people felt during a tragic period in America's history.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Nouns and verbs learned in separate sections of the brain

Nouns and verbs may go together in a sentence, but they are learned in different regions of the brain, a new study suggests.

LiveScience

Lawmakers say president's new NASA plan lacks direction

As the head of NASA visits Capitol Hill, some lawmakers are telling him that President Barack Obama's new plan for NASA sounds like a road to nowhere.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NIH Director ruffles feathers again with new religion book

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins is again riling some scientists by publicly sharing his religious beliefs — this time by publishing a book about faith.

Science

Lutheran Church seeing fallout over gay clergy issue

Several hundred congregations are moving toward a permanent split with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, but the number is still a small portion of the 10,000-church denomination.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Global temperature to be re-analyzed

The world's instrumented temperature record — millions of observations dating back more than 150 years — is to be re-analyzed in an attempt to remove doubts about the reality of global warming.

The Independent

Trees growing faster as planet warms

Trees in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the last two centuries in response to Earth's warming climate, a new study finds.

LiveScience

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GOOD NEWS

Teaching kids from the back of a burro

For hundreds of children in the rural villages of Colombia, Luis Soriano is far from a clown. He is a man with a mission to save rural children from illiteracy.

CNN

Vancouver transit system displays Olympian quality

Vancouver's driverless trains have been steady winners at the Winter Olympics as passengers have poured on to a transit system that has stretched way beyond expected capacity but has not snapped.

National Post

WORLD

Australian intel in fresh Israel spy probe

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization is investigating at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens whom it suspects of using Australian cover to spy for Israel.

The Age