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A campaign poster is shown promoting a Workers’ Party conference in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea’s ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons. (Photo by APTN / AP)

Natural gas industry fuels economy in Pa.

Pennsylvania‘s natural gas industry is rapidly expanding and may be on the verge of a drilling rush. Most of the jobs are going to out-of-state workers, but the rush is providing a boost to the economy.

NPR

North American Bedbug Summit: scientists, exterminators meet

The first annual North American Bedbug Summit begins near Chicago. The National Pest Management Association estimates the number of bedbug complaints have soared 500 percent in the past five years.

ABC News

North Korea to hold rare conference

North Korea’s ruling party will meet next week to elect a “supreme leadership body” amid growing questions about who will succeed Kim Jong Il, the country’s dictator, Pyongyang has announced.

Financial Times

North Korea‘s ruling Workers’ Party

Reuters

Special section:

A guide to North Korea

BBC

US recession ‘longest since WWII’

The National Bureau of Economic Research said the recession began in 2007, while recovery began in June 2009. The U.S. recession lasted 18 months and was the most prolonged since World War II.

BBC

Recession’s over? Public remains skeptical

Los Angeles Times

Afghan poll watchdog says 2,988 complaints lodged

Afghanistan‘s election watchdog has received almost 3,000 formal complaints about a parliamentary poll and is mulling extending a deadline for grievances because many more are expected.

Vancouver Sun

NATION

Bomb suspect wanted to shake Chicago

A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field got the fake explosive from an FBI undercover agent, authorities say.

CBS News

FBI: Bombing foiled outside Wrigley Field

ABC7Chicago

On politics, economy and American Dream

Half of Americans say the American Dream still holds true. Only a quarter would want their child to run for Congress. And for all the shouting, half don’t think either political party can do much with the economy.

ABC News

POLITICS

‘Don’t ask, don‘t tell’ falters in Senate

A defense bill that includes the repeal of the military‘s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy failed to advance in the U.S. Senate as Republicans closed ranks to keep the bill from coming up for debate.

CNN

Lady Gaga: Equality is the prime rib of US

ABC News

Do the wacky things candidates say cut support? Maybe not

This could be a year when traditionally toxic revelations and statements prove less important than voter anger over how Washington operates.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Experts tackle improving STEM education

Citing concerns about the nation’s long-term ability to prosper, two major reports issued separately put forward ideas to improve STEM education, but with decidedly different areas of emphasis.

Education Week

Cost of college: graduates break even by age 33

For the typical student attending a four-year public university, the financial investment in college begins to pay off at about age 33, says a report by released by College Board Advocacy & Policy Center.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Anita Hill, 2 other lesbians in committed relationships welcomed as pastors

In a ceremony that started with a public mea culpa and ended with a prolonged standing ovation, three lesbian ministers were officially embraced by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Star Tribune

Hitchens skipping prayer day in his honor

Some may be satisfied to see a man who made a career skewering organized religion switch sides and pray. But Christopher Hitchens won’t be bowing his head, not even on a day set aside just for him.

Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

Wild horses in US face uncertain future

Some of the last wild horses in the eastern U.S. are seeing their world get smaller as a boom in vacation homes has caused the descendants of colonial Spanish mustangs to be confined to a 7,500-acre sanctuary.

Kansas City Star

Special section:

Wild horse adoption program

Bureau of Land Management

Global plant inventory cuts species

The inventory of plants known to science worldwide has been cut by more than 600,000 species.

BBC

Wal-Mart plans new solar power initiative

Wal-Mart, one of the U.S.’s largest private users of electricity, is running real-world tests on green-energy technologies. It is expected to almost double the number of locations that have solar technology.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Yankees make a tribute

The New York Yankees unveiled a large monument to late owner George Steinbrenner prior to their game against Tampa Bay.

Sports Network

‘Just the beginning’: Jets back up big talk, hammer Patriots

Coach Rex Ryan took the podium in the Jets’ new glass-encased interview room at New Meadowlands Stadium while ecstatic fans chanted, “Rex, Rex, Rex,” after New York’s 28-14 win.

USA TODAY

Jets pull a 180 for important win

Sports Illustrated

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Joan Walsh):

Clinton: Tea party led by ‘ultra right wing’

Salon

Column (Mona Charen):

Democrats chose wrong moment for big government

National Review

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

Tax cuts are the government’s only viable option

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Stimulus happytalk

Boston Herald

Blog (Marguerite Reardon and Caroline McCarthy):

Why a Facebook phone may not be nuts

(CNET News)

Signal Strength

Column (Brent Budowsky):

Bill Clinton at the plate

The Hill

Column (Phil Bronstein):

Marijuana’s future has an upscale look

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Steven Apfelbaum):

Dirty jobs: the key to America’s economic and environmental renewal

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Actress encourages ambassadorship in fight against infant mortality

Actress Victoria Rowell served as keynote speaker during Low Country Healthy Start, a maternal wellness program to help focus attention on infant mortality rates, particularly among minorities.

The TandD

Haitian artists to sell work at Macy’s

Macy’s, the largest department store chain in the United States, has unveiled itself as the commercial knight in shining armor responsible for giving more than 200 Haitian artisans their first full-time contracts.

Globeandmail.com

WORLD

Poisonous water rising from the ground threatens Johannesburg

Johannesburg, South Africa, is facing a nightmare of biblical proportions: a vast tide of poisonous water rising inexorably toward the foundations of the city itself.

Globeandmail.com

Plea to refocus UN millennium goals