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A European, left, and two German flags fly under a cloudy sky at the Place of the Republic in Berlin. European leaders met in Brussels for a summit on the European financial crisis. (Photo by Markus Schreiber / AP)

Online video sites go pro and get original

The online videos Americans watch are about to change. Services are now starting to feature their own professionally made videos.

NPR

Game changers: the women who are influencing video games

Guardian

Study: Breast cancer screening may cause more harm than good

When taking into account the frequency of false positives and unnecessary surgery, the risk of breast cancer screening offsets the benefits, British researchers reported.

ABC News

Europe moves ahead with fiscal union, UK out

Europe divided in a historic rift over building a closer fiscal union to preserve the euro, with a large majority of countries agreeing to forge ahead with a separate treaty, leaving Britain isolated.

Globeandmail.com

Blog:

Live: EU treaty and debt crisis

Telegraph.co.uk

Map:

Eurozone deal reached without UK

BBC

The global financial crisis

TIME

Occupy Boston protesters to clear out

Occupy Boston protesters remained firmly entrenched in a downtown city square after a midnight deadline passed for them to clear out or face eviction.

CNN

EPA theorizes fracking-pollution link

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of lifting the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for groundwater pollution.

Denver Post

NATION

Whatever happened to the downtown people mover?

The monorail will end up an asterisk in the annals of urban transport, but there was a brief moment in history when it was the next great thing.

The Atlantic

How US guns flow freely to Mexico

If anyone at Academy sports shop in Houston was suspicious as John Hernandez pushed $2,600 in cash across the counter, they kept it to themselves.

Guardian

Slain Virginia Tech officer identified as Army veteran, father

A gunman killed a Virginia Tech police officer, who was a Army veteran and married father of five, at a campus parking lot and then shot himself to death in an attack that shook the university.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Live updates: Virginia Tech shootings

MSNBC

POLITICS

GOP blocks Obama Consumer Agency pick from taking charge

The new watchdog agency designed to shield consumers from the excesses behind the 2008 financial crisis lost a shot at operating at full strength as the GOP paralyzed the White House’s nominee.

TIME

Is Eric Holder‘s grip on the ’Fast and Furious’ fiasco slipping?

As calls grow for Eric Holder’s resignation, the embattled attorney general faces what one Republican promised would be “fast and furious” pointed inquiries from the House Judiciary Committee.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Live: Eric Holder appears at House hearing on ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal

CBS News

BUSINESS

US trade deficit shrank in October to lowest this year

The trade deficit narrowed in October to the lowest level of the year, reflecting a drop in imports that will help give the U.S. economy a lift.

BusinessWeek

The unemployment rate drops, but economists aren’t smiling

The U.S. unemployment rate lurched downward in November to 8.6 percent, but economists disagree on the job question because they entertain different scenarios for the factors that affect it.

BusinessWeek

Texas Instruments cuts revenue outlook, shares slump

Texas Instruments cut its outlook for the current quarter and warned demand was broadly lower as customers reduce their inventories, sending the No. 3 chipmaker’s shares down sharply.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Why deforesters could soon have freer rein in the Amazon

Despite overwhelming support among the Brazilian public for harsh measures against illegal deforesters, Brazil’s Congress looks set to loosen deforestation restrictions instead. Why?

Christian Science Monitor

Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil

The man known as Indonesia‘s “green governor” chases the roar of illegal chainsaws through plush jungles in his own Jeep. He goes door-to-door to tell families it’s in their interest to keep trees standing.

ABC News

DNA from invasive Asian Carp found north of Twin Cities dam

DNA from invasive Asian Carp has been found in Minnesota, raising the spectre that the destructive fish might already be on their way up river to hugely popular recreational lakes.

Star Tribune

Rep. Hansen: ‘Time to move into containment process against carp’

State Column

EDUCATION

Schoolchildren could be given lessons in being transgender

Primary schoolchildren could be taught what it is like to be transgender as part of plans to introduce “equality” lessons in to the classroom.

Telegraph.co.uk

Completion conundrum for community colleges around the nation

Community colleges will have to do much of the heavy lifting to achieve the ambitious college degree attainment goals that President Barack Obama and powerful foundations are pushing.

Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

King James Bible

First printed 400 years ago, it molded the English language, buttressed the “powers that be” — one of its famous phrases — and yet enshrined a gospel of individual freedom.

National Geographic

Why do we spend money on happiness we can’t afford?

James A. Roberts’s “Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don‘t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy” tells the story of the American Dream gone awry by profligate materialism.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Amy Sullivan):

Why Rick Perry’s new ads are wrong on religion — and Obama

Articles of Faith (TIME)

Column (Danny Schechter):

What happens in Europe doesn’t stay in Europe

Al Jazeera

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Mythblusters

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Timothy Noah):

The end of the affair

(The New Republic)

Timothy Noah

Column (David Sirota):

What real education reform looks like

Creators Syndicate

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Merry Christmas from the Bowl Championship Series

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Congress, citizens need to face reality

Des Moines Register

Blog (Scott Barry Kaufman):

Confidence matters just as much as ability

(Psychology Today)

Beautiful Minds

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GOOD NEWS

Rhythms flow as aging jazz pianist finds new audience

After a chance encounter, Boyd Lee Dunlop, living in a nursing home in Buffalo, got a chance to record a CD and headline a concert.

New York Times

Computer woes a boon to Colorado Gives Day online charity drive

Contributors flooded the Colorado Gives Day online charity blitz with nearly $12 million by the time donations closed at noon, up from $8.4 million collected last year.

Denver Post

Diego Rivera, communist and Mexican icon, honored with Google Doodle

Google pays tribute today to Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera, one of the great artists of the early 20th century. So who was Rivera? What made his art special?

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

US official: Iran does have our drone