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UPS Store employee, Candy Mojica, weighs packages before shipping at The UPS Store in the Lake Balboa area of Los Angeles. The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month after a surge of January hiring, a promising shift in the nation’s outlook for job growth. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes / AP)

How advertising killed the radio star

In the twisted, tangled marriage between popular music and television advertising, pop singers are penning songs for companies as TV spots break emerging artists.

TIME

‘Super-Earth’ planet spurs hope for billions more

Astronomers have detected a rocky “super-Earth” planet orbiting a nearby star in a region where life could possibly exist, a finding that led some scientists to predict there must be billions more of them.

San Francisco Chronicle

Top 10 places to find alien life

Discovery News

Unemployment rate dips to 8.3 percent

Employers went on a hiring spree in January and drove down the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent, its lowest point in nearly three years.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Blog:

Unemployment dips to lowest in 3-years

(PBS NewsHour)

The Rundown

Special section:

The employment situation — January 2012

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Job market for graduates: Which majors have the highest unemployment rates?

Washington Post

Iran helping al-Qaida? War ‘hysteria’ continues to build

Reported concerns among some U.S. officials that Iran freed a group of al-Qaida militants in the Islamic Republic are adding to the escalating war-rhetoric pouring out of Washington and Israel.

CBS News

After uproar, Komen backs off decision on funding cuts

In what appears to be a reversal of Susan G. Komen For the Cure‘s funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, the founder and CEO said that the group would amend the criteria that sparked a firestorm.

MSNBC

NATION

Justice Department lawyers play role in Guantanamo

In recent years, the military court system has been reformed to more closely resemble U.S. civilian courts. The Justice Department and Pentagon have tried to create a system that mirrors this.

NPR

Groundhog Day: a folkloric forecast

Legend has it the Romans believed conditions during first days of February were weather predictors, but looked to hedgehogs. This year, the “immortal” woodchuck says six more weeks of winter.

National Geographic

Groundhog Day quiz: How much do you know about groundhogs?

Christian Science Monitor

Obama to unveil veterans jobs proposal

President Obama is unveiling a new jobs initiative geared toward veterans that will put thousands of former men and women in uniform back to work.

CNN

POLITICS

Senate passes insider trading bill

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill making it illegal for members of Congress, their staffs and employees to trade stocks and other securities based on inside information learned on the job.

CNN

Strip-club spending ban a target of lawmakers’ message politics

The U.S. House has a message for voters who want to cut spending: It passed a bill repealing a long-term health care program barring welfare recipients from spending their benefits in strip clubs and casinos.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Panasonic headed for record $10B loss

Japan’s Panasonic Corp warned of a record annual $10.2 billion net loss, joining beleaguered rivals Sony and Sharp in a sea of red ink as they struggle to fix their broken TV businesses.

Reuters

Panasonic forecasts record loss due to Thailand floods, economy

BusinessWeek

Bernanke: Fed will protect US economy from Europe

The economic recovery remains “frustratingly slow” in the United States, and now Europe’s debt crisis is posing additional challenges, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress.

CNNMoney

January job-cuts surged, clobbering retail and Midwest

MarketWatch

ENVIRONMENT

Argentines rally against gold mining plan

Protesters in Argentina say a Canadian company‘s open pit gold mine would hurt the water supply in the country’s northwest.

Al Jazeera

Most ancient crocodile discovered, Aegisuchus witmer

Crocodiles and their relatives, the crocodyliforms, go back a long way. Now, an ancient skull has been discovered from 95 million years ago.

Earth Times

HEALTH

Brains may be wired for addiction

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to a study by scientists at the University of Cambridge.

BBC

Blog:

Study sheds light on roots of addiction

TIME

Massage may help sore muscles recover

A new study hints that massage after exercise may help relieve soreness, and may also help muscles become fitter faster — two benefits that have been mutually exclusive in the world of athletics.

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Illinois priest who freelanced his prayers loses his job

An Illinois priest lost his job after he altered the phrasing of an opening prayer to better reflect the day’s Gospel message, in which Jesus heals a man with a troubled spirit.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua dies at 88

Cardinal Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua’s 15 years as shepherd of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia was marked by both celebration and crisis as he died in his sleep.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (David Horsey):

Trump and Romney live in a different America

Los Angeles Times

Editorial:

Cancer is not ideological — Komen shouldn’t be, either

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

Russia must rethink what Syria protests mean

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Disability claims swelling in recession

USA TODAY

Column (Colleen Carroll Campbell):

The perils of growing up a girl

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

Remembering the holy — and wholly human — prelate Cardinal Bevilacqua

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Joe Mathewson):

Put US Supreme Court arguments on TV

CNN

Column (Conor Friedersdorf):

The Obama Administration’s abject failure on transparency

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

India fireman takes over after air controller no-show

A fireman took over guiding a plane into landing after air traffic controllers failed to turn up for work at an airport in India.

BBC

FDR, polio and the March of Dimes

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted polio at the age of 39, was dedicated to making the fight against this and other diseases a national cause.

MSNBC

The polio crusade

PBS

Waitress won’t quit her job after winning $700,000 from Fla. lottery

Alexandra Chaar loves her job. So much so that a $700,000 lottery prize hasn’t done anything to convince her to leave it.

Tampa Bay Times