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The must-read news from around the web and in today’s papers:
- In its new budget, the White House will foresees a bleak fiscal future: [Reuters]
- Welcome to the new frontier for green jobs—prisons: [Mother Jones]
- The Obama administration’s stimulus created 600,000 jobs last year: [Washington Post]
- Meet nine high-flying Wall St. execs who cashed in on the crisis: [Mother Jones]
- Obama plans to overhaul the landmark No Child Left Behind education program: [New York Times]
- Foreign officials say a climate deal is “all but impossible” in 2010: [The Guardian UK]
- Pakistan is investigating the possible death of the Taliban leader in their country: [WSJ]
- Faced with a surging China, the Obama administration is pushing back: [NYT]
- Did Blackwater try to bribe the Iraqi government to save business? [NYT]
- Obama wants a major increase in funding for nuclear weapons: [McClatchy DC]
- The new Gitmo closure date? Jan. 22, 2013: [Agence France Presse]
