* Researchers find biological parents are four times less at risk of premature death. * The death rate of many of the biggest and oldest trees around the world is increasing rapidly. * Drug makers are working like pathogens, sharing information in new efforts to stay ahead of antibiotic-resistant infections. * Still a
* We should be more concerned about Assad's use of nerve agents than chemical weapons. * One year later, the story of a fire that killed three girls in a Stamford home on Christmas still haunts. * WNYC continues its profiles of children killed in 2012 by gunfire in New York
* New interactive tool lets you choose your own Israeli-Palestinian peace solution. * Blessed be the internet: International relations as depicted by cats. * Casino owner Adelson to double his $100 million investment in GOP causes by the next election. * Report on the shady business of "honey laundering"—global fraud
* To China, the United States appears much as Great Britain did to Americans two centuries ago. * Obama's data director assures Americans he's not Big Brother. * AOL's history told through New York Times crossword clues. * Today in odd news: Apparently, Kim Jong-Il had a
* Best photographs from 2012 as chosen by Alan Taylor's "In Focus" (part 1 of 3). * Washington state begins issuing same-sex marriage licenses today. * Lessons from Europe on how to create a healthy deficit reduction program. * Battles in Cairo when Morsi supporters attack protesters camped outside
* Even the White House wanted tighter restrictions on drones, in case the program fell into the wrong hands: Romney's. * Russia's current political climate: "Everyone knows (and has evidence) that everyone else has been skimming money." * New York real estate developers continue to ignore risks,
* Death toll from southern Philippines typhoon passes 270. * Insourcing boom: General Electric and others begin returning manufacturing to the United States. * Republican leaders punish Tea Party loyalists and other back-benchers. * In case you needed another reason to hate Congressional Republicans: Meet the Sovereigntists. * Obama considering Vogue's Anna
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* In the years since Howard Dean's quick rise and quicker fall, the left has embraced a model of campaign that's fueled by data. * Roddick faces Murray in exhibition match. * The story so far: On the lam, John McAfee claims to be wearing disguises, maintaining sobriety, and
* Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen crucifies, amputates, and tortures, and also provides public services. * Bahrain's embrace of a Kardashian is part of a larger effort to shift news coverage away from protest marches. * Facebook's Chris Hughes, now owner-editor of the New Republic, represents "a
