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Welcome to Morning News! We're bringing you headlines and links to parenting and other big stories in the news every weekday. Click while you pump. Get the facts before playgroup. Make co-workers think your 24-hour network isn't Sprout or Nickelodean! Let's get started ... What's on for Monday? It's still all about ...

The bad news first: 11 December was the unhappiest day on record so far according to Gallup-Healthways mood measure.  The pollsters find that in general, happiness is greater on the weekends and lower on weekdays.  But in 2008, the five unhappiest days perfectly coincided with bad economic news.  On 11 December, the Labor Department ...

In today's Morning News, we still can't shake our Daily Palin habit. A good thing too, because things got real funny with her/"her" this weekend! However, Cindy McCain wasn't laughing after a Friday appearance on The View. In fact, she's mad and using some pretty gruesome language. This brings us to ridding the world of ...

We're starting today's Morning News with this incredible Daily Palin: Sarah thinks the "Troopergate" report that found she had abused her powers as governor actually clears her of wrong-doing. But ... but ... huh? We saw through the BS last week where she went ahead and cleared herself before the report was even out. But now ...

CBS, you're such a tease! All these delicious little video interviews of Sarah, and Sarah and John, and, last night, Sarah and Willow (Willow! The forgotten Palin child!). We've ignored you for years -- decades even -- CBS, but that gamble with Katie Couric is starting to pay off. For us. We hear it's done nothing for the Evening ...

If you like Sarah Palin, then you think she nailed her first one-on-one interviews as a vice presidential candidate. Everybody else is doing spit-takes. Today in Morning News, we'll set you up with video links and transcripts and a fantastic essay on the sisters of the traveling Palin.   You know, it's almost the weekend ...

Hello and welcome to Morning News! We're giving Madeline a break, so I'll be your Morning Newser for today. Let's get right to it, shall we? President Obama wants good advice about science and technology and stuff. After that sentence, I think we all know that he isn't picking me to sit on that panel. He did, however, ch-ch-choose ...

Today's Morning News we exercise our emotions. We cringe! We weep! We look on in horror (fingertips covering mouth). We curse the fates and then snooze through yet another day of bailout talk, which bores even you now. We talk about frozen children and bats in the coffee, which if we've done our job, will make woozy for the next hour. This ...

Hello and welcome to Morning News! I'll be your Morning Newsperson for today, and possibly for tomorrow as well. Madeline will return after that. I don't know if you heard anything about it, but we had one of those peaceful transfers of power on Tuesday. We do it every four years whether we want to or not. This time around there was a tad ...

We're loaded down here with Morning News today. We've got election predictions, strained candidate marriages, strained political relationships (starring Bill Clinton), Britney talking about her crazies, expensive fancy Elmo and a woman held captive by her husband for fifty -- 5-0! -- years. And much, much more (like, did you know Barack ...