Stories like Jeremy Lin’s rarely happen in big-money professional sports, and especially with a franchise like the Knicks.

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On Basketball: The Knicks’ Jeremy Lin Keeps His Cool as Heads Spin Around Him

Knicks guard has taken over social media.

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Jeremy Lin: Twitter Star

All-star musicians pay tribute.

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Paul McCartney Honored

BEIJING — As China moves to invest billions in businesses around the world, one major industrial nation has so far soaked up very little of the cash: the United States. The issue will be on the agenda next week during Vice President Xi Jinping ’s official visit to the United States. The Obama administration has made seeking Chinese investment a priority, with an eye toward creating more American jobs. But the flow of funds dropped sharply last year, and experts say the task is complicated by a perception that the United States is an unfriendly place for Chinese investors. Read full article > >

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U.S. says it wants investment, but China remains wary

Financial regulators have built an elaborate computer apparatus to scan stock markets for signs of insider trading, but the radar isn’t pointed at Congress. Instead, it is designed to detect more conventional forms of insider trading — a corporate lawyer acting on advance word of a merger or an accountant leaking details about a company’s earnings. A senator who calls his broker after receiving a closed-door briefing might not even raise a blip. Read full article > >

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For SEC, investigating insider trading in Congress presents complications

All elected officials, and those who help finance elections in the expectation that certain promises will be kept — and everyone who cares about the rule of law — should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelman’s appeal of his conviction. Until the court clarifies what constitutes quid pro quo political corruption, Americans engage in politics at their peril because prosecutors have dangerous discretion to criminalize politics. Read full article > >

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Is it bribery or just politics?

Blue Ivy Carter, the much-heralded baby daughter of Beyonce and Jay-Z , has officially made her public debut. The president and first lady of hip-hop have shared their first baby photos via Jay-Z’s Web site, Life + Times , an apparent follow-up to Beyonce’s public appearances earlier this week, her inaugural ones since giving birth . Read full article > >

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Blue Ivy Carter: The first photos of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s baby have been revealed

The Maryland men’s basketball team has lost starting point guard Pe’Shon Howard for the rest of the season after the sophomore tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during practice Thursday. Read full article > >

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Maryland vs. Duke: Terps to face Blue Devils without injured point guard Pe’Shon Howard

The radical Yemeni American cleric who was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen in September personally directed the plot to take down a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, according to a Justice Department memo . Read full article > >

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Awlaki directed Christmas ‘underwear bomber’ plot, Justice Department memo says

A quotation by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , clumsily shortened when inscribed in granite on his memorial at the Tidal Basin, will be replaced and his full words restored, officials said Friday. Interior Secretary Kan Salazar and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis said the correction to the so-called “drum major” quotation will more accurately reflect King’s original meaning in a sermon he delivered two months before he was assassinated. Read full article > >

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Martin Luther King Jr. quotation to be replaced on memorial

ISLAMABAD — It’s never been easy being a sexual minority in Pakistan, but transgender citizens, known here as eunuchs or “hijras,” are getting a surprising amount of judicial protection and newfound civil rights. Read full article > >

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For transgender Pakistanis, newfound rights

The government’s $25 billion settlement Thursday with banks over fraudulent foreclosure practices begins a long-promised reckoning with the financial industry over its role in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, officials said. Read full article > >

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Settlement launches foreclosure reckoning

For a candidate with virtually no staff and who tends to talk off the cuff, Rick Santorum has been nearly gaffe-free. However, this evening might have been his first, and it comes at a time when he is trying to convince voters he is more than “just” a social conservative. Read full article > >

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Jennifer Rubin: Santorum says ‘other types of emotions’ could preclude women in combat

After days of agonizing negotiations, Greek politicians have reached a deal to make a sweeping series of cuts that they hope will secure an international bailout and help the debt-ridden nation avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’s office said on Thursday. Read full article > >

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Greek officials reach austerity deal that could pave way for bailout

Officials in Brussels said that the announcement of a meeting of euro zone finance ministers suggested that an agreement in principle was likely among Greek political parties.

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Greece Nears Agreement on Bailout Package