Barack Obama challenges Congress to keep the recovery going as new data shows unemployment down to its lowest rate in three years.

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Regulators from the European Union have requested that Google to hold off on rolling out its new privacy policy. In a letter to Google chief executive Larry Page, privacy regulator Jacob Kohnstamm said that European data protection officials would like to examine how the changes to Google’s privacy policy may affect European citizens. He also called for a “pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google’s commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens” until the analysis is done. Read full article > >

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The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.

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Malaria toll ‘is twice as high’

Microsoft on Wednesday seized on Google’s privacy flap as an opportunity to tout its own services as better for consumers. In a national ad campaign to launch today, Microsoft says that it offers greater choice to its users and that it isn’t as interested in collecting data for behavioral advertising. Read full article > >

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Microsoft ads to slam Google on privacy

Claremont McKenna College said it submitted false SAT scores to publications like U.S. News & World Report that use the data in widely followed college rankings.

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Claremont McKenna College Says It Exaggerated SAT Figures

Under popular pressure, Chinese officials have begun to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution and promise to set new health standards and publish data on air pollution.

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Internet Criticism Pushes China to Act on Pollution

Just one in 15 pupils in England starting secondary school “behind” for their age, gets five good GCSEs, official data shows.

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Lagging pupils ‘don’t catch up’

A Pentagon pilot program that uses classified National Security Agency data to protect the computer networks of defense contractors has had some success but also has failed to meet some expectations, according to a study commissioned by the Defense Department. Read full article > >

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Cyber defense effort is mixed, study finds

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Court Rules OK Sharia Ban Unconstitutional

As the Supreme Court prepares to consider two major First Amendment cases, a recent study examined data from 1953-2011 and asserted that the current court rules in favor of free speech at a lower rate than previous ones.

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Study Challenges Supreme Court’s Image as Defender of Free Speech

White evangelical voters just aren’t as predictable as they used to be. That’s the news out of Iowa – and it’s bound to be reflected in Republican primary results all over the country. The most interesting poll data from the Iowa caucuses are these: Mitt Romney won in the cities. Rick Santorum won in the rural areas. In Iowa, where the vast majority of voters qualify as “white evangelicals,” these results can only mean one thing. Conservative Christians who reside in urban areas may have been taught in Sunday school that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a heretical sect, but they’re willing to look beyond those teachings and cast a vote for a Mormon who was once pro-choice. Their brothers and sisters who reside in the country are not. Because nearly 80 percent of Americans live in or near cities, that’s very good news for Romney. Read full article > >

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The new evangelical vote

New car registrations in the UK fell 4.4% in 2011 to 1.94m – their lowest level in over a decade – new data shows.

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UK car sales 4.4% lower in 2011

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Campaign 2012 is upon us. Time to size up President Obama’s reelection chances. What do the data suggest? In 2011, an average of 17 percent of the public was “satisfied with the way things are going,” according to the Gallup Poll. That is roughly the same as 2008 — so Obama enters this year leading a country as unhappy as the one he inherited. Read full article > >

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Gloomy numbers for Obama

A review of the data used to assess the risks posed by faulty breast implants is to be carried out by the government, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says.

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