The Filter: The Health Benefits of Drinking Guinness

(March 12) -- With so many news aggregators out there, who can keep up? AOL News filters the filters to steer you to the headlines that really matter.

Skip Those, Read This: The Huffington Post leads with its own summary of a new report on the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, which kicked off the financial crisis of 2008. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck, who unsealed the report Thursday, said it reads "like a best-seller." The report found that "senior officials failed to disclose key practices, opening them up to legal claims, and that JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup contributed to the firm's collapse," reports Huffington. The report, which runs more than 2,000 pages, can be read here.

Suicide Strike: The Daily Beast leads with a BBC News report of two deadly suicide bombings in Lahore, Pakistan. A military convoy appears to have been the target. While no group initially claimed responsibility, many are pointing to the Taliban, which killed 13 in an attack Monday on an intelligence building in Lahore. "After Monday's attack, the Pakistani Taliban promised to unleash up to 3,000 suicide bombers across the country unless Pakistan's army stopped its operations against the militant group and U.S. drone strikes ended," the BBC reports.

From Fed to Fed: The Slatest leads with a New York Times report indicating that President Barack Obama has tapped Janet L. Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to become vice president of the Federal Reserve (based in Washington, D.C.). While the move is actually a step down in salary, Yellen, who is an expert on unemployment, would potentially play a more powerful role in the nation's economic recovery. A former Clinton administration adviser, she has taught economics at the University of California at Berkeley since 1980.

Catch of the Day: The Slatest picks up a Reuters report on the State Department's annual survey of human rights abusers, trotting out a familiar list: North Korea, Russia, Cuba, Myanmar and China. But Chinese officials are calling Americans hypocrites for the report, blaming the U.S. for the world financial crisis and its own human rights abuses conducted in the name of the war on terror. "The United States not only has a terrible domestic human rights record, it is also the main source of many human rights disasters worldwide," the Chinese retaliatory report said.

9/11 Payout: All the aggregators pick up news of a potential $657.5 million settlement for rescue and cleanup workers at Ground Zero who sued New York City over health claims. The money would go to more than 10,000 workers and come from a federally financed insurance company. "The settlement, which took two years to negotiate, raises the prospect of an end to years of complex and politically charged litigation that has pitted angry victims against city officials, who questioned the validity of some claims and argued that the city should be immune from liability," The New York Times reports.

Is Guinness Good? With St. Patrick's Day almost here, Pat's Papers links to a Chicago Tribune list of 12 reasons why drinking Guinness, the dark Irish stout, is preferable to other beers. The list, which relies on a University of Wisconsin study, makes the case that the beer is healthy, noting it can help reduce blood clots and contains antioxidants common to wine and chocolate but not other beers. Some other alleged benefits -- sociability -- are not unique to this one beer, however.