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India's National Security Guard chief Jyoti Krishan Dutt speaks to the media in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Altaf Qadri / AP)

Shoppers grab Black Friday deals

Shoppers flocked to stores to grab sales deals for the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, feared to be the weakest in decades.

CBS News

Black Friday shopping madness

Baltimore Sun

Bush reflects on his legacy

President George W. Bush, famously disinterested in public introspection, opened up a bit in a recent interview by a friendly questioner, his sister, Doro Bush Koch.

Houston Chronicle

Bush on his legacy: I 'liberated' Iraqis

ABC News

Siege on Mumbai is over

As investigators work to unmask the group responsible for the Mumbai attacks, police continued to search the Taj Mahal Hotel to make sure all trapped guests have left and no terrorists remain hidden.

CNN

Trapped in Mumbai: a survivor's tale

TIME

Attacks in Mumbai

MSNBC

Who's Responsible For The Mumbai Attacks?

NPR

FDA sets acceptable level for infant formula contaminant

Federal regulators set a safety threshold for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula.

Detroit Free Press

A prodigy playing for a cure

Jourdan Urbach, a 17-year-old violin prodigy, has raised more than $1.4 million for medical research.

CBS News

Airport protesters defy Thai police

Yahoo! News

NATION

Wal-Mart worker dies in holiday stampede; 2 killed at toy store

Three violent deaths in two stores marred the opening of Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season.

CNN

Two people killed at Toys R Us

MSNBC

A new foreclosure wave hits the jobless

There's a new wave of foreclosure sweeping across the country, and the people who are getting swept up are not greedy investors, or people who got in over their heads with bad loans.

CBS News

POLITICS

Mumbai: Obama's first foreign policy test

In Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama issued a statement, offering condolences to families of American victims in Mumbai. Obama called the terrorist attacks "outrageous."

ABC News

Obama team reacts to attacks

CNN

How Obama will use the vast Internet army he built

Obama's transition team is already building an organization to carry on the Internet efforts begun during the campaign.

Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

Curaçao’s crude legacy

A 200-acre artificial lake that sits on the outskirts of The Netherlands has blessed and cursed the island of Curaçao and its 150,000 inhabitants.

Christian Science Monitor

Clean energy can fuel economic revival, green groups tell Obama

A coalition of 29 of the nation's leading environmental and conservation organizations sent a lengthy wish list of policies to Obama's transition team.

Environment News Service

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Holiday music in heavy radio rotation

Although Thanksgiving may seem like an early start for constant holiday cheer, stations nationwide are launching the format earlier each year.

Houston Chronicle

The Holocaust and Hollywood

Almost 50 years after "The Diary of Anne Frank," Holocaust dramas are finally coming of age. There are five releases this holiday season, and each enters new, morally complex territory.

Newsweek

'Tis the season for Hollywood blockbusters

NPR

HEALTH

Women smokers' longevity cut by 14.5 years due to smoking

One in every five adult women in the United States still smokes, even though smoking takes an average of 14.5 years off their lives, says the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Medical News Today

FDA rule change boosts access to morning-after pill

Women have easier access to the morning after pill since the Food and Drug Administration ruled that the medication could be sold to adults without a prescription.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Green experiment empowers students to help save the environment

The Green Education Foundation is launching Green Week at an elementary school in Weymouth, Mass. The school community has pledged to bring in waste-free lunches and snacks.

MarketWatch

Can she save our schools?

Michelle Rhee has promised to make Washington the highest-performing urban school district in the nation, a prospect that, if realized, could transform the way schools across the country are run.

TIME

Budget ‘screwup’ leaves vendors unpaid and DC facing contempt

DC Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

Goodwill feast comes with help for jobs and finances

Goodwill offers programs about budgeting, getting out of debt and matching skills to an appropriate job.

Detroit Free Press

Philanthropists train their children to continue the giving

America’s top philanthropists are getting their children involved early in giving, sometimes before they turn 10 years old.

Atlanta-Journal Constitution

WORLD

China's virtual vigilantes: Civic action or cyber mobs?

Concerned citizens are targeting anyone from accused pedophiles to activists with 'human flesh search engines' that post people's personal information online.

Christian Science Monitor

European inflation falls, while jobless rate steadily increases

Euro-zone inflation declined and unemployment jumped, lifting chances that the European Central Bank would increase an interest rate cut to aid the economy.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Gas above $2 a gallon in only 4 states

The average price of gasoline is below two dollars a gallon in 46 states. It's lowest in Missouri, at $1.54 a gallon, followed by Kansas at $1.65.

CNNMoney

Chief Yahoo may hamper CEO search

Yahoo Inc., whose shares fell 60 percent after it spurned Microsoft Corp.'s $44.5 billion takeover bid, may find hiring a replacement CEO more difficult while "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang works down the hall.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

SPORTS

Knicks suspend Marbury for one game without pay

The New York Knicks needed Stephon Marbury to play, then suspended him a game and docked him nearly $400,000 in salary after claiming he refused.

Baltimore Sun

Raiders' Kiffin reportedly has agreement to coach Tennessee

Former Oakland Raiders Coach Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next Tennessee head football coach, according to officials close to the process.

USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientists find metabolism genes

Four genetic variations appear to determine the speed at which people burn up food, researchers said, a finding that could one day affect patient care.

Reuters

'Star Wars' on iPhone: The force isn't so strong with this one

"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" demonstrates the potential of the iPhone as a gaming platform, but it leaves much to be desired in execution.

TechNewsWorld

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

US-Vatican relationship to shift under Obama White House

An American president who supports abortion rights working with an anti-abortion Catholic leadership is something that could cause future division.

Religion News Service

Obama narrows – but doesn’t close – the electoral ‘God gap’

Analyzing Barack Obama’s presidential victory indicates the “God gap” dividing American politics remains in place, but Obama fashioned a victory by significantly narrowing it nearly everywhere.

Dallas Baptist Standard

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