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South Korean protesters, with defaced portraits of North Korea‘s leader Kim Jong Il and his son Kim Jong Un, shout slogans during a rally in Seoul against North Korea’s attack on Yeonpyeong Island. (Photo by Bang Sung-hae / AP)

Holiday shoppers seek deals

Black Friday is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, with 60 million Americans planning to shop, but many retailers began promoting their specials weeks ago.

NPR

The best Black Friday deals revealed

MSNBC

Spectrum bites the dust

Lou Scheinfeld, the director of Spectrum closure, whose life has been intimately linked with the legendary sports and rock venue since its 1967 opening, was weepy long before the bagpipe dirge.

Philadelphia Daily News

Demolition begins on Philadelphia’s Spectrum

YouTube

North Korea blames ‘brink of war’ on Seoul

North Korea blamed South Korea for driving them “to the brink of war,” after the North shelled a South Korean island and killed four people. South Korea says they were provoked by North’s military drills.

CNN

Special section:

The divided Koreas

CBS News

Tension in the Koreas

MSNBC

TSA opt-out day: Thanksgiving travelers quiet so far

The airports have been quiet with few people opting out of the full body scanners despite promises to do everything from wearing “Don’t Touch My Junk” T-shirts to kilts with nothing underneath.

ABC News

Spirit computers crash, causing lengthy delays

Detroit Free Press

US trading probe puts research, expert networks in spotlight

John Kinnucan’s questioning by the FBI in a broad insider-trading investigation has put the spotlight on money managers and their use of a burgeoning breed of firms selling research and access to industry experts.

Bloomberg

NATION

Thanksgiving auto trips expected to hit 5-year high

More than 42 million Americans are expected to hit the road for Thanksgiving — an 11.4 percent increase from 2009 and the first uptick in holiday travelers since the recession began.

Denver Post

Bad roads cost more than maintaining good ones

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Is it time to raise the retirement age?

As more boomers pack it in, the number of Americans collecting Social Security retirement benefits is projected to nearly double over the next 25 years to more than 76 million.

CBS News

Social Security

Polling Report

Lawsuit filed challenging parent abortion notification requirement

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and two doctors have sued the state to block a new Alaska law requiring notification of parents before their teenage daughters obtain an abortion.

Anchorage Daily News

POLITICS

Common ground: education reform might happen

Washington can seem like a Venn diagram where the two circles — Republicans and Democrats — will never touch. But on the issue of education reform, the two parties may be able to come together.

Newsweek

Student transfers under ‘No Child’ law swamp successful schools

San Jose Mercury News

Food safety bill: facts and myths

The Food Safety Modernization Act has riled everyone from liberal “locavores” to conservative tea party groups. Here‘s a rundown of what’s really in the Senate bill.

Christian Science Monitor

Passage of earmark ban in doubt

Senate proponents of a 3-year moratorium on earmarks say they will not have enough votes to implement the reform measure when lawmakers consider the issue.

The Hill

BUSINESS

On the dollar, traders back Bernanke

At a time when foreign officials and U.S. lawmakers are criticizing the Federal Reserve’s plan to buy Treasury bonds, known as quantitative easing, the currency market is voting in favor of it.

BusinessWeek

Initial unemployment claims: lowest since July 2008

The government’s weekly jobs report brought a bit of good news as the number of Americans filing for their first week of unemployment benefits sunk to its lowest level in more than two years.

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

As nations dither on climate change, big cities step up

Global megacities such as Mexico City, Paris and Los Angeles are more populous than scores of countries, and devour huge amounts of energy, but they’ve carried no weight in climate change talks. Until now.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

Global climate change

National Geographic

World’s lakes getting hotter

NASA scientists used satellites to look at 104 inland lakes around the world and found that on average they have warmed 2 degrees since 1985, about two-and-a-half times the increase in global temperatures.

CBS News

EDUCATION

Class sizes show signs of growing

After dropping for decades, average class sizes in American schools may be growing again as schools enroll more to try to cope with budget shortfalls.

Education Week

Advice from experts on writing college application essays

With college application deadlines looming, the pressure is on for high school seniors to write the perfect essay. But what are schools really looking for?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

For happy holidays go local, local, local

Modesto Bee

Column (Rekha Basu):

Vulnerable to addiction

Des Moines Register

Editorial:

The certainty of death and debt collection

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Jonathan Chait):

The voodoo that they do so well

The New Republic

Column (Jesse Jackson):

Tax cut games put jobless in jeopardy

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Mary Sanchez):

America’s hidden hunger, and what we can do about it

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Kate Bittman):

Adult education at Hogwarts

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

Column (Cal Thomas):

Is the ‘American dream’ over?

Washington Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

Leonardo DiCaprio gives Russia’s tiger summit a helping hand

A five-day tiger summit aimed at conservation generated a $1 million donation from Leonardo DiCaprio. The world’s remaining 3,500 tigers are at risk from poaching and loss of habitat.

Christian Science Monitor

Thanks in any language

For new Americans, Thanksgiving is an unfamiliar holiday — but giving thanks is not. Refugees may not have fully grasped American traditions, but they come here understanding the value of family.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Redskins hand out food for Thanksgiving

Washington Post

Patient’s rite of passage inspires others

Inside her hospice room, Fern Kravets has spent her finals days preparing others for her passage. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer more than a year ago, she struggled but forged ahead with treatment.

Seattle Times