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When America has something to celebrate, we buy T-shirts. World leaders are calling to congratulate the president-elect, and celebrations run rampant through Europe, Asia and, of course, Africa. (Photo by Mark Humphrey / AP)

US unemployment rate climbs to 14-year high of 6.5 percent

The jobless rate rose to 6.5 percent in October from 6.1 percent the previous month, the Labor Department reported.

Bloomberg

Retail sales take big dive in October

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama victory eases tone of politics between US and Iraq

With Barack Obama as President-elect, Iraqi and American officials said obstacles to a security agreement are fading.

International Herald Tribune

Can Obama make good on promises about wars?

NPR

Obama to talk economy, meet the press

Barack Obama will have his campaign promises put to the test as he meets with economic advisers to discuss his transition to the White House and holds his first news conference as U.S. president-elect.

Reuters

Experts discuss Obama's economic challenges

Reuters

Obama seeks advice from top execs

MSNBC

Deadly school collapse in Haiti

A school has collapsed in a suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, killing at least 30 people and trapping an unknown number in rubble.

BBC

After the dream, it’s a dose of reality as Obama gets down to business

Barack Obama is expected to dampen the euphoria of his supporters as he starts squaring soaring campaign rhetoric with the grim realities waiting for him in office.

Times Online

Short list for Obama's cabinet

CBS News

Meet the new chief of staff

ABC News

POLITICS

Bush set to meet with Obama

President Bush and Barack Obama will hold their first substantive talks about the nation's daunting priorities as the transition to a new administration accelerates.

MSNBC

'Sharp-elbowed' Rahm Emanuel to be Obama's White House chief of staff

Bloomberg

NBC: Obama apparent winner in N.C.

President-elect Obama won the close vote in North Carolina, a triumph in a state that had not voted for a Democrat for president in more than a generation.

MSNBC

A landslide election? No, but a clear win, for a change

International Herald Tribune

Brokaw reflects on the American presidency

MSNBC

MORE POLITICS

Oregon Democrat Merkley joins Senate

"This is the beginning of a transformational change for America," Senator-elect Jeff Merkley said at a news conference at Portland State University.

CNN

Congress prepares for the Obama era

The fate of the Obama presidency will be shaped by the messy, behind-the-scenes process already underway in Washington, reorganizing power on Capitol Hill.

TIME

MORE ELECTION COVERAGE

Democratic advances put Republicans on the ropes

Beyond the prospect of a Democratic president and a more Democratic Congress, Republicans now faced headlines such as "The Conservative Crack-Up" and "Obama Administration Survival Guide."

USA Today

Palin noncommittal on future

"Palin 2012" t-shirts were for sale at the election-night rally in Wasilla, but the Alaska governor headed home saying she wasn't ready to think of a national political future.

USA Today

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Britney, Justin join Madonna at L.A. show

As expected, Madonna brought out the big guns for her concert at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake joined the material girl on stage.

MSNBC

Home sweet shipping container?

Architects and builders are using a surplus of unused shipping containers for construction, having them serve a purpose for which it was never intended: housing.

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Eco-friendly AirPods run on nothing but compressed air, get tryout at airports

An engineer who is building cars that run on compressed air has convinced a European airline to use his AirPods to ferry passengers around airports in France and The Netherlands.

Wired

New spray-on solar cells invented

New solar cells have been invented from a polymer that has the same electrical properties as silicon wafers but can be dissolved and printed onto flexible material.

LiveScience

2008 best inventions of 2008

TIME

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Exceeding expectations

As three days of talks in and around the Vatican wound up last night, it looked as if the "Obama effect" had played its part in what the Islamic delegation at least regarded as a very fruitful exercise.

Guardian

Study links faith, depression

People who feel close to a higher power and pray often are more likely to be depressed, while people who attend services and feel that their lives have purpose are less so.

USA Today

EDUCATION

Politics takes more active new role in high school classrooms

High school teachers across the U.S. find themselves debriefing young people who are more politically informed and civic-minded than any in recent memory.

USA Today

Orleans Parish School Board approves $2 billion schools plan

The Orleans Parish School Board voted to approve a public school facilities master plan, pushing ahead on the largest school-building effort in New Orleans history.

Nola.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Ten innovations inspired by nature

Scientists and engineers are getting some wild ideas from the wild kingdom. For example, they are making an adhesive derived from the gecko.

HappyNews.com

Natural gas idea picking up steam

Will cars be fueled by compressed natural gas in 10 years? Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is betting that they will.

HappyNews.com

NATION

Spitzer won't be charged in scandal

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will not be charged in connection with the prostitution scandal that prompted his resignation, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said.

CNN

No charges for Spitzer

Business Review

WORLD

Leaders discuss Congo violence

African and U.N. leaders were meeting in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, trying to stop the latest violence plaguing the Democratic Republic of Congo.

CNN

DR Congo 'civilian deaths' probed

BBC

Cuba on hurricaine watch for Paloma

A hurricane watch was issued for parts of Cuba as Paloma continues barreling toward the Cayman Islands.

Baltimore Sun

Early season blizzard blasts South Dakota

Yahoo! News

BUSINESS

Towering economic to-do list for Obama

A look at eight crucial economic issues that will test President-elect Barack Obama's administration, and how the new president might address them.

International Herald Tribune

What CEOs want from the next president

BusinessWeek

Pani indicted for theft of $1 billion trade secrets about new computer chip

While working at Intel, Biswamohan Pani stole top-secret chip design documents from Intel, according to an FBI affidavit.

ABC News

SPORTS

No. 10 Utah rallies to beat No. 11 TCU

Brian Johnson led No. 10 Utah on an 80-yard march in the final minutes for a 13-10 comeback win over No. 11 TCU.

Sporting News

Pena, Pedroia, Young, Mauer win first Gold Gloves

Carlos Pena grabbed attention for all those balls he hit. Now the Tampa Bay first baseman and his teammates are getting noticed for the ones he caught.

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections

In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants, uranium mining and coal mining.

McClatchy

UK beekeepers protest over massive death of bees

Britain has been warned that the country will enter into an “agricultural disaster” unless money is put towards discovering what is killing the country’s bees.

PlanetSave.com

All your green shopping needs

TIME

HEALTH

Washington preps assisted suicide plan

Washington state officials have four months to set up a new voter-approved law allowing doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally-ill patients.

CBS News

Covidien recalls syringes posing risk to diabetic patients

U.S. health officials warned doctors and patients that Covidien Ltd. was recalling nearly half a million single-use syringes that could pose a serious risk to diabetics.

ABC News

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