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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses the media at the European Council building in Brussels. EU leaders have opted for little-known compromise candidate Belgian Premier Herman Van Rompuy to become the bloc's first full-time president. (Photo by Thierry Charlier / AP)

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Giuliani to run for Senate, White House

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year — but will run for U.S. Senate instead, sources told the Daily News.

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Lou Dobbs mulls run for White House, Senate

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Reuters

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Giuliani will not run for governor

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GOP blasts Holder on NYC terror trial

Attorney General Eric Holder condemned Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a "terrorist" and a "murderer," but defended his decision to try him in New York Federal Court.

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Courthouse News Service

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Holder: 'We need not cower' facing 9/11 suspect

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PBS

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Giuliani outraged by terror trial

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CBS News

EU leaders appoint new president

EU leaders overcame divisions to appoint Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy to the presidency of the European Council and appointed Briton Catherine Ashton as its foreign affairs chief.

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Irish Times

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Gordon Brown announces EU president

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BBC

GAO: Errors in stimulus report

The data collection and reporting from those who received money from the $787 billion U.S. stimulus plan is riddled with errors, according to a federal audit.

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Reuters

Special section:

The stimulus tracker

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MSNBC

Great American Smokeout '09

The less you smoke, the more birthdays you'll have, says the American Cancer Society as it encourages smokers to quit on the 34th Great American Smokeout.

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HealthDay

New data sheds light on animal extinction

Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared.

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NATION

Obama mortgage rescue: Only a few get lasting help

Only a tiny percentage of troubled homeowners have received permanent modifications under President Obama's foreclosure prevention plan, raising concerns about the $75 billion effort.

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CNNMoney

New York toughens drunken driving law

It is now a felony in New York to drive drunk or under the influence of drugs with a child in the car, and will require first-time offenders to install an ignition interlock device in their vehicles.

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Paterson signs nation's toughest DWI law

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POLITICS

Republicans draw battle lines on bill

Republicans are preparing procedural roadblocks against the effort to call the health care overhaul proposal to the Senate floor before Thanksgiving.

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CQ Politics

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Pundits on health care

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Politico

Senators: Ft. Hood shootings ‘terrorism’

Several senators asserted in public hearings that the Ft. Hood incident was a terrorist attack by a homegrown extremist who may have slipped past law enforcement and military authorities.

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Gates: Pentagon to review internal policies

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Texas gay marriage ban may have implications on status of all marriages

A Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages endangers the legal status of all Texas marriages.

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McClatchy

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Artist Jeanne-Claude dies

Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 installation in Central Park called "The Gates" with her husband, has died at 74.

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Artist Jeanne-Claude dies at 74

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Yahoo! News

Colum McCann novel wins national award for fiction

The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

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NBA fiction winner Colum McCann on grace

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Mediabistro.com

Oprah Winfrey to leave talk show in 2011

Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's Harpo production house, announced that the media mogul will step off the "Oprah" set in September 2011.

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ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Atlantis docks at station

The shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station for a weeklong stay, and the astronauts quickly unloaded spare parts needed to keep the outpost running for another decade.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Immune tribe 'indicates CJD hope'

Darwinian natural selection could help halt human "mad cow disease," experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dalai Lama expresses concern about Tibetan cause

The Dalai Lama said there will be a setback in the Tibetan cause when he dies, but that he has faith in the next generation.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Dalai Lama at the World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet

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San Jose Mercury News

Atheist author Philip Pullman writes alternative ending for Jesus in Bible

The writer has penned an alternative Bible passage imagining a different fate for Christ, who was executed by the Romans.

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Telegraph.co.uk

New look for gold cross in Vatican collection

One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — a 6th century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified — has been restored.

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Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

Lawsuit: Fla. failing kids

The Florida Constitution states the importance of education in this state. But superintendents, children advocates and parents claim the state is not upholding its part of the deal.

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Tallahassee Democrat

Study abroad? College students rethink idea

Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless invited to Thanksgiving

The needy and homeless in east Gainesville, Florida will be able to enjoy feasts the day before Thanksgiving, thanks to the generosity and compassion of two local ministries.

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Gainesville Sun

All in step as tiny twins prove to be against-the-odds winners

The neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner was inspired to do a little ''chicken dance'' when brain scans revealed that her team's surgery on the Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna had been a success.

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Sydney Morning Herald

WORLD

Afghan forces to take over in 5 years

President Hamid Karzai said Afghan forces would take responsibility for security from international troops within five years.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Clinton welcomes Karzai’s 'visionary outline'

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Bloomberg

CIA 'ran secret prison for al-Qaida' in Lithuanian riding school

A former horse riding school in Lithuania was used as a secret CIA prison. The prison was alleged to have been used to hold and interrogate al-Qaida terrorists.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Would Peru lawmaker Keiko Fujimori free her jailed dad?

Keiko Fujimori, daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, came near admitting that she would pardon her jailed father if elected president in 2011.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

AOL plans to cut 2,300 employees

AOL, the Internet unit being spun off from Time Warner Inc. in December, plans to cut about a third of its workforce over the next several months.

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Bloomberg

Electric cars push Japan engine parts makers to crisis mode

Auto supplier NTN Corp. knew its gasoline engine parts wouldn’t be needed in Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf electric car, leaving the component engineers to build a mock electric model instead.

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Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Oceans' uptake of human-made carbon may be slowing

The oceans play a key role in regulating climate by absorbing carbon dioxide. The first annual accounting of this mechanism suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions.

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ScienceDaily

Norway and Guyana sign rainforest deal

Guyana and Norway hailed a historic agreement that will see the Scandinavian country invest $250 million to preserve the rainforests of the Latin America nation.

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The Independent

SPORTS

Lincecum's the 1; that makes 2 Cys

Tim Lincecum repeated as the National League Cy Young Award winner, besting St. Louis right-handers Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright despite getting fewer first-place votes than Wainwright.

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MLB.com

Angels' Scioscia, Rockies' Tracy are managers of the year

Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels and Jim Tracy of the Colorado Rockies were rewarded with the 2009 manager of the year awards in the American and National leagues, respectively.

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USA TODAY

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Tracy, Scioscia named top managers

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ESPN

HEALTH

Biggest child-killers: pneumonia, diarrhea

Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.

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MSNBC

Who decides about mammograms?

Surgeons, cancer organizations and even the White House are expressing concern about new screening recommendations issued by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

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CNN

Levels of bad cholesterol falling in US, but too many unscreened, untreated

A new study published found that the proportion of American adults with high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol fell by around a third between 1999 and 2006.

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Medical News Today

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

GI Jane breaks the combat barrier

Before 2001, America’s military women had rarely seen ground combat. Their jobs kept them mostly away from enemy lines, as military policy dictates. But the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have changed that.

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A stray dog pauses on a sand bank of the Yamuna River in Agra, India. (Photo by Gurinder Osan / AP)

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