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President Bush, center, looks over at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, while making a statement on the Middle East peace process, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. At left is Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

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Musharraf retires as Pakistan’s army chief

An emotional President Pervez Musharraf passed a ceremonial baton to his successor, fulfilling a long-delayed promise to step down as Pakistan’s military chief.

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MSNBC

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Pakistan's big 3: the options

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BBC

Venezuela's students lead anti-Chávez street protests

Venezuelans will soon vote on President Hugo Chávez's plan to scrap term limits on his rule. Most analysts say the president will prevail.

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Christian Science Monitor

VA's performance on benefits unchanged

The Department of Veterans Affairs fell further behind in its attempts to give veterans timely decisions on their disability claims, new records show.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Bush: U.S. cannot impose vision on Mideast peace

President Bush says he'll personally "facilitate" peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, saying the formation of a Palestinian state was the best way to end Mideast violence.

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CNN

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Why Iran and Hamas want Annapolis to fail

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TIME

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Day 1 of Annapolis conference

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Reuters

Republican rivals spar in YouTube debate

Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney scornfully debated immigration in a testy personal exchange in which Giuliani accused Romney of employing illegal immigrants and running a “sanctuary mansion.”

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MSNBC

U.S. air strikes kill civilian roadworkers

U.S. forces mistakenly killed at least a dozen road construction workers in air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.

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Guardian

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Afghanistan's air corps struggles to rebuild

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NPR

To Muslim girls in the United States, Girl Scouts offer a chance to fit in

Scattered Muslim communities across the United States are forming Girl Scout troops as a sort of assimilation tool to help girls who often feel alienated from the mainstream culture.

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International Herald Tribune

NATION

Report: Relative fears he helped cop dispose of wife's body

A relative of former Illinois policeman Drew Peterson has revealed he helped Peterson haul away a large container that he now fears contained the body of the ex-cop’s missing wife, a report said.

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New York Daily News

O.J. Simpson pleads not guilty to total of 12 felony charges

O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty to 12 felony charges that could send him to prison for life.

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CNN

Texas oilman gets year in prison for role in oil-for-food program

Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr., 83, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to violate the U.N. oil-for-food program after pleading guilty.

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POLITICS

Democrats seize on economic woes

Congressional Democrats will focus on the economy in an effort to win political advantage from public fears about an approaching recession.

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The Hill

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Approval for Congress still below 30 percent in U.S.

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Angus Reid

Huckabee wins endorsement from Jerry Falwell, Jr.

After Huckabee delivered an address at the evangelical Liberty University, he picked up an endorsement from Jerry Falwell, Jr., the son of the school's late founder.

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MSNBC

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Obama Leads 4 GOP Candidates in U.S. Race

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Angus Reid

Efforts to enfranchise U.S. citizens abroad

For Americans abroad, who often feel overlooked in the United States, the approach of the 2008 elections has brought some grounds for hope that this time their votes have a better chance of counting.

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International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

Energy stocks mixed after inventory data

Oil and oil services stocks rose along with the overall market, but natural gas shares fell after inventory data and crude reversed course and moved lower.

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MarketWatch

Orders for durable goods down for 3rd straight month

New orders for long-lasting U.S.-made manufactured goods dropped for a third month in a row during October and companies appeared wary about making new investments.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Hall of Fame jockey dead At 74

Bill Hartack, a Hall of Fame jockey and five-time Kentucky Derby winner, has died from natural causes while on a hunting vacation. He was 74.

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CBS News

Baseball's best free agents for the buck

Expensive high-impact players like Torii Hunter, Mariano Rivera and Mike Lowell are already off the market, but for teams looking for good players at a modest price, the pickings are still pretty good.

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Forbes

HEALTH

'Supermouse' bred to beat cancer

Mice carrying a gene which appears to make them invulnerable to cancer may hold the key to safer and more effective treatments for humans.

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BBC

Amertican obesity epidemic may have topped out

New study found that obesity prevalence in the United States has remained about the same for the past several years.

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Medical News Today

R.J. Reynolds to stop print ads

The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which has been under intense pressure from anti-smoking groups, said it would not advertise its brands in newspapers or consumer magazines.

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ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Romney's religion won't be spared in YouTube debate

If Mitt Romney is elected president, will he let the president of the LDS Church dictate? YouTube users have submitted several questions for the first Republican presidential debate.

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Salt Lake Tribune

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Romney explains cabinet remark

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CBS News

Teacher charged with inciting hatred

A British teacher under arrest in Sudan was formally charged with inciting hatred for allowing her 7-year-old students to name a teddy bear Muhammad.

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New York Daily News

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Jailed teacher 'in Africa to start new life'

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Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Indonesia starts planting 79 million trees

Indonesia, which has been losing its forests at a rapid pace in recent years, launched a campaign to plant 79 million trees ahead of next month's U.N. climate change conference in Bali.

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Environmental News Network

Mexico invests to protect butterflies

Mexico's president pledged $4.6 million to protect the forested nesting grounds which are the winter home for millions of monarch butterflies.

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Good News Network

WORLD

Rebels blamed in Sri Lanka bombing

Tamil Tiger rebels set off a bomb at the entrance of a popular department store in a Sri Lanka suburb, killing at least 16 people and wounding 37 others, the military said.

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USA Today

Taser death sparks Canada debate

The use of taser guns by the police is under fierce debate in Canada.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Rising sea disrupts flights in Indonesia

Global warming is partly to blame for the flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia, that has forced thousands of evacuations and cut off a highway to the international airport.

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National Geographic

Attorney General Jerry Brown sues EPA over toxic reporting

A lawsuit accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of weakening its Toxic Release Inventory rules, a national system that requires industries to annually report on toxic chemicals.

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San Jose Mercury News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Sides still talking, WGA still walking

The real test of whether the parties are determined to find a way to end the 3 1/2-week writers strike is just beginning. The contract talks between the WGA and studio reps seem to be going well enough.

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Hollywood Reporter

Miss Puerto Rico insists outfit and makeup were tainted

Newly crowned Miss Puerto Rico Ingrid Marie Rivera insisted that she wasn’t just imagining the redness, itching and swelling she says she experienced during last week’s pageant in San Juan.

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MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Forensics go high-tech

Radiologists are investigating the use of computed tomography as a tool for civilian medical examiners' autopsies in the U.S.

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Robots dazzle at Japanese exhibit

Japan showed off its cutting-edge robots at the country's largest robotics convention, a dazzling display of the technologies that make it a world leader in both service and industrial robotics.

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Yahoo! News

EDUCATION

Dropout program's big first year

Education officials celebrated the initial year of success for Project U-Turn, but also continued to sound the alarm that about half of ninth graders fail to graduate on time.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

In U.S. classrooms, 'tech sherpas' assist teachers with computers

In a role reversal, students provide the tech support in some U.S. classrooms, creating a 'culture of respect' between teachers and teens.

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Christian Science Monitor

Scholarship fund in name of deceased KU student is growing

The mother of a University of Kansas student killed in the 2005 Boardwalk Apartments fire in Lawrence, Kan., has established a scholarship fund in her daughter’s name.

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Kansas City Star

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Chimps knocked off top of the IQ tree

Orangutans have been named as the world’s most intelligent animal in a study that places them above chimpanzees and gorillas, the species traditionally considered closest to humans.

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People visit the Christmas market on Gendarmen- markt in downtown Berlin, Germany. The traditional Christmas market is open to the public until the end of December. (Photo by Franka Bruns / AP)

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