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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Barack Obama during the annual NAACP convention in Washington. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

Clinton said unsure about cabinet job

Sen. Hillary Clinton has reservations about accepting an appointment as secretary of state in the Obama administration, said a Clinton adiviser.

MSNBC

Cabinet post for Clinton roils Obamaland

Politico

India 'sinks Somali pirate ship'

The INS Tabar sunk the pirate "mother ship" after it failed to stop for investigation and opened fire instead, an Indian navy statement said.

BBC

Somali Pirates Take Another Ship

ABC News

Crime pays for Somalia's pirates

Al Jazeera

Big 3 automotive CEOs flew luxury private jets to ask for public funds

CEOs of the big three automakers flew to Washington in luxury private jets to make their case to Congress that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

ABC News

Clash over $25 billion car firm bailout

BBC

Al-Qaeda No. 2 calls Obama dishonorable, calls for attacks on US

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No. 2 al-Qaeda operative, called President-elect Obama "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" such as Malcolm X.

USA Today

Why the Democrats — and Obama — forgave Lieberman

Obama wasn't just acting out of bipartisan good will. Supporting Lieberman's inclusion in the Democratic caucus may have defanged his toughest potential opponent in the Senate Democratic caucus.

TIME

Despite hard feelings, Lieberman keeps chair

MSNBC

Al-Maliki supports US pact in TV address

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made a nationally televised address to rally support for a U.S.-Iraqi security pact, calling it a step toward Iraqi sovereignty.

Baltimore Sun

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A migrant waits for instructions as one of 136 who arrived in Tenerife, Spain. (Photo by Arturo Rodriguez / AP)	A city hospital employee protests for a voice at work in Cologne, Germany. (Photo by Hermann J. Knippertz / AP)	Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (Photo by Pier Paolo Citoi / AP )

NATION

FBI agent killed serving warrant

An FBI agent was fatally shot while serving a warrant at a home in Indiana Township, about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The agent’s name was not released.

Boston Herald

US 'cyber-bullying' case begins

Jury selection started for the trial of a Missouri woman who allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to bully a girl who later killed herself.

BBC

MySpace suicide trial starts

YouTube

Government proposes steps to ease air travel congestion

The government is opening some military airspace to ease airline congestion during Thanksgiving and Christmas, though they expect limited results. If the weather's bad, all bets are off.

San Francisco Chronicle

AAA predicts slight drop in holiday travel

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama picks Eric Holder, former prosecutor, for attorney general

President-elect Obama selected Eric Holder as his attorney general, which would make the veteran Washington lawyer the first African-American to head the U.S. Department of Justice.

Newsweek

Stevens' rise and fall: In the end Alaskans tired of scandal

Scandal-weary Alaskans ended the 40-year career of Sen. Ted Stevens, voting by a thin margin to replace him with Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, a Democrat.

McClatchy

Countdown: Stevens out

YouTube

Obama’s 250 tough calls

President-elect Obama should and probably will renounce all brutal interrogation methods, well beyond those that the Bush administration defines as torture.

Newsweek

Obama: Swift action on climate change

International Herald Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Hugh Jackman: the sexiest man alive

At 6 feet 2, all scruff and biceps, Hugh Jackman looms large in the epic “Australia,” which he says kept him “dirty 95 percent of the time.”

People

Tyra finds doctor to transform transgender 'top model'

Tyra Banks found a doctor to pay for Isis King, the first transgender contestant on "America's Next Top Model," to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

ABC News

SPORTS

Cubs now the only suitors for Jake Peavy

With the Braves leaving Jake Peavy trade talks, the Padres general manager says only the Cubs remain in the hunt to acquire the right-handed pitcher.

Sporting News

Tiger Woods aiming for February return

Tiger Woods won't be back on the PGA Tour in time to defend his Dubai Desert Classic title in January, but he is aiming for a February return.

Sporting News

EDUCATION

1-year suspension for teacher who had students vote to oust classmate

The teacher who sparked a national controversy for instructing her students to vote on whether an autistic boy should remain in his kindergarten class was placed on unpaid leave.

Palm Beach Post

Community colleges must expect more

Though many community college students call their coursework challenging, a report cites "ample evidence" that colleges help students do their best work.

USA Today

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The Daily Quote

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”

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Philosopher

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GOOD NEWS

Political prisoner, detained in 1973, finally returns home to Chile

A man detained in 1973 during Chile's "dirty war" and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive, a Santiago human rights group announced.

CNN

Famed Lincoln letter found in Texas

A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.

CBS News

WORLD

UN confirms DR Congo pullback

United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that rebel fighters have started withdrawing around two eastern towns.

Al Jazeera

UN head fears over Gaza blockade

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert he is deeply concerned about humanitarian conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

BBC

Hu signs China-Cuba trade deals

China's president has signed a range of trade deals with Cuba and pledged millions of dollars in aid to the Caribbean nation as it struggles to recover from the impact of three hurricanes.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

NYSE may de-list Fannie Mae stock

The New York Stock Exchange notified Fannie Mae that its stock failed to satisfy price-related requirements, and may lose its listing on the exchange.

CNNMoney

Shelby favors changing automaker management teams

The senior Republican on the Banking Committee said he doesn't believe there will be a turnaround in the auto industry until it revamps manufacturing operations.

Yahoo! Finance

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Supercomputers transforming science

The latest crop of supercomputers is breaking speed barriers and pushing high-performance computing into previously unimagined realms.

Wired

World wide tangled web

The spiders found on the space station are welcome guests, though one of them is missing at the moment.

ABC News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Italian nuns refuse to carry out court order in 'right-to-die' case

Despite a court order, a hospice in Milan has refused to discontinue life support for Eluana Englaro, a disabled woman whose father won legal permission to end her life.

LifeSiteNews.com

Leading the black church: Can it be a woman’s place?

Black women activists say change is long overdue for equality in their church.

Religion News Service

ENVIRONMENT

Dow CEO calls for comprehensive US energy policy

Dow Chemical Co. called on the incoming administration to implement a new national energy policy.

Reuters

Environmental leaders to meet as emissions rise

Emissions from industrialized countries reached a peak in 2006 after six years of growth, the United Nations said.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Risk of lung, other cancers soars for people living with HIV

Twenty-five years ago, an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence. Now that patients with the AIDS virus live longer, doctors are discovering a new complications.

Baltimore Sun

Woman gets unique trachea transplant

A Colombian woman received the world's first tailor-made trachea transplant grown from her own stem cells to prevent her body from rejecting it.

Reuters

Woman gets windpipe transplant

BBC

BITS AND PIECES

Photo of the Day

Astronaut Stephen Bowen maneuvers down the cargo bay of the space shuttle Endeavour to store an empty nitrogen tank in the shuttle's cargo bay. (Photo by NASA TV / AP)