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In Bangkok, Thailand, protesters cheer at Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's acceptance of a court ruling to step down because of his party's electoral fraud. (Photo by Ed Wray / AP)

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Auto Workers to hold emergency meeting on bailout

Local United Auto Workers leaders from across the country will hold an emergency meeting in Detroit to discuss concessions the union could make to help auto companies get government loans.

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Downturn hits US corporate meetings

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Reuters

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Levin calls for bolstering U.S. auto industry

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NPR

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Pelosi: Give us a reason

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CBS News

Pardon is back in focus for attorney general nominee

For President-elect Obama’s AG choice, there is one blemish: Eric Holder’s role in the 2001 pardon of Marc Rich, a billionaire financier who fled the country rather than face federal tax evasion charges.

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Thai prime minister steps down, protesters abandon blockade

The anti-government protesters promised to abandon their demonstrations after the country’s prime minister was forced from power by the country’s highest court.

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Timeline: Thailand's political crisis

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Reuters

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Political power vacuum forms in Thailand

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CNN

Obama pledges to work with governors

Plagued by rising unemployment, falling tax revenue and increased demand for state services, the nation's governors met with President-elect Barack Obama to press for federal money to ease their fiscal strain.

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CNN

Video games top gift list; retail sales rise

Families are still shopping and video games are at the top of lists. Experts expect retail sales to grow 2.2 percent over last year, but sales of video games could improve as much as 15 percent.

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USA Today

Study: WMD attack in US likely by 2013

The United States can expect a terror attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study briefed to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

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CBS News

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A 1958 Aston Martin DBR1 at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia. (Photo by Tom Mihalek / AP)	A Qatari girl looks to an Iranian lion at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Hassan Ammar / AP)	A crescent moon is seen as a plane flies over downtown Los Angeles. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes / AP)

NATION

Activist illegally moves homeless into foreclosed homes

Max Rameau is an activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He helps homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.

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MSNBC

Economy cripples Galveston's comeback after Hurricane Ike

After Hurricane Ike ravaged this Gulf Coast city, Galveston is struggling to resurrect itself amid a sour economy.

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POLITICS

At stake in Georgia's Senate runoff

A victory by underdog Jim Martin over Republican Saxby Chambliss would keep alive the Democratic Party's dreams of a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority.

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Time

With appointments, Obama moves beyond the campaign

President-elect Barack Obama put the rancor and even some of the rhetoric of the presidential campaign behind him as he welcomed his chief Democratic adversary into his cabinet.

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International Herald Tribune

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Interpreting Obama's Cabinet picks

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ENVIRONMENT

New fan-like coral found in deep sea

A new species of bamboo coral was thriving in veritable forests on the peaks of undersea mountains off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

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Discovery

Building trust tops global climate agenda

A push for a new climate-change treaty begins in Poland. Delegates are set to resume grappling with how much more to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.

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Christian Science Monitor

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Ron Wood says Faces reunion tour is 'ready to go'

Ron Wood has confirmed long-standing reports that the Faces are gearing up for a reunion tour. “We had a few fantastic rehearsals last week and we’re ready to go,” Wood tells Rolling Stone.

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Arrest made in Jennifer Hudson family members' murders

The estranged brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson was arrested for the October slayings of three of her relatives, police said.

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Estranged relative arrested in Hudson killings

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RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Churches in Muncie, Ind. join city to board up abandoned houses

The cooperative project was the brainchild of Stephanie LeBlanc, who had reached out to local congregations for help when she worked for the American Red Cross.

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Star Press

Pope to make rare visit to Israel following months of tension

Pope Benedict XVI accepted an invitation by President Shimon Peres to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2009.

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Ha'aretz

EDUCATION

Parent assignments required

An elementary school in Indianapolis treats parental involvement like homework. If a student's parents fail to meet strict expectations, their child can be shipped to another school.

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Louisville Courier-Journal

Going off to college for less

More American students are heading overseas not just for a semester abroad, but for their full degree program.

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“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

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GOOD NEWS

Oldest Holocaust survivor tells a story that's out of the ordinary

The 103-year-old traveled to Frankfurt from his home in Austria to tell his story at the world's largest publishing event. Engleitner, a former farmer from the Salzburg region, is a Jehovah's Witness.

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Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Zimbabwe cholera deaths near 500

A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed at least 484 people since August, according to the United Nations.

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BBC

India demands Pakistan hand over suspects in multiple terror attacks

India picked up intelligence that terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets, as the government demanded that Islamabad hand over suspected terrorists believed living in Pakistan.

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US warned India of potential terror attack

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Mumbai mourns attack victims

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BUSINESS

Selling cars in emerging markets

Mature vehicle markets may be close to saturation, but there is huge unsatisfied demand in the big emerging car markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

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Economist

Hand over militants, India tells Pakistan

India is renewing its demands that Pakistan hand over a group of wanted militant leaders suspected of plotting the attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 180 people.

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CNN

Bernanke says Fed may buy treasury securities to lift economy

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has “limited” room to lower interest rates and may buy up Treasury securities to help revive the economy.

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Bloomberg

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Bernanke keeps finding new tools

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Reuters

SPORTS

Lance Armstrong to race in 2009 Tour

Lance Armstrong will ride in the 2009 Tour de France, marking the first time he will compete in that race and the Giro d'Italia in the same year.

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ABC News

Plaxico Burress reignites issue of athletes and guns

Burress surrendered to authorities at a Manhattan police station. It's the latest twist in a bizarre shooting scandal that has set the tabloids aflame and re-ignited the issue of athletes and guns.

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CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Making an old brain young

New ways to manipulate neural plasticity — the brain's ability to rewire itself — could make adult brains as facile as young ones, at least in part.

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ABC News

Clean people are less judgmental

A new study to be published in Psychological Science reveals that when a person feels physically clean, he or she cuts others more moral slack.

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LiveScience

HEALTH

Mental problems in 1 in 5 young adults

Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life, and even more abuse alcohol or drugs, researchers reported in the most extensive study of its kind.

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CBS News

Report: Mass media harms kids

Parents and policymakers need to take action to protect children from being harmed by TV, the Internet and other types of media, a report says.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Government assistance linked to better child development

Extra government financial support of poor families boosts children's physical and mental development, a U.S. study concludes.

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A vendor sells fruits and suits at an outdoor market in Mumbai. Though scarred and traumatized by terrorist attacks, this crowded, hyperactive city of 18 million cannot stay shut down for long. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

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