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Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, pictured in the poster, converge on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact (Photo by Khalid Mohammed / AP)

Bush signs bill extending jobless benefits

President George Bush has signed into law a bill keeping unemployment checks flowing to jobless Americans through the holidays.

MSNBC

Intel: US power will fade by 2025

Analysts gazing into an intelligence-based crystal ball see a future world marked by dwindling resources, more people and diminished power for the United States.

CBS News

US global trends report: Key points

BBC

Analysts: By 2025, U.S. won't be top world power

NPR

Bush burned in effigy at Iraq rally

Followers of a Shiite cleric stomped and burned an effigy of President Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein five years earlier.

MSNBC

Cleric supporters protest security agreement

NPR

Iraqis protest against troop deal

BBC

Mukasey 'alert' after collapse

Attorney General Michael Mukasey is "conscious, conversant and alert" after collapsing during a speech in Washington, said a Justice Department spokesman.

ABC News

Special section:

Biography: Attorney General Michael Mukasey

CNN

Attorney General Mukasey collapses during speech

YouTube

Stocks open higher after steep sell-off

Wall Street is seeing some relief, with stocks opening sharply higher following a report that a pounded-down Citigroup Inc. might put itself up for sale. The Dow Jones is up 150 points.

ABC News

NATION

Congress sends Detroit execs back — with homework

With the choice of bailing out the ailing auto industry or letting it fail, Congress picked a brave third option: procrastination.

TIME

Calif. Supreme Court to hear challenges to gay-marriage ban

The California Supreme Court will revisit the issue of same-sex marriage, this time to decide between the majority's democratic will versus the rights of a minority.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Obama's cell phone records breached

Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said.

CNN

Obama team springs leaks during transition

MSNBC

Clinton set to be nominated Sec. of State

Senator Hillary Clinton is likely to be nominated for secretary of state after the Thanksgiving holiday, according to an aide to President-elect Barack Obama.

Bloomberg

Aide: Obama on track to nominate Clinton

YouTube

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart names Duke to be CEO

Wal-Mart says Mike Duke, vice-chairman of its international division, will replace Lee Scott as president and chief executive when Scott retires in February.

USA Today

Average gasoline price falls below $2, cheapest since 2005

The national average price for a gallon of gasoline has fallen below $2 for the first time since March 2005, the Energy Department and AAA say.

USA Today

Oil prices hovering at 3-year low

NPR

SPORTS

The Boss' reign is officially over

George Steinbrenner’s 35-year reign of pronouncements, threats and firings ended when control of the New York Yankees passed to his youngest son, Hal.

MSNBC

Bengals deactivate Ocho Cinco for game against Steelers

The Cincinnati Bengals deactivated receiver Chad Ocho Cinco for their next game against Pittsburgh for violating a team rule.

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

Researchers discover penguin still around 500 years after it went 'extinct'

Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that they believed disappeared 500 years ago.

MSNBC

Experts warn of severe global water shortages by 2080

Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warn.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

Texas Board of Education challenged over teaching evolution

Texas risks becoming a national joke if state educators insist on clouding the teaching of evolution, say scores of scientists, science teachers and concerned Texans to the State Board of Education.

Houston Chronicle

State education leaders urge financial education for all Maryland students

Public schools should consider financial literacy as a basic feature of K-12 education, according to testimony to a state task force studying how to improve financial literacy in Maryland.

MarketWatch

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (James Oakes):

What’s so special about a team of rivals?

New York Times

Blog:

Spirituality is—Self-Reflective Consciousness

National Catholic Reporter

Editorial:

Iraq boots out the Americans

Economist

Blog (Andrew Sullivan):

Modernity, faith and marriage

Atlantic Online

Column (H.W. Brands):

What Obama can learn from Reagan

NPR

Column (Matt Miller):

How to love trillion-dollar deficits

CNNMoney

Editorial:

Obama as 'science president'

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Mark Gilbert):

Who should be running US automakers?

Bloomberg

Column (Victor Hanson):

Failure is not an option

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

Tony Romo lends hand to homeless man

In a rags-to-riches story, a homeless man found himself being treated to the movies by multi-millionaire Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

FOXSports.com

2 children survive 50-foot plunge in van

A six-year-old girl helped protect her little brother when the van they were in began rolling backwards toward a cliff near their Toutle, Wash., home.

KGW.com

WORLD

Somali piracy: Islamic militants attack pirates over hijacked Saudi tanker

Fears were growing for the safety of the crew of 25 aboard the hijacked supertanker Sirius Star moored in Somali waters as fierce factional fighting and political violence erupted across Somalia.

Telegraph.co.uk

Elite troops needed in Congo