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A search and rescue worker and her dog walk through the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, Calif. Several hundred homes at the Mobile Home Park were destroyed by a wildfire that raged through the community. (Photo by Matt Sayles / AP)

Senate Dems to decide Lieberman's fate

Senate Democrats are set to determine whether Sen. Joe Lieberman will be punished for supporting Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential bid.

ABC News

Lieberman may stay Homeland chairman, lose status elsewhere

The Hill

Afghan overture: behind Karzai's appeal to fugitive Mullah Omar

Afghan President Hamid Karzai shocked observers when he reached out to the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, offering him a guarantee of safety if he agrees to peace talks.

TIME

Cautiously, Southern Californians return to fire-ravaged homes

Many residents were allowed to return to their homes as calm winds and clear skies allowed firefighters to make gains on two Southern California wildfires that devastated 484 homes.

MSNBC

Wildfires Char SoCal

CBS News

Hundreds of homes destroyed in California

MSNBC

Pirates hijack oil tanker in brazen attack

Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker loaded with crude and a 25-member crew hundreds of miles off the Horn of Africa, the U.S. Navy said.

CBS News

Somali pirates living the high life

BBC

Life in Somalia's pirate town

BBC

Bush to leave part of bailout to Obama

President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will likely inherit responsibility for the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue package.

The Hill

NATION

Klan leader, former member ordered to pay $2.5M in Kentucky racial attack

The Southern Poverty Law Center says the Klan in the last few years boosted its membership by recruiting violent skinheads and neo-Nazis, trading in the noose for pipe bombs, white robes for army fatigues.

ABC News

The future if Detroit falls

The failure of the Big Three automakers would put a huge initial dent in U.S. manufacturing, but in time, overseas companies would pick up slack by stepping up production in their U.S. plants.

International Herald Tribune

A second crisis in Detroit: failing suppliers?

TIME

POLITICS

Obama, McCain meet face-to-face

President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain met for the first time since the election to talk about how they can work together on the country's problems.

CNN

Jake Tapper looks at McCain-Obama meeting

ABC News

Obama and the presidency

CBS News

Coleman and Franken fighting over the Minnesota senate recount

Weekend press conferences by both sides lobbed accusations against each other, declaring their opponents were undermining Minnesota's election integrity.

TIME

Kennedy reports back to work for Senate lame duck session

Sen. Edward Kennedy arrived on Capitol Hill, his first time at work since after he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Fox News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Box office bonanza for Bond

"Quantum of Solace" with Daniel Craig returning as James Bond for the first direct sequel in the spy franchise pulled in $70.4 million on its opening weekend.

CBS News

Springsteen’s new album due in January

Columbia Records confirmed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s "Working on a Dream" album will be released in January 2009.

Rolling Stone

SPORTS

Polamalu TD stricken from record; league to look at 'tweaking' replay

The first 11-10 game in NFL history shouldn't have ended that way, referee Scott Green said after a last-minute touchdown was errantly taken away from the Pittsburgh Steelers.

ESPN

Pete Newell: legendary basketball coach and teacher dies

Famed basketball coach and teaching legend Pete Newell, who led the Cal Bears to a national championship in 1959, died at the age of 93.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

College payday: presidents' salaries increased in 2007

At least one person on campus has done OK as the U.S. economy declined: Public university presidents' salaries climbed 7.6 percent last year.

BusinessWeek

Record number of US students study abroad in diverse locations

More U.S. students are studying abroad than ever before, and they're choosing an increasingly diverse array of destinations, a new report says.

USA Today

HEALTH

Group therapy may extend the lives of cancer patients

Psychological group therapy for women with breast cancer may help them not only cope better with their disease, but also live longer, researchers say.

ABC News

Health agency slammed for incompetence

When it comes to decisions that affect millions of people, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has become known as an uneven watchdog for health and the environment.

McClatchy

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GOOD NEWS

ShelterBox continues work in Pakistan

ShelterBox responded to a request for assistance just one day after an earthquake hit Pakistan.

HappyNews.com

Times Square getting 'green' billboard

This winter New Year's Eve revelers will have a close-up view of Times Square's first environmentally friendly billboard powered entirely by wind and sun.

Philadelphia Inquirer

New Year's Eve ball grows bigger and brighter

Design News

WORLD

Not a bad weekend’s work

The G20 meeting in Washington did not fix global finance, but it brought more than empty rhetoric.

Economist

Crunch time for Tibetan cause

Some 500 exiled Tibetan leaders meet in the Indian hill town of Dharmsala to discuss the future of their fight against China for their homeland's autonomy.

BBC

In Beijing, author treads fine line as she tells Tibet's story

Christian Science Monitor

Clashes shatter Congo ceasefire

Heavy fighting has broken out in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between government forces and rebels loyal to Laurent Nkunda.

BBC

Crisis in Congo

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Citigroup to cut 53,000 employees

Citigroup will cut another 53,000 jobs in coming quarters. Souring economies are leading the U.S. bank with the farthest worldwide reach to retrench.

MSNBC

On Citi's job cut

Financial Times

Stocks turn positive

The Dow Jones, Standard & Poor's 500 and the NASDAQ composite all pushed into positive territory more than three hours into the session, erasing losses of more than two percent earlier in the session.

CNNMoney

Japan's economy unexpectedly shrinks, confirming recession

Japan's economy, the world's second largest, unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter, entering its first recession since 2001 when companies cut spending.

Bloomberg

11 economies in decline

CNNMoney

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Moonwalker stomps on new space plan

"Having been deeply involved in this issue, it is clear that returning to the moon is the fastest and most cost effective path to Mars," said former Apollo astronaut and U.S. Sen. Jack Schmitt.

Space

San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eyeball with webcam

A one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam. Tech experts say it's possible.

NY Daily News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Children bullied because of faith

According to a study, people who are bullied because of their religious beliefs often begin questioning their faith, or even feeling ashamed of it. The bullying led many young people to self-harm.

Guardian

Texas pastor: Let's talk about sex

Thou shalt have sex and lots of it — that's the message one Texas reverend spread to his congregation as he challenged his married congregants to have sex daily for a week as part of a "sexperiment."

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Boulder, Colo.: first 'smart grid city'

Up to 50,000 homes in Boulder will get the latest in environmentally-friendly, energy-saving technology integrated into a monitoring system that reports the home's carbon footprint.

ABC News

Ex-Soviet bloc leads rises in greenhouse gas emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions in many industrialized nations are still rising, especially in the former Soviet bloc, despite agreements to cut back, said the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat.

Scientific American

Photo of the Day

Protegee shows how she used a mat to sleep on when she spent the night in a church between the east Congo villages of Kiseguru and Kiwanja. (Photo by Jerome Delay / AP)

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