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Fire engulfs a part of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, as teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital. (Photo by Gautam Singh / AP)

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Dow gains for fourth straight day

Stocks surge ahead of Thanksgiving as Obama news and automaker strength boost stocks.

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CNNMoney

Thanksgiving travelers find gas much cheaper than last year

Gasoline prices in Texas and New Mexico are now more than a dollar less than they were at this time last year.

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MarketWatch

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Tough times for Thanksgiving travel

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CBS News

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Long lines, empty shelves are signs of times at food banks

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CNN

Over 50 rescued from Taj; 2 terrorists killed, 9 nabbed

Two terrorists have been killed and nine arrested inside the Taj hotel, but there is ongoing exchanges of gunfire. A little known outfit Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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NDTV

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US government, Obama condemnation of Mumbai attacks

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Reuters

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Westerners held hostage in Mumbai attack

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Terror continues in Mumbai

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MSNBC

FBI warns of al-Qaida attack on New York commuter trains

The FBI has warned New York area law enforcement of a "plausible but unsubstantiated" al-Qaida suicide bomb attack against the area's commuter rail systems over the holiday.

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ABC News

More colleges cap enrollments under financial stress

As funding craters at Cal State, the nation's largest university is capping enrollment for the first time in its history — and other state colleges could follow.

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TIME

NATION

Rain, quake prompt evacuations in Southern California

Officials in Southern Calif. issued evacuation orders for residents of a sparsely populated area in Yorba Linda after rain threatened to spark landslides in canyons denuded of vegetation by recent fires.

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CNN

New details about FBI's false start in anthrax case

A federal court unsealed documents that shed new light on why FBI anthrax investigators spent years pursuing the wrong man, Steven J. Hatfill.

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International Herald Tribune

POLITICS

Raul Castro says he'd meet Barack Obama at 'neutral' Guantanamo Bay

Cuban president Raul Castro says he would like to meet President-Elect Barack Obama on "neutral ground" — and has suggested that the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay would be the perfect spot.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Paul Volcker to head new economic recovery board

President-elect Barack Obama announced that he is creating a new economic recovery board, to be headed by Paul Volcker, who served as the chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 through 1987.

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CNN

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Obama's team so far

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BBC

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Obama: 'Old ways of thinking just won't do'

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MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Government backs off drilling near national parks

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced its decision after negotiations with National Park Service officials who objected to noise, lights and air pollution.

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BusinessWeek

Give a hoot, don't dilute

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the EU not to water down its climate protection goals in the face of a recession and called for a global deal on slashing CO2 emissions.

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Grist

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Milk: It's good, and good for you

Gus Van Sant and Sean Penn at the top of their form in a biopic of the martyred San Francisco gay activist, Harvey Milk.

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TIME

Ballroom blitz: Brooke wins 'Dancing With the Stars'

Bragging rights have been passed to Brooke Burke. It was the former model and Rock Star host who booked herself a solo spot after 10 weeks of quality performances.

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E! Online

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Dancing with the stars

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Entertainment Weekly

HEALTH

US finds melamine in baby formula

Health officials have found trace amounts of the chemical melamine in one sample of infant formula sold in the United States.

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Reuters

Keeping a healthy holiday balance

There are ways to minimize calories and still keep the flavor and fun.

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HealthDay

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Religion may help extend your life

Attending a weekly religious service, regardless of your faith, may lower your risk of death by 20 percent compared to people who don't attend services, researchers say.

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Yahoo! News

Disgraced pastor returns to public-eye, as a Christian businessman

Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill. The former superstar pastor, disgraced two years ago in a sex-and-drugs scandal, had returned as a Christian businessman.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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The death of the Indian dream

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TIME

'Made in USA' must make a comeback

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Rick Seaney):

Why airfare discounts have returned

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ABC News

Column (Daniel Schorr):

Present economic crisis echoes of 1932

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NPR

Reasons to be thankful in tough times

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USA Today

Column (Joe Klein):

Bush's last days: the lamest duck

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TIME

Column (Jonathan Freeland):

Team of rivals says much about Obama

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Guardian

Column (Robert Kaplan):

Buying in at the bottom

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Atlantic Online

Editorial (Les Payne):

Al-Qaida is wrong about Obama

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Newsday

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GOOD NEWS

Former South African addict helps others kick the habit – by surfing

Lenny Stolk started LJ's Surf Clinic this fall in Cape Town, South Africa. The clinic's goal is to help addicts get clean.

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Christian Science Monitor

Thanks to teen's compassion, even prison can't bar kindness

One teenage volunteer will be out on the Seattle streets delivering handmade caps, scarves and blankets to the homeless as she has for six previous Thanksgivings.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Thai PM Wongsawat rejects army chief's call for elections

The embattled Thai prime minister appeared on television to reaffirm his position as Thailand's leader and insist he would not step down.

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Guardian

Special section:

Timeline: Thailand crisis

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Al Jazeera

Purging history of Stalin's terror

Many archives detailing killings, persecution and other such acts committed by the Soviet authorities have become off-limits.

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International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

After backlash, CEO of Chrysler won’t take corporate jet to DC

Chrysler LLC says Chief Executive Robert Nardelli will not fly on a corporate jet when he returns to Washington for Congressional hearings on government loans for the auto industry.

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Detroit Free Press

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Chrysler CEO wants rivals to collaborate

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BusinessWeek

Fed risks ‘spitting in the wind’ with new aid pledges

The Federal Reserve’s new $800 billion effort to combat the financial crisis is designed to make credit more accessible to shaken consumers who aren’t sure they want more debt.

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Bloomberg

SPORTS

Thanksgiving college football lineup

Sneak peek of all college football matchups for your Thanksgiving vacation.

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ESPN

Rename Mets home Taxpayer Field?

Two New York City Council members say that Citigroup should show its thanks for a federal bailout by sharing the naming rights to the new Mets ballpark in Queens.

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USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Google integrates Earth-like controls in new maps interface

The Google Maps interface has been redesigned, putting ever greater emphasis on the Street View tool.

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BetaNews

President-elect Barack Obama wants BlackBerry on his team

The President-elect said in an interview that he's trying to talk the Secret Service and others into letting him keep his wireless device.

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EDUCATION

Darling-Hammond set to lead Obama education transition

President-elect Obama made the first significant education appointment, naming a prominent education researcher to lead the review of federal education policy.

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7 city schools face closure

District officials have said for months that closures of seven Seattle Public Schools buildings are necessary to make the best use of the district's limited resources.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Eco-fashion: Transforming everyday trash into treasures

Fashion designers use candy wrappers, newspapers and plastic bags to create trendy jewelry and accessories.

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CNN

Photo of the Day

A Christmas tree is seen installed in the Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin's Spassky Tower and Lenin's mausoleum in the background, in Moscow. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / AP)

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