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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   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   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Column: Obama's complete sentence controversy Huffington Post Editorial: Launching Hillary at the world Economist Column (E.J. Dionne): The post-Obama GOP New Republic Column (Ross Douthat): Presidents and heretics Atlantic Online Column (Anna Quindlen): Gay marriage: inevitable in the long run Newsweek Editorial: Secretary of State Clinton? Investor's Business Daily Editorial: No more free lunches San Diego Union-Tribune Column: Should Obama chase Osama? Salon.com   Site edited by: Zahra Jaferi, Erin La Rosa, Jasmine Jernberg, Max Miller, Joe Gold, Danny Bittker, Tom Moran, Walt Chiu, Carlos Wall, Chris Yu and Andrew McMillan.   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. 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