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President-elect Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in Chicago, to announce his economic team.  (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP) Obama to outline budget cuts President-elect Barack Obama will outline steps to trim the federal budget as he simultaneously plans a costly stimulus package to jolt the ailing U.S. economy. Reuters Obama’s troika may push for deeper role in economy Bloomberg Obama unveils key economic players ABC News Experts aim to explain spike in Los Angeles hate crimes In 2007, the number of hate crimes reported in Los Angeles county, Calif., shot up 28 percent, while nationwide the incidence of hate crimes declined slightly. NPR New Orleans has highest US city crime rate Reuters   Fed: $800B consumer credit stimulus The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve unveil a new program to increase availability of such consumer credit as car loans, credit cards and student loans. CNNMoney Paulson unveils new credit plan MSNBC Bin Laden's driver to leave Guantanamo Osama bin Laden's former driver is to leave Guantanamo Bay for his home country of Yemen, where he will serve out the remainder of his sentence. Times Online Small banks upset with Citi bailout Wall Street might have been happy with the government's latest multibillion-dollar banking intervention, but many small community banks are asking for equal treatment. ABC News Asian markets soar on Citigroup rescue International Herald Tribune Blog: Why are we so mean to the car companies (and nice to the banks)? Time   NATION $846 million of Katrina aid unclaimed Nearly $850 million in federal aid for New Orleans homeowners and thousands of other mom-and-pop landlords are still sitting on a bureaucratic shelf. MSNBC Bush pardons 14, commutes 2 sentences President George W. Bush has granted pardons to 14 individuals and commuted the prison sentences of two others convicted of misdeeds, including drug offenses and embezzlement. ABC News Charity guilty of funding Hamas A U.S. court has convicted a Muslim charity and five of its former leaders of all 108 charges in the largest "terrorism" financing trial in U.S. history. Al Jazeera POLITICS Former Biden aide to fill his Senate seat Edward "Ted" Kaufman, a former aide to Sen. Joe Biden, was named by Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to fill the Senate seat Biden is leaving for the vice presidency. TIME Huckabee: how Republicans recover "People will forgive you for being a little left or a little right, but they won't forgive you for not taking them up instead of down." CNN Blog: GOP not out of the woods yet Politico ENVIRONMENT Unexpected rise in carbon-fuelled ocean acidity threatens shellfish The world's oceans are becoming acidic faster than climate change model predictions according to scientists who claim it will have a dramatic impact on marine ecosystems. Guardian Lightning warns of flash floods Intense lightning strikes could sound the alarm of an impending flash flood, researchers now say. LiveScience LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT McCartney: Talks to get Beatles catalog on iTunes stalled Talks to make the Beatles' catalog available on Apple's iTunes have stalled, according to Paul McCartney. Apparently the impasse is between the band's representatives and record label EMI. CNET News A history of museums, 'The Memory Of Mankind' If you add up the attendance for every major-league football game this year, the total is barely a fraction of the number of people who will visit American museums in 2008. NPR HEALTH New longevity drugs tackle aging History is littered with failed wonder drugs, elixirs of youth and miracle cures. But the research has gone from tantalizing curiosity to possibly foreshadowing human health care in the 21st century. Wired Smokeless tobacco alarms health officials They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like "frost" and "spice." MSNBC RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY He's young, tall, handsome — and a possible successor to Dalai Lama Give the magnetic personality and hunky good looks of a rock star to a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and the result might be Gyalwang Karmapa, the third-highest lama in the Tibetan religious firmament. Kansas City Star Evangelicals adopting Advent Evangelical Christians are adopting — and adapting — the rituals of Advent, the four weeks leading up to Christmas celebrated by Catholics, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox and other liturgical churches. USA Today   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Editorial: Economic advisers need a tough boss International Herald Tribune Editorial: A lifeline for Citigroup Economist Column (Alex Taylor III): GM: Death of an American dream Fortune Column (Alex Taylor): What's ahead for GM? CNNMoney Editorial: Has South Africa figured it out? International Herald Tribune Column (Gail Collins): Time for him to go International Herald Tribune Column (Mitt Romney): How to keep US carmakers on the road Times Online Editorial: Lessons from the Citigroup rescue Financial Times   Site edited by: Andrew McMillan, Orion McClure, Joe Gold, Lauren Thurmond, Jasmine Jernberg, Walt Chiu, Danny Bittker and Erin La Rosa.   GOOD NEWS Helping India's poor get a leg up The ICICI's mission: underwrite other nonprofit groups so they can provide microloans, insurance, and other banking and business services to the estimated 600 million Indians. BusinessWeek Blockaded Gaza gets some supplies Israel has temporarily re-opened a border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow in essential supplies of food. BBC WORLD Shots fired as Thai factions clash Antigovernment protesters all but blocked the highway to Bangkok's main airport and fired handguns and beat government supporters with metal rods in fierce clashes, injuring at least six people. International Herald Tribune Protesters fire on rivals BBC US intelligence 'kept files on Tony Blair's private life,' claims ex-US navy operator U.S. intelligence officials kept a file on former Prime Minister Tony Blair's "private life," a former U.S. navy communications operator claims. Guardian Baghdad bomb attacks kill 19 The attacks were the latest in a series of explosions in the Iraqi capital, where violence has fallen but insurgents can still stage large-scale attacks. Epoch Times BUSINESS Existing home sales fall, buyers sidelined Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell in October, with the median home price notching its biggest drop on record as tough economic conditions kept buyers on the sidelines, data showed. Reuters More Americans are delinquent on car, truck loans In yet another bad sign for the auto industry, car loan delinquencies rose in the third quarter, putting up to $22.9 billion at risk for banks and automakers who dole out loans directly to consumers. USA Today Nissan pulls out of the 2009 Detroit, Chicago auto shows Detroit Free Press SPORTS Vick pleads guilty to dogfighting charge Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, serving a prison sentence for federal dogfighting charges, pleaded guilty to a state dogfighting charge. Sports Network NBA and Globetrotters form partnership to market basketball globally The National Basketball Association and the Harlem Globetrotters announced a multi-year marketing partnership to raise the sport's profile around the world. Yahoo! News SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Blockbuster takes on Netflix with new set-top box Blockbuster said it would roll out a new digital media player offering fewer, but more recent titles than a six-month-old offering from rival Netflix. Reuters NASA extends shuttle stay NASA added a day to space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station, delaying its departure to give the crew time to fix a urine and sweat recycling system. CBC Astronaut invents zero-G coffee cup MSNBC EDUCATION Study: Some math teachers 1 chapter ahead of students Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Seattle Post-Intelligencer MBAs veer off banking to finance jobs in unstable times As recruiting season begins on business-school campuses, the collapse of major banks on Wall Street has many soon-to-graduate MBAs rethinking their post-graduate paths. Baltimore Sun   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT No mouth-to-mouth required You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing. In a major change, the American Heart Association said that hands-only CPR works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrests. 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