• Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter • For Rivals, Finance Crisis Is Posing on-the-Fly Tests • Drug Label, Maimed Patient and Test for Court • After Impasse, New California Budget Agreement • California Bans Texting by Operators of Trains • Political Memo: Given G.O.P. Predicament, Rangel Opts to Ride Out the Storm • Panel Proposes Broad Changes in Federal Financial Aid for College • Chicago Unveils Multifaceted Plan to Curb Emissions of Heat-Trapping Gases • Vast Bailout by U.S. Proposed in Bid to Stem Financial Crisis • A Bid to Curb Profit Gambit as Banks Fall
• Recession blues play on • Obama taps Arizona governor for homeland security: report • Global stocks at 5-1/2 year lows • Prospect for auto bailout dims • U.S. pact can pass Iraqi parliament: minister • California court to hear gay marriage ban case • Woman posed as teen online in suicide case: attorney • Pakistan protests over U.S. missile strikes • Oil down a dollar as crisis crimps growth • Small businesses feel Wall Street's pain
• Key Economic Indicators Suggest Deep Recession • Auto Execs Remain Tone Deaf • Ariz. Governor Is Pick for DHS • McCain's Subdued Return • U.S. Troops Soften Approach
• President-elect promised change, picking insiders (AP) • Fed sees economic woes persisting into next year (AP) • Detroit automakers' rescue stalls in Senate (AP) • Recession fears send world markets down (AP) • Dems look to stop endangered species rule changes (AP) • Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away (AP) • China to overhaul battered dairy industry (AP) • Matthiessen wins National Book Award fiction prize (AP) • Ind. inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex (AP) • NFL reinstates Cowboy CB Adam 'Pacman' Jones (AP)
• Why Obama Wants Hillary for His 'Team of Rivals' • Is Mark Cuban Guilty of Insider Trading? • In Zimbabwe, Mugabe Clings On, But His Power Is Waning • BlackBerry Storm: The Novelty Wears Off Fast • John Boehner Talks About the GOP's Plight in Congress • As Somali Pirates Get Bolder, Policing Them Gets Tougher • Stressed Out Hong Kong: Now, More Stressed Out • Ford Might Be the Winner if the Auto Bailout Fails • Why the Democrats - and Obama - Forgave Lieberman • 'Saved by Zero': The Toyota Ad That Won't Stop
• Australian police to end restrictions on ex-Gitmo detainee • Rebels: No clashes in eastern Congo after pullback • Watchdog grpup hails Indian attack on pirate ship • Blast kills 1, wounds 29 at Thai protest site • Cheaper gas not shifting road habits • Family will be thankful for fun, healthy post-Turkey Day dishes • Young Ariz. murder suspect can spend holiday with mother • Economy hits immigrants harder than most • Pa. woman charged after FBI agent shot, killed • 2008 Professors of the Year prepare students for lifelong learning
• NYT: Daschle poses conflict-of-interest test • U.S. shifts its approach in Iraq • Senate leader calls off vote on auto bailout • Bush set to relax rules protecting species • Community colleges suddenly in spotlight • Ariz. Gov. Napolitano is pick for DHS • Calif. court takes up gay marriage ban • McDonald's courts moms as emissaries • Ex-Gitmo detainee to taste freedom • Obama pledged change, picks insiders
• Fed Expects Economic Crisis to Persist Well Into Next Year • Piracy Watchdog Wants More Pirate Sinkings • Daschle Tapped for HHS Secretary • Astros Head Out Again Vowing to Keep Tools • NASCAR Banks on Car Makers' Survival • Inside Summum: Free Speech and Mummies • Doctor Shrinks Boy's Grapefruit-Sized Hand • Babies: How Many Is Too Many? • Pharmacist's Rx: Give Kidney to Customer • WATCH: Sex Offender on the Run
• Mortgage Aid Programs Not Working • Stock Markets Plunge, Oil Trades Below $53 • Lieberman On Obama, Post-Campaign Politcs • Bush Set To Ease Endangered Species Rules • 2 U.S. Troops Charged In Murder Of Iraqis • Napolitano Eyed For Homeland Security Role • 2 Months Left: Bush Says Goodbye, Quietly • Australia Done Spying On Ex-Gitmo Detainee • Dead Teen's Mom Testifies In MySpace Trial • Gay Marriage Ban Challenged In Calif.
