State

• Obama's victory leaves Ill. Senate seat in limbo

National

• 1 shot dead, 1 injured in S.C. mall parking lot

• Gay couples disappointed by Calif. marriage ban

• Rural Arkansas championed foster, adoption ban

• Work starts on new Pearl Harbor visitor's center

• This time, election system worked. But why?

International

• US to cut troop levels in Iraq this month

  • Blasts in Baghdad kill 4, wound more than 20

• Afghan official: Coalition strike kills civilians

• Rice off to Mideast as peace deadline looms

• Pope meets with Muslim scholars, urges better ties

• Mexico says jet crash likely accident

• China, after talks, strikes hard line on Tibet

• Russia to deploy short-range missiles near Poland

• Chavez eyes Venezuela's largest gold mine

Politics

• Potential Obama appointments draw keen speculation

• Calif. voters approve gay-marriage ban

• Democrats in Congress wary of overreaching

  • Pelosi weighs stimulus bill in lame-duck session

• Boehner to seek another term as House GOP leader

ODD & Extraordinary

• Teen compacted in Wis. garbage truck survives

• FBI: Airline passenger restrained with duct tape

• Jogger runs mile with rabid fox locked on her arm

• Man accused in cold-cut caper at Idaho store

• 3 tigers escape circus truck in western Mexico

• Alleged drunk driver thinks he's driving his car

• Baby Obama born in South Florida

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• 'Jurassic Park' author Michael Crichton dies at 66

• Madonna, Oprah, celebs react to Obama's win

• Liverpool rocks for MTV Europe Music Awards

• Jackson: It's weird Mac didn't see 'Soul Men'

• Vatican returns Parthenon fragment to Greece

• Lucci eliminated from 'Dancing'

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