State

• Disgraced pastor returns, as Christian businessman

• 3rd lawsuit claims election-night police abuse

National

• Police: Wife shot and killed at New Jersey church

• Prisons beefing up teleconferencing to save money

• Thousands pick up free vegetables on Colo. farm

• Anthropologist, football star among Rhodes winners

• Recall information

International

• Shippers seek naval blockade of Somali coast

• Separate bombings in Baghdad kill at least 20

• Top UN delegation visiting Afghanistan

• Opposition makes gains in Venezuela vote

• Officials: Palestinian troops headed to Bethlehem

Politics

• Obama to introduce his economic team today

  • President-elect Obama rolling out economic course

  • Official: Richardson to be commerce secretary

  • Clinton prepares to relinquish independence

  • Obama taps passionate defender for press secretary

• The lessons of the 1979 Chrysler loan guarantee

ODD & Extraordinary

• It's a strike, a spare. It's turkey bowling

• We seek snitches, Albuquerque police want ad says

• N.Y. public toilets feature TVs, tuxedoed attendants

• N.Y. Christmas boat parade changes name, loses fans

• Man hopes jet pack takes him across Colo. gorge

• Nude pics in phone lost at McDonald's get online

• Ark. man sentenced for killing slow hairdresser

Science, Technology & The Environment

• Witnesses: Large meteor streaks across Canada sky

• Astronauts venture on 4th, final spacewalk

• Segway inventor touts island as an energy model

• Fuel from food? The feast is over

• Whales rescued from Australian beach join pod

• Solar panels on graves give power to Spanish town

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• 'Twilight' takes $70.6M bite out of box office

• Brown snags 3 American Music Awards; West wins 2

  • Chris Brown wants to duet with Madonna on new CD

  • Jonas Brothers hope to meet Kanye

• O'Donnell plucks teen from obscurity for TV movie

• Sheik's lawyer: Settlement with Jackson a secret

• Random House to digitize thousands of books

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