National

• N.J. church shooting suspect captured in Ga.

• Jury gets case of woman accused of MySpace hoax

• Holy Land retrial ends in sweeping guilty verdicts

• Official: Bin Laden's driver heading home to Yemen

• Government plans new program to aid credit issuers

• GDP, confidence numbers expected to show decline

• Millionaires get farm payments; nobody checking

• Think Thanksgiving is tough? Cook for 4,400 mouths

International

• Pirates yet to set ransom for Saudi supertanker

• Britain begins national identity card plan

• Iraqi PM's deputies defend security pact with US

• Jail time dropped in Dubai beach sex trial

• 10 Taliban arrested in school girl acid attack

• Pakistan gets $7.6 billion loan package from IMF

• Report: N. Korea's Kim Jong Il tours soap factory

• Russian warships arrive off Venezuela's coast

Politics

• Obama promotes fiscal restraint, big spending

  • Obama using bully pulpit to tackle economy

  • Obama's tax hike for the rich may be delayed

• In Summers, Obama gets a lauded economic thinker

ODD & Extraordinary

• Man wins 2 vehicles in 10 days, Chiefs tickets

• N.C. carjacking suspect clubbed with frozen turkey

• Jet pack pilot flies across 1,500-foot-wide canyon

• Musical mystery: Who abandoned piano in the woods?

• Plenty of takers for man's basement pile of coal

• Men guilty of selling prosthetic for drug tests

• Man's idea to break Kan. ATM less than smashing

• Secret Santa strikes again on N.J. parkway

Science, Technology & The Environment

• Siberian quake triggers false US seismic reports

• Finally, urine recycler passes astronauts' test

Entertainment, Entertainers and the Arts

• 'Dancing' fans edge closer to season finale

• Alan Colmes is leaving 'Hannity & Colmes' TV show

• Springsteen offering free downloads of new single

• Here she comes, Miss America, to feed NYC homeless

• Negotiations to put Beatles on iTunes stalled

• 'Twilight' era dawns with $69.6 million opener

• Review: Penn mesmerizes in Van Sant's 'Milk'

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