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Maine man charged with stealing ATM from store
AP – Mon Nov 30, 10:13 am ET

SCARBOROUGH, Maine - Maine police say a man took a cash machine from inside a convenience store and drove off with it in the back of a stolen pickup truck. Full Story »
Obama to detail big troop increase in Afghanistan
AP – 41 mins ago

Reuters

WASHINGTON - After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at least one group of Marines who will be in place by Christmas. Full Story »
China gives hint of what to expect at Copenhagen
AFP – Mon Nov 30, 12:19 pm ET

AFP

NANJING, China (AFP) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday sought to reassure the EU that China shared its environmental concerns, a week ahead of the global conference on climate change in Copenhagen. Full Story »
Tiger Woods issues statement on crash
AP – Mon Nov 30, 3:30 am ET

AFP/File

Tiger Woods, who crashed his car into a neighbor's tree early Friday morning, released the following statement Sunday afternoon on his Web site. Full Story »
Tiger Woods withdraws from tournament, not talking
Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 5:56 pm ET

Reuters

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods pulled out of a golf tournament this week, the latest fall-out from a minor car accident that has left a swirl of mystery and a hint of scandal around the world's top golfer and pushed him into full damage control. Full Story »
World's largest atom smasher breaks power record
AP – Mon Nov 30, 11:12 am ET

AP

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher broke the world record for proton acceleration Monday, firing particle beams with 20 percent more power than the American lab that previously held the record. Full Story »
Worries that Dubai washing its hands of debt woes
AP – Mon Nov 30, 6:01 pm ET

AP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - If global investors were looking for reassurances from Dubai that it would stand behind its massive, debt-swamped investment conglomerate, they got none Monday. Instead, the Gulf city-state seemed to wash its hands of the financial woes that have rattled world markets. Full Story »
The dangers of revolutionary right-wing rhetoric
The Christian Science Monitor – Fri Nov 27, 4:00 am ET

Wilmington, N.C. - Few places have deeper scars from violent invective and verbal incitement than this North Carolina city where people still speak in whispers, embarrassed by the events of Nov. 10, 1898. Wilmington is tragic testament to the fact that social progress is not inevitable and that, left unchallenged, hateful speech and words frequently morph into violence. Full Story »
Wash. shooting re-opens Huckabee's clemency record
AP – 41 mins ago

AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predecessors combined. Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in Sunday's slaying of four Seattle-area police officers, was among them. Full Story »
Clinton daughter, Chelsea, engaged to be married
AP – Mon Nov 30, 6:16 pm ET

AP

NEW YORK - Turns out those discredited rumors of a possible Chelsea Clinton wedding last summer were mostly just premature: The 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, 31-year old investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. Full Story »
Iran enrichment plans largely bluster, experts say
AP – 41 mins ago

AP

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N.'s nuclear agency, analysts said Monday. Nonetheless, the defiance is fueling calls among Western allies for new punitive sanctions to freeze Iran's nuclear program. Full Story »
Emotions high, Senate opens partisan health debate
AP – 41 mins ago

AP

WASHINGTON - Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans have sworn to block. Full Story »
Rome taxis seek to wipe out tourist scams
Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 3:45 pm ET

Reuters

ROME (Reuters Life!) - Rome's largest taxi cooperative is trying to improve the bad name of the city's cabbies, notorious among tourists to one of the world's best loved cities. Full Story »
7 stories Obama doesn't want told
Politico – Mon Nov 30, 5:45 am ET

AFP/File

Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds. Full Story »
Dalai Lama urges world to act on climate change
AP – Mon Nov 30, 12:40 am ET

SYDNEY - The world's leaders must prioritize the issue of global warming above all else, the Dalai Lama said Monday, adding that he feels encouraged by next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen. Full Story »
Williams fined record $82,500 for US Open tirade
AP – Mon Nov 30, 5:56 pm ET

AP

Serena Williams was fined a record $82,500 for her tirade at a U.S. Open line judge and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another "major offense" at any Grand Slam in the next two years. Full Story »
Russian patriarch seeks "powerful reply" to train bomb
Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 9:02 am ET

AFP/File

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's Orthodox Church Sunday called on authorities to give a "powerful reply" to the people behind a train bombing that killed 25 people, as police probed whether Islamist rebels were involved. Full Story »
Shoppers already whetting holiday appetite online
Reuters – Sun Nov 29, 7:17 pm ET

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Holiday shopping online hit a record for Black Friday, several days before the retail industry-coined Cyber Monday gets underway, as more consumers said they used the web to seek deals. Full Story »