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Bush’s last rule-making hurrah
(The Yahoo! Newsroom)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl158"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081121/capt.cps.ogy50.211108151554.photo00.photo.default-385x504.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=FXCx_mMJ4KoWnusLRDTzyw--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="US President George W. Bush, seen here boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, headed to an Asia-Pacific summit in Peru to work on progress in dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs and seek a more united front on the global economic meltdown.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>The Yahoo! Newsroom - In recent days, the Bush administration announced new rules to speed oil shale development across 2 million rocky acres in the West. It scheduled an auction for drilling rights alongside three national parks. It has also set in motion processes to finalize major changes in endangered species protection, allow more mining waste to flow into rivers and streams, and exempt factory farms from air pollution reporting.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Geithner likely treasury pick; Clinton 'on track'
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_cabinet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.c6f52dea0e134578acb248c8bcbb573f.obama_cabinet_ny142.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=MpmHH4kUyMPHpGX6I6PU8Q--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="In this Oct. 15, 2008 file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, right, listens to Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, before speaking at the Economic Club of New York. President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation's intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Mukasey returns to work after collapse
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mukasey_collapses"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.c15c750e79ef43ceb404fe58fead3ae8.mukasey_dckw101.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=blp3mRelCOI82QoZLrz1uA--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="Attorney General Michael Mukasey leaves George Washington University Hospital in Washington, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)" border="0" /></a>AP - With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a speech the night before and spurring a 14-hour scare about his health.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience
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| AP - A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home — a scene also captured on the Internet — it was too late.
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4 Marines plead not guilty to murdering colleague
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| AP - Four Camp Pendleton-based Marines, including one known as "Psycho," have pleaded not guilty in the execution-style slayings of a fellow Marine and his wife.
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GM to return two leased jets amid criticism
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_gm"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081121/2008_11_21t102046_450x312_us_gm.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=07yeiS8Oswae2EGiV3YGqA--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="G. Richard Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors, responds to a question while testifying before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in a hearing on 'Examining the State of the Domestic Automobile Industry,' on Capitol Hill in Washington November 18, 2008. (Molly Riley/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - General Motors Corp will return two of its leased corporate jets amid intense criticism in Washington this week on the luxury travel arrangements of its chief executive even as the company pleads for federal aid.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Amsterdam moves to close a fifth of 'coffee shops'
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_netherlands_marijuana"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.99ce09cf4fc14014bd5dfe5b157164ca.netherlands_marijuana_ams101.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=rxXenj047Z6ByKBzkXXFwg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="In this Sept. 24, 2004 file photo, a tourist smokes marijuana at a coffeeshop called 'de Dampkring' or 'Atmosphere', in the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Authorities in Amsterdam say on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, they plan to close nearly one-fifth of the city's famous marijuana cafes because they are located too close to schools. The city says it wants to close 43 coffeeshops but at the same time has urged the government to regulate and tolerate the growers that supply the ones that remain. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Amsterdam will close almost a fifth of its marijuana cafes to comply with a national ban on having them near schools, the mayor said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Clinton accepts Obama secretary of state offer: NY Times
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_obama_clinton"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081121/2008_11_21t153240_450x315_us_usa_obama_clinton.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=aZOJJCBqBbe_iUzOn4.6sw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton attend a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida, in this file image from October 20, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has accepted an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to become U.S. secretary of state, joining her former Democratic rival to help guide U.S. foreign policy, the New York Times said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.bfcaaa46a187491ebcdbfb47f3e285a2.aptopix_iraq_protest_bag109.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ebWS3kOjLf0K4lPfHiPtPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn the American flag as thousands converge at Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)" border="0" /></a>AP - Chanting "no to America," supporters of a radical Shiite cleric burned an effigy of President George W. Bush Friday in a protest demanding parliament scuttle a U.S.-Iraqi security pact and American troops begin withdrawing from Iraq immediately.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Prosecutor who had Cheney indicted yells at judge
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cheney_indicted"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081119/capt.dc57f11f5373435893a33f24a239dbb7.cheney_indicted_nyol915.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=oG51KUBLA2isAwwKZtc9yw--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, left, and Vice President Dick Cheney are shown in this 2006 file photo at the White House. Cheney and Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge Manuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Model Karolina Kurkova voted world's sexiest woman
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_sexiest_women_e"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081121/2008_11_20t230753_306x450_us_sexiest_women_e.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=RpXxYzBeTHx4KUhsAFkc4g--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Model Karolina Kurkova poses as she arrives at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards show in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 18, 2008. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Daughter defends mother in Internet hoax trial
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/internet_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081118/capt.ec1f1d74e4854d60a7b73ed3919a1116.internet_suicide_carf101.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=bvqkH0AZJ_nHhNI.Q6MsXQ--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="Lori Drew walks to federal court Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, in Los Angeles. Drew has pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing computers without authorization. She is accused of helping create a false-identity account on the the MySpace social networking site then posing as a teenage boy and befriending a 13-year old girl who later committed suicide. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Missouri woman's daughter says her mother had wanted an Internet account shut down even before cruel messages were sent from it to a teenage neighbor who later committed suicide.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/safe_haven"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.347b19844d694e6b9d71922b82dfd93a.safe_haven_nebw103.jpg?x=130&y=104&q=85&sig=XMSt8L5wSZunldyjOIOgUA--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Nebraska lawmakers Tom Carlson, left, of Holdrege, Lowen Kruse of Omaha, John Wightman of Lexington, and Norm Wallman of Cortland visit briefly Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, on the floor of the legislature just before the final vote of LB1, which puts a 30-day age limit on children who can be dropped off at Nebraska hospitals under the safe haven law. The bill easily passed 43-5. (AP Photo/Bill Wolf)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the Legislature in a 45-3 vote, goes into effect Saturday, and makes Nebraska the 14th state with a 30-day age cap. It had been the only state with a safe-haven law without an age limit.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Myanmar court hands comedian 45-year prison term
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_myanmar_dissidents"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.eb3647a1e2ea41c4b1a53db082ecaa17.myanmar_dissidents_lon104.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=2X7SndTitbfz2UYBy9dTWQ--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="In this Sept. 24, 2007 file photo, Myanmar comedian Zarganar, who uses only one name, is seen joining a street protest in Yangon, Myanmar. Courts in military-ruled Myanmar handed long prison sentences Friday Nov. 21 2008, to a prominent Buddhist monk and a popular comedian who are active in the country's pro-democracy movement, rounding out two weeks of an intensive judicial crackdown on activists. Comedian and activist Maung Thura — who is better known by his stage name, Zarganar — was sentenced to 45 years imprisonment for violations of the Electronics Act, which regulates all forms of electronic communication, said his lawyer, Khin Htay Kywe. (AP Photo, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Myanmar's courts continued a crackdown on activists Friday, handing out a 45-year prison sentence to a comedian who went to the delta to help cyclone victims and criticized the junta's slow relief response.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Bulgarian archaeologists unearth ancient chariot
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_bulgaria_ancient_chariot"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081121/capt.cps.ogz50.211108173204.photo00.photo.default-512x344.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=OSbZB7jmsgyIDXo1p8DiXg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Bulgarian archaeologists work near a Thracian bronze chariot discovered near the village of Karanovo. A bronze chariot dating back to the second century AD has been unearthed in a Thracian burial mound in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Friday.(AFP/BGNES)" border="0" /></a>AP - Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The lavishly ornamented four-wheel chariot dates back to the end of the second century A.D.," Veselin Ignatov told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the site, near the southeastern village of Karanovo.</p><br clear="all"/>
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Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/space_tourism_lawsuit"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20081120/i/ra3827476721.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=zm1EN429JfiLsIAOO1kpmw--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Astronaut Shane Kimbrough relocates one of the two Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) carts while attached to the International Space Station's robot arm in this view from NASA TV November 20, 2008. REUTERS/NASA TV" border="0" /></a>AP - Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds."</p><br clear="all"/>
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Where Would You Relocate for a Job?
(BusinessWeek Online)
| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/nov2008bw20081120631419"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081025/capt.ded5b85c2e2a44258a249742c4947240.zeppelin_tours_caer101.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=CzZEHSp8DGGm3Z5CHADBkw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="The Air Ventures Zeppelin flies over the Golden Gate Bridge to complete its cross-country transit flight with the San Francisco skyline in the background in this view from the Marin Headlands above Sausalito, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. The airship, one of only three currently flying anywhere in the world, is the first Zeppelin to fly in the skies over the U.S. in 71 years. Passenger service on the airship will begin next week at nearby Moffett Field. At right the airship is greeted by the fire boat Phoenix.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)" border="0" /></a>BusinessWeek Online - Imagine you were offered a dream job that required you to relocate to your favorite city. Which city would it be? And why?</p><br clear="all"/>
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China: 19,000 victims identified from May quake
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| AP - A little over a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May have been identified, a Chinese official said Friday, as authorities rushed to prepare stricken areas for the coming winter.
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Economy Hitting Women Hardest, Say Experts
(OneWorld.net)
| OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (OneWorld) - Women are being disproportionately affected by the U.S. mortgage crisis and economic plunge, said a panel of women leaders Wednesday, urging a strong woman-focused response from the federal government.
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Buffett says automakers need bailout or bankruptcy
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| <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/buffett_economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081120/2008_11_19t161440_450x288_us_berkshire_shares.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=Eqx27cr2RixdXjDCE7X8XQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, takes part in a conversation on leadership and the economy at The Women's Conference 2008 in Long Beach, California in this October 22, 2008 file photo. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says U.S. automakers need a new business model to better compete, whether it takes bankruptcy or a government bailout to achieve.</p><br clear="all"/>
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