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11/22/2008 08:09 PM
NYT: Clinton, Obama achieve détente

President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., on their way to a join rally in Unity, N.H., on June 27. Few are predicting that this new relationship will grow into a tight bond between the new president and the woman who will be the public face of his foreign policy, though some say it is not impossible. 



11/22/2008 05:38 PM
Democratic leaders want quick start in 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday at a news conference on Capitol Hill that Democratic leaders' intentions for the first week of Congress "will be to introduce a strong recovery package to create jobs, good paying jobs, in our country and to bring more confidence to the financial crisis — to turn around the financial crisis." Eager for a quick start, Democratic congressional leaders intend to begin work in early January on priority legislation so it can be ready for President-elect Barack Obama's signature shortly after he takes office, according to officials familiar with the plans.



11/22/2008 09:31 PM
Malaysian Islamic body bans yoga
Malaysia's top Islamic body, fresh from banning tomboys, issues an edict that prohibits Muslims from practicing yoga, saying that elements of Hinduism could corrupt them.
11/23/2008 01:20 AM
Investor fear remains deep despite 1-day rally

Traders Robert Oswald, left, and Daniel Lomeli work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. Wall Street ended a volatile week with an unexpected jolt of confidence following NBC News reports about President-elect Barack Obama's economic team.Since the Nov. 4 election, investors have been abandoning stocks in a kind of slow-motion crash that experts say underlines just how anxious they are about what is likely to be a long and deep recession.



11/22/2008 10:22 PM
Bush scores wins on economy, N. Korea

President George W. Bush addressed the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima, Peru, on Saturday. President George W. Bush snares international support on the economy and North Korea, emerging from his final world gathering with modest wins and growing nostalgia about his turbulent tenure.



11/23/2008 01:38 AM
New No. 2? Surging Sooners trounce Texas Tech

Heisman Trophy leader? Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford threw four touchdown passes in the No. 5 Sooners' 65-21 rout of No. 2 Texas Tech on Saturday night.Bradford, No. 5 OU make major statement; 'Bama last unbeaten BCS school



11/23/2008 04:01 AM
Bank regulator played advocate not enforcer

James Gilleran, former director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, listens to Sentators' questions as he testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on April 20, 2004. Gilleran was an impassioned advocate of deregulation.In the parade of regulators that missed signals or made decisions they came to regret on the road to the current financial crisis, the Office of Thrift Supervision stands out.



11/22/2008 11:39 PM
Obama's picks for economic team confirmed
President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary and Lawrence Summers to direct the National Economic Council, transition officials said.
11/23/2008 04:26 AM
One dead after shots fired in Wash. mall

Paramedics move a victim to an ambulance outside the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, Wash. on Saturday after shots erupted in the packed Seattle-area shopping mall. The incident followed an apparent argument between a gunman and two other young men and left one of them dead.Shots erupted in a packed Seattle-area shopping mall Saturday after an apparent argument between a gunman and two other young men, killing one of the men.



11/22/2008 07:50 PM
To save adopted girl, couple gives her up

Jennifer and Todd Hemsley at their home in Los Angeles. Like thousands of other would-be parents, the California couple went to Guatemala in hopes of bringing home a baby. Instead, they found themselves caught up in bureaucratic limbo.Jennifer and Todd Hemsley had to give up their child to save her.



11/22/2008 11:53 PM
Former Argentine official kills himself on TV
An ex-Argentine police commander committed suicide in front of rolling television cameras as he was about to be arrested for alleged human rights violations during the country's dictatorship.
11/22/2008 11:12 PM
Richardson leads short-handed Knicks to win

New York's Quentin Richardson celebrates a first-half 3-pointer against the Washington Wizards on Saturday.Quentin Richardson had 34 points and 12 rebounds in one of his best games since coming to New York, and the short-handed Knicks held on to beat the Washington Wizards 122-117 on Saturday night.



11/22/2008 09:20 PM
Iraq-U.S. pact under fire ahead of vote

Iraqis watch a televised debate in parliament on Saturday in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's parliament will vote Wednesday on a proposed pact that would allow American troops to stay in Iraq for three more years.



11/22/2008 09:20 PM
Army wife accused in arson that killed kids

Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, is charged with setting a fire that killed her two young children at her Fort Campbell, Ky., home. An Army wife accused of setting her apartment on fire botched an attempt to collect on her husband's $400,000 insurance policy when he survived and her two children died instead, a federal prosecutor said.



11/22/2008 06:05 PM
Immigrant's killing reveals tensions in N.Y.

The coffin containing the body of Ecuadorean citizen Marcelo Lucero arrives at Gualaceo, Ecuador, to be cremated, on Wednesday. Lucero, who lived in the U.S., was killed Nov. 8 in Long Island, New York, in what police called a racist attack. The case of Marcelo Lucero, who died Nov. 8, has once again highlighted the extraordinary amount of tension between white Long Island residents and the booming Hispanic population.



11/22/2008 09:31 PM
Player earns Rhodes, hustles to game

Back judge Tommy Pace congratulates Florida State safety — and new Rhodes Scholarship recipient — Myron Rolle after he entered the game against No. 22 Maryland late in the first half Saturday. The Seminoles won 37-3.Star hustles to plane after interview, arrives to play in rout of No. 22 Maryland



11/22/2008 07:19 PM
Man hanged in Iran for allegedly spying for Israel
Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, a judiciary spokesman said Saturday.
11/22/2008 02:42 PM
US hopes to develop bug-sized, flying spies

This photo, taken from computer animation video and released by the U.S. Air Force, shows the next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs. The MAVs could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?



11/22/2008 08:03 PM
Spacewalkers finish up long, hard day

Spacewalkers Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (at top) and Steven Bowen (seen in the lower half of the photo) work on different parts of a large rotary joint at the international space station on Saturday.Spacewalking astronauts completed almost all of the greasy repairs on a gummed-up joint at the international space station on Saturday, leaving just a few chores behind for another day.



11/22/2008 08:19 PM
Mom accused of burning 'wimp' into child
A West Virginia mother faces charges after being accused of burning the word "wimp" into her 6-year-old daughter's neck.
11/22/2008 05:56 PM
Co-founder of Slinky company dies at 90
Betty James, who co-founded the company that made the Slinky and beat the odds as a single mother in the late 1950s to become a successful executive, has died. She was 90.
11/22/2008 11:34 PM
Virtual audience appalls dead teen's dad

Nov. 21: A 19-year-old Florida man who committed suicide by overdosing, broadcast the incident on the Internet, where he was egged on by viewers who thought it was a hoax. MSNBC's Tamron Hall reports. (MSNBC)The father of a college student whose suicide was broadcast live on the Internet says he’s appalled by the virtual audience that egged his son on.