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Riot police inside Bangkok's airport after hundreds of demonstrators broke through police lines and spilled into the passenger terminal. (Photo by Wason Wanichakorn / AP)

Thai army chief urges government to resign

Thailand's army chief told the elected government to step down and call a snap election as a way out of a deepening political crisis.

MSNBC

Special section:

Timeline: Thailand crisis

Al Jazeera

In pictures: Bangkok clashes

BBC

FBI warns of al-Qaida attack on New York commuter trains

The FBI has warned New York area law enforcement of a "plausible but unsubstantiated" al-Qaida suicide bomb attack against the area's commuter rail systems over the holiday.

ABC News

Paul Volcker to head new economic recovery board

President-elect Barack Obama announced that he is creating a new economic recovery board, to be headed by Paul Volcker, who served as the chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 through 1987.

CNN

Obama expected to keep Gates on as defense secretary

Baltimore Sun

Obama: 'Old ways of thinking just won't do'

MSNBC

US provides huge new stimulus package for borrowers

The Federal Reserve and the Treasury announced $800 billion in new lending programs, sending a message that they would print as much money as needed to revive the crippled banking system.

International Herald Tribune

Can government keep spending? Most economists say yes

McClatchy Newspapers

Execs using private jets and perks

Obama said captains of industry on Wall Street and in Detroit who took corporate perks while their companies took taxpayers' money, have "no perspective on what's happening to ordinary Americans."

ABC News

GOP senators hail Obama's economic team

The Hill

NATION

Tough times for Thanksgiving travel

Americans will be heading out to homes of relatives from coast to coast. But thanks to a struggling economy, not as many people will be traveling this year.

CBS News

Welcome pilgrim: Plymouth, Mass.

CBS News

San Francisco considers congestion toll

Drivers could pay $3 to enter, leave or pass through parts of San Francisco during morning and evening commutes under a proposal designed to push motorists out of their cars.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

US staying silent on Iraq until after vote

The Bush administration has adopted a much looser interpretation than the Iraqi government of several key provisions of the pending U.S.-Iraq security agreement.

McClatchy Newspapers

Ex-first lady Barbara Bush hospitalized

Former first lady Barbara Bush will spend the night in a Houston, Texas, hospital after falling ill, according to a family spokeswoman.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

What's killing Florida's coral reefs?

The disaster in south Florida is invisible from above water but the damage is horrific. Hundreds of yards of sensitive coral reefs have been sliced through by boats in two incidents over the last month.

TIME

Reef damage revealed

WPBF

World mandate on climate action

An opinion poll in 11 countries has produced what organizers term a "global mandate" for action on climate change.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Ballroom blitz: Brooke wins 'Dancing With the Stars'

Bragging rights have been passed to Brooke Burke. It was the former model and Rock Star host who booked herself a solo spot after 10 weeks of quality performances.

E! Online

Dancing with the stars

Entertainment Weekly

Can Rosie revive the variety show?

The Rosie O'Donnell variety special on NBC is a sort of test pilot for a possible variety series, a form networks have tried to revive before.

TIME

HEALTH

US finds melamine in baby formula

Health officials have found trace amounts of the chemical melamine in one sample of infant formula sold in the United States.

Reuters

Hand surgeons perform fifth US hand transplant in record time

Hand surgeons performed the fifth U.S. hand transplant. The innovative procedure began around noon and was completed shortly after 9 pm in a record nine hours.

MarketWatch

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Disgraced pastor returns to public-eye, as a Christian businessman

Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill. The former superstar pastor, disgraced two years ago in a sex-and-drugs scandal, had returned as a Christian businessman.

Newsweek

US Vatican abuse case to go ahead

A U.S. federal appeals court ruled that a lawsuit can go ahead against the Vatican over claims it covered up decades of child sex abuse by priests.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Rick Seaney):

Why airfare discounts have returned

ABC News

Column (Daniel Schorr):

Present economic crisis echoes of 1932

NPR

Editorial:

Reasons to be thankful in tough times

USA Today

Column (Joe Klein):

Bush's last days: the lamest duck

TIME

Column (Jonathan Freeland):

Team of rivals says much about Obama

Guardian

Column (Robert Kaplan):

Buying in at the bottom

Atlantic Online

Editorial (Les Payne):

Al-Qaida is wrong about Obama

Newsday

Column:

For China and Taiwan, a welcome thaw

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Marc Gellman):

Saving a butterfly

Newsweek

Column:

The reverse wealth effect

Real Clear Politics

Column:

Tips for a thinner Thanksgiving

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

Thanks to teen's compassion, even prison can't bar kindness

One teenage volunteer will be out on the Seattle streets delivering handmade caps, scarves and blankets to the homeless as she has for six previous Thanksgivings.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US cancer rate-death rate combo drops for first time

For the first time since such statistics were released in 1998, the number of men and women in the United States getting and dying from cancer has dropped.

U.S. News & World Report

WORLD

Sunken 'pirate ship' was actually Thai trawler, owner says

Fourteen sailors are still missing from a Thai trawler that was sunk last week by the Indian navy as a suspected pirate ship, the vessel's owner said.

CNN

Hamas and Fatah women fist fight as disputes inflame

Flying chairs and punches thrown by women students at a Gaza university may seem a rather minor manifestation of the factional fighting that has riven Palestinian society over the past year or so.

Reuters

Brazil steps up rescue efforts for victims of record floods

The Brazilian government stepped up rescue efforts in the southern state of Santa Catarina after four months of record rainfall caused landslides and floods that have killed at least 84 people.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Consumer spending decreases 1 percent in October

As the financial crisis was gaining force, Americans cut back on their spending in October by the largest amount since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

ABC News

AIG praised for freezing exec salaries

AIG announced a salary freeze for its top seven executives, with the chief executive Edward Liddy agreeing to accept $1 salary for his work this year and next.

Financial Times

The credit crunch continues

CBS News

SPORTS

Den of ineptitude: Lions keep losing, threaten 0-16 threshold

There are two professional football traditions in Detroit. One is the annual Thanksgiving game. The other is losing. Both will be on display when the winless Lions host the 10-1 Tennessee Titans.

USA Today

Rename Mets home Taxpayer Field?

Two New York City Council members say that Citigroup should show its thanks for a federal bailout by sharing the naming rights to the new Mets ballpark in Queens.

USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

President-elect Barack Obama wants BlackBerry on his team

The President-elect said in an interview that he's trying to talk the Secret Service and others into letting him keep his wireless device.

NY Daily News

Superdirt made Amazon cities possible?

Long seen as myth, an ancient Amazon civilization may have been fueled by a man-made soil. Scientists are racing to recreate the recipe, which they say might fight hunger and global warming.

National Geographic

EDUCATION

Darling-Hammond set to lead Obama education transition

President-elect Obama made the first significant education appointment, naming a prominent education researcher to lead the review of federal education policy.

Education Week

More teachers less qualified in high-poverty schools

Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students, a study found.

Chicago Sun-Times

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