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Atty. Gen. Mukasey collapses during speech
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/mukasey_collapses"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.5817c733348545039f6d187b8406b057.mukasey_collapses_wx108.jpg?x=130&y=108&q=85&sig=MWOOVrgy9pe_sv5WmGOvWA--" align="left" height="108" width="130" alt="In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007 file photo, Attorney General Michael Mukasey addresses the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, at the University Club in Washington. Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night, Nov. 20, 2008 and was being taken to a hospital. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" /></a>AP - Attorney General Michael Mukasey was hospitalized but conscious and alert early Friday after collapsing during a late-night speech to a conservative legal group.</p><br clear="all"/>
Obama plans to nominate Clinton for top diplomat
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_cabinet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.d42219f534c04eb9b70d7aff4a604367.obama_cabinet_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=6_haCdvC1iJY3aLJJHJMlA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="In a Jun 27, 2008 file photo Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., takes the stage with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at a campaign event in Unity, N.H., President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola/file)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency.</p><br clear="all"/>
Congress sends jobless benefit extension to Bush
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_co/financial_meltdown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081121/2008_11_20t181145_450x302_us_markets_stocks.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=1wwGgu4AA7ubdDVSt9voJA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 20, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush is about to ensure that millions of laid-off workers won't see their unemployment checks disappear as the year-end holidays approach.</p><br clear="all"/>
Report says CIA withheld info from White House
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_co/us_missionaries_shootdown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081120/capt.181462fa79d44df487d0825c5a4c8db5.us_missionaries_shootdown_dt101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FURI2XxmGlvDOshRc44d9Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Authorities inspect the wreckage of a Cessna plane after it was raised from the Amazon River in Huanta, in the Peruvian state of Iquitos, on April 26, 2001. A Peruvian air force jet which mistook it for a drug flight gunned it from the skies Friday. American missionary Veronica 'Roni' Bowers and her 7-month-old daughter Charity were killed in the April 20, 2001 attack. A classified CIA report on the 2001 shoot down of a small plane carrying American missionaries by the Peruvian air force suggests U.S. officials may have misled Congress and withheld information from the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Silvia izquierdo, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - The CIA withheld information from the White House, Justice Department and Congress about the 2001 shooting down of a plane over Peru carrying an American missionary family, part of a yearslong cover-up of lethal violations in U.S. drug-interdiction procedures, according to a classified internal CIA report.</p><br clear="all"/>
Obama plans to name Clinton to State
(Politico)Politico - President-elect Barack Obama is "on track" to name Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as his secretary of state shortly after Thanksgiving, two senior Obama aides said.
Dems delay auto bailout vote, seek plan from Big 3
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_bi_ge/congress_autos"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081120/capt.b9ab513591ff458caea05a804c80c248.congress_autos_dcgh120.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=GH5cwkw32FBv2.upLxxq5w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, accompanied by Senate Majority Harry Reid of Nev. takes part in a news conference on the auto industry bailout, with fellow congressional leaders, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)" border="0" /></a>AP - The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought by Detroit's beleaguered Big Three, collapsed Thursday as Congress drew the line at one more bailout and Democrats said they wouldn't even consider it until the companies produced a convincing plan for rebuilding their once-mighty industry.</p><br clear="all"/>
Disputed Senate ballots hold key to Minn. win
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_el_se/minnesota_senate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081120/2008_11_20t051806_450x300_us_moodys_probe.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=9Z11PlPJweD_zWu6b9He1w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senator Norm Coleman speaks at the second session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 2, 2008. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - A recount watchdog for Norm Coleman flagged a ballot because the voter put a check next to Al Franken's name instead of blacking in the oval. A Franken monitor challenged an apparent vote for Coleman because Franken's name was also marked. And representatives of both men invoked challenges because of marks elsewhere on the ballot that could make them identifiable.</p><br clear="all"/>
Obama records radio ad for Martin in Senate runoff
(AP)AP - President-elect Barack Obama has waded into Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff, recording a radio ad supporting Democrat Jim Martin, but there's still no word on whether the president-elect will make a personal appearance.
Judge orders release of five terror suspects at Guantanamo
(AP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_ot/guantanamo_detainees"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.b1e0070e337a4e2995b112ac02f97a76.aptopix_guantanamo_detainees_xbl102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hMpIe1KjyDTEHK3yXwMjnA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee, photographed through a glass window with a U.S military guard seen reflected on it, sleeps on a mattress on the floor of his cell, at the Camp 5 detention facility, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. A federal judge on Thursday, Nov. 20 ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in what is being called a blow to the Bush administration's policy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges.</p><br clear="all"/>
Calif. court to hear challenge to gay marriage ban
(Reuters)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/ts_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081120/2008_11_20t111449_450x318_us_gaymarriage_california.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=021Frbbpsqc.0.AKmxc88w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Supporters hold signs during a 'No on Prop 8' rally in West Hollywood, November 5, 2008. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime.</p><br clear="all"/>
US seeks tougher UN moves against Somali pirates
(AFP)<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/pl_afp/somaliapiracyshippingun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081120/capt.cps.ogu83.211108002714.photo00.photo.default-512x365.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=4Y2ZPqYlecc2tszGQruDig--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="The oil tanker MV Sirius Star is pictured at anchor on November 19, 2008 off the coast of Somalia. The United States is seeking support in the United Nations for a resolution to tighten international measures against Somali pirates, a US diplomat said Thursday.(AFP/US NAVY/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States is seeking support in the United Nations for a resolution to tighten international measures against Somali pirates, a US diplomat said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/>
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