Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:41:14 GMT
AP - President-elect Barack Obama named former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of statae on Monday, and announced Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush's Pentagon chief his own in the drive to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq.

Obama still looks for Iraq pullout in 16 months (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:39:32 GMT
AP - Barack Obama says the U.S.-Iraq security agreement approved by Iraq's parliament puts the U.S. on a "glide path" toward reducing forces there.

Pelosi hopes for stimulus bill by Inauguration Day (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:56:12 GMT
AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is promising Congress will try to have a huge economic recovery bill ready for President-elect Barack Obama as soon as he takes office.

Holiday shopping season off to a modest start (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:14:38 GMT
AP - The Thanksgiving shopping weekend may not have been the disaster some had feared, but unprecedented discounts and tempered buying likely resulted in overall soft sales as a buying binge on Friday quickly fizzled. Now, online retailers are ramping up deals to turn skittish shoppers into "Cyber Monday" spenders.

India clears bodies from last Mumbai siege site (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:59:40 GMT
AP - Soldiers removed the last bodies from the shattered Taj Mahal hotel Monday as India formally demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the 60-hour siege that left at least 172 people dead.

Palin campaigns in Ga.'s US Senate runoff (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:21:14 GMT
AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin implored Georgia Republicans to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his hotly contested Senate runoff, telling a cheering crowd Monday that the first step in rebuilding the GOP begins with the Southern state.

Manufacturing index drops to 26-year low (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:48:08 GMT
AP - A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity fell to a 26-year low in November as new orders dropped for the twelfth consecutive month, a trade group said Monday.

Sending spam in Israel could mean a big fine (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:44:20 GMT
AP - Israel has gotten fed up with spam. Anyone who sends out messages without receiving the recipient's consent can now be slapped with a big fine.

'Four Christmases' finds $31.7M in holiday cheer (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:20:01 GMT
AP - Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy "Four Christmases," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Giants WR Burress turns himself in to police (AP)
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:26:41 GMT
AP - Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station early Monday, where he was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.