Bush: US stands behind India in wake of attacks (AP)

AP - President Bush said Saturday the terrorists behind the deadly attacks in India “will not have the final word” and pledged full U.S. support “in the face of this assault on human dignity.”

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Obama fully backs Bush help to India after Mumbai attacks

By Arun Kumar, Washington, Nov 29 : Expressing full support for the Bush administration’s efforts to help India in the aftermath of ‘outrageous terrorist attacks in Mumbai’, President-elect Barack Obama has …

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Murtha: Fund diplomacy, not the Military’s AFRICOM

LANDSTUHL, Germany - More money should go to the U.S. State Department for U.S. efforts in Africa rather than to the military’s U.S. Africa Command, said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.

“They should use diplomacy in Africa rather than military,” Murtha said. “We can’t win these wars militarily. Nobody wants us over there. I think Liberia wants us. Nobody else.

“You can’t just throw money at it, and you can’t win it militarily. It has to be done diplomatically. So I’ve been trying to shift money and convince the people that make the decision on where the money goes that more money should go to the State Department for those kind of things.”

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Bush wants history to see him as a liberator of millions

George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

“I’d like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.

“I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values.”

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Bush discusses India with diplomats, security team (AP)

AP - President George W. Bush has held a secure video-teleconference at Camp David to discuss the attacks in India with U.S. officials in the region.

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Justice Stevens shows no signs he is ready to quit (AP)

AP - Only one Supreme Court justice was at Chicago’s Wrigley Field to see Babe Ruth supposedly point to the spot where he would hit a home run in the 1932 World Series.
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Bases brace for surge in stress-related disorders (AP)

AP - Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and psychological problems among those troops.

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US fears Pakistani role in India attacks (AP)

AP - U.S. officials are worried about a possible surge in violence between India and Pakistan after the bloody attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 195 people, including six Americans. To ease tensions, intelligence officials are searching urgently for clues that might identify the attackers even as Indian officials claim “elements in Pakistan” were involved.

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YouTube-star student rappers singing a new tune

The seventh-graders at Ron Clark Academy, a private school in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, are working on a new song detailing what they want to see happen under Obama’s administration.

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Liberal groups feel welcome again in Washington

Environmentalists, labor unions, civil rights advocates and others place their hopes on Obama.

For years, progressive groups and their causes have been in the political wilderness. Now, with Barack Obama preparing to take the White House and Democrats tightening their hold on Congress, the party’s liberal constituencies can see their way to a promised land.
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Junk-bond king among those seeking Bush pardon (AP)

AP - Some high-profile convicts past and present are among more than 2,000 people asking President George W. Bush to pardon them or commute their prison sentences before he leaves office.

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US fears Pakistani role in Mumbai attacks (AP)

AP - U.S. officials are worried about a possible surge in violence between India and Pakistan after the bloody attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 195 people, including five Americans. To ease tensions, intelligence officials are searching urgently for clues that might identify the attackers even as Indian officials claim “elements in Pakistan” were involved.

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A president named Obama changes the name game (AP)

AP - Zenas Ackah has heard it all his life: What kind of name is that? You must not be from here. You must be foreign. Actually, no. Born in the United States, the 22-year-old college senior with the Greek first name and the Ghanian last name grew up in Philadelphia.

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FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula (AP)

AP - Less than two months after federal food regulators said they were unable to set a safety threshold for the industrial chemical melamine in baby formula, they announced a standard that allows for higher levels than those found in U.S.-made batches of the product.

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Can Obama’s team of egos co-exist? (Politico)

Politico - Barack Obama’s picks for cabinet and other senior posts are many things: centrists, veterans, rivals. Most of all, though, they’re big: Big names, big intellects, and big egos.
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