Finger-pointing begins as Senate nixes auto vote (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:16:30 GMT
AP - A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president.

Fed sees economic woes persisting into next year (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:05:19 GMT
AP - Pounded by a fierce financial crisis, the country is sinking deeper into economic despair and is likely to be in the hole well into next year, forcing more Americans into the ranks of the unemployed.

Calif. Supreme Court to take up gay marriage ban (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:17:36 GMT
AP - California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules.

President-elect promised change, picking insiders (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:17:09 GMT
AP - President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts.

Bush set to relax endangered species rules (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:19:24 GMT
AP - Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't pose a threat, under regulations the Bush administration is set to put in place before President-elect Obama can reverse them.

Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:20:36 GMT
AP - A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.

Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:34:46 GMT
AP - Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week.

Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:23:46 GMT
AP - King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The scientists found such paintings and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the ancient Jewish monarch was buried there.

Publicist: Paris Hilton and Benji Madden split (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:25:04 GMT
AP - Paris Hilton and her boyfriend of nine months, Benji Madden, have broken up.

Terry leads Mavericks to 96-86 win over Rockets (AP)
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:13:50 GMT
AP - The Dallas Mavericks didn't need Josh Howard as much as the Houston Rockets missed Yao Ming on Wednesday night.