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Obama ready to commit US to specific emissions cuts
The White House said yesterday that President Obama will attend international climate talks next month in Copenhagen and commit the United States to a specific short-term target for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, providing new momentum for negotiations that had been faltering. (Boston Globe)
TV wanna-bes apparently
crash White House dinner
(AP Photo)
A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia crashed the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Joe Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. (By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, Boston Globe)
Rescuers working to free man stuck in Utah cave
SALT LAKE CITY - Rescuers chipped away with air-powered tools in a narrow tunnel yesterday to free a man trapped about 150 feet below ground in a popular Utah cave. (By Associated Press, Boston Globe)
Shuttle Atlantis, with crew of seven, leaves space station and heads home
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early yesterday and headed home, with one astronaut eager to hold his newborn daughter for the first time and another who has been away from her young son since the summer. (By Associated Press, Boston Globe)
Scientists get US funds to crack the turkey’s genetic code
WASHINGTON - If ever there were a candidate for genetic engineering, surely it is the pale, flavor-challenged bird that will adorn millions of American dinner tables as a matter of Thanksgiving ritual. (By Daniel de Vise, Washington Post)
New response urged to military suicide
NEW YORK - Since at least the time of Abraham Lincoln, presidents have sent letters of condolence to the families of service members killed in action, whether the deaths came by hostile fire or in an accident. (By James Dao, New York Times)
In health care debate, both sides being heard
WASHINGTON - President Obama’s top aides met frequently with lobbyists and health care industry heavyweights as his administration pieced together a national health care overhaul, according to White House visitor records obtained yesterday by the Associated Press. (Boston Globe)
No cash? Salvation Army takes plastic
COLORADO SPRINGS - There could be less jingle in the Salvation’s Army’s hallmark red kettles this season. The charity is testing kettles that take debit and credit cards. (By Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press)
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New Macy's Parade route means no cutting corners
It won't be just the balloons, marching bands and floats on display in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The laws of physics will also be on parade. (Associated Press Writer, 8:31 a.m.)
Calif. driver faints, crashes into parked planes
Police say a California man passed out behind the wheel of his truck, sending the vehicle crashing through a fence and into a row of parked planes at an airport in El Cajon. (AP, 7:51 a.m.)
The nation's weather
Wet weather was expected to turn into snow over much of the Northern U.S. on Thanksgiving Day as a system hovered over the Great Lakes. (For The Associated Press, 6:41 a.m.)
SKorea scraps decades-old sex law targeting men
South Korea's Constitutional Court struck down a decades-old law Thursday that had punished men for making false promises of marriage to engage in sexual relations with women. (Associated Press Writer, 6:11 a.m.)
Obamas plan quiet first White House Thanksgiving
The first family is spending the long holiday weekend in Washington. President Barack Obama has no scheduled events. (AP, 5:01 a.m.)
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