U.S. official: India attack may have Pakistan roots (AP)

Workers put-up posters on wooden boards outside the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)AP - Evidence suggests that a group partly based in Pakistan carried out last week's attack in India, U.S. officials said Tuesday, and they also revealed the U.S. had warned the Indian government that terrorists appeared to be plotting an assault on Mumbai.



Ford asks for $9 billion line of credit (AP)

In this Nov. 19, 2008 file photo, auto industry executives, from left, General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner; Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Robert Nardelli; and Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the automotive industry bailout. Detroit's automakers, making a second bid for $25 billion in funding, are presenting Congress with plans Tuesday, Dec. 2 to restructure their ailing companies and provide assurances that the funding will help them survive and thrive.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)AP - Humbled and fighting for survival, Detroit's once-mighty automakers appealed to Congress with a retooled case for a huge bailout Tuesday, pledging to slash workers, car lines and executive pay in return for a federal lifeline. GM said it wouldn't last till New Year's without an immediate $4 billion and could drag the entire industry down if it fails.



Ga. Senate runoff could decide balance of power (AP)

Oscar Poole, of East Ellijay, Ga.,  looks over a campaign flyer as he waits for an election-night party for incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.,  to begin in Atlanta, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Chambliss is in a run off with Democrat Jim Martin. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Georgia voters had their hands on the balance of power in the next U.S. Senate in a runoff election Tuesday, one of two unresolved races that Democrats need to win to get a 60-seat majority impervious to GOP filibusters. Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss faced Democrat Jim Martin after a post-general election campaign that drew national political heavyweights from both parties.



Gates: Military looks to accelerate Iraq pullout (AP)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Gates said that U.S. and British citizens were the targets of the violent siege in Mumbai, although most of those killed in the city, the nation's financial capital, were Indians. He also said Tuesday that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, had gone to the region to meet with officials.  (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled a willingness Tuesday to forge ahead with two key priorities for the incoming Obama administration: accelerating the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention center.



Newly released Nixon-era memo shows aides dishing dirt on critics (AP)

President Richard M.  Nixon, right, walks with Melvin Laird in 1973. Documents released Tuesday,Dec. 2, 2008,  from the Nixon years shed new light on just how much the Nixon White House struggled with growing public unrest over the protracted war in Vietnam. A newly declassified memo to Nixon from Laird, his secretary of defense at the time, reflects just how much the administration felt and discussed public pressure -- even as it weighed U.S. geopolitical strategy -- in anguished internal debate over war policy. (AP Photo)AP - In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost.



Chained teen shows up at Calif. gym, 2 arrested (AP)

In this handout photo provided by the Tracy Police Department, the booking mug for Kelly Layne Lau, 30, is shown. Lau and husband Michael Schumacher, 34, were arrested late Monday Dec. 1, 2008, charged with torture and other counts after a bruised, terrified 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, claiming he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Tracy Police Department)AP - A husband and wife have been charged with torture and other counts after a bruised, terrified 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, claiming he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday.



Young doctors still too tired for safety, report finds (AP)

A doctor checks the blood pressure of a patient in downtown Los Angeles July 30, 2007. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)AP - Doctors-in-training are still too exhausted, says a new report that calls on hospitals to let them have a nap. Regulations that capped the working hours of bleary-eyed young doctors came just five years ago, limiting them to about 80 hours a week.



Coleman pleads no contest to disorderly conduct (AP)

Former child actor Gary Coleman exits his truck to enter court Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, in Payson, Utah. Coleman pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a September incident at a bowling alley in Payson, about 60 miles south of Salt Lake City.  (AP Photo/Deseret News, Stuart Johnson)AP - Gary Coleman has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a September incident at a bowling alley. The 40-year-old former star of "Diff'rent Strokes" was ordered to pay a $100 fine in a Payson court Tuesday. He also pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge, which will be waived if he doesn't have any other violations within a year.



DUI suspect drives off with fuel hose in tank (AP)

AP - The Nevada Highway Patrol says a drunken driving suspect in Reno was gassed in more ways than one. A 40-year-old Reno woman was arrested early Tuesday after an ambulance crew saw her driving on U.S. Highway 395 with a fuel hose and nozzle sticking out of her gas tank.

NFL suspends six players for doping violations (AP)

Minnesota Vikings defensive tackles Kevin Williams (93) and Pat Williams (94), shown during a break in an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers on Nov. 9, 2008, in Minneapolis, were among six NFL players suspended for four games each for violating the league's anti-doping policy. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy. All six were punished for using a diuretic, which can serve as a masking agent for steroids.



Detroit bailout plans make their way to Congress (Reuters)

New trucks are displayed for sale at a Ford dealership in Encinitas, California in this November 11, 2008 file photo. (Mike Blake/Reuters)Reuters - Distressed U.S. automakers began submitting plans to Congress on Tuesday as they tried to show that they have a viable future and deserve federal aid, while new reports showed that vehicle sales continued their freefall in November.



Georgia votes in key Senate run-off election (Reuters)

Incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss reacts as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin addresses the crowd during a rally in Duluth, Georgia December 1, 2008. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)Reuters - The state of Georgia voted in a run-off election for U.S. Senate on Tuesday that will help decide whether Democrats gain a big enough majority in the chamber to more easily pass their legislation agenda.



Rice flies to India to ease tension with Pakistan (Reuters)

Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, of the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement, in an undated photo. (Chabad.org/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was flying to New Delhi on Tuesday to try to ease tension between India and Pakistan that has surged over the Mumbai attacks and put at risk U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region.



Obama pledges to help states weather recession (Reuters)

President-elect Barack Obama shakes hands with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger during a bipartisan meeting with members of the National Governors Association at Congress Hall in Philadelphia, December 2, 2008. (Jeff Haynes/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama pledged on Tuesday to help state governors cope with a deepening recession and asked for their help in crafting a huge stimulus package to create jobs and tackle the crumbling economy.



Pentagon chief Gates backs Obama Iraq policy (Reuters)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates points during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington December 2, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who will stay on under Barack Obama, said on Tuesday he supported the president-elect's Iraq policy but declined to back his proposed timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.



Clinton for a Clinton? Senate guessing game begins (Reuters)

Senator Hillary Clinton along with daughter Chelsea (L) and husband former President Bill Clinton (C) speaks to supporters at her North Carolina and Indiana primary election night rally in Indianapolis, Indiana, May 6, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)Reuters - New York Gov. David Paterson has famous names to choose from in picking a replacement for Sen. Hillary Clinton, including a Kennedy, a Cuomo and even another Clinton, as in the former president of the United States.



NATO agrees cautious re-warming of Russia ties (Reuters)

France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner holds a news conference during a NATO foreign ministers meeting at Alliance headquarters in Brussels December 2, 2008. (Yves Herman/Reuters)Reuters - NATO agreed on Tuesday to gradually resume contacts with Russia suspended after Moscow's intervention in Georgia, and put off a decision on putting Ukraine and Georgia on formal membership tracks.



Oil drops 4.7 percent, down $100 from record (Reuters)

David Roseboro fills up his pickup truck at a gas station in Charlotte, North Carolina September 29, 2008. (Chris Keane/Reuters)Reuters - Oil prices fell nearly 5 percent to below $47 a barrel on Tuesday, down $100 from their peak, driven down by a gloomy economic outlook and news that OPEC made only two-thirds of its pledged supply cuts in November.



Thai protests to end after court ousts govt (AFP)

An anti-government protester was killed and 22 wounded in a grenade attack at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok. Thai anti-government activists have agreed to end protests that have paralysed Bangkok's airports, after a court stripped Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat of his post and outlawed the ruling party.(AFP/Str)AFP - Thai anti-government activists on Tuesday agreed to end protests that have paralysed Bangkok's airports, after a court stripped Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat of his post and outlawed the ruling party.



Pakistan offers 'joint investigation' into Mumbai attacks (AFP)

An Indian paramilitary force soldier walks past as workers put up a banner outside the Taj Mahal hotel, the site of one of the terror attacks - in Mumbai. Pakistan offered Tuesday to work hand-in-hand with India to track down those responsible for the Mumbai attacks but declined to respond immediately to a demand that it hand over 20 terrorist suspects.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Pakistan offered Tuesday to work hand-in-hand with India to track down those responsible for the Mumbai attacks but declined to respond immediately to a demand that it hand over 20 terrorist suspects.




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