www.ft.com:
Democrats in the US Congress are pushing for a tax increase to pay for the Afghan war, amid rising expectations that President Barack Obama will dispatch tens of thousands of extra troops to the conflict. (Read More)
World-The Times of India:
US President Barack Obama has tentatively planned to announce the number of troops being deployed to Afghanistan in a speech to the nation on December 1, National Public Radio reported late Monday. (Read More)
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map New York City, New York, United StatesFor me, has always been not dared to spend at Gucci, on the one hand which is expensive, the oth (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Millions of people in the UK have samples on the national DNA database. Find out where they were taken• Get the dataIf you're arrested now, the chances are the police officer will swab your cheek with a cotton bud and send it (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Our first chance to see David Miliband in action after Hillary Clinton's confession of a deep and profound attractionIt was our first chance to see David Miliband in action after Hillary Clinton's confession of – if not love, (Read More)
SFGate: Crime Scene:
A federal judge in San Francisco said Monday that a law President Obama signed last month would probably change his mind about ordering refunds to hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who claim the United States overcha (Read More)
The Guardian:
Cheryl Cole's hair is the star of a new advert for L'Oréal. But is it sending out the wrong message to young fans?I'm not a Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells – I've never complained about anything before. But recently, after seein (Read More)
The Guardian:
Find Desperate Housewives a bit too highbrow? Try Eastwick – it's very simple, rather sweet, and the mountie from Due South plays the DevilFor the days when a walk down Wisteria Lane seems far too much like hard work, there i (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Public sector workers stage one-day general strike in protest at government cuts planIrish police officers will today man picket lines for the first time during a one-day general strike across Ireland in protest at the govern (Read More)
The Guardian:
SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who have already seen The Wire in its entirety. This week: Prezbo gets a shock, and Omar goes out for CheeriosThe Wire: the bookThe Wire Re-up: The Guardian's Guide to the Greatest (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Call me shallow (actually, please don't) but I think a good cover can be a significant component of a good readIt's official: the nation is in the grip of Naboko-fever. You can't open a newspaper, switch on the radio, or clic (Read More)
L.A. Times - Commentary:
Members of the scientific community are often seen as doubting Thomases, but the reality is more complex. Even Charles Darwin may have made room for God. (Read More)
L.A. Times - Commentary:
Parents don't have a right to get on a jet with unruly children. In fact, they're stealing from the rest of us. Alittle late in making tho (Read More)
New York Times:
President Obama’s ideas are good, but the warmth, cajoling and craft that make ideas more than that — especially in foreign policy — are lacking.
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New York Times:
The U.S. has the intellectual resources and expertise to lead in the development of clean energy. It just needs the will to make it happen.
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SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Joel West submits: Even the official spokesperson for American liberalism, the Gray Lady herself, admits that the US has a spending problem. From the front page (above the fold) of Monday’s New York Times:Federal Government F (Read More)
The Guardian:
Mark Tran profiles the six people conducting the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq warSir John ChilcotA former Whitehall mandarin, Chilcot is a Cambridge graduate who retired from the civil service at the end of 1997 after seven (Read More)
New York Times:
The Federal Reserve asked nine of the U.S. banks that were part of this year's stress tests to submit plans for repaying the government's capital injections, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg News. (Read More)
ABC News Video: Nightline:
A former aide to Senator Ensign talks about betrayal in the wake of scandal.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason to leave the country.Yet while the conventional wisdom has it that Palin i (Read More)