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• Pope's remarks on condoms sow widespread confusion (AP)
• Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial (AP)
• Conservatives at odds with Vatican over condoms (AP)
• Indiana: Obama Touts Successes of His Economic Policies (Time.com)
• TSA Chief Faces Outrage as He Defends Screening Procedures (Time.com)
• US jury convicts Somalis as pirates in Navy attack (AP)
• Airport protest never takes off, few delays seen (AP)
• Lawyer: Emanuel broke Chicago mayor residency rule (AP)
• Boeing: Foreign debris probably sparked 787 fire (AP)
• Holocaust survivors deal with purported $42M fraud (AP)
• Powerful storm to bring snow, ice to the Dakotas (AP)
• Economic data reveal a hint of consumer merriness (AP)
• For disabled, airport security hassles are old hat (AP)
• Shuttle Discovery's last flight over Christmas? (AP)
• Fire at Ohio home where 3 were slain ruled arson (AP)
• Judge reaches out to holdouts in 9/11 health suit (AP)
• NJ sex offender admits lying to get Census job (AP)
• Judge hears challenge to Conn. death sentence (AP)

Pope's remarks on condoms sow widespread confusion (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:05 PM PST AP - Some Roman Catholics are confused. Some are angry. Others just don't believe the pope meant what it seems he said.

Jury convicts Tom DeLay in money laundering trial (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:04 PM PST AP - Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress — was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.

Conservatives at odds with Vatican over condoms (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:00 AM PST AP - Faced with a changing outlook from Pope Benedict XVI on condoms and their role in preventing the spread of HIV, many prominent conservative Roman Catholics in the U.S. are rejecting the Vatican's own explanation of what the pope said.

Indiana: Obama Touts Successes of His Economic Policies (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:15 AM PST Time.com - Two years after Obama became the first Democrat in four decades to capture the Hoosier State's electoral votes, Indiana was at the heart of the Republican landslide in the midterm elections

TSA Chief Faces Outrage as He Defends Screening Procedures (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:15 AM PST Time.com - With the holiday-travel crunch looming and outrage over his agency's stringent new airport-screening procedures nearing a boil, TSA chief John Pistole is doing his best to defend the program

US jury convicts Somalis as pirates in Navy attack (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:07 PM PST AP - Five Somali men accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa's coast were convicted Wednesday on federal piracy charges in what the government said was the first piracy conviction in a U.S. courtroom in nearly 200 years.

Airport protest never takes off, few delays seen (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:05 PM PST AP - The big Opt-Out looked like a big bust Wednesday as most of the Thanksgiving travelers selected for full-body scans and pat-down searches chose to submit to them rather than create havoc on one of the busiest flying days of the year. In fact, in some parts of the U.S., bad weather was shaping up as a bigger threat to travelers' hopes of getting to their destinations on time.

Lawyer: Emanuel broke Chicago mayor residency rule (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:08 PM PST AP - As he travels about the city, assuring Chicagoans that he is one of them, Rahm Emanuel must be asking himself why he just didn't leave his house vacant when he went off to work in the White House. Or rent it to a buddy or a relative.

Boeing: Foreign debris probably sparked 787 fire (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:35 PM PST AP - Boeing Co. says some kind of foreign debris probably caused the electrical fire on board one of its 787s earlier this month.

Holocaust survivors deal with purported $42M fraud (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 08:35 AM PST AP - Walk along the boardwalk on a late autumn day, and Brighton Beach can seem like an old-age home by the sea, where stooped ladies wear rouge like armor and almost everyone lives in the shadow of a difficult past.

Powerful storm to bring snow, ice to the Dakotas (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:05 PM PST AP - A powerful storm that pummeled much of the West is promising to bring its chaotic mix of snow, sleet and ice to much of the Dakotas on Thanksgiving Day. The system closed roads and delayed flights from Anchorage to Salt Lake City on some of the busiest travel days of the year.

Economic data reveal a hint of consumer merriness (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST AP - Americans are earning and spending more, companies are shedding fewer workers and hopes are rising for the economy as the holiday shopping season starts.

For disabled, airport security hassles are old hat (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 06:28 AM PST AP - For air passengers already fed up with being hauled off to the side of the security line for a pat-down or facing aggressive questions about bulky clothing or odd items in their luggage, advocates for the disabled have this to say: Welcome to our lives.

Shuttle Discovery's last flight over Christmas? (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:33 PM PST AP - Baffled by fuel tank cracks, NASA announced another prolonged launch delay for space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday and raised the prospect of a Christmastime flight.

Fire at Ohio home where 3 were slain ruled arson (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 09:34 AM PST AP - Authorities say someone set a fire at an Ohio home where police say two women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death before their remains were placed in a tree.

Judge reaches out to holdouts in 9/11 health suit (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:07 PM PST AP - A federal judge overseeing a major legal settlement for thousands of ground zero workers who were exposed to World Trade Center dust said Wednesday that he would give a handful of holdouts one last chance to take the deal.

NJ sex offender admits lying to get Census job (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:19 AM PST AP - A sex offender admitted Wednesday that he had lied on forms to get a job as a U.S. Census taker, blaming it on a series of mix-ups and his desperation to get a job.

Judge hears challenge to Conn. death sentence (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:34 AM PST AP - Attorneys for a man condemned to die for a deadly home invasion tried to convince a judge Wednesday that the jury was unduly swayed by emotion, but the judge said the jurors' reactions were natural given the crime's "unimaginable horror."

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