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Title: Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet (AP)

President-elect Barack Obama, right, stands with Secretary of State-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at a news conference in Chicago, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced a foreign policy team led by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates — both early supporters of a war in Iraq that he opposed and will be seeking to wind down.



Title: Pelosi hopes for stimulus bill by Inauguration Day (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center and junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken, left, sing the ABC song with elementary school students from Visitacion Valley Elementary School in San Francisco, Monday, Nov. 24, 2008. Pelosi and Milken help present first grade teacher Mindy Yip an award of $25,000 for the 2008 Milken National Education Award. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is promising Congress will try to have a huge economic recovery bill ready for President-elect Barack Obama as soon as he takes office.



Title: Holiday shopping season off to a modest start (AP)

Shoppers are reflected as they enter the Nike Store on Chicago's Magnificent Mile Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - The Thanksgiving shopping weekend may not have been the disaster some had feared, but unprecedented discounts and tempered buying likely resulted in overall soft sales as a buying binge on Friday quickly fizzled. Now, online retailers are ramping up deals to turn skittish shoppers into "Cyber Monday" spenders.



Title: India clears bodies from last Mumbai siege site (AP)

Moshe Holtzberg, the 2-year-old orphan of the rabbi and his wife slain in the Mumbai Jewish center, cries during a memorial service at a synagogue in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Holtzberg will fly to Israel Monday on an Israeli Air Force jet with his parents' remains and the Indian woman who rescued him, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. (AP Photo)AP - Soldiers removed the last bodies from the shattered Taj Mahal hotel Monday as India formally demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the 60-hour seige that left at least 172 people dead.



Title: FBI: Birmingham Mayor arrested on federal charges (AP)

Birmingham Mayor Larry P. Langford in an undated photo. (Handout/Reuters)AP - The mayor of Alabama's largest city, a player in a multibillion dollar sewer bond deal that drove the surrounding county to the brink of bankruptcy, was arrested on Monday on federal criminal charges, an FBI spokesman said.



Title: Palin campaigns in Ga.'s US Senate runoff (AP)

In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, acknowledges the crowd during an election night rally in Phoenix. Oprah wants her, and so do Letterman and Leno. Fresh from her political defeat, Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for any first-term governor, let alone a Hollywood star. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin implored Georgia Republicans to back Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his hotly contested Senate runoff, telling a cheering crowd Monday that the first step in rebuilding the GOP begins with the Southern state.



Title: Manufacturing index drops to 26-year low (AP)
AP - A measure of U.S. manufacturing activity fell to a 26-year low in November as new orders dropped for the twelfth consecutive month, a trade group said Monday.

Title: Sending spam in Israel could mean a big fine (AP)
AP - Israel has gotten fed up with spam. Anyone who sends out messages without receiving the recipient's consent can now be slapped with a big fine.

Title: 'Four Christmases' finds $31.7M in holiday cheer (AP)

In this Nov. 20, 2008 file photo, Reese Witherspoon, a cast member in 'Four Christmases,' poses on the red carpet at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Thanksgiving weekend movie crowds gobbled up the Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn holiday comedy "Four Christmases," which debuted at No. 1 with $31.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.



Title: Giants WR Burress turns himself in to police (AP)

New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress arrives at a police station, Monday, Dec.1, 2008, in New York. Burress was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh. Burress shot himself at a Manhattan nightclub Friday night and was released from a hospital early Saturday, the Giants said. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)AP - Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station early Monday, where he was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.