Politics

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/financial_meltdown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081121/2008_11_20t181145_450x302_us_markets_stocks.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=1wwGgu4AA7ubdDVSt9voJA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 20, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.

Nov 21, 2008 13:17:47 GMT

AP - With the United States reevaluating strategy in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling allies that additional U.S. forces planned for the war must be shared across the region taking the brunt of the fighting.

Nov 21, 2008 10:55:58 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_jobless"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081120/capt.99512c54030c4da89500d1f23a86fa3b.jobless_week_gfx828.jpg?x=82&y=130&q=85&sig=YT_rZoNDUWNrkJB0gxaoJQ--" align="left" height="130" width="82" alt="Graphic shows change in weekly jobless claims;" border="0" /></a>AP - The White House says President Bush signed into law a bill that Congress approved to keep unemployment checks flowing to jobless Americans through the holiday season.

Nov 21, 2008 12:55:40 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/mukasey_collapses"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.d7c406598cd041159e0e61e7e71c3909.mukasey_collapse_dclb104.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=VXJVN0GpXXtT6Ns_qyXNHA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Two people walk near the emergency entrance of George Washington University Hospital in the early morning hours of Friday, November 21, 2008 in Washington.Attorney General Michael Mukasey was taken to George Washington University Hospital after collapsing during a speech Thursday night. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)" border="0" /></a>AP - Attorney General Michael Mukasey was conscious and alert early Friday — and took a get-well call from President Bush — just hours after he collapsed during a speech to a black-tie dinner.

Nov 21, 2008 12:58:26 GMT

Politico - ... now separate Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Democrat Al Franken, with 46 percent of the 2.9 million ballots recounted in the too-close-to-call Minnesota Senate race.  Franken so far has gained a net of 79 votes on Coleman.

Nov 21, 2008 12:09:00 GMT

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Nov 21, 2008 04:40:52 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_cabinet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081121/capt.d42219f534c04eb9b70d7aff4a604367.obama_cabinet_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=6_haCdvC1iJY3aLJJHJMlA--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="In a Jun 27, 2008 file photo Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., takes the stage with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at a campaign event in Unity, N.H., President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola/file)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency.

Nov 21, 2008 12:47:14 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_el_se/minnesota_senate"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081120/2008_11_20t051806_450x300_us_moodys_probe.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=9Z11PlPJweD_zWu6b9He1w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Senator Norm Coleman speaks at the second session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 2, 2008. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - A recount watchdog for Norm Coleman flagged a ballot because the voter put a check next to Al Franken's name instead of blacking in the oval. A Franken monitor challenged an apparent vote for Coleman because Franken's name was also marked. And representatives of both men invoked challenges because of marks elsewhere on the ballot that could make them identifiable.

Nov 21, 2008 11:28:44 GMT

></a>AP - A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges.

Nov 21, 2008 04:49:15 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081120/ts_nm/us_gaymarriage_california"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081120/2008_11_20t111449_450x318_us_gaymarriage_california.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=021Frbbpsqc.0.AKmxc88w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Supporters hold signs during a 'No on Prop 8' rally in West Hollywood, November 5, 2008. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - California's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime.

Nov 20, 2008 16:17:26 GMT

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081121/wl_nm/us_sudan_darfur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20081120/capt.cps.ogs43.201108175640.photo01.photo.default-353x512.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=8TAyjy4VBcuqDO9YxhjwDg--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, seen here in August 2008, has asked judges to issue arrest warrants for three rebel commanders over a deadly attack on African peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region in 2007.(AFP/File/Mauricio Duenas)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The International Criminal Court prosecutor requested arrest warrants on Thursday for Darfur rebels for the first time, accusing them of storming an African Union camp and killing 12 peacekeepers.

Nov 21, 2008 00:12:32 GMT