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Egypt-Protests (will update)

Protesters flooding the streets of Cairo to protest what they call a dictatorial president. Violent clashes with police. An uncertain economy. Weren't things in Egypt supposed to be different now? Just five months after Mohammed Morsy took office as his nation's first democratically elected president -- and just days after winning international acclaim for helping broker a truce between Israel and Gaza militants -- the Islamist leader has triggered angry demonstrations that echo those that swept Hosni Mubarak from power less than two years ago. It all stems from Morsy's edict, issued Thursday, that effectively allows him to rule the country, unchecked by the judicial system, for the next six months or until a new constitution is finalized.

Iran-Hamas-Arms

Iran is "finding ways to resupply Hamas" with long range rockets and other weapons even after the intense fighting between Hamas and Israel that ended in a cease-fire last week, a senior U.S. official told CNN.

Bangladesh-Fire-Mourning (will update)

Wal-Mart Stories Inc. put some distance Monday between it and the clothing factory in Bangladesh that caught fire over the weekend, killing at least 117 people.

POL-Susan-Rice-Congress

After facing criticism from Republican lawmakers surrounding her characterization of the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice will hold meetings on Capitol Hill about Libya, an administration official said Monday.

MED-FDA-Salmonella

The Food and Drug Administration banned products from a New Mexico nut processing facility Monday after the plant was linked to an outbreak of salmonella earlier this year.

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INTERNATIONAL

Egypt-Protests

Gaza-Israel-Ceasefire

A delegation from Gaza was in Egypt Monday to hash out more details of a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel, less than a week after the truce ended an eight-day conflict.

US-afghanistan-troops-size

Pentagon officials are considering a preliminary assessment by Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, on "what he needs going forward" in the country as the U.S. looks to withdraw all combat troops by the end of 2014, a U.S. official tells CNN.

Syria-Civil-War

"May God bring you pain, Bashar." The plea is from a woman as she stands over a young child, dressed in purple pants and a matching shirt. Cursing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, she asks why the girl had to die -- one of eight children killed by shelling on a playground in a Damascus suburb, according to opposition activists.

Turkey-Syria-NATO

Syrian warplanes bombed a village within sight of the border with Turkey on Monday, sending hundreds of panicked civilians running for safety to a nearby barbed wire fence that separates the two countries.

Congo-Unrest

Tension loomed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo city of Goma on Monday night as rebel commanders refused to leave the city ahead of a midnight deadline imposed by regional leaders and the African Union.

POL-Mexico-President-US-Visit

Mexico's new leader has a message for U.S. officials as he heads to Washington this week: Ties between the neighboring nations must go beyond the drug war. Just four days before his inauguration, Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday. And he says he wants to reshuffle the list of priorities the United States and Mexico share.

Mexico-Leaving-US

In a remote town in northern Mexico, a 10-year-old-boy is struggling with his homework. His name is Oscar Castellanos and the fifth grader is getting extra help from his father because he's having trouble adjusting to his new school. The student enrolled at Leona Vicario Elementary in the town of Cananea is technically a foreigner in his father's land. Oscar was born in Arizona and is a U.S. citizen. He recites the U.S. pledge of allegiance by memory without hesitation. His English accent is that of a boy raised in the American southwest.

Mexico-Beauty-Queen-Death

A Mexican beauty queen was killed during a weekend shootout in the restive northern state of Sinaloa, authorities said Monday. Maria Susana Flores Gamez , 20, was the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa. She was killed Saturday during clashes between criminals and military troops in the municipality of Mocorito. Two others, both men, also were killed in the shootout.

Global-Climate-Talks

On December 11, 1997, the world agreed that climate change needed to be tackled. The grandly named United Nations Framework on Climate Change adopted the Kyoto Protocol on that day, and it was eventually ratified by 191 countries. Now it's about to expire with a whimper.

Germany-Workshop-Fire

Fire raged through a workshop for the disabled in southwestern Germany on Monday, killing 14 people, police said.

Bangladesh-Fire-Mourning

As Bangladesh prepared to mourn the deaths of more than 100 clothing factory workers, firefighters battled a blaze at another apparel factory near Dhaka on Monday.

Israel-Barak-Resigns

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his resignation Monday, saying he will quit politics in January to spend more time with his family.

US-Mexico-Fugitive-Captured

When Joe Saenz walked up to a Whittier, California-area home in summer 2008, a surveillance video shows he was smiling, rubbing his hands and greeting associates, according to authorities. On the streets he was known by the nickname "Smiley," and his demeanor that day fit that handle -- right up until he reached the front yard of the home. That's when, the FBI and police say, he drew a gun and shot one man several times in the head, execution-style. It was not the first murder Saenz was accused of. Authorities also say that in 1998 he killed two rival gang members and kidnapped, raped and killed his girlfriend. The FBI placed Saenz on its 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list in 2009. Authorities suspect he later became a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel. Saenz eluded arrest for 14 years. But on Friday, authorities announced his capture in Guadalajara, Mexico, after a tip led officers to his location.

Dissolving-Sea-Snails

The shells of tiny snails in parts of the Southern Ocean are being dissolved as the water becomes more acidic as a result of the burning of fossil fuels by humans, scientists say.

Bear-attack-british-columbia

An elderly couple survived a bear attack in rural British Columbia, and authorities are hunting for the animal.

Queen-Elizabeth-Portraits-Exhibition

Four portraits of Queen Elizabeth II by pop artist Andy Warhol have gone on display at her home, Windsor Castle, for the first time as part of an exhibition of official images of the monarch marking the end of her Diamond Jubilee year.

SPORT-Golf-McIlroy-Majors-2012

Rory McIlroy is to trim his schedule to focus on 2013's four major trophies after a fairytale year in which he won both the U.S. PGA and European Tour money lists to finish on top of the world rankings.

U.S.A.

SCOTUS-Health-Care-Religion

The Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at a key requirement in the health care reform law, and whether it violates religious freedoms.

US-Court-Harassment

The Supreme Court on Monday tried to make sense of conflicting standards when determining a key question in workplace discrimination claims: Who is the boss? In an intense oral argument, the justices raised numerous scenarios to explore when a worker's actions were supervisory in nature but appeared uncertain on what approach was best for resolving the central legal question and whether a clear definition could even be established.

US-NASA-Astronaut-Flight

Capt. Scott Kelly, a veteran astronaut, will set the record for the longest single space mission for an American, NASA announced Monday. Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will embark on a one-year mission to the International Space Station in 2015.

US-Space-Travel-Power

For potential power sources on space flights beyond the horizon, scientists are looking back to the future. A team of NASA and Department of Energy researchers has shown that a reliable nuclear reactor based on technology that's been around for decades could be used in spaceships, according to a news release from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where some of the researchers are based.

US-Body-Armor-Plates-Recall

Body armor plates used by special operations forces in combat are being recalled after a manufacturing defect was found in what the military says is a small percentage of the Generation III ballistic armor plates.

US-Combat-Awards-Flap

The U.S. military's combat awards process is in disarray, and because of that official Department of Defense statistics do not accurately reflect the complete list of those who have been awarded combat medals for bravery in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to some members of Congress.

US-New-York-Utility-Bills

The Long Island Power Authority is assuring outraged customers that their latest electric bills with normal monthly charges are no mistake, despite some being in the dark for days or weeks after Superstorm Sandy.

US-Capitol-Christmas-Tree

The official Christmas tree of the U.S. Capitol arrived Monday and will be illuminated at a ceremony on December 4.

Florida-Roach-Eating-Death

A 32-year-old man who died after downing dozens of roaches and worms last month to win a python at a Florida reptile store choked to death, medical officials said Monday.

New-York-Confidential-Confetti

Authorities in Long Island are investigating how shredded confidential police documents ended up as confetti in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City, according to Nassau County Police.

MED-teens-emergency-contraception

The American Academy of Pediatrics is fighting teen pregnancy with revised recommendations on emergency contraception.

MED-medicaid-kaiser

It's flown under the radar, but perhaps the most dramatic element of Obamacare isn't changes to Medicare, or the requirement for millions to purchase insurance --- it's the planned expansion of Medicaid. That expansion would cover an additional 21.3 million people within the next decade, reducing the number of uninsured nearly by half, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, an organization specializing in health care policy. While that sounds like good news, the sheer size of the expansion has many people worried about cost. Since the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot be forced to participate, eight states have said they won't expand their current Medicaid programs, and several others have said they may follow suit. But the KFF report says those states may be making life unnecessarily hard for their poorest citizens.

POLITICS

POL-Fiscal-Cliff

Is it a slow leak that will grow into a cascade, or a minor drip easily plugged? More and more, conservative Republicans in Congress are breaking from a pledge they signed years earlier against any kind of tax increase or additional tax revenue. Facing the so-called fiscal cliff of automatic tax hikes and deep across-the-board spending cuts at the end of the year, the GOP legislators are signaling their willingness to cut a deal with President Barack Obama and Democrats that would include more money for the government.

POL-White-House-Meeting

Talks to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff are expected to pick up this week as Congress returns to work. But a promised second White House meeting on the crisis between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders still has not been scheduled -- a possible sign that staff discussions over the Thanksgiving recess did not yield the progress leaders hoped.

POL-House-GOP-Bowles-Meeting

House Republican leaders will meet Wednesday with business leaders including Erskine Bowles, Republican aides on Capitol Hill said Monday, as congressional leaders work to avert a plunge off the so-called "fiscal cliff."

POL-CNN-Poll-Fiscal-Cliff

A new national poll suggests Americans understand that the "fiscal cliff" is no joking matter. Two-thirds of people questioned in a CNN/ORC International survey say that the U.S. would face a crisis or major problems if the country went off the "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year, and if that happened, Republicans in Congress would probably receive the greater share of the blame.

POL-Norquist-Pledge-Breakers

Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist said Monday that his group, Americans for Tax Reform, would work to unseat Republicans who break their pledge to never vote for higher taxes.

POL-Poll-Optimism-Approval

A majority of Americans give President Barack Obama a thumbs up on the job he's doing in office, but according to a new national poll they are less optimistic about the country's future than they were four years ago when Obama won the White House for the first time.

POL-Illinois-Special-Election-Date

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday that a special election will be held to fill the congressional seat vacated by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who stepped down last week amid an ethics probe and ongoing health problems.

POL-Capito-Senate-Run

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, the West Virginia congresswoman who was re-elected earlier this month to a seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Monday she is running for U.S. Senate in 2014.

POL-Chris-Christie-Reelection

There's no more if. Chris Christie is running for re-election. New Jersey's Republican governor told local reporters Monday that he was running for a second term, citing a need to carry out his leadership in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

POL-Christie-Sandy-Bump

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's response to the superstorm that blasted his state appears to have won the outspoken Republican higher approval ratings, according to a poll released Monday.

POL-Gingrich-2016

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who gave Mitt Romney some trouble in the Republican presidential primaries, said the GOP would have to make big changes before he'd consider another White House run.

MONEY

MONEY-fiscal-cliff-tax

Leaders in Washington say they want to make a "down payment" on deficit reduction and avert the fiscal cliff. But the size of any down payment depends in large part on whether the two sides can agree on taxing the rich.

MONEY-Fiscal-Cliff-Holiday-Sales

Holiday spending got off to a strong start this weekend, but could looming tax hikes cause consumers to cut back on shopping? The White House certainly thinks so.

MONEY-cyber-Monday

Cyber Monday is off to a strong start, with shoppers flocking to their computers and smartphones to grab online deals. By Monday afternoon, online sales rose nearly 26% from Cyber Monday last year, according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, which tracks more than one million e-commerce transactions per day from more than 500 retailers.

MONEY-stocks-markets

U.S. stocks ended mixed Monday as investors kept one eye on the results of the start of the holiday shopping season, and the other on upcoming economic negotiations in Washington and Europe.

MONEY-Mary-Schapiro

President Obama has designated U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Elisse Walter to replace Mary Schapiro as chair of the agency. Schapiro announced Monday that she will be stepping down from her post on Dec. 14.

MONEY-google-icoa-hoax

A spate of press reports on Monday heralded Google's latest takeover deal: An apparent $400 million purchase of ICOA, a Warwick, R.I., company that makes Wi-Fi hotspots for public areas like parks and airports.

MONEY-Knight-Capital-sale

It hasn't been business as usual for Knight Capital since a massive software glitch in August nearly felled the 15-year old trading firm. Knight Capital is now weighing offers for individual business lines and hasn't ruled out a sale of the entire firm.

MONEY-Apple-Lightning-Harley-Davidson

Apple officially landed the European trademark over the weekend on the Lightning name for its new mobile connector, but local regulatory filings show that Apple had to buy the rights from motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson.

MONEY-Eco-Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell-Cars

As electric cars try to forge more than a just niche in the market, the auto industry is already looking to another form of clean technology that could overtake today's battery-powered vehicles.

MONEY-jatropha-biofuel

Call it the jatropha bubble. When word got out several years ago about the promise of a small subtropical tree called jatropha, it became a biofuel sensation. Advocates claimed the fruit tree was hearty, drought-resistant and could be grown on marginal land. Its oil seeds offered a promising biofuel that wouldn't compete with food crops.

MONEY-UK-Bank-Governor-Carney

The U.K. government has appointed Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney to head the Bank of England, opting for an outsider as the British central bank confronts slowing growth and takes on a bigger supervisory role.

MONEY-interview-Niall-Ferguson

The speed at which the global economy has pivoted from the West to emerging economies like China is astounding, says author Niall Ferguson. "If you think back to 1978 when I was a teenager, the average American was 22 times richer than the average Chinese. And today it's less than five times," said Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and a former adviser to 2008 Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain. "That's an amazing reduction in the global imbalance and it's happen in the space really of 30 years."

FEATURES & COMMENTARY

TECH-Black-Friday-Online-Sales

Online shoppers eager for discounts this holiday season did not wait for Cyber Monday.

TECH-Facebook-Vote

Facebook will hold a vote, possibly later this week, in which it will ask users to abolish their right to vote on changes to the social network's privacy policies.

FEA-#GivingTuesday

Thanksgiving usually means family, food, football and, of course, the kickoff of the holiday shopping season with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. With so much consumption going on, giving back can easily be overlooked. The 92nd Street Y in New York hopes to change that with its social media movement #GivingTuesday.

FEA-Hot-Holiday-Thriller-Books

Some of the biggest names in publishing and many of the most eagerly anticipated titles of the year are hitting bookstore shelves just in time for the holiday shopping season. So if you're searching for a gift for a loved one or just looking for a good book to curl up with on the couch, here are four novels out this week for anyone looking for a page load of thrills.

ENT-Chris-Brown-Twitter-Deleted

Chris Brown has deleted his Twitter account after getting into a vulgar war of words with comedian and writer Jenny Johnson on Sunday.

ENT-NBC-Revolution-Mid-Season

With its post-apocalyptic setting, Giancarlo Esposito in the role of endearing villain, and J.J. Abrams as an executive producer, creator Eric Kripke's "Revolution" is a surefire hit -- on paper. In fact, NBC ordered a full season of "Revolution," which also stars Billy Burke, after airing just three episodes, which is the same amount of time it took the network to axe "The Playboy Club" last year. Yet, it seems viewers become more disillusioned with the freshman drama each week.

MED-Bounce-House-Injuries

If you're not a parent, you may not be aware of the popularity of inflatable bounce houses, but they are popping up more and more -- at church picnics, county and mall fairs, birthday and "bounce house" parties, and indoor playgrounds.

MED-Healthy-Energy

As our energy levels decrease because of our overstressed lifestyles, many people look for a quick fix to combat fatigue.

TRAVEL-New-York-Neon

Besides its tall skyscrapers, nothing screams "New York City" more than bright neon lights. While neon signs are not unique to New York, at one point they proliferated in tens of thousands of storefronts throughout the city. And just like Broadway, which they are often associated with, neon signs became an iconic part of the city's landscape by the middle of the twentieth century. But a changing landscape is unfolding and an increasing number of neon signs are disappearing.

COMMENTARY-frett-savita-abortion-rights

If Ireland had Roe v. Wade, women like Savita Halappanavar wouldn't have to die needless deaths.

COMMENTARY-Navarrette-Mexico-President

On a recent trip to Mexico City as part of a delegation of Mexican-American and American Jewish leaders, I heard a joke that is circulating among the intelligentsia: "Mexicans are observing daylight savings time in a major way. On December 1, they'll turn the clocks back 100 years." Actually, it's not quite a century. The reference seems to be to 1929, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (or an earlier version of it) kicked off what would be a 71-year hold on the presidency. In the 20th century, PRI became notorious for the brutality, corruption, election rigging, and brazen thievery of its leaders and their cronies.