Artillerymen fire a 155mm Howitzer at a Taliban position October 22, 2008 from Camp Blessing in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan. (John Moore/Getty Images - double click image to enlarge)EXTRA for the Afternoon Edition: Boston Globe's "Big Picture Blog" posts 31 photos of our war in Afghanistan. Each photo has captions like the one above.
Astronomy: Telescopes photograph first planets outside our Solar System.
Conspiracy Theory Laid to Rest? Discovery Channel "proves" fatal JFK shot came from Oswald by using modern blood spatter analysis and expert marksman.
Football: Must see TV for college fans tonight - Miami (6-3) vs. Va. Tech (6-3) at 8:00 PM to determine ACC leader . . . . and must see TV for NFL fans tonight - New England Pats (6-3) vs. New York Jets (6-3) for lead in the AFC East at 8:15PM!
Miami: Palin holds a press conference - no seriously!
Wall Street: Dow Industrial Averages finishes the day UP 6.7%.
Chicago: "The City That Works" to morph into "The City That Lays Off"
World: Global Economies, battered, on the ropes.
The Golden Years look less glittery.
Housing: Foreclosures rise 25% year over year.
US Trade defecit falls on decline in fuel imports.
The International Energy Agency made new cuts Thursday to its global oil demand forecasts for this year and next as rich-world economies sink into recession and growth slows in the developing countries.
German government says its official . . . RECESSION is here and it's going to last a while.
Key West home prices falling harder than drunks off a Duval Street barstool.
Stores see "seismic shift" as consumers clamp down
Global hedge funds lost $100 Billion in October from withdrawals by investors
Nigerian communications satellite built and launched by China loses power
China finally loosens control on Western financial news providers
BT, Great Britains largest telecom, to lay off 6,000.
Will Boeing's white collar union will settle new deal with Company today?
Three Puget Sound counties declare States of Emergency with heavy rains and flooding.
Should we really bail out the Big 3 automakers with $73.20 per hour labor?
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More than 60 Groups call on President Elect Obama to rescind Bush's Secrecy Orders
McCain heads to Georgia to
whip voter enthusiasm for a Senator he once called "reprehensible"?Good grief! No one overseeing the hundreds of billions given away in the Wall Street bailout?
GOP Governors down at the mouth over future prospects.
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Democratic Mayor of Anchorage, sustains his lead in absentee vote counting over shamed Senator Stevens (R - Alaska).
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