AP - President George W. Bush is suspending a key trade pact with Bolivia, saying the South American country failed to cooperate with U.S. anti-drug efforts.

AP - The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday rescinded guidance it issued 42 years ago that has allowed tobacco companies to make claims about tar and nicotine levels based on testing by a machine.

AP - U.N. officials have opened investigations into whether war crimes have been committed in eastern Congo, saying they have alarming evidence of targeted killings and possibly massacres of civilians.

AP - Despite widespread optimism that President-elect Barack Obama will adopt policies more to their liking, some European officials are preparing to be disappointed on global warming.

AP - The Bush administration is continuing to monitor a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai but said it was not aware of any American casualties, despite reports that Westerners were targeted.

AFP - The United Nations said Wednesday it will take into account the Democratic Republic of Congo's refusal to allow Indian troops to reinforce the UN peacekeeping mission there.

AP - More poor children may be driven into the sex trade as a result of the world financial crisis and the spreading use of the Internet by predators to find victims, participants at a U.N.-backed conference said Wednesday.

Politico - The politically minded folks who regularly grace your TVs and laptops do not, actually, live in broadcast studios under harsh lights and fall asleep with their faces smooshed on keyboards. (Only we here at Politico are that dedicated.) Like you, they have families that play football and stovetops that will be brimming with stuffing come Thursday.

AP - Minnesota's U.S. Senate showdown is veering down a path toward the courts and possibly the Senate itself after a panel's ruling on rejected absentee ballots dealt a blow to Democrat Al Franken's chances.

AP - The White House says President Bush has expressed condolences to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (MAHN'-moh-hahn SING) for the terror attacks in India's financial capital.

AP - China took the extraordinary step Wednesday of indefinitely postponing a summit with the European Union in retaliation for plans by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European officials to meet with the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama.

AP - At least three Americans were injured in a series of terrorist attacks in India that President Bush condemned as 'despicable acts.'

AP - President Bush on Thursday applauded Iraq's parliamentary vote approving an agreement allowing U.S. troops to remain for three more years, saying it 'affirms the growth' of democracy there.

AP - China said Thursday French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to meet with the Dalai Lama — hated by Beijing — left it no option but to pull out of an upcoming China-European Union summit.

AP - At Ben's Chili Bowl, the soon-to-be first family has an open invitation to dine for free on chili-smothered sausages.

AP - WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush is relishing the chance to see 'the klieg lights shift somewhere else,' although he admits he'll miss perks like White House cooking and flying on Air Force One.

AP - An obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility Thursday for the assassination of a mayor in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, saying he had sanctioned persecution of Islamic women.

AP - In the headline on a Nov. 26 story about controlling the dog population in Baghdad, The Associated Press erroneously described recommendations from Humane Society International. The animal rights group suggested how to control the dog population, not ways to kill dogs.

AP - A 104-year-old Dutch-born entertainer who made his name performing in Hitler's Germany began a lawsuit Thursday to clear himself of allegations he sang for SS guards at the Dachau concentration camp.

Politico - News organizations with reporters in Chicago have at least one thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

AP - An animal rights group is urging Iraqi authorities to find better ways to eliminate stray dogs after 200 of them were killed in Baghdad this week by poisoned meat and rifles.

AP - The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of blue.

Politico - Jill Biden has long chartered an untraditional path for a career politician’ wife. 

AP - Clout-heavy Chicago politicians are lining up to replace U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, prompting some experts to wonder if the local Democratic party will split on whom to anoint as his successor.

AP - The upper chamber of the Czech Parliament on Thursday approved a deal with Washington to accept a U.S. missile defense installation.