The nation's retailers are ushering in the traditional start of the holiday shopping season with expanded hours and deep discounts on everything from toys to TVs to lure crowds of shoppers....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:45:16 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on White House grounds, a spokeswoman for the program's network said Thursday....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:42:54 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stock markets tumbled Friday, with Hong Kong and South Korea down about 5 percent, as fears mounted over the fallout from Dubai's massive debt problems and the dollar continued its slide against the Japanese yen....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:43:40 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revelers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:47:24 GMT

NAGHLU, Afghanistan (AP) -- By day, French soldiers fight side by side with Afghans during Taliban attacks. By night, their officers share meals, the French trying to muster haute cuisine from military rations, the Afghans offering steaming piles of mutton stew and rice....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:48:51 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:49:27 GMT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A medical student who died Thursday after a daylong effort to rescue him 150 feet underground was an outdoors lover and experienced caver who was expecting the birth of his second child next year, officials and family members said....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:49:54 GMT

AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) -- A politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in the southern Philippines in an apparent bid to stop him from running for governor filed his candidacy Friday for the election....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:50:24 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) -- An audience member at "The Jay Leno Show" is especially grateful this Thanksgiving. He won a new car....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:23:35 GMT

DENVER (AP) -- The Denver Broncos still have their troubles with the red zone and yellow flags. The dark cloud that hung over them during their month of misery, though, is gone....

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:53:13 GMT