Weak retail sales may spur more warnings (Reuters)

Commonsense Regulatory Ideas Ignored Prior to Mortgage Meltdown
What continues to bother me about the financial crisis is that so many people saw the warning signs and yet so many others refused to pay attention to the risks. A new AP report reveals the...

Bombings tear through Baghdad, Mosul, killing 31 (AP)
AP - Suicide bombers struck Monday near a Baghdad police academy and in Mosul against a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol, together killing 31 people, Iraqi officials said.

Holiday season off to a modest start (AP)
AP - The Thanksgiving shopping weekend doesn't appear to have been the disaster some had feared, but tempered buying and unprecedented deep discounts likely resulted in soft sales. Now,...

Rice: Pakistan must cooperate in terror probe (AP)
AP - The United States has told Pakistan it expects nothing short of complete cooperation in investigations into the terrorist rampage in nuclear rival India. Pakistan's response will be a...

What Was It Like For Reporters During 2008?
Two CBS reporters, one who covered Obama and one who covered McCain, talk about it… I do think one of the biggest reasons McCain started seeing more negative coverage in the last half...