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NEW YORK (AP) -- What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people? These sound like concerns from worried parents. But they're coming from brain scientists....

TRACY, Calif. (AP) -- The aunt and one-time guardian of an emaciated and shackled 17-year-old has been arrested, as police tried to determine how she knew the couple accused of holding the teen against his will for nearly a year....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Rejecting prosecutors' calls for a life term, a federal judge on Wednesday reimposed a 22-year prison sentence for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium....

CHICAGO (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama named New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as commerce secretary on Wednesday, filling a top economic post in troubled times and placing a second former campaign rival in his new Cabinet....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Police on Wednesday discovered leftover explosives hidden in a bag in Mumbai's main train station - a stunning new example of botched security after the deadly rampage that left the government open to accusations it missed warnings and bungled its response....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama signaled a clear desire Wednesday to use a significant portion of $700 billion in financial bailout funds to stanch foreclosures by helping struggling homeowners with their mortgages. "The deteriorating assets in the financial markets are rooted in the deterioration of people being able to pay their mortgages and stay in their homes," he said....

BOSTON (AP) -- AL Most Valuable Player Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox agreed Wednesday to a $40.5 million, six-year contract. The deal includes a club option for 2015. He would not have been eligible for free agency until after the 2012 season....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top Chrysler executive warned Wednesday that a carmaker collapse could send the economy spiraling into a depression, while the United Auto Workers agreed to new concessions for their companies....

BUNA, Texas (AP) -- The one that didn't get away held an unlikely surprise for a Texas man. The blue-stoned class ring of Joe Richardson, engraved with his name, turned up inside an 8-pound bass 21 years after he lost it while fishing on Lake Sam Rayburn....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors allege Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law killed three family members because he was angry the singer's sister was dating another man....

Zimbabwean riot police brandishing batons charged into a group of doctors and nurses in Harare, breaking up a demonstration for better pay and working conditions.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/africa/04zimbabwe.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/africa/04zimbabwe.html" border="0"//a /span

CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors allege Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law killed three family members because he was angry the singer's sister was dating another man....

BOSTON (AP) -- AL Most Valuable Player Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox agreed Wednesday to a $40.5 million, six-year contract....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top Chrysler executive warned Wednesday that a carmaker collapse could send the economy spiraling into a depression, while the United Auto Workers agreed to new concessions for their companies....

American intelligence has concluded that former Pakistani military and intelligence officers helped train the Mumbai attackers, a former Pentagon official said.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04india.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04india.html" border="0"//a /span

For the first time since 1973, no Palestinians from Gaza are making the pilgrimage to Mecca this year because of a power struggle over which Palestinian government is legitimate.br/br/span class="advertisement" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/middleeast/04mideast.html"img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/middleeast/04mideast.html" border="0"//a /span

The NATO secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, strongly defended Wednesday the alliance's decision to begin "a conditional and graduated re-engagement" with Russia.

A French aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital and later seen in an emotional hostage video was released by his captors Wednesday and is "doing well," President Nicolas Sarkozy announced.

About 100 nations came here to renounce cluster bombs, but many said the treaty failed to bind the countries most prone to use them.

Kabul's agreement to join about 100 nations in signing the treaty was a surprising last-minute change of policy.