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December 9, 2008 | Evening Edition

Top Stories Feds: Illinois Gov. Peddled Senate Seat Rod Blagojevich Taken Into Custody, Charged With Conspiring To Gain Financially From His Power To Appoint Obama's Successor  Engine Failure Cited In Fighter Jet Crash  More Riots Accompany Greek Teen's Funeral  Bank To Lend Credit To End Factory Sit-In CBS News Programs The Early Show Cheerleaders' Nude Photos Spark Dispute Images Making Rounds Via Text message; Parents Sue School District After The Cheerleaders Are Suspended From Squad  Early Show: Penny-Wise And Health Foolish Fast Foods  Early Show: Hot New Dessert: Peanut Butter!  Early Show: Dog Dodges Traffic Trying To Save Another U.S.  » More U.S. Guard's Plea Led To Blackwater Indictments Federal Case On Shooting Deaths Of Innocent Iraqis Built Largely On Fellow Guard's Testimony  L.A. Targets Gang Money  "Call In Gay" Same-Sex Marriage Allies Say  E-mails Show Mortgage Execs Were Warned World  » More World India Releases Details On Mumbai Militants Police Provide Names, Gruesome Photos Of 9 Deceased Attackers  First Pork, Now Tainted Beef In Ireland  U.N. Agency: Nearly 1 Billion Are Hungry  Pakistan Mil! itants On Move To Afghanistan Politics  » More Politics GOP Finds An Unlikely Hero In Louisiana Washington Post: Vietnamese-American Joseph Cao's Election To Congress Seen As Model For Republicans  Obama, Gore Meeting To Talk Energy  The Bill Clinton Loopholes  Rice, Clinton Talk Policy Over Dinner Health  » More Health Breastfeeding Helps Moms Lose Weight Women Who Breastfeed Are More Likely To Shed Their Baby Weight 6 Months After Giving Birth, Study Shows  Bird Flu Turns Up In Hong Kong Chickens  Metabolic Syndrome? Nuts!  Glaucoma Drug Doubles As Eyelash Enhancer SciTech  » More SciTech MySpace Suicide Prosecutors Used Wrong Law Technology Analyst Larry Magid Says Anti-Hacking Law Should Not Have Applied  Bad Year Just Got A Little Longer  My True Love Gave To Me … A Bat Species!  Dogs! Can Think "No Fair!" Too Business  » More Business Lawmakers Still Hammering Out Auto Bailout Congress, White House Haggle Over Unresolved Issues; Speedy Passage Hoped For  E-mails Show Mortgage Execs Were Warned  Wal-Mart Settles Workers' Suit For $54.25M  Sony To Cut 8,000 Jobs Worldwide Strange  » More Strange Man Stopped By Police For Stealing His Own Van Michigan Man In His 70s Stopped By Police On Suspicion Of Stealing His Own Van  Man Cited For Jumping Into Rhino Enclosure At Zoo  Police Arrest Man On 'mission' In Bathroom Ceiling  'Jingle Bells' Sung In 12 Languages In Diverse NYC Entertainment  » More Entertainment Jennifer Connelly's Sci-Fi Lesson She Stars In The Sci-Fi Classic Remake "The Day The Earth Stood Still" With Keanu Reeves  Buzz Briefs: Mark Ruffalo, Dennis Yost  Oprah Winfrey: I Weigh 200 Pounds  Critics' Choice Awards Got "Milk" Opinion  » More Opinion Annals Of Corruption: Lightning "Rod" Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen Writes That Incriminating Wiretaps Will Likely Do In Gov. Rod Blagojevich  Obama's Mandate For What?  Making a New New Deal In Chicago  Chris Matthews, Please Run For U.S. Senate

Top Videos  » More Videos Notebook: Gov. Rod Blagojevich (1:04) FBI Recounts Governor's Arrest (1:48) "Corruption Crime Spree" (1:22) Plane Crashes Into Calif. Home (3:38) Nude Cheerleader Pics Scandal (3:03) Dog Risks Life In Rescue (0:38) Top Photos  » More Photos Photos Of The Day Celebrity Circuit Fighter Jet Crash In S.D. Kennedy Center Honors Zimbabwe's Water Woes Week in Sports: Dec. 5-Dec. 11 Latest Blog Posts  » More Blogs Horserace The Finish Line The Horserace Is Over Read More Couric & Co. Katie Couric's Notebook: Health Insurance Tough Economic Times Call For Belt-Tightening, But What About Your Health? Read More From The Road "From the Road" to the Curb: Pulling Over and Looking Back at Campaign '08 It's over Read More Most Viewed Stories 1. Feds: Illinois Gov. Peddled Senate Seat 2. Cheerleaders' Nude Photos Spark Dispute 3. The Bill Clinton Loopholes 4. F-18 Crash In Calif. Neighborhood Kills 3 5. "Extreme Makeover" Home Faces Foreclosure Videos 1. The Oil Kingdom: Part One (12:33) 2. F-18 Crash In San Diego (1:16) 3. Nude Cheerleader Pics Scandal (3:03) 4. A Meal To Die For (5:11) 5. Evening News Online, 12.08.08 (21:02) Photos 1. Celebrity Circuit 2. Fighter Jet Crash In S.D. 3. Photos Of The Day 4. Kennedy Center Honors 5. Celebrity Circuit

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GOP on the Wrong Track | Abuses of Migrants Common in Mexico

Immigration December 9th, 2008 More Special Coverage about Immigration »

GOP Going Full-Throttle on the Wrong Track for Latinos By Joshua Hoyt, AlterNet Hispanics voted 67 percent for Barack Obama, playing a key role in flipping Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Florida to the Democratic column. Read more »   AlterNet has launched 100 Words for 100 Days, a new project to publish our readers' visions for Obama's highest priorities. You're invited to contribute. Every day from now until Obama's inauguration we will publish 8 new visionary essays by AlterNet readers in our new 100 Words for 100 Days section on our front page (just scroll down to view the section). We've already gotten started, click here for reader contributions that we have already run on the site.     "Securitizing" Immigration Leads to Flagrant Human Rights Abuses in Mexico, U.S. By Laura Carlsen, Center for International Policy The Mexican government (half-heartedly) complains about the way its emigrants are treated in the U.S., but its own record isn't better. Read more »   Your Weekly Immigration Newsladder By Nezua, Media Consortium Connecting People and Policies--From Mumbai to Arizona Read more »   Chicago Unions Look to Strengthen Ties After Immigration Clash By Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes Leaders of Chicago labor have been meeting to smooth conflicts over the defense of unionized migrant workers. Read more »   Immigrant Rights Signed Away? By Jennifer Lee Koh, Esq., New America Media Government officials have convinced tens of thousands of immigrants to sign away their rights without consulting with an attorney. Read more »   High-Ranking Homeland Security Official Repeatedly Hired Undocumented Workers By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly The irony is rich. Read more »

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Forget the Polar Bears, Save Us | Obama's Potential Enviro Picks | Shiva: Soil Not Oil

Environment Newsletter December 9th, 2008 More from Environment »

Forget the Polar Bears -- The Climate Crisis Is About All of Us By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the planet collapse? Read more »   Dear Reader, AlterNet has launched 100 Words for 100 Days, a new project to publish our readers' visions for Obama's highest priorities. You're invited to contribute. Every day from now until Obama's inauguration we will publish 8 new visionary essays by AlterNet readers in our new 100 Words for 100 Days section on our front page (just scroll down to view the section). We've already gotten started, click here for reader contributions that we have already run on the site.     Climate Economics in Four Easy Pieces By Frank Ackerman, Dollars and Sense As the climate science debate is reaching closure, the climate economics debate is heating up. Read more »   Obama May Tap a Strong Progressive to Manage Our Wilderness By Roberto Lovato, AlterNet The appointment of Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva to the Department of the Interior would bring much-needed political balance to the Obama cabinet. Read more »   Nations Go Head-to-Head at Climate Conference in Poznan The Progress Report The Poznan summit is under way and the stakes could not be higher. Here's how it is progressing. Read more »   Bank of America Retreats from Financing Destructive Mountaintop-Removal Mining By Michael Brune, AlterNet The bank's new policy is a financial blow to the coal industry and a big win for enviros. Read more »   Van Jones: Progressives' Most Visionary Leader AlterNet The green jobs advocate has just received the prestigious Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Here's a look at the best of his 2008 work. Read more »   Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum Out of Our Farms By Vandana Shiva, South End Press Biodiverse farms offer us more food, better food, higher incomes for farmers and a defense from climate disasters. Read more »   Efficiency Is Our Best Untapped Energy Source By Carole Bass, Yale Environment 360 The world's biggest untapped energy source, according to energy expert Amory Lovins, is efficiency. But don't call it "conservation." Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Duke Energy Gets Slammed on Mercury Emissions By Bruce Nilles, Sierra Club Even the greenest of coal groups, Duke Energy isn't even taking basic steps to control harmful emissions like toxic mercury. Read more »   U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Surged in 2007 By Brad Johnson, Think Progress U.S. annual emissions are now 17% greater than they were in 1990. Read more »

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VOA Africa News Summary

Here are today's top stories from VOA Africa. To listen or watch one of our programs or to read more visit our website at www.voaafrica.com.

600 Dead in Zimbabwe from Cholera Government seeks more international aid DRC Talks Resume in Nairobi Mediators had expressed high hopes for UN-backed talks, but meeting has not included leaders of government or rebel group and has been limited to discussing framework for future talks EU Calls for Zimbabwe's Mugabe to Step Down   French President Nicolas Sarkozy says President Mugabe has to go while Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner tells reporters international intervention needed to respond to cholera outbreak Ethiopian Army Sets Up New Bases in Somalia   Troop deployment follows recent gains by militant Islamist group al-Shabab and comes despite pledge by Ethiopian army to pull out of Somalia by end of the year US Panel Says Preventing Genocide Should Be Top Priority for Obama     Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says she expects Obama administration to support panel's recommendations Researchers Announce Promising Malaria Vaccine   Researchers report results of two clinical trials in Kenya and Tanzania of experimental malaria vaccine, RTS, S/AS  Ethiopia Rejects Rights Report on Somalia as 'Politically-Motivated'   Ethiopian official says Human Rights Watch relied on hearsay and second-hand evidence to accuse Ethiopian forces of crimes committed by other groups US Says Neighbors Hold Key to Ending Zimbabwe Crisis   In addition, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterates her call for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down NGOs Call On Donors to Step Up Funding at Africa AIDS Conference   World leaders in Dakar, Senegal call for increased emphasis on prevention in global fight against HIV and AIDS, but some working to fight AIDS say projected funding shortfall could threaten efforts Human Rights Watch Urges Accountability, Reassessment of Somalia Priorities   Rights group seeks UN Commission of Inquiry, Obama policy shift away from anti-terrorism goals that it says fuel hostilities China Considers Humanitarian Aid for Zimbabwe   However, Chinese spokesman refrains from joining other world leaders in calling for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down    Ghana Ruling Party Candidate Leads Presidential Election Results But opposition supporters are crying foul, alleging vote-rigging E-mail: Forward this E-mail Click here to unsubscribe from the VOA Daily World News Summary2 If you have questions about this E-mail newsletter send an e-mail to: voanews@voanews.com