NYT: A team for a foreign policy shift

While Obama's hand-picked foreign policy team tend to be more hawkish than the new president, they have all embraced a sweeping shift of priorities in the national security arena.

It's official: U.S. is in recession
A panel of the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the U.S. economy fell into a recession last year.

Bomber slays 10 at Afghan market
A suicide bomber apparently trying to target Afghan police detonated his explosives in a crowded market in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing eight civilians and two policemen, an official said.

NATO convoy struck in Pakistan

Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked trucks ferrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two people and destroying a dozen vehicles, witnesses and police said.

Shoppers in trampling death sought

Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges.

Giants ignore Burress drama, whip Redskins

Eli Manning had his first 300-yard game of the season, Clinton Portis was held to 22 yards rushing, and the Giants put aside the Plaxico Burress mess Sunday with another dominating performance, 23-7 over the Redskins.

Military to detail U.S. security plan

The U.S. military expects to field 20,000 uniformed troops inside the country by 2011, to respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, Pentagon officials say.

Son of slain rabbi heads to Israel

An Israeli Air Force jet left India for Israel Monday carrying the 2-year-old orphan of a rabbi and his wife who were slain in the Mumbai Jewish center attack.

Bombs kill 31 in Baghdad, Mosul

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.