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• Obama and daughters hit bookstore for Small Business Saturday
• Teenage boy missing four years found alive, hidden behind wall near Atlanta
• At Portland's Ferguson protest, boy hugs officer
• Taliban hit Kabul aid workers' compound, breach Camp Bastion in south
• New York man collecting food for needy killed as thief steals his car
• Nigeria: Kano mosque blasts death toll above 102
• A glance at national protests, cleanup in Ferguson
• Exclusive: U.S. CEOs threaten to pull tacit Obamacare support over 'wellness' spat
• Egypt court drops charges against Mubarak
• 15 arrested as demonstrations return to Ferguson
• Washington state woman shoots man trying to enter home: TV station
• New York boys buried in snow pile heard rescuers calling
• Two shot, one killed in Chicago Nordstrom store: Chicago Tribune
• Judge orders Wal-Mart to let NYC church challenge gun sales
• St. Louis-area mall closes on Black Friday as Ferguson protests spread
• 'Gray Thursday' makes for smoother Friday shopping

Obama and daughters hit bookstore for Small Business Saturday Posted: 29 Nov 2014 12:15 PM PST By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his teenaged daughters, Sasha and Malia, went to an independent book store in Washington to buy books as a way to promote Small Business Saturday, an event aimed at boosting small businesses. "Do I get a discount for that?" the president asked jokingly while unloading a bunch of books from his shopping basket at the Politics and Prose book store on Saturday. "Maybe a neighbor's discount," the clerk joked back. It is not clear whether Obama would have taken the discount, if offered. ...

Teenage boy missing four years found alive, hidden behind wall near Atlanta Posted: 29 Nov 2014 11:27 AM PST By Richard McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - A 13-year-old boy who had been reported missing four years ago was discovered alive, hidden behind a fake wall of a home near Atlanta, Georgia, and reunited with his mother early on Saturday, police said. Five people living in the home in Jonesboro, 17 miles (28 km) south of Atlanta, were taken into custody, among them two adults who face charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children, said Sgt. Kevin Hughes of the Clayton County police. Three juveniles also in the home were facing obstruction charges, Hughes said. ...

At Portland's Ferguson protest, boy hugs officer Posted: 29 Nov 2014 10:21 AM PST A touching photo of a white police officer hugging an African-American boy at a Portland protest this week has drawn heavy attention on social media.

Taliban hit Kabul aid workers' compound, breach Camp Bastion in south Posted: 29 Nov 2014 08:57 AM PST Taliban gunmen stormed a guest house for aid workers in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday and were fighting Afghan soldiers inside former U.S. and British base Camp Bastion in the south, just a month after foreign troops left.

New York man collecting food for needy killed as thief steals his car Posted: 29 Nov 2014 08:09 AM PST (Reuters) - A Long Island, New York, man collecting food for a soup kitchen was killed when a car thief stole his car from outside a convenience store and ran him over, police said on Saturday. Before dawn on Friday, Dionel Ramirez parked his Hyundai car in the lot at a 7-Eleven store in North Bay Shore, about 35 miles east of New York City, Suffolk County Police said in a statement. The 69-year-old Ramirez was there to pick up excess food to give to the less fortunate the day after Thanksgiving, and he left the car running with the door open, police said. ...

Nigeria: Kano mosque blasts death toll above 102 Posted: 29 Nov 2014 06:13 AM PST KANO, Nigeria (AP) — More than 102 people were killed in the bomb explosions at the central mosque in this city, said a hospital worker.

A glance at national protests, cleanup in Ferguson Posted: 29 Nov 2014 05:07 AM PST ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters turned out in several U.S. cities on one of the busiest shopping days of the year Friday in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Exclusive: U.S. CEOs threaten to pull tacit Obamacare support over 'wellness' spat Posted: 29 Nov 2014 04:19 AM PST By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration's challenge to certain "workplace wellness" programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the matter. Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported President Barack Obama's healthcare reform despite concerns over several of its elements, largely because it included provisions encouraging the wellness programs. ...

Egypt court drops charges against Mubarak Posted: 29 Nov 2014 01:54 AM PST CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed criminal charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three-decade reign.

15 arrested as demonstrations return to Ferguson Posted: 29 Nov 2014 12:33 AM PST FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Disrupting commerce, transit and traffic became focal points for demonstrators across the country days after the announcement that a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Washington state woman shoots man trying to enter home: TV station Posted: 28 Nov 2014 10:54 PM PST (Reuters) - A woman shot a 22-year-old man trying to barge into her home early on Thanksgiving morning in a Seattle suburb, and he may have been drinking and gone to the home by mistake, a television station reported. The 33-year-old mother of three woke to the sound of banging on her front door at about 3 a.m. on Thursday in Edmonds, a suburb north of Seattle, the station, KING 5, said. It quoted police as saying the man pushed open the door but the woman met him at the entrance and tried to shut it. Growing concerned she might lose the struggle, she shot him in the abdomen, it added. ...

New York boys buried in snow pile heard rescuers calling Posted: 28 Nov 2014 09:32 PM PST Two boys were trapped in a snow pile for about seven hours after a plow buried them.

Two shot, one killed in Chicago Nordstrom store: Chicago Tribune Posted: 28 Nov 2014 08:46 PM PST (Reuters) - Two people were shot, and one of them killed, in a Chicago Nordstrom on Friday, sending Black Friday shoppers scattering from the store, the Chicago Tribune reported. Police discovered two people suffering from gunshot wounds when they responded to the call around 8:30 p.m., said Chicago Police spokesman Officer Thomas Sweeney. Police said it appeared to have been a domestic violence incident, and a shooter was not believed to be on the loose. They gave no further details. ...

Judge orders Wal-Mart to let NYC church challenge gun sales Posted: 28 Nov 2014 06:22 PM PST By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered Wal-Mart Stores Inc to let shareholders vote on a proposal to force tighter oversight of its sale of high-capacity guns and other potentially offensive products. U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday said the world's largest retailer wrongly excluded such a proposal from Trinity Church, a historic Wall Street church, from its June 6 annual meeting. ...

St. Louis-area mall closes on Black Friday as Ferguson protests spread Posted: 28 Nov 2014 05:01 PM PST By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Demonstrators shut down a shopping mall near Ferguson, Missouri, at the start of the holiday shopping season on Friday as protests over the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer turned on some retailers around the country. After a quiet Thanksgiving Day, protesters were out in force again to vent their anger at Monday's decision by a grand jury not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb. ...

'Gray Thursday' makes for smoother Friday shopping Posted: 28 Nov 2014 01:29 PM PST Those hunting for bargains at Minnesota retailers Friday morning found that Black Friday's steady slide back into Thanksgiving Day made for smoother shopping. By sunrise Friday, it was clear that the post-Thanksgiving ...

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