News Bits

- Protesters refuse to leave Thai airport until changes in government are made; tourists stuck in Thailand as no flights are leaving.
- Bailouts: white-collar favored over blue-collar?
- Food stamp use close to an all-time high.
- Robert Gates will stay on as Defense Secretary for at least the first year of the Obama administration.
- Former First Lady Barbara Bush hospitalized in Houston last night.
- Why a California woman abandoned her teenage son in Nebraska.
- Girl group trying to make it in Saudi Arabia.
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