At the First Obama State Dinner, the First Crashers  —  WASHINGTON — This much is known: About 7:15 Tuesday night, a glittering blonde, decked out in a red and gold sari, holding the hand of her black-tuxedoed escort, swept past the camera crews and reporters camped out to catch …

Uh, oh - raw data in New Zealand tells a different story than the “official” one.  —  Reposted from TBR.cc Investigate magazine's breaking news forum:  —  New Zealand's NIWA accused of CRU-style temperature faking  —  The New Zealand Government's chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire …

Obama's Thanksgiving proclamation  —  By The Associated Press (AP) - 16 hours ago  —  President Barack Obama's Thanksgiving Day proclamation, as released by the White House:  —  What began as a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities nearly four centuries ago …

China's backing on Iran followed dire predictions  —  Before Obama's visit, NSC warned leaders of Mideast turmoil  —  Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a “special mission” to try to persuade China to pressure Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.

Transcript: Health Care Debate  —  “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” with Sens. Nelson, Coburn, Reps. Wasserman Schultz and Blackburn  —  COBURN: Here's the question.  Here's the question we ought to be asking.  Do these recommendations make sense from a cost standpoint?

Emirate has a lot of explaining to do  —  It came in a short statement about the restructuring of Dubai World, one of the emirate's biggest and best-known companies, with the big news buried near the end.  —  But the decision to ask bondholders of the company and its most troubled subsidiary …

Explosive- Climategate Files Were Leaked to BBC But They Refused to Cover the Story  —  The scandal grows...  It looks like the New York Times is not the only news organization to ignore the greatest scandal in modern science.  —  BBC joins in to “Hide the Decline"-

Comment Columnists / Lorrie Goldstein  —  Why ‘climategate’ won't stop greens

On Thanksgiving eve, Obama issues special Hajj message to world's Muslims  —  (UPDATE: A news video update on the Hajj has been added below.)  —  Statement by the President on Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, as provided by the White House  —  Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes …

Obama and fellow Democrats at odds about troop increase for Afghanistan  —  Caucus wouldn't back a costly expansion of Afghan war  —  President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is likely …