Shuttle lands...Pakistani held by India...Obama set to name security team

EDWARDS Air Force BASE, Calif. (AP) Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts are safely back on Earth. The space shuttle landed today at Edwards Air Force Base in California after being diverted there by stormy weather at NASA's Florida spaceport.

MUMBAI, India (AP) A senior Indian police officer says the only gunman to be captured by police after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai is claiming to be from a Pakistani militant group. India had already blamed "elements" from Pakistan for the deadly siege.

Pakistan is still insisting that India produce evidence of Pakistani involvement.

Washington (AP) The names have been out there, but Democratic officials are confirming whom President-elect Barack Obama will announce for his national security team tomorrow. They say it's Hillary Rodham CLinton as secretary of state and Robert Gates staying on as defense secretary. Others include Washington lawyer Eric Holder as attorney general and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary.

ATLANTA (AP) sarah palin is going to Georgia, to campaign for Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. He's facing a runoff on Tuesday against a Democratic challenger, after neither of them got more than 50 percent of the vote on Nov. 4. Palin is being called in to rally conservatives. She'll attend a private fundraiser tonight, and rallies across the state tomorrow.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Thanksgiving seems to have put weekend movie crowds in the mood for more family gatherings. The Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn comedy "Four Christmases," in which the couple suffer through four of them debuted No. 1 at the box office, earning nearly $32 million. The animated family Film "Bolt" and the vampire romance "Twilight" were second and third.

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