The news that’s not about dead Indians:
- President-Elect Obama is expected today to announce the appointments of Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates as the Secretaries of State and Defense, respectively.
- 20,000 U.S. troops are expected to be stationed within U.S. borders by 2011, courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security.
- CNN is taking on the AP with their very own newswire.
- American students are flocking to universities abroad in record numbers.
- Jorn Utzon, the architect who designed the Sydney Opera House, has died in Denmark.
- The BBC has made contact with the pirates who are famously dominating the Somalian coast, via a 12-year-old child.
- Taking a cue from Caesar Bloomberg in New York, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez wants to amend his country’s constitution to allow him to run for office in spite of previously established term limits.
- The goverment of the Indonesian province of Papua wants to implant HIV sufferers with microchips.