Gabriel Falcon
AC360° Writer

Tommy Silverstein has not one, but two personal web sites. He was also caged under Leavenworth for decades, and is the reason the ultimate maximum security penitentiary was built. His fellow inmates now include Ramzi Yousef, Ted Kaczynski, Richard Reid and Eric Rudolph.

Joe Klein
TIME.com

Lord, things are moving fast…and also not. The stock market is moving south–fast. The number of jobless claims are moving north–fast. Economic panic is in the air…and the atmosphere is Washington is changing faster than a speeding ballot (ouch, sorry).

Lisa Ling
AC360° Special Correspondent

I’m so upset by what I experienced here today that I can barely think straight.

I’m in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, a place essential to the U.S. economy.
The communities along the delta literally live atop a virtual goldmine—black gold that literally make’s the world’s engines run. Oil. Underneath the surface of the ground here, lies one of the richest sources of crude oil on the planet.

David Schechter
CNN Senior National Editor

The young man, wearing a shirt and a tie, turned up just as the pantry operated by an Iowa food bank was closing for the night. He knew it was after-hours. That’s why he was there. He kept his gaze downward as he told the woman from the food bank that he had lost his job, had a wife and kids and was too embarrassed and ashamed to stand in line to receive a bag of groceries that hopefully would feed his family for a week…

An 8-year-old boy charged as a juvenile in the killings of his father and a family friend following a controversial videotaped police interrogation will be able to spend Thanksgiving at home with his mother under a court-approved furlough.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta | BIO
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent

Last night, Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech. CNN had a camera rolling during the event, giving us an unusual look at what happened. I got a call in the middle of the night to come take a look…

Jack Gray
AC360 Associate Producer

Sorry, that sound you heard last night was me screaming. I was having that dream again. The one where I’m a turkey being put to my death and Sarah Palin is standing in front of me laughing. I’m assuming you’ve seen the now famous video from yesterday. No wonder she needed that $150,000 from the RNC for new clothes. Her old clothes were probably still covered in blood from last Christmas, when she blew Rudolph’s head off.

Carol J. Williams
The Los Angeles Times

A federal appeals court Thursday threw out the conviction of an Arizona man in the 1991 killings of nine worshipers at a Buddhist temple, ruling that police had coerced the then-17-year-old’s confession by interrogating him for 12 hours without a lawyer or supportive adult present.

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