The Agriculture Department reports that 691,000 children went hungry in this country last year -- a rise of more than 50 percent from 2006. Overall, almost one in eight Americans say they struggled to feed themselves in 2007.

Bleeding red ink and plagued by weak auto sales, Detroit's automakers will make a plea before the Senate Banking Committee today for an additional $25 billion, which they believe will help avert a collapse of one or more of their companies before year's end.
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Democratic and Republican senators vote separately today on the fate of two colleagues -- Joe Lieberman and Ted Stevens. Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, appears likely to hold onto a prized committee chairmanship, despite the fact that he campaigned for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. And Republicans will consider whether to expel from their conference Ted Stevens, who was recently convicted in a federal corruption trial.

Police release a video interview of an 8-year-old boy accused of shooting his father and another man dead. In the video, the third-grader says he found the men lying in his home upon returning from school Nov. 5. Police say the boy, facing two counts of murder as a juvenile, has separately confessed to the killings.

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Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker holding about $100 million in oil anchor the vessel off the coast of Somalia. The ship's crew of 25 is being held hostage.

Authorities believe a person may have accidentally set one of three wildfires in Southern California that have destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and apartments and charred 42,000 acres. Also See: More Wildfire News