| Geithner likely treasury pick; Clinton 'on track' (AP) [11 mins][Hoboken, NJ] AP - President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said Friday. | Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest (AP) [35 mins][Iraq] AP - Chanting "no to America, " supporters of a radical Shiite cleric burned an effigy of President George W. Bush Friday in a protest demanding parliament scuttle a U.S.-Iraqi security pact and American troops begin withdrawing from Iraq immediately. |