New York Giants' Plaxico Burress, left, leaves Manhattan Supreme Court after his arraignment, accompanied by his lawyer Benjamin Brafman on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Burress appeared in court on weapons possession charges stemming from an incident at a Manhattan nightclub Friday. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year. The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress on Tuesday for four games — the rest of the regular season — after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide receiver couldn’t come back for playoffs, either.

Chart compares the percentage of military service members getting divorced this year and last; 1 c x 2 7/8 in; 46.5 mm x 73.025 mmAP - The divorce rate among soldiers and Marines increased last year as military marriages suffered continuing stress from America’s two ongoing wars. There were an estimated 10,200 failed marriages in the active duty Army and 3,077 among Marines, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press for the budget year ended Sept. 30.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, archivist Ira Pemstein listens online to the newly released tape recordings from the Nixon White House, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008 at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. Documents shed new light on just how much the government struggled with growing public unrest over the protracted war in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - In Richard Nixon’s time, all the president’s men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost.

AP - A message in a bottle tossed into the ocean off Barnegat Bay has turned up in North Carolina — 39 years later. The note was sealed in a Schaefer beer bottle. It was dated Aug. 17, 1969 and read: “If found notify the North Haledon Fire Co. 2.”

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is pictured during a joint press conference after the Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels. NATO agreed Tuesday to gradually resume high-level talks with Russia, which were frozen over the August conflict in the Caucasus, and to deepen ties with former Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine.(AFP/John Thys)AFP - NATO agreed to gradually resume high-level talks with Russia, frozen over the August conflict in the Caucasus, and to deepen ties with former Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine.

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