Jobless numbers and foreclosures are skyrocketing. The stock market is plummeting. The auto industry is teetering on the edge of collapse. Analysts are wondering: Who's skippering the ship? "Somebody has to speak up soon," said CNN senior political analyst David Gergen. "The White House is silent ... and the president-elect is silent in Chicago."
Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said.