- President Bush pays a surprise visit to US troops in Baghdad, spending two and a half hours in Iraq before returning to the US
- As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a United Nations report says world hunger is getting worse, with nearly 800 million people effected.
- Housing activists move into a vacant public housing unit in SF’s Bayview neighborhood
- Budget cuts from the Schwarzenegger administration are apparently aimed at closing down a labor studies institute at the University of California