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As part of the regular poetry segment on NPR's Morning Edition, we are asking you to send us what about American you are most thankful for. Kwame Alexander will turn your responses into a poem.

NPR's Life Kit wants to hear from you about friendships, how to do it right and what makes grown-up friendships so dang difficult.

NPR wants to know how you're being affected by falling stock values or the rising price of gas, food and utilities.

The Iraqi people, not U.S.-led forces, will defeat the country's insurgency, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says. He also says the U.S. military is working to reduce the size of its forces in Iraq. He says in an NPR interview that it has taken six to eight years to put down major insurgencies elsewhere, and the challenge is to get most U.S troops out of Iraq much sooner than that.

President Bush's public approval rating lags those of other recent second-term presidents, a new pre-inaugural poll shows. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

This Wednesday, the Iraqi National Assembly elected six weeks ago will have its first session. But talks are still under way to form a government before then, between the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

The California Supreme Court rules that San Francisco's mayor overstepped his authority last February when he led the city in issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. The ruling invalidates the unions of more than 4,000 same-sex couples who got married before the court shut down ceremonies in March. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Richard Gonzales

Congress extends for another five years President Bush's tax cuts reducing the so-called marriage penalty and boosting credits to those with children. Despite concerns over a budget deficit, few lawmakers opposed cutting taxes a few weeks before November elections. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Taipei 101, the world's tallest building, will be officially inaugurated in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 31. Designing the 1,666-foot skyscraper in the earthquake- and typhoon-prone region presented engineers with quite a challenge. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and structural engineering consultant Dennis Poon.

The Supreme Court hears arguments testing whether it is cruel and unusual punishment to execute people for crimes committed when they were 16 and 17 years old. There are currently 72 men on death row for crimes committed when they were 16 or 17. Hear NPR's Nina Totenberg.