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Speaking from West Point military academy, President Barack Obama outlined a new Afghanistan strategy that includes deploying 34,000 additional troops beginning in early 2010. Below is the full text of his remarks, as provided by the White House.

Ahead of President Barack Obama's address to the nation, Gwen Ifill speaks with policymakers to gauge reaction to the president's Afghanistan strategy that calls for deploying 30,000 additional troops.

Judy Woodruff reports on the White House's Afghanistan briefing, and then columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sit down with Jim Lehrer to preview President Obama's Afghanistan announcement.

In other news, Iraq reported a much lower civilian death toll in November than in the past few years, and the Iranian vice president defended his country's resolve to not cooperate with U.N. uranium enrichment recommendations.

Four police officers were killed in Washington state Sunday while waiting for their shifts to start. Jeffrey Brown speaks with a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter for more on the manhunt for the suspected shooter.

A profile of 88-year-old poet Marie Ponsot, who published her sixth collection of poems last month called "Easy."

Marie Ponsot has published several books of poems, including most recently, "Springing" (2002) and "The Bird Catcher" (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

President Obama began to fill in world leaders about his new Afghan strategy in Afghanistan. Ray Suarez speaks with a New York Times reporter for more.

Global Post correspondent Ben Gilbert gets reactions from U.S. troops stationed in Kandahar to President Obama's plan to deploy more troops to Afghanistan.

In Colorado, Tom Bearden visited Fort Carson Army base to speak with troops ahead of President Obama's unveiling of his new Afghanistan plan.

After months of tensions following the ousting of Honduras' top leader, the country elected a new president on Sunday. Margaret Warner reports.

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Nov. 29: CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla speaks with msnbc military analyst Barry McCaffrey.

Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks go over the week's headlines, including President Obama's upcoming Afghanistan announcement and his promise to curb carbon emissions.

In other news, Iran was censured Friday by the United Nations for refusing to cooperate with a uranium program recommended by the U.N.'s nuclear agency, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached out to the Taliban in hopes of bargaining a truce.

Kwame Holman has a look at how consumers are changing their shopping habits during this year's Black Friday because of the financial crisis.