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A gold South African Krugerrand — worth about $1,700 — was found in a Salvation Army kettle outside a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania this week. This is not the first time this has happened. The coins seem to appear almost every year near Gettysburg.

Lawyers for some of the nation's largest retailers say Visa and MasterCard illegally thwarted for years the growth of debit-card networks, The Wall Street Journal reports. The allegations stem from recently unsealed court documents from a class-action suit that includes Wal-Mart and Sears. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Retailers set sales records as the holiday shopping season gets underway. Discounter Wal-Mart had its biggest one-day sales ever, hawking $1.43 billion of merchandise. Trend analyst Shoppertrak says U.S. retailers report a 12 percent sales increase over last year. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

Also: Yemen's Saleh hands over power to hand-picked successor; WikiLeaks starts releasing security firm Stratfor's emails; gunfire breaks out at an Ohio high school.

Also: "Relief rally" follows news of Spanish bailout; coma rumors swirl about Mubarak; Nadal wins record seventh French Open; France heads toward leftist government.

The deputy commander of the Yemeni-based terrorist network was reportedly killed along with six other militants.

The at-times contentious debate featuring Republican Tom Horne and current Superintendent of Public Education Kathy Hoffman featured exchanges over school shutdowns prompted by COVID-19.

Abu Anas al-Libi is accused of orchestrating the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was captured during a commando raid in Libya.

The publicly-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year. The Wikimedia Foundation gas released a breakdown of those numbers.

Party City was once unmatched in its vast selection of affordable celebration goods. But over the years, competition stacked up at Walmart, Target, Spirit Halloween, and especially Amazon.