USA Today Top Online Stories: Mon 11/22/10

The USA Today lead headline online early Monday morning says "TSA chief: Screenings should be 'minimally invasive'" The paper says the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that he would try to make airport screening "as minimally invasive as possible," softening his assertion hours earlier that the agency would not ease the aggressive pat-downs that have rankled passengers and lawmakers.

It says worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, widely blamed as the chief cause of global warming, dropped from 2008 to 2009, largely because of the global economic slowdown, according to a study released Sunday. It was the first decline since the late 1990s.

The paper says workers found buried treasure when they yanked down drywall during a renovation of a University of Rhode Island building in July. Behind the plaster were six murals painted 71 years ago by Gino Conti — works that art historians had thought were lost.

It says as the championship coronation began for the fifth consecutive time, Jimmie Johnson seemed briefly dumbstruck while gazing through a shower of confetti and up at the crowd at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

The paper says North Korea's claim of a new, highly sophisticated uranium enrichment facility could be a ploy to win concessions in nuclear talks or an attempt to bolster leader Kim Jong Il's apparent heir.

And the most popular story on USA Today says "Barbara Bush hopes Sarah Palin stays in Alaska."