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Vice President-elect Joe Biden speaking at a press conference with President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago. (Photo by AP)

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Where'd the bailout money go?

After billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it.

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Newsweek

Suspected US drones kill 7 in Pakistan

U.S. forces in Afghanistan, frustrated by a spreading Taliban insurgency supported by militant enclaves in northwest Pakistan, have stepped up strikes by pilotless drones despite Pakistani objections.

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Reuters

Expert: TSA screening is security theater

Travelers feel so hassled by the screeners that the Transportation Security Administration launched an image campaign to convince the public that there's a good reason for the indignities.

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CBS News

Vice Pres.-elect Joe Biden to run middle class task force

The goal is to recommend proposals to ensure the middle class is "no longer being left behind." Proposals could include executive orders and legislative plans.

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CBS News

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What Obama promised Biden

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CNN

'A sudden, terrible stillness'

A passenger on Continental flight 1404 describes the crash.

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Newsweek

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Brakes looked at in runway incident

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Reuters

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Fire chief: 'A surreal scene'

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CNN

Toyota acknowleges its first operating loss in 70 years

The Japanese automaker, which has a reputation for turning a profit even in hard times, said it is freezing expansion plans, suspending executive bonuses and reviewing its dividend payout.

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Financial Times

Ethiopia holds Somalia crisis talks

Ethiopia is assembling emergency meetings on the deepening crisis in its neighbor, Somalia. Ethiopia will withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of December.

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BBC

NATION

Liquidated at Circuit City

The recession has claimed thousands of jobs, but unemployment is having a secondary effect on retailers. It has killed consumer confidence, and hawkers of expensive gadgets have been hit hard.

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CNET News

Obama's hiring: 330,000 applicants vie for administration jobs

More than 330,000 people have applied for top jobs in the Obama administration, in an unprecedented outpouring of interest spurred by his election.

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USA Today

POLITICS

Secret tapes, cooperative grandmother helped build graft cases in Illinois

The public corruption probe that led to the arrest of Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich got its first big break when a grandmother of six walked into a breakfast meeting with shakedown artists wearing an FBI wire.

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MSNBC

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What really happened with Jackson Jr. and the feds

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Chicago Sun-Times

Building back the economy

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes the call to boost the economy by investing in infrastructure.

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Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

Western US energy boom could threaten drinking water for 1 in 12 Americans

As more land is leased for drilling and a last-minute change in federal rules has paved the way for water-intensive oil shale mining, politicians and water managers ask which is more valuable: energy or water.

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Pro Publica

New green world waits in the wings

Mid-December brought developments at global, national, state and local levels in the race to reverse global warming and grow the economy.

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People's Weekly World

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Burrowing black holes devoured first stars from within

Physicists speculate that minuscule black holes may have been forged in the very dense soup of matter and radiation that prevailed in the first moments of the universe's existence.

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SpaceShipTwo’s carrier makes first flight

A carrier aircraft designed to be the first stage of a commercial spaceline system makes its maiden test flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

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MSNBC

HEALTH

What your loneliness is telling you

According to the new science of loneliness, those holiday blues have an important message for you.

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Salon.com

Thinking sex can make you sneeze

A bout of sneezing can give a lot more away than the fact that you’ve got a cold, says a researcher, who claims that going “atishoo” can also be triggered by sexy thoughts.

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RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Madoff scandal ignites outpouring of anti-Semitism online

Bernard Madoff's bust for perpetrating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme has stoked up the anti-Semites - never mind that his biggest victims were other Jews.

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Pope praises Galileo's astronomy

Pope Benedict XVI has paid tribute to 17th-Century astronomer Galileo Galilei, whose scientific theories once drew the wrath of the Catholic Church.

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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3-legged stool of immigration reform

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Real Clear Politics

More losses for Senate Republicans?

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National Journal

Guess who doesn't like the press

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Weekly Standard

Caroline Kennedy's campaign

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The Nation

Do bailouts signal the end of democracy?

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Christian Science Monitor

Editorial (Neal Pollack):

What If LeBron James joined the Knicks?

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Slate

The power of prayer

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Newsweek

Column (John Cloud):

The problem for gays with Rick Warren

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Time

Editorial (James Klurfeld):

Time to get real on the Russian front

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Newsday

Column (Marisa Treviño):

Southern states need AIDS strategy

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USA Today

Franken is winning, and Coleman knows it

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Five Thirty Eight

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GOOD NEWS

Teen's dying wish creates new hope for ailing orphans

She was a volunteer from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the charity that helps dreams come true for children with life-threatening ailments. He was a boy with a time bomb in his brain.

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Associated Press

A random act of Christmas kindness

What's wrong with doing good? Four housemates decided it was time to forget recession, cast off the gloom and start to make a difference

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The Independent

WORLD

Turn screw on Mugabe, US urges

The United States called on African governments to force President Robert Mugabe from power, saying it had dropped support for the troubled agreement under which he was supposed to share power.

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Guardian

Nervous Russia stomps dissent

"Our authorities want no protests seen on the streets to maintain the illusion that they still have the support of the majority of the population," says Oleg Kulikov, a leading Communist State Duma deputy.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Police break up Russian protests

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BBC

BUSINESS

A business owner's guide to advertising

Forget the Yellow Pages. Try these nifty online services instead.

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Forbes

Executive pay: time for a trim

FedEx made headlines when, in an effort to save costs, it cut the salary of its founder and chief executive. But FedEx is not the only company reducing executive salaries in the face of a deepening recession.

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BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Giants rush past Panthers in OT, earn NFC's top seed

With the enticement of a No. 1 seed dangling in the cold, persistent wind at Giants Stadium, the New York Giants took the bait and ran with it. Literally.

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USA Today

50 years since "greatest game ever"

Fifty years ago the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts took the NFL title game to sudden death in what came to be known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

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Reuters

EDUCATION

California judge blocks mandatory algebra testing

A judge blocked a plan to make California the first state in the nation to require algebra testing for all eighth-graders.

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USA Today

New School protests ex-pol's leadership

Dissent is woven deep into the fabric of the New School, but things took a nasty turn when professors and students blasted university president and Democratic Party maverick Bob Kerrey.

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CBS News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Jim Carrey's "Yes Man" tops box office

Jim Carrey got positive results at the weekend box office with his comedy "Yes Man," which triumphed over Will Smith's new drama "Seven Pounds," according to studio estimates.

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CNBC

Google and Warner Music row threaten YouTube music offerings

Music videos from Madonna and Led Zeppelin are among those that have started to disappear from YouTube after a row between the Web site’s owner, Google, and the record label Warner Music.

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London Independent

Photo of the Day

A woman holds a lit candle at Tundergarth Church, near Lockerbie in Scotland, to mark the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270 people were killed. (Photo by James Glossop / AP )

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