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Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace, wait to be seated on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the presidential supplemental budget request for the Iraq and Afghanistan war efforts. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

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Bush orders cuts in US nuclear stockpile

President Bush has approved "a significant reduction" in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, cutting it to less than one-quarter its size at the end of the Cold War, the White House said.

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Arizona Daily Star

Chavez and allies take swipe at US

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and two Latin American allies accused the United States of conspiring to undermine the region's leftist governments.

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Reuters

$70 billion victory for President Bush

The Senate voted to provide $70 billion for U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing a victory to President Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill.

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Yahoo! News

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Pentagon claims progress in Iraq

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BBC

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Rice drops in on Iraq

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CBS News

Sotheby's sells Magna Carta copy for $21.3M in New York

A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta -- the version that became part of English law -- was auctioned for $21.3 million, a Sotheby's spokeswoman said.

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Guardian

Executions at 13-year low

A day after New Jersey banned executions, figures from the Death Penalty Information Center show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13-year low.

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CNN

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Americans reassert support for death penalty

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Angus Reid

NATION

Zoloft killer's 30-year sentence appealed

Attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a teen sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his grandparents when he was 12, arguing that the sentence is cruel.

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CNN

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House passes energy bill

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Reuters

Hearing ordered on destroyed CIA tapes

A federal judge has ordered a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of terror suspects.

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CNN

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Homeland insecurity

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BusinessWeek

POLITICS

Bush to visit Israel, West Bank

President Bush will make his first trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank next month to push Israel and the Palestinians toward peace and try to write his own chapter in the annals of Mideast diplomacy.

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CBS News

Obama's foreign-policy problem

Barack Obama's lack of foreign policy experience has been one of the chief arguments used against him. But should his multicultural background and his early years living abroad be dismissed?

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TIME

Huckabee stands by Christmas ad

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended a Christmas advertisement amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.

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Associated Press

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Mormons, Muslims and Multiculturalism

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Weekly Standard

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Mike Huckabee: what concerns Americans

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BUSINESS

$3 gas: America's braking point

Gasoline demand has fallen for the first time in years as drivers appear to recoil from near-record prices.

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CNNMoney

Pull out your sunglasses. Goldman Sachs' earnings report will blind you. The world's largest securities firm by market value said net income rose to $3.22 billion, or $7.01 a share, in the quarter.

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Forbes

SPORTS

Congress plans hearings on steroids

Congress announced plans to review the use of performance-enhancing drugs, with star-studded hearings scheduled next month and legislation to limit access to steroids and growth hormones.

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Tebow wins AP award

Florida star, Tim Tebow, won AP Player of the Year honors in a vote that was similar to the one that made him the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy.

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ESPN

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Report: 25 Florida State Seminoles may be bowl ineligible

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HEALTH

Aging may tinker with thirst

Scientists have a new clue about why the elderly may be vulnerable to dehydration. The problem may be caused by age-related changes in certain nerves in the mouth, throat and stomach.

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WebMD

Pakistan says no threat of bird flu pandemic after WHO testing

Pakistan said there was no threat of a pandemic from bird flu, as World Health Organization experts carried out tests in the country's northwest after eight people were infected by the virus.

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Reuters

FDA requires new contraceptive warning

Manufacturers of gels, films and other products designed to prevent pregnancy must state that they do not protect against sexually transmitted diseases, under a new federal rule.

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BusinessWeek

RELIGION

A midnight service helps African immigrants combat demons

Students, homemakers and entrepreneurs, all Christians, mostly from French-speaking Africa, attend a midnight service four nights a week to seek deliverance from lust, anger, fear and sadness.

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International Herald Tribune

On Rio's mean streets, a rare credibility

In a city that is considered one of the most dangerous in the world, with 6,000 murders a year, and where the police are distrusted at best, Pentecostals are among the few battling organized crime.

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Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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Unhealthy secrecy

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (E.J. Dionne):

Clinton's difficulties deeper than strategy

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Real Clear Politics

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Kyoto? Bali? They're miles from Georgia

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Times Online

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Lieberman's endorsement of McCain matters -- in Washington

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Guardian

This Christmas, put first things first

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Christian Science Monitor

How do you know if that loan is safe?

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Star Tribune

Don't rule out Edwards, Thompson

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Des Moines Register

Resist push for more spy power

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Denver Post

America's politics of religion

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International Herald Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Girl, 7, shields mother from gunman

7-year-old Alexis Goggins has been hailed a hero after getting hit with six bullets. The child lunged from the back seat of an SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, "Don't hurt my mother!"

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Toronto Star

Start-up company infuses philanthropy with online shopping

A San Francisco Bay Area start-up has created a way for people to donate to charity while shopping online -- without spending any additional money.

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Inside Bay Area

WORLD

New S. Korean president is former Hyundai CEO

Lee Myung-bak won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide, as voters overlooked fraud allegations in hopes the former Hyundai CEO will revive the economy.

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S. Korea's President Lee

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CNN

Train derails in Pakistan, killing 58

A crowded express train derailed in southern Pakistan, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.

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ABC News

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Pakistan train crash

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BBC

Zuma wins ANC leadership election

Jacob Zuma has defeated South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to win the leadership of the country's ruling ANC.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Air quality forecasts see future in space

With the help of NASA satellites, researchers are working to broaden daily forecasts to include predictions of air quality, a feat that is becoming reality in some parts of the world.

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Fish swim north as seas warm

As their ocean homes overheat, some fish species are swimming north again for the first time in hundreds of years to seek out cooler waters.

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LiveScience

New Year's resolution: shed carbon

Three-quarters of Americans, the world's largest polluters, plan to be more environmentally responsible in 2008 by reducing household energy or recycling more, a survey showed.

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Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Black hole inside 'death star galaxy' fires on sister galaxy

According to NASA, a black hole at the center of a large galaxy is assaulting its smaller sister galaxy with a jet full of deadly radiation. The two galaxies, called 3C321, are in orbit about each other.

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iTWire

Apple talks iPhone with Japanese carriers

Apple Inc. has been in talks with several Japanese mobile service companies as it searches for a partner before introducing the iPhone to Japan.

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A new way to vote?

In the history of U.S. presidential elections, the fall of 2000 is notorious for the debacle that occurred. However, there is a mathematical, but controversial, idea for fixing the flaws in voting.

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Newsweek

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Vatican blasts 'Golden Compass' as Godless and hopeless

The Vatican condemned the film "The Golden Compass," which some have called anti-Christian, saying it promotes a cold and hopeless world without God.

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Reuters

Late-night campaigning

Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien plan to return with fresh episodes on Jan. 2 -- good news for the 47% of the under-30 set who get information about campaigns from late-night talk shows.

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Forbes

Jackson ready for Hobbit action

New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson have made nice in their blood feud over The Lord of the Rings royalties, paving the way for the Oscar-winning filmmaker to oversee an epic version of The Hobbit.

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E! Online

EDUCATION

China sex ring teachers convicted

Two school teachers have been sentenced to death in China for forcing more than 20 young girls -- including some of their own pupils -- into prostitution.

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BBC

HISD bonds under fire again

Three families have filed a lawsuit in Houston, alleging discrimination against poor and minority children and asking a judge to stop the sale of bonds for new school construction.

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Houston Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Study claims tubers, not meat, made early humans excel

New evidence shows amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch into glucose in the mouth, may have helped humans evolve to their dominant position within species.

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iTWire

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Iraqis enjoy a ride at Amusement City in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, at the start of the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha. Security will be increased at Baghdad's mosques and other holy sites ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, an Iraqi official said. (Photo by Karim Kadim / AP)

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