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President Barack Obama speaks at the morning plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Many Americans scale back seasonal trips or stay put

More than half of U.S. residents who wanted to travel during the holidays have cut back their plans or canceled trips altogether because of the fragile economy.

USA TODAY

Holiday travel

Yahoo! News

Cartel ‘spies’ infiltrate US customs

James Tomsheck, the assistant commissioner for internal affairs at Customs and Border Protection, sees signs that drug organizations were trying to infiltrate and corrupt border agents.

MSNBC

Leaked document: World will warm

A leaked U.N. document says the world will warm by about three degrees Celcius this century if the emissions cuts being proposed at Copenhagen are followed.

Sydney Morning Herald

Obama presses China for accountability

New York Times

White House tries to save summit

YouTube

Climate summit 'hangs in the balance'

CBC News

Tensions rise after attack in Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed up to 10 people in Pakistan, while a suspected U.S. drone killed six militants.

Reuters

Twitter hacked by 'Iranian Cyber Army'

CNN

NATION

US jobless claims rise for 2nd week

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits climbed for a second straight week but remained below the level of 500,000, government data showed.

The Age

Death penalty use declining nationwide

Use of capital punishment by states continues its steady decline, with fewer death sentences handed down in 2009 than any year since the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976.

CNN

Stimulus II: Congress ponders aid for cash-strapped states

Washington soon could come to the aid of California, New York and other cash-strapped states that face the need to raise taxes or cut spending again next year to balance their books.

Arizona Daily Star

POLITICS

In health care fight it's Dem vs. Dem

It's one of the oldest spectator sports in American politics: Democrat vs. Democrat, the health care overhaul edition.

CBS News

Senate panel clears Bernanke nomination

A Senate panel approved the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to run the nation's central bank for another four years.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Holiday spirit is still in the cards

Christmas cards have stayed on many holiday shopping lists even while big-ticket items have been erased.

Houston Chronicle

Foreign adoptions by Americans down

The number of foreign children adopted by Americans plunged more than a quarter in the past year, reaching the lowest level since 1996 and leading adoption advocates to urge Congress to help reverse the trend.

Salt Lake Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Mammals may be nearly halfway toward mass extinction

If the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species, then North American mammals are one-fifth to halfway there.

ScienceDaily

Wanderlust: the Christmas Bird Count

Honoring a cherished holiday tradition, an army of volunteers will rise at dawn this month to brave cold, rain and perhaps snow to contribute to the world's largest ongoing wildlife survey: the Christmas Bird Count.

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

IEA: Energy revolution required to combat climate change

Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million would require increasing nuclear power plants.

Scientific American

Deepest undersea volcanic eruption

Scientists unveiled rare video of the deepest underwater volcanic eruption ever seen, at a site where scorching 2,500-degree lava explodes into cold seawater nearly a mile below the ocean surface.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Nearly 70 percent of nations encounter religious restrictions

About one-third of the countries in the world have high restrictions on religion, exposing almost 70 percent of the globe's population to limitations on faith, research shows.

Pew Forum

Mix of religion, politics at center

As an ordained Episcopalian minister and retired three-term Republican senator, John Danforth has a passion for religion and politics. He is equally passionate in his concerns about how the two mix.

Springfield News Leader

Interview:

Danforth: religion, politics, and America

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

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GOOD NEWS

Abandoned newborn has gift for rescuers 20 years later

The saga began that day in September about four in the afternoon. Chris, of South Riding, Va., was "an average, ordinary high school kid trying to find his way through life," he said.

Denver Post

Giving caregivers a break — and memory-challenged seniors some fun

The Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, Calif., runs the Its Day Break program, providing adult day care for seniors with any type of memory loss.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Iraq official: Iranians seized Iraqi oil well

Iranian troops have seized an oil well in southern Iraq along their disputed border, Iraq's deputy foreign minister says.

MSNBC

Iran's government 'will not last', says Iran opposition leader Karoubi