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Shoppers are photographed on 34th Street, in New York. Stores are rolling out the deals and expect to be swimming in shoppers on Christmas Eve as shopping stragglers take advantage of a day off work. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

Christmas Eve shopping rush to mob mall

Holiday procrastinators are preparing to zoom through picked-over stores, grabbing discounted sweaters and can’t-go-wrong gift cards.

USA TODAY

Christmas crunch time boost for retailers

CBS News

Obama plans for restful Hawaiian retreat

President Barack Obama has Hawaiian vacation plans for plenty of private time with his family, walks on the beach, rounds of golf and leisure reading.

Baltimore Sun

Santa Claus is coming to town: US radar tracks his progress

Father Christmas has taken off from the North Pole and is on his way to see you, according to a U.S. and Canadian defense organization that is tracking his sleigh’s progress across the globe.

Guardian

Santa tracker

YouTube

US approved billions in business with blacklisted nations

The U.S. government has granted special licenses allowing American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism.

New York Times

As sanctions cut trade, Iran considers options

NPR

Investing in Iran

CNBC

Seeking to heal, wounded warriors return to Iraq

When soldiers sustain traumatic injuries, the psychological damage may be the hardest to repair. A new program is designed to heal the deepest wounds by providing veterans with a week in Iraq.

NPR

Even 1 Christmas later, health care reform celebration seems premature

It was the ultimate Christmas Eve present for President Barack Obama. Every Democratic senator in office — 60 in all — voted in favor of enacting comprehensive health care reform.

TIME

Russian parliament tentatively approves arms pact

Russia’s lower house of parliament gave preliminary approval to a U.S.-Russian arms treaty, but have decided to delay the final vote.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Green design spree aims to trim US government’s big energy bill

With $25 billion in annual power and fuel costs, the U.S. government is the largest single energy consumer in the nation and among the largest in the world.

National Geographic

On the horizon: liquid fuels made by sunlight

NPR

Get while the getting’s good, forecasters tell holiday travelers

Fair weather helped make the holiday sojourn a not-so-painful experience in much of the country, even with more people hitting the roads and skies, but travelers’ good luck might be running out.

Baltimore Sun

WikiLeaks: Army opens probe into how Manning stole files

The U.S. Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private allegedly downloaded hundreds of thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handed them to WikiLeaks.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Congress approves revised defense authorization bill

Congress approved a revised version of the defense authorization bill that provides leeway on how to spend the Pentagon budget, sending it to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.

CNN

EPA presents plan on greenhouse gases. Can next Congress stop it?

Setting the stage for a battle over greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency laid out a timetable for the nation’s largest carbon emitters to begin curbing those pollutants.

Christian Science Monitor

Dirty money, dysfunction: the Congress retiring members leave behind

In an ABC News exclusive interview, four retiring representatives sat down with political correspondent Jonathan Karl for a look at their time in the U.S. Congress.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IBM expects to see holographic phone calls, air-powered batteries by 2015

By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3-D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business Machines Corp. sees in its crystal ball.

Bloomberg

World’s largest neutrino detector completed at South Pole

With 86 strings of detectors reaching down 2.5 kilometers into Antarctic ice, the IceCube observatory is now finished.

Scientific American

Special section:

South Pole neutrino dectector

IceCube

Balloon detects cosmic rays hitting Earth

A giant balloon made out of a material similar to sandwich wrap was launched from Antarctica, where it will use its scientific payload to monitor cosmic rays showering down on Earth.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

From college to front lines in Korea

After North Korea’s attack on Yeonpyeong Island, the mood is still tense on the streets of Seoul, especially following the largest ever winter live-fire drill and civil defense exercise.

CNN

Experts begin to identify nonacademic skills key to success

Researchers are going beyond identifying the subjects students need and homing in on the skills that contribute to success.

Education Week

SPORTS

Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor among 5 players suspended by NCAA

Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor has been suspended along with four other football players for the first five games of the 2011 season, the NCAA said.

NY Daily News

Ohio State football players sanctioned

ESPN

Red Wings battle Blues without Datsyuk

With playmaking center Pavel Datsyuk out, Central Division-leading Detroit goes for a fourth straight victory over the St. Louis Blues at Scottrade Center.

Sports Network

Niners agree to lease extension with San Francisco through 2014

Even though the San Francisco 49ers’ long-term goal is to play football at a new stadium in Santa Clara, the team has renewed its lease to continue playing at Candlestick Park.

San Jose Mercury News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial (Ron Dzwonkowski):

’Twas the flight across Mich.

Detroit Free Press

Editorial (Marie Szaniszlo):

Tye that can’t be broken

Boston Herald

Column (Kate Gordon and Bracken Hendricks):

‘Made in America’ is the gift that keeps on giving

Grist

Editorial:

Taking note of the day

Cape Cod Times

Blog (Robert Reich):

American education under attack

Robert Reich's Blog

(Christian Science Monitor)

Editorial:

America saves national honor as Senate passes health bill for 9/11 responders

NY Daily News

Blog (Spencer Ackerman):

Shadow wars get big bucks in last-minute defense bill

(Wired)

Danger Room

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

UN to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning

(Salon)

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GOOD NEWS

Researchers train software to help monitor climate change

A computer program that automatically analyzes data could help climate scientists track constantly changing environmental conditions, according to researchers.

ScienceDaily

Survivor now on giving side of charity

Jessica Jamil would like to thank all the people who helped raise her: the probation officers, the social workers, the Secret Santas and the charities, because living with her real family nearly killed her.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Parcel bombs strike 2 embassies in Rome

Parcel bombs exploded at two embassies in Rome in a coordinated attack that raised new fears in Europe, which has been on high alert for a possible terrorist attack by Islamist radicals ahead of the holidays.

New York Times

Twin blasts target embassies in Rome

MSNBC

New cars in Beijing cut by two-thirds to battle traffic

New rules have taken effect in China that restrict car purchases in an effort to combat serious traffic problems in Beijing.

BBC

BUSINESS

US consumer spending, investment up

Americans increased spending and companies stepped up orders for equipment, evidence the U.S. economy is gaining momentum heading into 2011.

Bloomberg

Holiday windows

CBS News

Fed could have saved smaller banks

The Federal Reserve Board missed a chance to prevent much of the financial chaos ravaging many small banks.

Belleville News Democrat

Rate strategist: Fed should not cut QE2 short

CNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Rediscovered ancient text tells a different 3 wise men tale

An ancient text called the “Revelation of the Magi” has been rediscovered and tells a very different version of the three wise men’s journey to Bethlehem.

ABC News

Gaza Christians leave for Bethlehem

More than 500 members of the Gaza‘s Christian community will participate in Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem.

USA TODAY

In Bethlehem tourism is only for a few

The Independent

HEALTH

Maybe Scrooge couldn’t help being so hard-hearted

Hard-hearted Scrooge may not have been able to help being so mean. That’s because affluent people, despite their generally higher level of education, are less able to read the emotions of others.

HealthDay

’Tis the season to be sniffly

Winter months may hail the end of high pollen counts, but the holiday season has a slew of allergy woes all its own.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Magma chamber surprisingly close to Hawaii’s surface?

A giant magma chamber burning beneath the Hawaiian Islands is closer to the surface than any other magma chamber yet measured — as little as 1.9 to 2.5 miles below the surface, scientists say.

National Geographic

Obama to restore wilderness rules for public lands

The Obama administration plans to reverse a Bush-era policy and make millions of undeveloped acres of land once again eligible for federal wilderness protection.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cable TV’s ratings put networks on notice

Cable networks have been challenging broadcasters’ hold on TV viewers, but the big networks’ fall is proof of a new parity.

USA TODAY

Futurology: the tricky art of knowing what will happen next

A 1972 book which predicts what life would be like in 2010 has been reprinted after attracting a cult following, but how hard is it to tell the future?

BBC

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