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President Bush waves as he arrives to make remarks on the budget in New Albany, Ind., in this Nov. 13, 2007, file photo. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief

As British forces finally handed over security in Basra province, Major General Jalil Khalaf, the new police commander, said the occupation had left him with a situation close to mayhem.

Guardian

The ‘body contractors’

Newsweek

Al-Qaida jeers security handover

Reuters

Nation prepares for shift to digital TV

The federal government is gearing up for the day when TV stations will stop broadcasting analog signals, which means that old rabbit ears and rooftop antennas will no longer work with analog TV.

McClatchy Newspapers

The crux of US budget battle: How to pay?

The Congressional Budget Office said that the federal budget is on an "unsustainable path." The reason: The government is spending more for interest payments on the federal debt, now topping $9 trillion.

Christian Science Monitor

Congress presents $500 billion spending bill

NPR

Russia makes 1st nuke shipment to Iran

Russia has made its first shipment of nuclear fuel to an Iranian nuclear power plant at the center of the international tensions over Tehran's atomic program, the Foreign Ministry said.

ABC News

Russia ignores West's Iran fears

BBC

Free trade zones ease passage of counterfeit drugs

Counterfeiters use free trade zones to hide a drug's provenance, or to make, market or relabel adulterated products, according to anticounterfeiting experts.

International Herald Tribune

US and Peru sign free trade deal

Al Jazeera

Americans split on benefits of free trade

Angus Reid

NATION

Farms lure families for the holidays

Bleating sheep may not be the expected soundtrack for a holiday vacation, but some farm families in Nebraska and elsewhere are hoping to change that with an old-fashioned holiday celebration.

USA Today

Guatemala adoptions: a baby trade?

This year, U.S. families have adopted more than 4,700 Guatemalan children. This means one in every 100 Guatemalan children grows up a U.S. citizen. But that could all be about to change.

BBC

When adoption goes wrong

Newsweek

Storm buries northeast, leaves 3 dead

A wind-blown brew of snow, sleet and freezing rain cut visibility and iced over highways from the Great Lakes to New England, stranding air and road travelers and causing a jetliner to skid off a runway.

ABC News

Tough Monday commute

MSNBC

POLITICS

John Edwards: the road warrior

Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards can still win by wrapping up smaller, far-flung precincts.

Newsweek

Clinton trumpets key Iowa endorsement

Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and her supporters are on a "99-county blitz" through Iowa in the crucial week before Christmas, leading up to the state's caucuses Jan. 3.

ABC News

Democrats unveil budget bill that meets Bush's limits

Bloomberg

Caucus calculus: a guide to Iowa

NPR

Ron Paul raises $4.5 million for White House bid from Internet donors

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an anti-war libertarian who has clashed with his rivals over Iraq, raised a record $4.5 million in a one-day Internet fundraising event, his campaign said.

Reuters

Lieberman to endorse McCain

Sen. John McCain, trying to build momentum toward a reprise of his 2000 New Hampshire primary victory, is piling up high-profile endorsements, including one from Sen. Joseph Lieberman.

Associated Press

BUSINESS

Unimpressive weekend has retailers nervous this holiday season

Following a lukewarm shopping weekend, the nation’s stores are now focusing their attention on the final week leading to Christmas, as consumers seem to be postponing their buying to the last minute.

MSNBC

Volkswagen says global VW sales up

Global sales of Volkswagen brand passenger cars increased 10.3 percent year-on-year in November to 324,000 vehicles, the German carmaker said.

Reuters

Greenspan: US moving closer to recession

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said that even though it seems more probable that the U.S. is headed into a recession, that the likelihood of a recession is not already higher.

ABC News

SPORTS

Favre sets all-time passing yards mark

Brett Favre became the NFL career leader in yards passing, overtaking Dan Marino for his latest achievement in a milestone season.

ESPN

Yankees pitcher admits to doping

New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte has admitted that he used human growth hormone (HGH) on two occasions in 2002 while he was recovering from injury.

BBC

HEALTH

Body clock 'control switch' found

Researchers say they have identified the chemical switch that controls the genetic mechanism regulating people's internal body clocks. The discovery may lead to more effective drugs to treat sleep disorders.

BBC

Shorter breast cancer treatment works

A more convenient three-week course of radiation works just as well as the five-week schedule that is typically given to women after breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer, researchers report.

WebMD

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GOOD NEWS

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a rescue craft!

An inventor has created a tiny, skeletal aircraft he hopes will revolutionize the business of disaster relief.

Good News Network

Another degree of success comes at 87

Unless someone knows of someone older, Clarence Garrett, 87, just became the oldest graduate in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

WORLD

CIA's army in Laos still on the run

Four decades after the CIA hired thousands of jungle warriors to fight in the Vietnam War, veterans of that covert operation are periodically hunted by the Laotian Communist government.

The Day

Hiding in the jungles of Laos

International Herald Tribune

Israeli sanctions ‘will ruin plans to rebuild Palestinian economy’

Donors from 90 nations gather in Paris to pledge billions of dollars to rebuild the shattered Palestinian economy, but economists and human rights groups say that the cash injection will be wasted.

Times Online

Saudi king pardons teenage rape victim

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a teenage girl sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes after being gang raped, Al Jazirah newspaper reported.

AFP

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming blamed for walrus deaths

Thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.

LiveScience

State of polar bears

National Geographic

Seas could rise higher than predicted

The world's sea levels could rise twice as high this century as predicted, according to researchers who looked at what happened more than 100,000 years ago, the last time Earth got this hot.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What your brain looks like on faith

Sam Harris is known for his 2004 barn-burning attack on religion. However, he has recently produced a calmer publication: "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty."

TIME

Losses of long-established genes contribute to human evolution

While it is well understood that the evolution of new genes leads to adaptations that help species survive, gene loss may also afford a selective advantage.

Science Daily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Tattooed faces a dead giveaway: Gangs go for new look

Tattoos, baggy pants and tank tops are out. Smart blazers and university recruits are in: It's an extreme makeover for Central America's gangs.

CNN

Hollywood writers try to jumpstart talks

Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies.

CNN

Writers strike hits home

MSNBC

EDUCATION

States balk at abstinence programs

The number of states refusing federal money for "abstinence-only" sex education programs jumped sharply in the past year as evidence mounted that the approach is ineffective.

Kansas City Star

Suit over socks costs school $95,000

Officials in a northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers' fees to five families who sued the school over its dress code.

Associated Press

RELIGION

South Dakota moves to protect sacred butte

Native Americans have sought for years to block development of land around the butte into campgrounds and bars that could interfere with their religious use of the mountain. Now they have an ally in the governor.

USA Today

Pope decries 'pleasure at all cost'

Pope Benedict XVI warned against seeking happiness in drugs or other "artificial paradises" and the self-centered quest for "pleasure at all costs."

Associated Press

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