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A North Korean female soldier, right, looks back as she and another patrol a pathway along the bank of the Yalu River, the China-North Korea border, near North Korea’s town of Sinuiju. (Photo by Andy Wong / AP)

War machines: recruiting robots for combat

War would be a lot safer, the Army says, if only more of it were fought by robots. And while smart machines are already very much a part of modern warfare, the Army and its contractors are eager to add more.

New York Times

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Military robots

Military Channel

Calif. prison case reaches Supreme Court

For decades, California has been unable to fix the state’s overgrown, bloated prison system. Now the U.S. Supreme Court must decide whether three federal judges have the power to do the fixing for them.

San Jose Mercury News

US Supreme Court to ponder Iowa drug sentence

Des Moines Register

China seeks talks on Korea tensions

North Korea has placed surface-to-surface missiles on launch pads in the Yellow Sea, as the United States and South Korea began military drills and China called for emergency talks.

Reuters

North Korea’s dire warnings raise tensions

MSNBC

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North Korea tests and threats

CBS News

WikiLeaks under attack as new leak looms

The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks is under cyber attack. Even if it goes down, a cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables will still be published, it said via Twitter.

CNN

WikiLeaks founder urged to stand down

Vancouver Sun

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WikiLeaks hacked before cache release

The Hill

Big money whistle-blower suits on the rise

Whistle-blower lawsuits have boomed in recent years, and Marc Raspanti’s practice, along with those of the small clutch of other lawyers who handle these cases nationally, has grown accordingly.

Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

Imagine a Saturday without mail

In these days of FedEx, e-mail and online bill-paying services, there‘s not as much mail to deliver. That’s part of why the U.S. Postal Service wants to cut its losses and end Saturday deliveries.

NPR

Avoiding the ‘dead letter office’ this season

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Is e-mail the new snail mail?

(Sydney Morning Herald)

Executive Style

A piece of history comes in from the cold

Although few people know it, in 1918 President Woodrow Wilson sent 5,500 American soldiers — known as the Polar Bears — to northern Russia in the last days of World War I.

Kansas City Star

Online bargain-hunting spreads beyond Cyber Monday

Early discounts may have taken some of the shine off Cyber Monday but the key online holiday shopping day is still expected to attract bargain hunters who may not have had their fill over the weekend.

Reuters

Shoppers eye deals from laptops to Squinkies

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Obamas reflect on life in White House

After two tough years in office, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama reflected on their tenures and the many challenges they’ve faced.

ABC News

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Obama sets out to defend record

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Rating for Obama

Angus Reid Global Monitor

Ex-Clinton nemesis courts tea party

Gary Aldrich, a former FBI agent whose widely discredited expose of the Clinton White House launched him into a second career on the margins of the conservative movement, is now joining the tea party.

Politico

HEALTH

Diabetes drug could work against Alzheimer’s, animal study suggests

Metformin, a drug used in Type 2 diabetes, might have the potential to also act against Alzheimer’s disease. This has been shown in a study from German DZNE scientists.

ScienceDaily

What happened to plan for an HIV vaccine?

Nearly four years ago, Dr. Michel Bergeron heard about the federal government’s plan to build an HIV-AIDS vaccine plant in Canada — the first of its kind in the world.

CBC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Same face may look male or female, depending on person’s field of view

Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard discovered that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person’s field of view, but female when they appear in a different location.

ScienceDaily

Amid economic doldrums, Apple has a spectacular year

Much of the tech world is struggling to regain its footing after a difficult recession. Then there’s Apple. Never before has this venerable company stood so firmly atop the high-tech industry.

San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Sooners win Bedlam battle

Landry Jones threw for 468 yards and four touchdowns — two of which came during a late-game shootout — as 14th-ranked Oklahoma outlasted No. 10 Oklahoma State, 47-41, in a Bedlam battle classic.

Sports Network

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Jones’ calm carries Okla. to South title

(ESPN)

Big 12

Howard scores season-high 32

Dwight Howard had a simple message for Jameer Nelson with the Orlando Magic trailing by a point in the final seconds against the Washington Wizards: “Just throw it up, and I’ll go get it."

Sports Illustrated

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Palestinian official claims the Western Wall is not Jewish

An official Palestinian report claiming that a key Jewish holy site — Jerusalem’s Western Wall — has no religious significance to Jews has evoked an angry response from Israelis.

USA TODAY

Lighthouse offers home, fresh start

Lighthouse for Hope has been home to more than 30 women, most of whom were able to salvage lives previously filled with addiction, crime and homelessness.

Spokesman-Review

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GOOD NEWS

College student hopes her coat will save homeless people’s lives

An industrial design major at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Veronika Scott spent all her cash from summer jobs to create what she calls the Element S(urvival) coat.

Detroit Free Press

New rules to protect sharks, turtles OK’d

An international conservation conference in Paris made progress on protecting sharks but didn’t do anything to save the Atlantic bluefin tuna, which has been overfished to feed the Japaneses market.

CBS News

Holiday season continues to inspire people to help charities

Although the hard times continue, nonprofit representatives expect to see a “holiday bump” during the next few weeks, as people imbued with a desire to give do just that when they can.

Las Vegas Review Journal

WORLD

Egypt votes in key parliamentary elections