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Justice Department attorney Joseph Hunt, right, who presented the government's case regarding the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Carl Nichols, left, leave federal court in Washington after a hearing. (Photo by Lauren Victoria Burke / AP)

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Poor weather causes flight delays in Chicago, N.Y.

Dense fog and a low cloud ceiling forced airlines to cancel more than 200 flights at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport at the start of the busy holiday travel season.

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USA Today

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Easing holiday travel

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CBS News

FBI prepares vast database of biometrics

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics.

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MSNBC

Report: CIA withheld al-Qaida tapes

The Sept. 11 commission asked the CIA in 2003 and 2004 for information on the interrogation of al-Qaida suspects, only to be told the agency provided all that was requested, The New York Times reported.

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Reuters

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Judge weighs legality of CIA tapes' destruction

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NPR

Mustangs patrol US-Canada border

Mustangs are among a dozen horses and mules the Border Patrol's Spokane Sector has bought to patrol a 308-mile-long section of the U.S.-Canadian border.

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Newsweek

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High support for immigration crackdown in US

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Angus Reid

Belgium frees jailbreak suspects

Fourteen people arrested in Belgium on suspicion of plotting to free a convicted al-Qaida member from jail have been released without charge.

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BBC

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Belgian terror plot uncovered

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ABC News

NATION

Family to sue insurer in girl's death

The family of a 17-year-old leukemia patient blamed Cigna Corp. for her death, saying the health insurance giant's initial refusal to pay for a liver transplant contributed to her death.

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USA Today

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Insurance won't pay; girl dies

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CBS News

Warning over Pentagon war funding

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned that the U.S. military is in danger of running out of money for its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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BBC

American freed in Nicaragua murder case goes into hiding

An American man held in a Nicaraguan jail was released and left the country, four days after a court overturned his conviction on charges of murdering his former girlfriend.

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CNN

POLITICS

Still on Gates' task list: Gitmo, Osama

In a year marked by progress in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged two bits of unfinished business: He has yet to close the Guantanamo Bay or find Osama bin Laden.

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Houston Chronicle

Congress: After a year, Democrats make limited strides

They probed contractors' role in Iraq and U.S. attorney firings, but had setbacks on spending and changing the war's course.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

BMW laying off thousands of workers

BMW, facing rising costs and resurgent competition from rivals like Mercedes, plans to dismiss several thousand workers, its first significant layoff in at least a decade, the company said.

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International Herald Tribune

Riding high? Amtrak sees ridership rise

Amtrak is chugging toward its fifth-straight record year for ridership nationwide, helped by high gasoline prices, congested highways and crowded airports.

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U.S. News & World Report

SPORTS

Eagles' Andy Reid and wife talk about their sons' struggle with addictions

The Philadelphia Eagles' coach Andy Reid and his wife know well the problems facing parents of children with addictions, and now the usually guarded Reids are sharing their story.

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Court documents released in Jones' doping case

The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative kept a multipage document listing names of athletes, the doses of drugs they were taking and the results of their urine tests, according to court records.

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ESPN

HEALTH

Carbon monoxide: a winter killer

Carbon monoxide is a gas given off by gas furnaces, cars, charcoal grills, propane stoves and portable generators. Every year, the CDC says, it sends at least 15,000 Americans to the emergency room.

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WebMD

FDA renews warnings on pain-relief patch

For the second time in two years, U.S. health officials are warning of reports of deaths and dangerous side effects tied to misuse of fentanyl skin patches that are prescribed to treat chronic pain.

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U.S. News & World Report

7 medical myths even doctors believe

Popular culture is loaded with myths and half-truths. Most are harmless. But when doctors start believing medical myths, perhaps it's time to worry.

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LiveScience

RELIGION

Dec. 25 Christmas tied to pagan shrine

The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.

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Yahoo! News

Bible bashing dying out in Kansas

Hiding in plain sight in Kansas is a revolution in American Christendom, a change of heart that could see American Protestant churches looking increasingly like their European equivalents.

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BBC

Blair converts to Catholicism

Tony Blair has converted to Roman Catholicism, sources close to the former prime minister said. The move comes after speculation that Blair would convert from Anglicanism after he resigned.

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Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

1st Cavalry home for holidays

All over the parade field in front of the 1st Cavalry Division headquarters, wives, moms, girlfriends and grade-schoolers proved that sometimes the best Christmas gifts don't require shopping.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Salute to troops

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CNN

City decides to save pesky beaver family

A local beaver family who is making a mess of trees near the Kern Recreational Bike Path has been saved after a surge of response via e-mail, blog comments, phone calls and more.

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ABC News

WORLD

Chavez says he'll oversee release of 3 held by Colombian rebels

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez confirmed that he plans to witness the release of three hostages held for years by the Colombian left-wing guerrilla group FARC.

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CNN

Iraqi Shiite leaders begin to push back against US-supported Sunni groups

Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, said the 'awakening councils' must side with the government.

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Christian Science Monitor

Turkey in fresh Iraq air strikes

Turkey has launched fresh air strikes across the border into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels, the army says.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Is EPA playing dirty with clean air law?

Several states are now talking about suing the EPA because of its rejection of a strict auto emissions law set to be enacted by California and 16 other states.

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CBS News

Schwarzenegger vs. the Feds

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TIME

Pelosi: EPA’s rationale for blocking emissions rules ‘implausible’

Fallout from the EPA’s decision to block states from imposing greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks continued in the form of a critical letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Not one, but '6 giraffe species'

The world's tallest animal, the giraffe, may actually be several species, a study has found.

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BBC

For the holidays: Good things come in virtual packages

Virtual commodities, such as avatar accessories and Facebook gifts, are a sign of status for a new generation fixated with everything Web related.

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Scientific American

Asteroid heads for Mars

Scientists are hoping to gain an unexpected glimpse beneath the surface of Mars after the odds of a huge asteroid hitting the planet next month shortened dramatically.

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Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Sweeney Todd': a dark portrayal of rage spiraling into madness

Tim Burton makes fantasy movies. Stephen Sondheim writes musicals. These two optimistic genres of popular art and these two popular artists have systematically subverted that optimism.

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International Herald Tribune

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Review: 'Sweeney Todd'

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Variety

MTV dances with 'Mall' crowd

MTV is looking to make a splash in the musical arena with "The American Mall." The project, from "High School Musical" producers Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, will air in the summer.

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Hollywood Reporter

EDUCATION

Virginia Tech classrooms to be used for peace center

The Virginia Tech classroom wing where a student gunman killed 30 people and himself and wounded two dozen others last spring will be turned into a place to study peace, the school announced.

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MSNBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Hooked on mnemonics: a new way to conquer foreign languages?

How I "learned" Spanish in a weekend by free association.

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International Herald Tribune

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People walk in the Red Square, with St. Basil Cathedral in the background, decorated for New Year celebrations in Moscow. (Photo by Misha Japaridze / AP)

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