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• A shutdown-free future is in the cards
• American missing in Iran worked for CIA
• N. Korea executes leader's uncle
• Get it while you can: Ted Cruz coloring book is selling fast
• When school lockdowns may not be enough
• Boehner: Tea party lost credibility
• Officials: Drone attack mistakenly kills wedding party in Yemen
• Live: Vigil remembers Newtown
• Health website woes force extension for sickest
• North Korea executes Kim Jong Un's uncle
• Ozone hole won't fully heal until 2070, NASA finds
• Michigan puts restrictions on abortion insurance
• General who opened Guantanamo: shut it down
• School drops sexual harassment claim against 6-year-old who kissed girl
• NASA scrambles to figure out International Space Station malfunction
• Snowstorm brings new misery for Syria refugees
• Oprah Winfrey reveals why she never had children
• Pope attacks mega-salaries and wealth gap in peace message
• Complete list of 2014 Golden Globe nominees
• Cancer deaths spike, breast cancer sharply up
• Snowden fuels fear of 'Big Brother USA'
• Interpreter at Mandela event claims illness
• Senate pulls all-nighter over Obama nominees
• Cooling pump on space station shuts down
• Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
• Mysterious 'white widow' eludes police in Africa
• Federal data show health disparities among states
• Officials: US drone strike kills 13 in Yemen
• Holiday shopping spree not for everyone
• Sentence in Texas teen's fatal DWI wreck stirs ire
• Sudden budget peace after Boehner raps GOP right
• Budget approved but no peace: Boehner raps right
• Jang Song Thaek had been North Korea's No. 2
• Gridlock in the Senate, progress in the House
• Boehner hits tea party groups as budget vote nears
• AP PHOTOS: Argentine slum honors 'Blue Virgin'
• Crash probe renews debate over culture in aviation

A shutdown-free future is in the cards Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:38 PM PST House passes non-historic budget agreement.

American missing in Iran worked for CIA Posted: An Associated Press investigation reveals botched espionage.

N. Korea executes leader's uncle Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:19 PM PST Jang Song Thaek was accused of leading a "dissolute and depraved life."

Get it while you can: Ted Cruz coloring book is selling fast Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:06 PM PST AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — He's known for coloring outside the lines in the staid U.S. Senate. Now children large and small can color in U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

When school lockdowns may not be enough Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:14 AM PST Students and teachers learn how to stop a 'bad guy' in their buildings after Newtown.

Boehner: Tea party lost credibility Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:29 AM PST The House Speaker lashes out at conservative critics of a bipartisan budget bill.

Officials: Drone attack mistakenly kills wedding party in Yemen Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:42 AM PST Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday. "An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately and another five who were injured died after being admitted to the hospital," one security official said. The United States has stepped up drone strikes as part of a campaign against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded by Washington as the most active wing of the militant network. Yemen, AQAP's main stronghold, is among a handful of countries where the United States acknowledges using drones, although it does not comment on the practice.

Live: Vigil remembers Newtown Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:09 PM PST Hundreds were expected at Washington's National Cathedral on to mark the Newtown anniversary.

Health website woes force extension for sickest Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:32 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Technology problems with President Barack Obama's health care website are forcing the administration to extend a federal insurance plan for some of the sickest patients by a month.

North Korea executes Kim Jong Un's uncle Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:45 PM PST Jang Song Thaek was accused of leading a "dissolute and depraved life."

Ozone hole won't fully heal until 2070, NASA finds Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:34 AM PST SAN FRANCISCO — The banning of ozone-depleting chemicals hasn't yet caused detectable improvements in the Antarctic ozone hole, new research suggests. "Ozone is produced in the tropics, but it's transported by the winds from the tropics to the polar region," said Anne Douglass, a scientist with the Aura project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. That transport "varies a little bit from year to year." The findings suggest that measuring the total size of the ozone hole says little about ozone depletion, and that it's misleading to use the hole's extent alone to measure environmental progress. Ozone is a molecule made up of three oxygen atoms, and the ozone layer, which stretches from heights of 12 to 19 miles (20 to 30 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, protects life on Earth by shielding it from ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

Michigan puts restrictions on abortion insurance Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:03 AM PST Michigan will join more conservative states in requiring residents who want health insurance coverage for abortions to buy an extra policy, after Republican legislators passed the law Wednesday over the ...

General who opened Guantanamo: shut it down Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:19 AM PST Marine Major Gen. Michael Lehnert says detention camp was a mistake.

School drops sexual harassment claim against 6-year-old who kissed girl Posted: 12 Dec 2013 06:41 AM PST A Colorado school that had been widely criticized for suspending a 6-year-old boy for kissing a girl on the hand has dropped its sexual harassment claim against the first grader, and allowed him to return to school.

NASA scrambles to figure out International Space Station malfunction Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:53 AM PST CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts aboard the International Space Station dimmed the lights, turned off unnecessary equipment and put off science work Thursday as NASA scrambled to figure out what's wrong with a key cooling unit.

Snowstorm brings new misery for Syria refugees Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:16 AM PST "I'd rather die a million times than live through this humiliation," a refugee said.

Oprah Winfrey reveals why she never had children Posted:

Pope attacks mega-salaries and wealth gap in peace message Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:49 AM PST By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on greed and inequality and called again for nations to narrow the wealth gap. In his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Peace, marked around the world on January 1, he also called for sharing of wealth and for nations to shrink the gap between rich and poor, more of whom are getting only "crumbs". "The succession of economic crises should lead to a timely rethinking of our models of economic development and to a change in lifestyles," he said. Anger at multi-million payouts for executives has swept across the globe as the economic crisis has deepened and the gap between the super-rich and the poor has widened.

Complete list of 2014 Golden Globe nominees Posted: "12 Years A Slave" and "American Hustle" were the big winners while "Lee Daniels' The Butler" was surprisingly shutout.

Cancer deaths spike, breast cancer sharply up Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:52 AM PST Driven by Western lifestyles, 8.2 million people died of the disease in 2012.

Snowden fuels fear of 'Big Brother USA' Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:52 AM PST An avalanche of intelligence leaks from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden sent shockwaves around the world in 2013, lifting the lid on a vast global spying network and raising fears of a surveillance state. As the year drew to a close, the 30-year-old Snowden remains exiled in Russia, his final port of call following a worldwide game of cat-and-mouse that appeared to come straight from the pages of a spy novel. A traitor to some, a heroic whistleblower to others: Snowden's disclosures have shed light on intelligence-gathering methods which shocked many through their sheer scale. Tens of thousands of documents leaked by Snowden to The Guardian newspaper and other media outlets have detailed the nature of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) hitherto shadowy activities.

Interpreter at Mandela event claims illness Posted: 12 Dec 2013 10:17 AM PST The signer accused of gesticulating gibberish says he had a schizophrenic episode.

Senate pulls all-nighter over Obama nominees Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:32 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate began an around-the-clock talkathon Wednesday over some of President Barack Obama's nominees as embittered and outnumbered Republicans refused to let the Senate take a break given new, Democratic-driven curbs on the GOP's power.

Cooling pump on space station shuts down Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:57 PM PST NASA says there is no immediate danger to the six crewmen on board.

Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:47 PM PST JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial says he suffers from schizophrenia and hallucinated and saw angels while gesturing incoherently just 3 feet away from President Barack Obama and other world leaders, outraging deaf people worldwide who said his signs amounted to gibberish.

Mysterious 'white widow' eludes police in Africa Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:12 PM PST AYLESBURY, England (AP) — She is called the most wanted woman in the world, a suspected terrorist charged with plotting to blow up resort hotels in Kenya packed with Christmas tourists, a Westerner who wrote an ode praising Osama bin Laden, a jihadist who has eluded the law even as she has traveled through Africa with four young children in tow.

Federal data show health disparities among states Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:19 AM PST JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Residents in some parts of the U.S. are signing up for health care coverage at a significantly greater rate than others through the new online insurance marketplaces now operating in every state.

Officials: US drone strike kills 13 in Yemen Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:52 PM PST SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Missiles fired by a U.S. drone slammed into a convoy of vehicles traveling to a wedding party in central Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, Yemeni security officials said.

Holiday shopping spree not for everyone Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:34 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Many Americans are watching the annual holiday spending ritual from the sidelines this year.

Sentence in Texas teen's fatal DWI wreck stirs ire Posted: 12 Dec 2013 04:13 PM PST HOUSTON (AP) — "Affluenza," the affliction cited by a psychologist to argue that a North Texas teenager from a wealthy family should not be sent to prison for killing four pedestrians while driving drunk, is not a recognized diagnosis and should not be used to justify bad behavior, experts said Thursday.

Sudden budget peace after Boehner raps GOP right Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:47 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Battle-fatigued and suddenly bipartisan, the House voted Thursday night to ease across-the-board federal spending cuts and prevent future government shutdowns, acting after Speaker John Boehner unleashed a stinging attack on tea party-aligned conservative groups campaigning for the measure's defeat.

Budget approved but no peace: Boehner raps right Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:29 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has given sweeping bipartisan approval to a budget bill backed by both President Barack Obama, his Democratic allies and a big majority of the chamber's Republicans.

Jang Song Thaek had been North Korea's No. 2 Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:12 PM PST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — While hereditary leader Kim Jong Un is the unquestioned ruler of North Korea, until last weekend his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was thought to be the country's second-most-powerful figure, widely considered Kim's mentor and regent.

Gridlock in the Senate, progress in the House Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:18 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A budget agreement between key Republicans and Democrats. Even President Barack Obama was on board. All without anyone threatening to repeal this or shut down that.

Boehner hits tea party groups as budget vote nears Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle-fatigued U.S. House moved Thursday evening toward passage of legislation to ease across-the-board spending cuts and prevent future government shutdowns after Speaker John Boehner unleashed a stinging attack on tea party-aligned conservative groups campaigning for the measure's defeat.

AP PHOTOS: Argentine slum honors 'Blue Virgin' Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:53 PM PST BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of Paraguayan immigrants living along the polluted Riachuelo river in Argentina's capital celebrate their "Blue Virgin" every year with a grueling but joyful 10-hour procession that winds through every corner of their slum. Last year, their feast day's Mass was led by none other than Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has since become their beloved "slum pope."

Crash probe renews debate over culture in aviation Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:35 PM PST New details about the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet have renewed questions about whether a culture of strict deference to more-senior pilots can compromise air safety.

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