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The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.
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In Noblesville, Ind., Thursday, Sarah Palin left without signing copies of her book for about 300 people who were given wristbands and waited six hours for her. Video showed the crowd chanting "sign our books!" amid cries that she was a quitter. "She left 300 folks standing in the rain and cold ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith: Reasonable minds can disagree about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. 11 perpetrators in a Manhattan federal court. But some prominent criticisms are exaggerated, and others place undue faith in ...
Law
General David Petraeus
Eric Holder
The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
White House
Gallup Poll
ACORN
Barack Obama
Influential US lawmakers on Thursday called for levying a new income tax to pay for the war in Afghanistan, warning its costs pose a mortal threat to efforts like a sweeping health care overhaul. "Regardless of whether one favors the war or not, if it is to be fought, it ought to be paid for," ...
World
Afghanistan
Democratic National Committee
Agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided Gibson's guitar factory in Nashville Tuesday in connection with an issue involving harvested wood. There are accusations the company has been illegally harvesting endangered species of rosewood and ebony wood from Madagascar, sending it to ...
World
Madagascar
Germany
United States
Bruce Bartlett: The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn't surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps at one time they were, but those days are long gone. This fact became blindingly ...
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General David Petraeus
Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. The extracted liquidized fat fetched $15,000 a liter and police suspect it was sold on to companies in Europe.
World
Peru
A conservative faction has begun forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in response to an August vote allowing sexually active gay and lesbian pastors to serve as clergy.
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A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case. Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc., its former parent company Halliburton and several affiliates in May 2007, ...
World
Iraq
Ten large U.S. companies paid senior executives a total of $350 million in the few years prior to dropping traditional pension plans for employees, a Congressional watchdog said on Thursday. Forty executives in a range of industries received the compensation in base salaries, bonuses, severance ...
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A week after abruptly quitting his longtime job on CNN, Lou Dobbs said on Thursday he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate. "I am ruling nothing out," he said.
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Lou Dobbs
CNN
A week after admitting to running old crowd footage that exaggerated the size of a health reform bill protest, Fox News ran old footage in a report on crowds greeting Sarah Palin on her book tour. The network again claimed a "production error," but critics are asking whether the news ...
White House
Fox News
Sarah Palin
Alexandra Kerry, 36, the daughter of former presidential candidate John Kerry, was arrested in Los Angeles early Thursday after being stopped on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, police said.
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A 15-year-old boy who was killed by his father in an execution style killing spent the last moments of his life pleading, "No, Daddy! No!" Jamar Pinkney Jr. was shot in the head Monday by his 37-year-old father, Jamar Pinkney Sr., who allegedly made the teen strip his clothes off and kneel in a ...
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At a Congressional Black Caucus event honoring his presidential run 25 years ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson discussed the health reform debate and said, "You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man." His comment referred to Rep. Artur Davis, a black Democrat from Alabama who ...
Congress
Jesse Jackson
Artur Davis
Stephanie Spielman, the wife of former NFL player Chris Spielman, has died after a 12-year fight against breast cancer. She was 42. The mother of four, Spielman discovered a lump in her breast at age 30 during a self-exam. A charity fund that she created has raised more than $6.5 million for ...
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More than 1 million people will run out of unemployment benefits in January unless Congress quickly extends federal emergency aid, a nonprofit group said Wednesday.
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Oprah Winfrey will end her show after its 25th season wraps in 2011 and begin a new show on her cable network OWN, according to publicists for her production company, Harpo.
