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Obama heads to Hill to push on health bill (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:17 AM PST

FILE - President Obama speaks at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Allentown, Pa., in this Dec. 4, 2009 file photo. Obama is paying a rare visit to Capitol Hill Sunday Dec. 6, 2009 to urge Senate Democrats forward as they work through the weekend to try to resolve their differences on his sweeping health care overhaul. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - President Barack Obama is paying a rare visit to Capitol Hill to urge Senate Democrats forward as they work through the weekend to try to resolve their differences on his sweeping health care overhaul.

In Tuesday speech, Obama to promote new job ideas (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:24 AM PST

President Barack Obama waves goodbye as he boards Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Hanover, Pa, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - In his latest job creation effort, President Barack Obama is trying to find practical and politically feasible ways of spurring hiring among skittish employers.

Russian nightclub fire death toll reaches 112 (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:22 AM PST

In this image from amateur video, a woman, right, looks around as fire and smoke start to fill a packed nightclub in Perm, Russia late Friday Dec. 4 2009 while a host continues to talk, left. Russia's top investigative body says the number of people who died in the club has risen to 109. The victims crushed each other to death and suffocated after the fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub , filling the crowded barracks-like building with thick black smoke. (AP Photo/ Ural-Inform TV) -- TV OUT NO SALES --AP - Russian emergency officials say the number of people killed by a nightclub fire in the Urals city of Perm has risen to 112.

Climate drama climax looks elusive in Copenhagen (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:26 AM PST

Preparations take place at the Bella Convention Centre, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009, in Copenhagen for the UN climate summit, COP15, due to start here Monday Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Jens Panduro/POLFOTO) -- DENMARK OUT --AP - For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.

US troop buildup is big; Afghan buildup is key (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:26 AM PST

Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak speaks during an interview with the Associated press, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wardak said that he has already begun staffing a new command of several thousand Afghan soldiers that is being set up in the dangerous south where most of the 30,000 U.S. reinforcements will be sent. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - President Barack Obama has his troop surge. Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces have theirs.

Knox upset, tired; gets family visit in prison (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:27 AM PST

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a final hearing before the verdict, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian jury has begun deliberations in the yearlong trial of American student Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 with her former boyfriend Italian murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito. A verdict is expected later Friday. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Amanda Knox sought comfort from visiting family members Saturday on her first day in prison since being convicted of murdering her British roommate.

2nd gay bishop for Episcopal Church, Anglicans (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:23 AM PST

Delegates raise their ballots for Bishop Suffragan during the 114th Annual Meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles for the Episcopal Church held in Riverside, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the first female bishop, Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, in its 114-year history. (AP Photo/Francis Specker)AP - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected a lesbian as assistant bishop, underscoring Episcopal commitment to accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans to change that stand.

Baucus: Girlfriend merited US attorney nomination (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:29 AM PST

Senator Max Baucus, D-Mont, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, leaves the Seante floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Senate Democrats on Saturday defeated a GOP attempt to eliminate $40 billion in cuts to home health care services in the health overhaul bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is "highly qualified" but eventually withdrew her nomination.

AP: Manufacturing areas lead surprise job comeback (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:32 AM PST

Rayford Sweet upholsters a chair at Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant in Conover, N.C., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Legacy's recent success highlights a trend: Counties with the heaviest reliance on manufacturing income are posting some of the biggest employment gains of the nation's nascent economic recovery. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - As record numbers of orders flow through Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant, workers toil between towers of piled foam and incomplete end tables precariously stacked five pieces high.

Alabama rolls, Texas slips into BCS championship (AP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:39 AM PST

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy (12) celebrates with the trophy following their win in the NCAA college football Big 12 Conference championship game against Nebraska, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, in Arlington, Texas. Texas won 13-12. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)AP - Texas vs. Alabama for the national championship. And let the complaining by TCU and Cincinnati — even Boise State — begin.

Senate Democrats seek public option compromise (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:06 PM PST

Reuters - Senate Democrats hunted for a compromise on a government-run insurance plan and battled Republicans on home care for the elderly on Saturday during a rare weekend work session on a sweeping healthcare overhaul.

Protesters rally against 9/11 trial set for New York (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST

Joan Baxer of Ramsey, New Jersey holds a photograph of her son Sergeant Brian Baxer, 22, who has done two tours in Iraq and is awaiting deployment to Afghanistan, attends a rally against the plan to try those accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks at New York's Federal Court, in New York December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyReuters - Demonstrators angered by the Obama administration's move to prosecute the self-professed mastermind of the September 11 attacks in civilian court on U.S. soil called on Saturday for the trial to be moved to a military tribunal.

Sarah Palin in the belly of the beast: Washington (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:07 PM PST

Reuters - Republican firebrand Sarah Palin invaded the city she loves to hate on Saturday and rubbed shoulders with the herd of journalists she usually holds in disdain.

Italian court hands Knox 26 years for Briton's murder (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 05:43 AM PST

American university student Amanda Knox looks on during her murder trial in Perugia December 4, 2009. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007. REUTERS/Max RossiReuters - An Italian court sentenced American student Amanda Knox to 26 years in prison and jailed her ex-boyfriend for 25 years after they were found guilty of murdering Knox's British roommate during a drunken sex game.

GM exec expects Germany to contribute Opel aid (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:18 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file photo, General Motors' Chairman Ed Whitacre Jr. announces that CEO Frederick 'Fritz' Henderson has resigned during a news conference in Detroit. New CEO Ed Whitacre Jr. is shaking up GM's numbers-oriented bureaucracy. In a folksy, self-deprecating broadcast to employees, he says they're free to take risks without fear of being fired. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)Reuters - General Motors will not cut more jobs at Opel in Germany if the German government refuses to give state aid although the U.S. carmaker said it remains confident Berlin will soften its current stance.

U.S. Marines advance in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:57 AM PST

A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter hovers on final approach for landing in the background at Bagram Air Field. The HH60G Pave Hawks -- modified versions of the Blackhawk -- are now past their prime and due for replacement.(AFP/Bonny Schoonakker)Reuters - U.S. Marines pressed into a remote Taliban stronghold on Saturday with their first major assault in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama earmarked 30,000 more troops to try to turn the tide on the Taliban insurgency.

Blast in Pakistan's Peshawar kills 3 (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:15 AM PST

A woman sits in front of an ambulance at the site of an attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi, outside Islamabad December 4, 2009. REUTERS/Mian KhursheedReuters - An accidental blast destroyed a shop in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials said, unnerving a city frequently bombed by militants.

Philippines arrests 62 after imposing martial law (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

Police officials show a powerful machine gun unearthed as part of a weapons cache at a property believed to be owned by the governor of Maguindanao in the southern Philippines on December 6. The country has detained more than 60 people and seized a stunning array of weapons after imposing martial law in the province in the wake of a massacre.(AFP/Ted Aljibe)AFP - The Philippines said Sunday it had detained more than 60 people and seized a stunning array of weapons after imposing martial law in a southern province in the wake of a massacre.

Russia mourns over 100 dead from nightclub blaze (AFP)

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:29 AM PST

Smoke obscures the entrance to the Lame Horse club in the Russian city of Perm. 112 were killed and dozens injured overnight after a blaze sparked by indoor fireworks swept through the Russian nightspot, in one of the deadliest tragedies to hit Russia in recent years.(AFP/HO)AFP - The death toll from a blaze that swept through a Russian nightclub rose to 112 and dozens remained in critical care on Sunday in one of the country's worst tragedies in recent memory.
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