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Gates to Afghans: US `in this thing to win' (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:36 AM PST

In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press,' Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appear with moderator David Gregory, right, in a taping of 'Meet the Press'' Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009 that is to air Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, William B. Plowman) NO SALES **AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Tuesday in Afghanistan with plans to assure officials and American troops there that the United States is committed to winning the war despite plans to begin pulling forces out in 2011.

Obama envoy begins rare trip to NKorea (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:34 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, waves to media as he leaves for North Korea at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. After a year of tensions, President Barack Obama is sending the veteran diplomat to North Korea on Tuesday for the highest-profile talks between Pyongyang and Washington since he took office pledging to reach out to America's adversaries. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - President Barack Obama's envoy began a rare trip to North Korea Tuesday for the highest-level talks with the communist nation in more than a year as a senior U.S. official warned of strong sanctions against Pyongyang unless it rejoins international nuclear talks.

Questions and answers about EPA action on warming (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:31 AM PST

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson makes announcement on climate during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The EPA took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A big meeting in Copenhagen. A cap-and-trade bill in Congress. And now, a determination by the Environmental Protection Agency that global warming pollution is a threat to public health — a move that clears the way for the first-ever federal regulations targeting climate-changing emissions.

3 bomb-rigged cars explode in Baghdad; 18 killed (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:45 AM PST

Smoke billows following an explosion in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on December 8. At least 62 people were killed and 105 wounded in bombings and suicide attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday, an interior ministry official told AFP.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Iraqi officials say three bomb-rigged cars that exploded in quick succession across Baghdad killed at least 18 people.

Police: Bomb near Pakistan intel office kills 12 (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:41 AM PST

Map showing Multan in Pakistan. At least 12 people were killed and 18 others injured Tuesday when a bomb blast hit near military installations in the eastern Pakistani city of Multan, a senior rescue official said.(AFP)AP - A bomb exploded near an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, damaging the building and killing at least 12 people amid a surge of extremist violence that has prompted the U.S. to offer additional aid in the country's battle against the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Ohio killer awaits fate as 1st execution on 1 drug (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 08:05 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo released by Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Kenneth Biros is shown. Biros was convicted of killing Tami Engstrom in February 1991. The condemned Ohio killer could become the first person in the country put to death with one dose of an intravenous anesthetic if his execution proceeds Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. The execution method, which replaces the faster-acting three-drug process could propel other states to eventually consider the switch. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)AP - A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death with a single drug — in an execution that could take longer than previous procedures — arrived Monday at the Ohio death house.

Watered-down 'public plan' emerges in Senate (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:12 AM PST

US lawmakers wondered aloud Tuesday how to pay for a new AP - They may still call it a "public plan," but private insurers — not the government — would offer coverage under a compromise Democrats are considering to win Senate passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Mass. voters taking 1st step to fill Kennedy seat (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

Republican hopefuls in the race for the U.S. Senate, Mass. State Rep. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, left, and businessman Jack E. Robinson, right, chat with moderator Emily Rooney, center, moments before a debate recorded for broadcast on the show Greater Boston at the WGBH television studios in Boston, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Brown and Robinson are the only Republicans vying for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - For the first time in half a century, the state's voters are going to the polls without a Kennedy to choose on the ballot to fill a storied Senate seat.

Letterman jokes about Tiger on the'Late Show' (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:57 AM PST

FILE -- In a Jan. 13, 2009 file photo talk show host David Letterman leaves a taping of the 'Late Show with David Letterman,' in New York. Letterman Monday Dec. 7, 2009 dived right into material on Tiger Woods on the 'Late Show,' joking he wishes the golfer would stop asking him for advice. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)AP - David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show" on Monday, joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice.

Rodgers throws 3 TDs as Packers beat Ravens 27-14 (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 09:46 PM PST

Green Bay Packers' Donald Driver reacts with Greg Jennings (85) after Driver caught a touchdown pass during the first half of an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)AP - The standings say the Green Bay Packers are in good shape for the playoffs. But Monday night's victory over the Baltimore Ravens showed they still have some work to do to be taken seriously once they get there.

U.S. moves to curb emissions, aids U.N. climate talks (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 11:05 AM PST

A general view of the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, also known as COP15, at the Bella center in Copenhagen December 7, 2009. REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters - Washington took a step on Monday toward curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, aiding the first day of the biggest climate talks in history where 190 nations are seeking a deal to curb global warming.

U.S. envoy in North Korea to push nuclear talks (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 11:24 PM PST

Pro-unification activists shout slogans at a rally demanding U.S.-North Korea summit in front of the foreign ministry's main office, where U.S. special envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth met South Korea's nuclear envoy Wi Sung-lac, in Seoul December 7, 2009. REUTERS/Choi Bu-SeokReuters - President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to try to coax the prickly state back to the nuclear talks it quit a year ago, but without offering it any new incentives.

U.S. charges Chicago man in 2008 Mumbai attack (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 11:22 AM PST

Reuters - A Chicago man previously accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper was charged Monday with scouting targets for a militant Pakistani group for the 2008 attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Top U.S. general, diplomat in Afghanistan face Congress (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 10:09 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Maryland November 19, 2009. Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday, saying he would press President Hamid Karzai to appoint Reuters - The top U.S. military commander and top U.S. diplomat in Afghanistan face Congress on Tuesday to explain to skeptical lawmakers how a surge of 30,000 soldiers will turn around the eight-year-old war.

Car bombs rock Iraqi capital, 62 killed (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:54 AM PST

Residents and security personnel gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, December 7, 2009. Seven children were killed and 42 others were wounded in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Monday when a bomb exploded in their schoolyard, police said. REUTERS/StringerReuters - At least 62 people were killed and 105 wounded when four or more large car bombs shook Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest high-profile blasts apparently aimed at sensitive Iraqi government buildings, police said.

Obama sets plan to spur jobs (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 01:57 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will lay out policy proposals to combat double-digit unemployment in a speech Tuesday tackling an economic problem that has become a political drain on his young administration.

Bernanke says economy improving (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 04:31 PM PST

Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses the Economic Club of Washington during the organization's winter lunch program at the Capitol Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. In the near term, Bernanke said, elevated unemployment and stable inflation expectations should keep inflation Reuters - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday said the U.S. economy's recovery remained fragile and unemployment may be high for some time, cooling anticipation of an early increase in U.S. interest rates.

Obama to mention Afghan war in peace prize speech (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST

President Barack Obama is pictured as he delivers remarks on regulatory reform in the East Room of the White House in Washington October 9, 2009. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama will not shirk from mentioning Afghanistan and his decision to send more troops to the war zone when he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize this week, the White House said on Monday.

22 killed and 60 wounded in Baghdad attacks: police (AFP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 12:29 AM PST

Smoke billows following an explosion in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on December 8. At least 62 people were killed and 105 wounded in bombings and suicide attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday, an interior ministry official told AFP.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - At least 22 people were killed and 60 wounded in three car bombings and a suicide attack in Baghdad on Tuesday, an interior ministry official told AFP.

US says carbon shift is boost to Copenhagen (AFP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 08:22 PM PST

A woman walks between displays, entitled AFP - The United States said it had seized the climate initiative with a regulatory shift that labels greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, as a landmark conference entered a second day Tuesday.
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