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Holiday sales encouraging, but are shoppers done?
Major candidates call for halt to Haiti election
Leaked US cables reveal sensitive diplomacy
Ohioans raise cash for kids of victims put in tree
Pet-lover outrage halts pet exhumations in Montana
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NJ school district: No D-grades policy a success
Pentagon details security changes prompted by leak
Text of White House statement on WikiLeaks release
Ex-Justice Stevens explains death penalty stance
A search for answers in '75 SD reservation murder
Reopening uncertain after Colo. store roof falls
White House condemns WikiLeaks' document release
California's ailing Republicans: A dying breed?
Obama returns to basketball court after accident
Boy's savings to help rebuild burned fire station
Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store
WikiLeaks to defy US demands on leaked cables
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Sudanese war orphans journey to US voting sites

Holiday sales encouraging, but are shoppers done?

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 01:30 PM PST

Holiday spending appears to be off to a respectable start, with shoppers crowding stores and malls in bigger numbers than last year on Friday and steady traffic the rest of the weekend.

Major candidates call for halt to Haiti election

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 01:30 PM PST

Nearly all the major candidates in Haiti's presidential election called for Sunday's election to be voided amid allegations of fraud and reports that large numbers of voters were turned away from polling stations throughout the quake-stricken country.

Leaked US cables reveal sensitive diplomacy

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 01:21 PM PST

Hundreds of thousands of leaked State Department documents reveal a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.

Ohioans raise cash for kids of victims put in tree

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:40 PM PST

Residents in a small Ohio community devastated after the bodies of two women and an 11-year-old boy were found in a tree are raising money for the victims' families.

Pet-lover outrage halts pet exhumations in Montana

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PST

Officials responsible for a Montana pet cemetery are backing off a proposal to exhume and cremate its occupants after some of the pet owners threatened to chain themselves to the front gates.

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Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:30 PM PST

NJ school district: No D-grades policy a success

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:00 PM PST

A New Jersey school district that eliminated the "D" grade for students says the change has been a success.

Pentagon details security changes prompted by leak

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:00 PM PST

The Pentagon says it has toughened up security procedures since the website WikiLeaks released thousands of secret war logs.

Text of White House statement on WikiLeaks release

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:50 AM PST

The text of the White House press secretary's statement on the WikiLeaks release: We anticipate the release of what are claimed to be several hundred thousand classified State Department cables on Sunday night that detail private diplomatic discussions with foreign governments.

Ex-Justice Stevens explains death penalty stance

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:50 AM PST

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has amplified the reasons for his late-career change of heart about the death penalty, explaining at length why he moved from being a key vote to reinstate capital punishment in 1976 to his belief that the death penalty is unconstitutional.

A search for answers in '75 SD reservation murder

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:20 AM PST

The alleged shooter in the murder of American Indian Movement activist Annie Mae Aquash (AH-'kwash) is expected to go on trial for murder starting Monday.

Reopening uncertain after Colo. store roof falls

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:20 AM PST

The Salvation Army says it will be some time before it can reopen a Colorado thrift store after the roof collapsed.

White House condemns WikiLeaks' document release

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:11 AM PST

WikiLeaks' decision to release classified U.S. diplomatic files endangers U.S. diplomats, intelligence agents and democratic activists who seek America's help, the White House said Sunday.

California's ailing Republicans: A dying breed?

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:40 AM PST

Republicans are relishing the coming of a new day on Capitol Hill. But across the country in California, the party of Nixon and Reagan is drifting toward obscurity.

Obama returns to basketball court after accident

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:31 AM PST

President Barack Obama is back on the basketball court, though this time with two players less likely to throw an elbow his way -- his daughters.

Boy's savings to help rebuild burned fire station

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:20 AM PST

A 5-year-old West Virginia boy has donated his life savings -- nearly $46 in change -- to help rebuild a volunteer fire station that burned down in an Oct. 1 electrical fire.

Goodwill thrives at San Francisco thrift store

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 09:50 AM PST

Before Goodwill Industries opened its newest retail outlet here, no one would have argued that San Francisco had a shortage of thrift stores for its avid recyclers and trendy hipsters. What the city did lack was enough jobs for its transgender population, a group with an unemployment rate thought to be twice the California average.

WikiLeaks to defy US demands on leaked cables

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 09:50 AM PST

The online website WikiLeaks said Sunday it will release of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department documents in defiance of U.S. demands not to publish the files.