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    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 05:03 PM PST
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:43 PM PST
    Candidates vie for attention, allies; petitions for ballot spots due next week


    As the recent elections wound down, candidates for Chicago mayor, like Gery Chico, Carol Moseley Braun and Rahm Emanuel, were busy setting themselves up for business.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST
    Posted: 06 Nov 2010 10:02 PM PDT
    The American Geophysical Union plans to announce Monday that 700 researchers have agreed to speak out on the issue. The effort is a pushback against congressional conservatives who have vowed to kill regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

    Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:00 PM PST
    Eric Cantor, the party's No. 2 leader in the House, takes a hard line on extending the cuts.

    In another ominous sign of new political gridlock developing in Washington, House Republican leaders Sunday took a hard line on compromising with President Obama on extending tax cuts that are due to expire at the end of this year.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 11:01 AM PST
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 05:41 AM PST
    They played the blues, mariachi music and classic rock, dedicated a song to Chicago's Mexican-American Little Village neighborhood and gave a shout-out to a fan celebrating his bar mitzvah.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 12:53 PM PST
    Marci Webber said she killed her 4-year-old daughter Magdalene to keep her from being sold as a sex slave over the Internet, a prosecutor said today, and police found the words "divine mercy" written on the wall near the child's body.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 12:58 PM PST
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An AirTran Airways flight carrying 65 people from New Orleans to Milwaukee had to make an emergency landing in Tennessee when smoke and an odor was reported onboard.
    Posted: 06 Nov 2010 08:05 PM PDT
    His sister, father also injured in blaze

    Fire tore through a Pilsen apartment building Saturday, killing a 3-year-old boy and severely injured the boy's father and 1-year-old sister, Chicago Fire Department officials said.
    Posted: 06 Nov 2010 07:54 PM PDT
    DuPage County prosecutors Saturday approved murder charges against the mother of a 4-year-old girl stabbed to death in Bloomingdale last week.
    Posted: 07 Nov 2010 01:35 PM PST
    David Haugh: Don't get too excited about the Bears making a playoff run after Sunday's squeaker over a winless team. To be taken seriously, they must improve in the secondary and not self-destruct on offense like they did against the Bills.
    Posted: 06 Nov 2010 07:01 PM PDT
    After two months of closed-door meetings, a coalition of African-American leaders announced Saturday that it has settled on U.S. Rep. Danny Davis as its "consensus candidate" for Chicago mayor.