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Holiday Shopping Trends Reflect Income Inequality


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In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity

At 28 or 29, Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal.  read more »

Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking

The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits.  read more »

GOP-led House votes to repeal health care law

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal last year's health care law, the first major rebuke of the White House by the House since Republicans took control of it this mont  read more »

Feds charge Jared Lee Loughner with Saturday's mass shooting

PHOENIX (KGUN9-TV) - Federal prosecutors have finally filed charges against the man arrested for Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. A press release issued Sunday afternoon said that the U.S.  read more »

Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education

NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee  read more »

GOP: There'll be no compromise on tax cuts

WASHINGTON — Republicans leader in both the House and the Senate said Sunday there would be no compromise with Democrats on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest taxpayers.  read more »

Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization

Prop. 19, the California measure to legalize pot, would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels, President Felipe Calderon says. He calls on the Obama administration to oppose the measure.  read more »

Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday.  read more »

NYC to Food Stamp Recipients: No Soda for You

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with the encouragement of both city and state health commissioners, is seeking to bar the use of food stamps for buying soda and other sweetened drinks.  read more »

India students suspended for rude Facebook messages

A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook.  read more »

Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines

Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from:  read more »

Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally

To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country.  read more »

Obama's speech on August 31 declares combat in Iraq over

Saying it is "time to turn the page" on one of the most divisive chapters in American history, President Obama declared the U.S.  read more »

Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources.  read more »

Obama tells Karzai to clean up corruption

United States president Barack Obama has urged Afghan president Hamid Karzai to clean up corruption and rallied troops to defeat the Taliban during a surprise visit to Afghanistan.  read more »

Chief justice chides State of the Union as 'political pep rally'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Simmering tension between the White House and U.S.  read more »

Eight Health Leaders Respond to Obama's Healthcare Summit

As he launched his healthcare summit Wednesday, President Obama said he hoped his televised effort to garner consensus for reform "isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and  read more »

China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador

Officials in Beijing have summoned the U.S. ambassador to China to protest President Barack Obama's meeting Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet.  read more »

New Study Supports Abstinence-focused Sexual Education

A new study shows that abstinence-focused sexual education programs encourage a significant number of people to delay sexual activity, perhaps preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted  read more »

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