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General News

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  • US President Obama waves next to first lady Michelle Obama at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington
    Obama starts Hawaiian vacation, leaving Washington on ice Reuters - 14 hrs ago

    Taking what promised to be a very brief Christmas break from the ongoing struggle to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, President Barack Obama relaxed with his family on Saturday at a beach retreat in … More »Obama starts Hawaiian vacation, leaving Washington on ice

    US President Obama waves next to first lady Michelle Obama at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington

    Taking what promised to be a very brief Christmas break from the ongoing struggle to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts, President Barack Obama relaxed with his family on Saturday at a beach retreat in Hawaii. Congress was to return to Washington next Thursday and Obama has pledged to work with lawmakers …

  • How Fiscal Cliff Talks Broke Down
    How fiscal cliff talks broke down ABC OTUS News - 11 hrs ago

    Obama holds out hope for a "small deal" if the "big deal" can't be done More »How fiscal cliff talks broke down

    How Fiscal Cliff Talks Broke Down

    Obama holds out hope for a "small deal" if the "big deal" can't be done

  • Volunteer Anthony Vessicchio of East Haven, Conn., helps to sort tables full of donated toys at the town hall in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
    The world mourns with Connecticut; gifts pour in AP - 4 hrs ago

    NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — People around the world are grieving with residents of Newtown, and many are expressing their support by sending toys, money and other gifts to the town. More »The world mourns with Connecticut; gifts pour in

    Volunteer Anthony Vessicchio of East Haven, Conn., helps to sort tables full of donated toys at the town hall in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

    NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — People around the world are grieving with residents of Newtown, and many are expressing their support by sending toys, money and other gifts to the town.

  • A Christmas wreath is covered with snow on West 4th Street in Waterloo
    Wintry weather could mean white Christmas in Northeast Reuters - 15 hrs ago

    BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - Powerful winds and snow whipped parts of the eastern United States on Saturday, carrying the promise of a white Christmas while threatening to cause problems for the many Americans traveling … More »Wintry weather could mean white Christmas in Northeast

    A Christmas wreath is covered with snow on West 4th Street in Waterloo

    BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - Powerful winds and snow whipped parts of the eastern United States on Saturday, carrying the promise of a white Christmas while threatening to cause problems for the many Americans traveling for the holidays, meteorologists said. The storm moving in from the Midwest was sending strong winds …

  • Dead passenger found riding in Berlin underground Reuters - 2 hrs 0 mins ago

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A 65-year-old man thought to be sleeping while sitting upright on a Berlin underground train as it cross-crossed the German capital was actually dead, police said on Sunday. "It's tragic," a Berlin police spokeswoman said. "We don't know how long he was sitting dead on the train nor do we know the exact …

  • UN envoy to Syria on way to Damascus AP - 1 hr 33 mins ago
    Free Syrian Army fighters walk amid the ruins of a village situated a short distance from an area where fighting between rebels and government forces continues, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginie Nguyen Hoang)

    BEIRUT (AP) — The international envoy for Syria's civil war arrived in Beirut on Sunday and planned to travel by land to Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad, Lebanese airport officials said.

  • Monti says he won't run for Italian premier AP - 59 mins ago
    Senators leave after a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at Rome's Quirinale presidential palace Saturday Dec. 22, 2012. Italy's president is meeting with political leaders to set the stage for general elections early next year as Premier Mario Monti weighs whether to run for office after having handed in his resignation. Monti, appointed 13 months ago to steer Italy away from a Greek-style debt crisis, stepped down Friday after ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's party yanked its support for his technical government. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

    ROME (AP) — Italy's caretaker Premier Mario Monti said Sunday he won't run in February elections, but if political parties that back his anti-crisis agenda ask him to head the next government he would consider the offer.

  • Egyptians back new constitution in referendum Reuters - 5 mins ago
    Officials count ballots after polls closed in Bani Sweif

    CAIRO (Reuters) - An Islamist-backed Egyptian constitution won approval in a referendum, rival camps said on Sunday, after a vote the opposition said would sow deep social divisions in the Arab world's most populous nation. The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled President Mohamed Mursi to power in a June election, …

  • Barbra Streisand goes on a 'Guilt Trip' with Seth Rogen Reuters - 2 hrs 27 mins ago
    Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, stars of the new film "The Guilt Trip" pose as they arrive at the film's premiere in Los Angeles

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Road-trip movies have been dominated by teenagers on wild adventures or "Hangover" style bro-mances, but Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are driving the genre into new territories with mother-son comedy "The Guilt Trip" to usher in the holiday season. "The Guilt Trip," which hits U.S. theaters this …

  • Ho Ho Holy Discount: Vatican tax-free store busy AP - 1 hr 18 mins ago
    This is a 1962 photo showing train carriages inside St. Peter's train station in the Vatican, whose tracks connect to Italy's rail system. There's a little-known open secret in the Vatican gardens, a few paces behind St. Peter's Basilica and tucked inside the Vatican's converted train station: a sprawling, two-story tax-free department store that rivals any airport duty free or military PX, stocking everything from Church's custom grade shoes (euro 483 a pair) to Baume et Mercier watches (ladies euro 1,585, men's Capeland euro 5,000). There's a hitch, however. It's not open to the public, only to Vatican citizens, employees and their dependents, diplomats accredited to the Holy See and (unofficially) their lucky friends who, after stocking up on holiday must-haves, proceed to the checkout with their Vatican connection and the ID card that entitles them to shop there. To be sure, Rome is no stranger to tax-free shopping. Embassies, nearby military bases and the U.N. food agencies all have commissaries for their employees, where tax-free imports of everything from American ice cream to French wine can be had minus the 21 percent sales tax included in list prices in Italy. The Vatican has that and more, given it's its own sovereign state _ the world's smallest _ operating in central Rome. At 44-hectares (110 acres), the Vatican city state is the physical home of the Holy See: the pope and governing structure and administration of the Catholic Church. The Vatican Museums, home of the Sistine Chapel, are the main profit-making enterprise. (AP Photo)

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — Anyone left on your Christmas list just aching for a 65-inch Samsung 3D flat-screen television? Just your luck. The Vatican's duty-free department store has one on sale for €2,899 ($3,840) — a nifty savings over the €3,799 ($5,032) it costs at Italy's main electronics chain Euronics.

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Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 23, 2012
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)  
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978  
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)  
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Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)  
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