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December 31, 2009
• Obama Will Be Briefed On Bombing Attempt Well Into The Night, As He Zeros In On How Fix Problems; Mourning Their Dead, Vowing Revenge; Biggest Blunders of 2009; Political Predictions
• Terror "Rehab" for GITMO Prisoners; Keeping Out Suspicious Travelers; Where 2010 is Already Here; Securing the Celebration; Drag Queen in a Giant Shoe; Israel's Airline Security Success; From Banker's Son to Extremist
• President Obama Receives Report on Airline Security Failures; Taliban Claims Credit for CIA Attack


December 30, 2009
• Dick Cheney Criticizes President Obama; Iran Cracks Down
• System Used To Devise The No-Fly List Is Likely To Be Changed After The Failures In The Christmas Day Attack.
• British Hostage Freed in Iraq; President Obama Awaits Terror Probe Report


December 29, 2009
• Terror Suspect's Father Met with CIA
• Yemen Welcomes U.S. Help In Tracking Down Al Qaeda
• Security vs. Privacy; Investigating Airline Terror Attack Suspect


December 28, 2009
• Failed Airline Attack Linked to Gitmo; Iran Detains Sister of Nobel Laureate; Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Failed Christmas Day Attack
• Iranian Authorities Crack Down on Protests; A Child Traveling with the First Family is Injured; President Obama Speaks Out about Iranian Crackdown; AT&T Suspended Sales of iPhones
• Protests Escalate in Iran; President Obama Vows to Protect Fliers


December 24, 2009
• Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill; Mortgage Executives' Fat Checks; Father and Son Reunited in Brazil


December 23, 2009
• Awaiting Father-Son Reunion
• Balloon Boy's Parents Sentenced; Blackberry Breaks Down Again; Madonna: Malawi Chose Me; Being Black in China
• Brazil Rules in Favor of American Dad; Balloon Boy's Parents Face Sentencing


December 22, 2009
• Economic Rebound Falters; Holiday Health Risks
• Terrorists on the Web; An Obama Family Christmas; Jews Decry Elevation of World War II Pope; Terror Suspects to the Heartland; 9/11 Hero Dog's Legacy
• Senate Sets Date For Health Care Vote; Economic Rebound Weakens; Hackers & Cybercriminals: Beware; GOP Leader's Reported Fees Criticized


December 21, 2009
• President Obama Confronts Black Critics; Backroom Deals on Health Care Reform; Holiday Rush on Health Care; "Christmas Miracle" For Air Travelers
• Funeral of Top Ayatollah Turns Into Anti-Government Protest in Iran; New Order Makes Pregnant Soldiers Subject to Court Martial; Brazilian Supreme Court to Decide Fate of American Boy
• Will Backroom Deals Lead to Health Care Reform?; Interview With Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; Controversy Over Free Medical Care; What U.S. Troops Face in Afghanistan; Thousands of Train Riders Stranded in Europe


December 18, 2009
• Climate Change Deal?; Autism Breakthrough?
• Obama in Copenhagen; Liberals Push Back on Health Reform
• New Breakthrough For Autism?; President Obama's Winter of Discontent?; Dramatic Rise in Autism; Sources: President Obama Close to Climate Deal; 'Strategy Session'


December 17, 2009
• U.S. Anti-Terror Tactic Breached; President Obama Flies Into Climate Distress
• Bill Clinton's Health Care Push; Scientists Clash on Climate Change; Stolen Laptop Security Breach; Clock Ticking on Copenhagen Summit; "Operation Chokehold"; Innocent Man Freed after 35 Years
• Could Liberals Derail Health Care Reform?; NFL Player Dies; Brazil Halts Boy's Return to Father; President Obama & African- Americans?; Interview With David Axelrod; Health Reform's Political Price


December 16, 2009
• Iran Test-Fires Advanced Missile; Interview With Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders
• Brazilian Court Favors U.S. Dad; Blacks Undercounted in the Census; Schwarzenegger Vs. Palin
• Schwarzenegger vs. Palin; President Obama Writes Letter to North Korean Leader; Iran Defiant


December 15, 2009
• Some Terror Suspects Moving to Illinois; President Obama Touts Cash For Caulkers
• CAT Scans May Cause Cancer; Dozens Busted for Medicare Fraud; Cuba's Castro Slams Obama; U.S. Troops' Daunting Task
• Some Gitmo Prisoners Moving to Illinois; Dreamliner Takes Flight; Are Democrats Compromising Real Health Care Reform?


December 14, 2009
• President Obama Scolds Big Banks; Interview With South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham
• Police Raid Pakistani Hotel Where American Men Stayed Before Being Arrested; White House Slams Wall Street; Mixed Messages on the Recession
• President Obama Takes on Big Banks; Italian Prime Minister Punched


December 12, 2009
• Journalist Thomas Friedman Offers His Thoughts On Obama's Peace Prize, His Afghan Strategy, And Climate Change


December 11, 2009
• African-American Lawmakers' Warning to President Obama; Health Care Reform Loophole
• Clinton: Iran Exporting Terror; Report: Gaps in U.S. Food Chain; Hospital Radiation Overdose; Terror Suspects' Final Destination
• Black Lawmakers' Warning to President Obama; Major Health Care Reform Loophole Found?; America's Food Safety System


December 10, 2009
• Muslim Americans Arrested in Pakistan; President Obama Accepts Peace Prize
• Geithner Grilled on Bailout; Facebook's Controversial Privacy Changes; Satellites Show Shrinking Arctic; The SUV of Electronics; Questions About Hitler's Remains
• President Obama Accepts Nobel Peace Prize; Americans Arrested in Pakistan; Interview With Tom Friedman


December 09, 2009
• Americans Arrested in Pakistan; President Obama Prepares to Accept Nobel Peace Prize
• Implementing the New War Plan; Baghdad Security Chief Fired; Pakistan: Five Arrested Are Missing Virginia Men
• Interview With General Stanley McChrystal; Americans Arrested in Pakistan


December 08, 2009
• Senate Rejects Tougher Abortion Limits; Friction Within Obama Administration Over Afghanistan War Plan?
• President Obama Juggles Two Wars; Senate Defeats Abortion Amendment; U.N. World's Warmest Decade; Battle Over Brazilian Wall; Party Crashers Will Plead Fifth; Google Sues Scam Sites
• Bailout For Main Street?; United Obama Administration Front on Afghan War?; Interview With Senior Presidential Adviser Valerie Jarrett


December 07, 2009
• Greenhouse Gases a Threat; Controversial Climate Change E- mails; Carbon Footprint in Copenhagen
• U.S. Citizen Charged in Terror Attack; Taliban Leader Talks with CNN
• Obama Administration Targets Climate Change Regulation; Was the Bailout a Bargain?; Democratic Senator Recommends Girlfriend For Job


December 05, 2009
• National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones Gives In-Depth Insight, In A CNN Exclusive Interview; Cuba Hit Hard by the Global Economic Crisis; Father Waging Desperate Battle to Get Son Back


December 04, 2009
• American Found Guilty of Murder in Italian Court; Job Loss Slows
• Amanda Knox's Verdict Expected Soon; What if Cuba Gives Up Free Lunches?; Fumbles in Va Tech Massacre; Winning the War in Afghanistan
• American on Trial For Murder in Italy; Modest Drop in Jobless Rate; House Arrest in Luxury Swiss Cottage; Scandal Over Global Warming Heats Up; 'Modest' Dip in Jobless Rate


December 03, 2009
• President Obama Holds Jobs Summit; Interview With Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor
• National Christmas Tree Lighting; Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal; Huckabee Confronted
• White House Accused of Stonewalling Party Crasher Investigation; President Obama Holds Jobs Summit; Interview With Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer; Ben Bernanke Defends Federal Reserve, Seeks Second Term


December 02, 2009
• Tiger Woods Apologizes; Obama Administration Defends New Afghanistan Strategy
• New Information on Couple Who Crashed White House State Dinner; A Piece of Afghanistan in Indiana; Interview With National Security Adviser
• President Obama's Afghanistan Decision; Tiger Woods Apologizes for 'Transgressions'; Interview With Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold


December 01, 2009
• President Obama's Afghanistan Strategy; Interview With Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson
• Did They or Didn't They?; "Crashing" As Crime; Paying for Afghan Plan
• New Afghanistan War Plan Revealed; Police End Tiger Woods Investigation


November 30, 2009
• White House Party Crashers Investigated; Afghanistan Strategy?
• Tiger Woods Bows Out of Own Tournament; Nuclear Face-Off; Iran Holds British Sailors
• Afghanistan War Plans; Manhunt Continues For Suspected Cop Killer


November 28, 2009
• More Troops to Afghanistan; Obama's Green Agenda; Bishop to Kennedy: No Communion; Held Prisoner by Iran; Outrage Over Cancer Guidelines


November 27, 2009
• White House Party Crashers and President Obama; Tiger Woods Injured in Car Accident
• Woods Drove His SUV into Fire Hydrant, Struck a Tree; Newark's Intersecting Runways Raise Concerns; Aspiring Reality TV Stars Crashed Obama Party
• Disappearing Northwest Flight Recordings Released; Tiger Woods Injured in Car Wreck; Investigation Continues Into White House Party Crashers


November 25, 2009
• Toyota Issues Massive Recall; President Obama Set to Announce Decision on Afghanistan
• Boy's Shattered World Rebuilt; Text Messages Revealed; Global Warming Debate Heats Up; Teen's Incredibly Painful Ordeal; $3500 Jeans
• President Obama Set to Announce Afghanistan Decision; NBA Jerseys No Longer Made in America?


November 24, 2009
• President Obama Hosts Indian Prime Minister; Afghanistan Decision Time Nears
• U.S. Droves Hunt Insurgents in Pakistan; President Obama Vows to Finish the Job in Afghanistan; 150 Years Ago Darwin's Landmark Book; Big Bang Machine Finally Running
• President Obama Nears Afghanistan Decision; President Obama Hosts First State Dinner


November 23, 2009
• President Obama Nears Decisions on Afghanistan; Swine Flu Worries
• Victims, Activists Protest Gun Violence; Feds Plan Major Crib Recall; American Pilgrim in Mecca; Northern Ireland in Political Crisis
• President Obama Nearing Decision on Afghanistan?; Iran Flexes Military Muscle


November 21, 2009
• Ft. Hood Massacre Missed Red Flags; New Mammograms Guidelines Confusing; Death in Protests in Iran; Changing Weather


November 20, 2009
• Future of Oprah's Empire?; Clash Over Health Care Reform Looms
• Queen of Daytime TV to Quit; The Oprah Effect; Hasan Hearing Tomorrow; Radical Cleric Preaches Jihad; Screening for Extremism in the Army
• Fort Hood Massacre Shooter Talks; New Pap Smear Guidelines Out, Stir Controversy; Economic Suffering Deepens; Feeling Heat on Health Care; Who's Protecting Consumers?


November 19, 2009
• Could Fort Hood Massacre Have Been Prevented?; Health Care Land Mines
• Afghan President: We'll Take Over Security; America Losing Out to China; Air Travelers Wait For Hours; Accused Line Cutter Could Face Prison
• New Investigations Into Fort Hood Massacre; Health Care Reform Flash Points


November 18, 2009
• Interview With President Obama; White House Enters Breast Cancer Screening Debate
• Taking Heat for a Terror Trial; Afghanistan's Cancer of Corruption; $98 Billion in Government Waste
• Interview With President Obama; Interview With U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Hillary Clinton Visits Afghanistan


November 17, 2009
• President Obama Meets With Chinese Leader; Interview With Illinois Senator Richard Durbin
• New Mammogram Advice Raises Concerns; Putting 9/11 Suspects on Trial; Prescription Drug Prices Up
• President Obama Meets With Chinese President; Catholic Church's Ultimatum to D.C. Lawmakers; New Breast Cancer Guidelines Stir Controversy


November 16, 2009
• Sarah Palin's Sex Appeal; President Obama Visits China
• From GITMO to the Heartland; Interview With Seymour Hersh
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Visits Iraq; President Obama Faces America's Bankers; Where Terror Suspects Are Welcome


November 14, 2009
• Hasan's Colleagues Saw His Stranger Side In Psychiatric Reports That Included Tangents About Islam, The Quran


November 13, 2009
• New York City Trial For 9/11 Suspects; Sarah Palin Burning Bridges?


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