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January 20, 2010
• Massachusetts Drops a Bombshell; Back to Basics; Democrats Defeated; Rescue Drama in Haiti
• Interview with Robert Gibbs; Surviving 8 Days Trapped Under Rubble; New Video of Quake Hitting Haiti; Exodus from the Quake Zone; Dad Said What?!
• Why Voters are so Angry; Restarting on Health Care


January 19, 2010
• Devastation in Haiti; Coakley vs. Brown
• Stories of Survival in Haiti; Health Crisis in Haiti
• Who's in Charge in Haiti?; Health Care D-Day in Massachusetts


January 18, 2010
• Desperation in Haiti; Looting in Haiti; Haiti's Littlest Victims; Dr. Gupta Performs Surgery in Haiti
• Bill Clinton Visits Haiti; Health Care Reform's Fate Decided in Massachusetts?
• New Looting, Desperation in Haiti; Haiti's Youngest Quake Victims; Live Reports from Haiti; Bill Clinton Sees Devastation Up Close


January 16, 2010
• Risks to Relief Workers; Trapped Girl Believed to be Alive; Former Presidents Lead Haiti Fund; L.A. County Search And Rescue Feverishly Works At A Site Amidst Uncertainty, Danger, And Driven By The Hope Of Waiting Relatives Of The Missing


January 15, 2010
• Haiti's Desperation; UN Moves Aid Tent Due to Threat of Violence
• Race Against Time in Haiti; US in Charge of Haiti's Airport; Desperate Search for Loved Ones; Medical Crisis Unfolding in Haiti
• Haiti in Crisis


January 14, 2010
• Haiti in Ruins
• The Crisis in Haiti
• Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti


January 13, 2010
• Thousands Feared Dead in Haiti; Interview With Former President Bill Clinton
• Earthquake Devastates Haiti
• Major Earthquake Devastates Haiti


January 12, 2010
• Devastating Earthquake Strikes Haiti
• Earthquake in Haiti
• Obama's First Year: Success or Failure?; White House Cooking the Books on Economy?


January 11, 2010
• Leno's Prime-Time Exit; Top Senate Democrat Under Fire For Racial Remarks
• Should Reid Resign?; Home-Grown Jihadists
• Harry Reid Under Fire For Racial Remarks; Rich Bonus Season on Wall Street


January 09, 2010
• Obama Reports To American People About Security Mistakes; Yemeni Threat Apparent


January 08, 2010
• Terror Plot Suspect Appears in Court; President Obama Addresses Job Losses
• Interview with Nasser Judeh; Last Line of Defense at Airports; Interview with Howard Kurtz; All is not "Lost"; Immigrant Students Plea for a Break
• Terror Suspect Pleads Not Guilty; Republicans Criticize RNC Chairman


January 07, 2010
• President Obama Explains Security Failures; Will Health Care Reform Help or Hurt Democrats?
• Anti-Terror Security Briefing
• President Obama Addresses Security Failures; Bombing Plot Suspect Heads to Court


January 06, 2010
• Democrats' Grip on Power Slipping?; Terror Suspect Indicted
• Yemen Steps Up Fight Against Al Qaeda; Dick Cheney's Daughter Slams Obama for Weakening American Security
• Failed Bombing Suspect Indicted; Iran's Nuclear Ambitions


January 05, 2010
• President Obama Speaks Out on Intelligence Failures; Interview With Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele
• Critics: Strip State Dept. of Big Job; Complicated Maze of Congressional Panels; Dems Plot Next Health Reform Moves; Google Launches Phone War; Arctic Blast Moving In
• President Obama Holds Major National Security Meeting; Bitter Cold Threatens Lives, Crops


January 04, 2010
• Terror Watch List Expanded; Yemen Terror Threat
• Abdulmutallab: Enemy Combatant or Criminal Defendant?; Interview With Reps. Harman, Hoekstra
• Names Added to Terror Watch Lists; Third White House Party Crasher Revealed


January 02, 2010
• The Year in Politics; Experts Debate Rights of Captured Terrorist Suspects; Iranian Protests Continue; Virtual Tour of White House Situation Room


January 01, 2010
• President Obama's National Security Challenges; Rush Limbaugh Speaks Out on Health Scare
• Investigation Into Suicide Bombing on U.S. Base Continues; Car Bomb Kills 75 in Pakistani Village
• Year of Security Challenges; Rush Limbaugh Speaks Out From Hospital


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


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