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Illegal immigration foe Rep. Tom Tancredo retires (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 03:03 AM CST AP - When Tom Tancredo, the lightning-rod Colorado conservative, went to Congress a decade ago, he promised he wouldn't disappear in Washington. He sure didn't.

Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 08:12 PM CST AP - Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary.

At Pearl Harbor, US response to raid is acclaimed (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 08:05 PM CST AP - While smoke still billowed from the torpedoed ruins of the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Thomas Griffin's B-25 group took off from its Oregon base to search for Japanese ships or submarines along the West Coast.

Democrats pick up a House seat in central Ohio (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:27 AM CST AP - Democrats will hold at least 256 seats in the House when the 111th Congress is sworn in next month, after a county commissioner came from behind to win an open seat in central Ohio.

Lawsuit accuses woman of pilfering poetry program (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 02:05 AM CST AP - It's all there in black and white: a poet's pain, her suffering, her emotional distress. Turn the page and find secrecy, shock and disappointment. But don't expect passionate verse. These are lawsuits, not poems.

1st Vietnamese-American elected to US Congress (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 09:11 PM CST AP - The first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress took advantage of dissatisfaction with a longtime incumbent dogged by corruption allegations and reflects the changing nature of New Orleans politics since Hurricane Katrina.

Chicago workers' sit-in becomes rallying point (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 09:12 PM CST AP - Chicago workers in the third day of a sit-in on the floor of their former workplace peered through the windows of a door Sunday, amazed by a mix of supporters, politicians and journalists who packed a foyer outside.

Next stop on gay marriage debate in courts: Iowa (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 06:36 PM CST AP - The gay marriage debate moves to the Midwest this week as the Iowa Supreme Court hears arguments in a challenge to the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

NBC names David Gregory host of 'Meet the Press' (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 12:04 PM CST AP - David Gregory's new job as moderator of "Meet the Press" was made official Sunday with an announcement on the long-running NBC interview program that he will take over starting next week.

In lean times, SoCal residents trade guns for food (AP) Posted: 08 Dec 2008 12:28 AM CST AP - A program to exchange guns for gifts brought in a record number of weapons this year as residents hit hard by the economy look under the bed and in closets to find items to trade for groceries.

RI slow on program to deport immigrant inmates (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 05:14 PM CST AP - The idea was simple: States could flush their prisons early of nonviolent immigrant convicts while helping the federal government close the books on potentially thousands of pending deportations.

Somalis in US fear sons are returning to fight (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 04:49 PM CST AP - Three Somali families tell similar stories: A son or nephew disappears. A passport is gone. Days later the phone rings, and the teen says he's in Somalia.

'Christmases' repeats at No. 1 with $18.2M take (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 04:45 PM CST AP - Movie crowds kept up their holiday spirit as Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn's comedy "Four Christmases" rang up $18.2 million to lead the box office for a second-straight weekend.

Napolitano has built moderate immigration record (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 01:21 PM CST AP - Janet Napolitano didn't begin her tenure as Arizona's governor focused on immigration, but she gradually built a record of trying to confront the state's vast border woes.

Woman's airport disappearance, death haunts family (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 01:40 PM CST AP - After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, the elderly couple found themselves in the bustling terminal of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Economic woes threaten legal aid nationwide (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 02:18 PM CST AP - The day before Maria Nunes fled Florida for Seattle, her abusive husband beat her unconscious. She had already divorced him, which made the Jamaica native vulnerable to deportation because she depended on her marriage for her legal residency in the United States.

Meltdown slows bid for family/work improvements (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 11:45 AM CST AP - In some ways, conditions couldn't be better for those seeking to make family leave and paid sick days available to more American workers. In some ways, conditions could scarcely be worse.

Job seeker with MBA posts resume in taxi back seat (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 09:13 AM CST AP - Are you talkin' to me — about a job?

Up in smoke: Boston considers ban of tobacco bars (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 10:48 AM CST AP - Sometimes Justin Hegarty savors his cigars by himself, and sometimes he enjoys them in a cigar bar with friends. "Either way, it's relaxing," said Hegarty, soon after an afternoon smoke at Churchill's cigar lounge.

Sunny von Bulow dead after 28 years in coma (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2008 10:49 AM CST AP - Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, an heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in oblivion after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76.

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