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1.The White House is urging Hamas to agree to a ceasefire with Israel as a first step in halting the current Israeli air assault on Gaza. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe spoke of the Hamas move not to renew a ceasefire with Israel. 2.The searc
1. Los Angeles area officials say they found more bodies at the Santa shooting crime scene. Investigators are still trying to identify the badly burned bodies. Officials want to know if they died in the shooting or the subsequent house fire. 2. The
1.It's still looking like a miserable end of a miserable year for retailers, with a lot of shoppers today turning up their noses at deep discounts and simply returning unwanted gifts. One analyst says after an early surge, mall turnout is lighter th
1.From the Pacific Northwest to New England, people are digging out from heavy snow. In between, many are shivering through a brutally cold day. Below-zero wind chills led a number of schools in the Pittsburg area to close. Monday morning commuters
1. All but one runway at Denver's airport reopened as authorities continue to investigate yesterday's plane accident. Thirty-eight people were hurt when a Continental Airlines jet veered off a runway and caught fire. The conditions of the two most s
1. By the time winter officially arrives tomorrow morning, some in the Midwest may have already had enough. Temperatures in Illinois could reach five below zero with wind gusts 30 miles an hour. Minnesota authorities predicted heavy snowfall and are
1. Officials in India say more than a dozen explosions in a western city have killed 29 people and wounded scores more. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility. The explosions come a day after seven similar blasts struck another city in
1. Health officials say the number of deaths associated with the swine flu outbreak in Mexico is rising. Eighty-one people now dead because of the strain, another 1,300 have gotten sick. The World Health Organization says the outbreak has pandemic p
1. Oil prices are down for a second day, more than four dollars lower on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil is trading at less than 135 dollars a barrel. Yesterday prices fell nearly six and a half dollars in the biggest one-day drop in dollar te
1. Lebanon's Cabinet is expected to vote on a UN resolution that would end the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, this after the UN Security Council adopted the resolution to end the war, authoriz
1. Police are providing new details into the Virginia Tech massacre. Today they revealed that the gunman fired more than 170 rounds in nine minutes and shot himself in a classroom surrounded by victims. 2. Some residents of Spencer, Massachusetts ha
1. An insurgent group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq is claiming responsibility for a suicide truck bombing that killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20. It happened at a patrol base northeast of Baghdad. This is one of the deadliest attacks on Ame
1. The bells are tolling as Virginia pauses to pay tribute to those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings. It's a day of mourning in the state and for many around country and the world. 2. One of the Virginia Tech victims was buried in Israel today.
1. Churches around Virginia Tech were packed Sunday as students and residents turned to the pulpit for guidance and reassurance. Classes are set to resume at the university Monday, a full week after 32 people were killed by a gunman. 2. An air show
1.The United Auto Workers union says it's going to make changes in its contract. The union also says it will delay billions of dollars in payments to a union-run health care trust. It's all an effort to save jobs and help Detroit's Big Three automak
1. In Afghanistan, the Pentagon is extending the tour of more than 2,000 Marines after insisting the unit would come home on time. Military leaders say they need more troops. So now the unit is due home in early November. 2. Hostages released in Col
1. Police in Illinois say they have evidence linking this man to eight murders over the past week. They are warning the public that Nicholas Sheley is armed and dangerous. And they are offering a 25-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to
1. President Barack Obama has been discussing trade, security and other issues at the opening sessions of the Summit of the Americas. Obama says he hopes to open a new chapter in America's relations with South and Central America. 2. Meantime, the W
1.Three Americans held hostage by rebels in Colombia for more than five years are heading home to Florida. The men had been recovering at a San Antonio, Texas hospital since being rescued in an undercover operation last week. 2.President Bush s form
1. President Bush has lifted an executive ban on offshore oil drilling. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well. The ban has stood since his father Bush Senior, was president. 2. Authorities in North Carolina have charg