Authorities in Alabama are searching for two young children after their father told investigators the youngsters are dead. The father and the children’s stepmother have both been arrested, police said. (Dec. 4)
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An anonymous donor and a 13-year-old boy became a couple of Santa’s helpers when they replaced some gifts that had be stolen from a 10-year-old boy who’s fighting brain cancer. (Dec. 4)
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Surveillance video shows a 92-year-old Oregon man being pick-pocketed during a trip to the grocery store. Police say the men who stole his wallet planned their crime. (Dec. 4)
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President Barack Obama announced a new trade deal with South Korea. The administration says the deal creates jobs while helping US farmers, ranchers, auto companies and manufacturers. (Dec. 4)
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Spain placed striking air traffic controllers under military authority Saturday and threatened them with jail terms in an unprecedented emergency order to get planes back in the skies and clear chaotic airports clogged with irate travelers. (Dec. 4)
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Vice President Joe Biden is pressing the point that it’s the middle class that needs a tax cut and the unemployed who need more help. He gave the weekly White House radio and Internet address in place of President Barack Obama. (Dec. 4)
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Senate Republicans have blocked legislation allowing taxes to rise on upper income taxpayers on Jan 1. The vote Saturday was 53-36, seven short of the 60 needed to advance the measure. (Dec. 4)
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It’s hard to imagine, but Art Ginsburg has spent 30 years quietly turning himself into an unlikely food celebrity, an icon with a multimillion dollar brand, all under the radar of the culinary elite. Ginsburg is TV’s Mr. Food. (Dec. 4)
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Republicans say voters in the mid-term elections expressed a clear choice against tax hikes. In the weekly GOP media address, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois says Bush-era tax cuts need to be extended. (Dec. 4)
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Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson is released from captivity; American troops head to Somalia; General George Washington says farewell to his officers in New York; Frank Zappa dies. (Dec. 4)
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