State

• Police: 3 women gunned down while in car with kids

National

• Resolute Fort Hood soldiers ready for return

  • Alleged shooter tied to mosque of 9/11 hijackers

• Transit moving again in Philly after 6-day strike

• Formal charges expected in Seattle police killing

• DC area relives terror as sniper's execution nears

• Hurricane Ida weakens, but Gulf still on warning

• Utah girl's pierced nose: US-Indian culture clash

• AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn -- by a PC virus

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International

• Rescuers dig for survivors in buried Salvador town

• Rain-triggered landslides kill 14 in Indonesia

• Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan

• China executes 9 Uighurs over July ethnic riots

• India limits media on contentious Dalai Lama trip

• Report: NKorea's Kim rides on tricked-out trains

• Soldiers wary of often corrupt Mexican police

• Iraq election commission proposes vote on Jan. 21

• Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall

• Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress

Politics & Government

• House health bill unacceptable to many in Senate

  • House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies

• GOP officials say Dems put agenda ahead of country

• Obama confronts an Asia reshaped by China's rise

• Senator: Senate will investigate Army shootings

• Terror training camps smaller, harder to target

• High court to look at life in prison for juveniles

ODD & Extraordinary

• Fla. police: Graffiti artist left work incomplete

• UC Berkeley students roll a giant serpent of sushi

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Carrey's 'Christmas Carol' wraps up $31M weekend

• 50 years: Kan. town grieves 'In Cold Blood' deaths

Science, Technology & Environment

• W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

• China sends panda expert to Taiwan to aid breeding

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