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Obama hits gym, watches movie, golfs in Hawaii (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in us

President Barack Obama, waves with daughter Sasha Obama, 8, after going to the movies in Kaneohe, Hawaii Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. The Obamas are in Hawaii for the holidays.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - President Barack Obama went golfing on New Year's Eve. The president hit the links at Mid-Pacific Country Club in the same Honolulu suburb of Kailua where he's renting a beachfront home for the holidays.


AP-GfK Poll: Americans seek silver lining in 2010 (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in business

Jennifer Lopez looks up as a light rain fell as she rehearsed on the Nivea Countdown Stage on Times Square in New York Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - The bank account is thin, but the future looks pretty good. That, oddly enough, is the view of many Americans who predict 2010 will be a better year than this one, even if they fear that the U.S. economy and their own financial circumstances won't improve.


Jobless claims fall unexpectedly as layoffs ease (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in business

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 30,2009, Nick Ayrom, from Glendale, Calif., a former high school teacher, looks for technology related jobs on a computer terminal at the Verdugo Job Center on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. in Glendale, Calif. The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)AP - The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers.


Economy 101: The year in autos, by the numbers (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in business

File - In a Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 file photo, employees assemble car parts at a factory of Chinese auto maker JAC Motors in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province,  China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's biggest market for automobiles, the first time any other country has bought more vehicles than the nation that produced Henry Ford, the Cadillac and the minivan. (AP Photo, File)AP - The car industry got a historic makeover in 2009, most of it not for the better.


Ex-Minn. senator seeks revival in governor’s race (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Uncategorized
AP - It took Mark Dayton two tries and many millions from his personal fortune to win one of Minnesota's U.S. Senate seats. After one frustrating term, he couldn't wait to flee Washington.

Scientists find clue to killer of Tasmanian devils (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in science

This undated handout file photo from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, shows a healthy Tasmanian Devil.  Fierce as they are, Tasmanian devils can't beat a contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them out. Now scientists think they've found the disease's origin, a step in the race to save Australia's snarling marsupial.   (AP Photo/Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, HO, File)AP - Fierce as they are, Tasmanian devils can't beat a contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them out. Now scientists think they've found the disease's origin, a step in the race to save Australia's snarling marsupial.


TSA ends journalist subpoenas over leaked memo (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics

Transportation Security Administration agents patrol the corridors near the security checkpoints at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Imperial, Pa., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - The Transportation Security Administration on Thursday dropped its subpoenas it had issued to two Internet writers in its effort to find the leaker of an airline security directive.


No silent break for GOP lawmakers (Politico)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics
Politico - On the Sunday before Christmas, 40 conservative House Republicans jumped on a conference call to talk about political strategy going into the holiday break.

Report: Immigration cases at record levels in 2009 (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics
AP - Immigration prosecutions rose to record levels in 2009 as the Obama administration kept up aggressive enforcement that began under President George W. Bush.

Judge tosses Blackwater case, cites gov’t missteps (AP)

December 31st, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Politics

FILE - In a Monday, July 21, 2008 file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina  dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. Urbina said the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it was not allowed to see.  (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.