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Lawmakers Leave for Christmas and Leave Fiscal Cliff Chaos

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Lawmakers Leave for Christmas and Leave Fiscal Cliff Chaos By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) NOTABLES: BOEHNER  PULLS ‘PLAN B’: ABC’S John Parkinson, Devin Dwyer, and Sunlen Miller report that House Speaker John Boehner tried and failed to win enough votes to pass his fiscal cliff “Plan B” option, and in a...


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Wild Weather Upends Holiday Travel

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Wild Weather Upends Holiday Travel Wild weather has spread across the Midwest, southern U.S. and Northeast over the past two days, which has included more than 200 reports of severe weather and four tornadoes, and has caused chaos on the roads as residents attempt to travel for the holidays.


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Once-Conjoined Twins Make Debut After Surgery

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Once-Conjoined Twins Make Debut After Surgery Two 9-month-old baby girls, who were born joined at the lower chest and abdomen, made their public debut, bringing much happiness and relief to their proud parents just in time for Christmas. The twins, Allison June and Amelia Lee Tucker were separated Nov. 7 at...


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Watch: Winter Weather Causes Holiday Travel Problems

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Watch: Winter Weather Causes Holiday Travel Problems There is nearly two feet of snow in the Midwest at the start of the weekend.


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Wild Weather Upends Holiday Travel

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Wild Weather Upends Holiday Travel Wild weather has spread across the Midwest, southern U.S. and Northeast over the past two days, which has included more than 200 reports of severe weather and four tornadoes, and has caused chaos on the roads as residents attempt to travel for the holidays.


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1 of 2 Escaped Robbers Arrested in Chicago

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1 of 2 Escaped Robbers Arrested in Chicago One of the two Chicago bank robbers who escaped from a high-rise federal jail in Chicago using a makeshift rope to rappel down the building has been arrested.


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Moment of Silence Planned for Sandy Hook

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Moment of Silence Planned for Sandy Hook A moment of silence in recognition of the massacre in Sandy Hook, Conn., will take place today at 9:30 a.m., marking the time a week ago when Adam Lanza killed 26 people before committing suicide.


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Many Santas are Now Ho Ho Ho-bese

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Many Santas are Now Ho Ho Ho-bese Adele Saidy, owner of Adele’s of Hollywood, has been designing custom Santa suits for St. Nick stand-ins all over the world for more than four decades. She’s seen some big changes to the seasonal costumes. Big changes. “They are getting larger and larger,” she said....


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Fixing the GOP: Party Like It's 1949

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Fixing the GOP: Party Like It's 1949 Americans by a 15-point margin in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say the Republican Party needs less conservative policies that are more focused on middle- and lower-income Americans, rather than better leaders to sell its existing positions. And 63 years ago, Americans by an...


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2012 Highlights in Fashion

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2012 Highlights in Fashion Darwin, the rhesus macaque monkey who made global headlines when he was photographed wearing a shearling coat outside of an Ikea in Canada earlier this month, has been recognized as one of the year’s highlights of fashion. In a review of the top 10 fashion...


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N. Korea Has Detained a US Citizen

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N. Korea Has Detained a US Citizen SEOUL, South Korea — An American citizen has been detained for seven weeks in North Korea for “hostile crimes against the republic.” North Korea’s Central News Agency reported Friday Pae Jun Ho entered the country’s city of Rason for tour purposes on Nov. 3, and...


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Affordable Bowl Game Travel

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Affordable Bowl Game Travel Attention football fanatics: As you know, the bowl games are coming up. Memo to the people who love them: Here’s an opportunity to get your favorite fan some tickets for a bowl game and a trip for an affordable price. Hotels.com has teamed up with StubHub to...


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Best Gifts for the Kitchen

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Best Gifts for the Kitchen We’re getting down to the holiday gift-buying wire here, and while some of you procrastinators are contemplating another set of dish towels for Mom or a “Kiss the Cook” apron for Dad, consider surprising the chefs on your shopping list with something a little more high...


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Photos: Moss Debuts in Stuart Weitzman Ads

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Photos: Moss Debuts in Stuart Weitzman Ads Kate Moss will become the face of Stuart Weitzman for spring 2013.


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Snow Snarls Travelers in Midwest

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Snow Snarls Travelers in Midwest Holiday travelers awaiting flights, safe roads hope to be on their way as snowstorm moves on


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Boy's Egg Collection Turns Into Snakes

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Boy's Egg Collection Turns Into Snakes 3-year-old Australian boy's egg collection hatches into slithering tangle of 7 deadly snakes


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