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Fewer teens smoking pot or abusing uppers

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Illicit drug use by teens continued to gradually decline overall this year, but the use of prescription painkillers remains popular among young people, acc...
CIA boss queried on destroyed recordings of interrogations

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Michael Hayden, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors Tuesday, failed to answer central questions about the ...
Poll finds many see progress in Iraq security

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Growing numbers of people think the U.S. is making progress in Iraq and will eventually be able to claim some success there, a poll showed Tuesday in a sig...
Key Republican endorses budget compromise

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The top Republican in the House made a modest but important break with President Bush over the budget Tuesday, endorsing more than $6 billion in new spendi...
Large Sun-Times investor calls for change

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The second-largest shareholder of Sun-Times Media Group Inc. criticized the company's performance in a letter Tuesday and called for operational changes at...
Family of AIDS victim seeks talk with Huckabee

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Rya...
Federal Reserve works with central banks to deal with credit crunch

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve announced today it was coordinating with other central banks to deal with the global credit crunch. Wall Street rallied after the surpr...
Heeere's Johnny, Johnny, Barry and someone called … Bird Legs?

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Meet the presidential candidates by another name -- Barry, Bird Legs, Coyote Bill. Such are their childhood nicknames. Several of the candidates go around ...
Briefs: Truckers can stay 11 hours on road

Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- U.S. long-haul truck drivers can continue to spend as much as 11 hours a day behind the wheel, after a federal agency refused to return to lower limits sou...
3 teens arrested in Vegas bus stop shooting

Associated Press
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - LAS VEGAS -- Assailants shot six young people Tuesday at a school bus stop, wounding two critically, in a midday attack that followed a fight over a high school girl, au...

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