Palin’s daughter gives birth to son named Tripp (AP)
AP - The daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a son, a magazine reported Monday.
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Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina (AP)
AP - Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.
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Japanese ‘tenant’ leaves Mexico City airport (AP)
AP - Easy come, easy go.
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Defiant Hamas hits Israel with dozens of rockets (AP)
AP - Palestinian militants sent a deadly barrage of missiles flying deep into Israel on Monday, demonstrating that Hamas still had firepower three days into Israel's punishing air offensive in Gaza. Three Israelis were killed and two seriously wounded. Palestinian health officials put the three-day death toll in Gaza at 364; the U.N. said the total included at least 62 civilians.
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Scenic Pakistani valley falls to Taliban militants (AP)
AP - Taliban militants are beheading and burning their way through Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, and residents say the insurgents now control most of the mountainous region far from the lawless tribal areas where jihadists thrive.
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Kerkorian sells off Ford shares at deep loss (Reuters)
Reuters - Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian has sold off all of his remaining shares of Ford Motor Co, completing a retreat from a high-profile stake in the No. 2 U.S. automaker that cost him hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Family of missing cruise woman believes she jumped (AP)
AP - The family of a missing cruise ship passenger said Monday that they suspect the woman "chose an unfortunate ending to her life" and jumped from a cruise ship balcony into the waters off Mexico's coast on Christmas night.
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Hard to hear at holiday parties? Blame your brain (AP)
AP - It's almost New Year's Eve, a time for plunging into boisterous crowds bathed in loud music.
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Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70 (AP)
AP - Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.
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Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic (Reuters)
Reuters - Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia.
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