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High court to look at state immigration laws (AP)

AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants.

Obama, al-Maliki charting next steps for US, Iraq (AP)

President Barack Obama meets with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - With the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq in its final days, President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met at the White House Monday to discuss the next phase of the relationship between their countries.



AP IMPACT: PSU culture explained away Sandusky (AP)

FILE - In an Aug. 6, 1999 file photo, Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, right, poses with his defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky during Penn State Media Day at State College, Pa.  Sandusky is currently charged with more than 50 counts related to sexual abuse over a 12-year period.   (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)AP - The warning signs were there for more than a decade, disturbing indicators that Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was breaching boundaries with young boys — or maybe worse.



Russian tycoon to compete with Putin in election (AP)

Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons and New Jersey Nets basketball team owner, speaks at a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. Prokhorov said he will challenge Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in next March's presidential election. While he was cautious not to cross Putin's path in the past, Prokhorov may pose a serious challenge to Putin, whose authority has been dented by the Dec. 4 parliamentary election and massive protests against vote fraud. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, said Monday he will run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election.



A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft (AP)

AP - As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts.

Occupy protesters seek to shut West Coast ports (AP)

FILE -  In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo, occupy Oakland protesters march through the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. Protesters want to shut down ports up and down the U.S. West Coast on Monday, Dec.12,2011, to gum up the engines of global commerce. But organizers who are partly billing this effort as a show of solidarity with longshoremen have not won the support of the powerful union representing thousands of dock workers. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, file)AP - Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation's busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.



Iran says it's almost done decoding US drone (AP)

This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, claims to show US RQ-170 Sentinel drone which Tehran says its forces downed earlier this week, as the chief of the aerospace division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, right, listens to an unidentified colonel, in an undisclosed location, Iran. (AP Photo/Sepahnews) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.AP - Iranian experts are in the final stages of recovering data from the U.S. surveillance drone captured by the country's armed forces, state TV reported Monday.



SF becomes first US city to top $10 minimum wage (AP)

In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, executive chef Daniel Scherotter talks about the city's minimum wage and health care mandates for workers during an interview at the Palio D'Asti restaurant in San Francisco.   Scherotter said the city's minimum wage hike from $9.92 to $10.24 means that his highest-paid employees — the waiters who make most of their income from tips — will see more money in their pockets while his salaried kitchen staff will have to take the hit.  (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - David Frias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America.



Tiniest babies are growing up healthy despite odds (AP)

FILE - This June 1989 file photo provided by the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., shows Madeline Mann shortly after her premature birth weighing 9.9 ounces. She is now an honors student in psychology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. A medical report released Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Pediatrics Journal details their progress but says most babies born that small fare poorly.  (AP Photo/Loyola University Medical Center, A. Hayashi)AP - One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology. Once the tiniest babies ever born, both girls are thriving, despite long odds when they entered the world weighing less than a pound.



Manning rallies Giants past Cowboys, 37-34 (AP)

New York Giants' Brandon Jacobs scores a touchdown as Dallas Cowboys'  Anthony Spencer looks on during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Sharon Ellman)AP - Eli Manning and the New York Giants finally have something to show for all their hard work — first place in the NFC East.



Euro zone fiscal pact fails to restore confidence (Reuters)

Reuters - A European summit deal to strengthen budget discipline in the euro zone failed to restore financial market confidence on Monday, forcing the European Central Bank to step in again gingerly.

Putin ally wants new liberal party after Russia protests (Reuters)

Reuters - A longtime ally of Vladimir Putin called on Monday for the creation of a liberal party to fill a void in Russian politics exposed by mass protests against the prime minister's 12-year rule, and cast himself as its potential leader.

Supreme Court to decide Arizona immigration law (Reuters)

FILE - In this May 9, 2011 file photo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks in Phoenix. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants. The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that blocked several tough provisions in the Arizona law. One of those requires that police, while enforcing other laws, question a person's immigration status if officers suspect he is in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)Reuters - TheSupreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether Arizona's tough law cracking down on illegal immigrants can take effect, a case arising from the fierce national debate on immigration policy ahead of next year's presidential election.



Olympus ex-CEO to meet MPs, push for Japan reform: source (Reuters)

Reuters - The whistleblower in a $1.7 billion accounting scandal at Japan's Olympus Corp, ex-CEO Michael Woodford, plans to meet ruling-party lawmakers in Tokyo this week as he lobbies for reforms to Japanese boardrooms, a source said on Monday.

Intel Q4 hit by hard disk drive supply shortage (Reuters)

Reuters - Intel Corp warned that fourth-quarter results would miss its previous forecast due to hard disk drive supply shortages caused by floods in Thailand.

Iran army declines comment on MP's Hormuz exercise remarks (Reuters)

Reuters - A member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practice its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official confirmation.

McConnell expects bipartisan deal on tax cut (Reuters)

Reuters - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell predicted on Sunday that Congress will renew a popular payroll tax cut, but it remained unclear how lawmakers will resolve deep differences before the December 31 deadline.

Majority of Americans would blow whistle: poll (Reuters)

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters)- Four months after U.S. financial regulators opened a whistleblower office, more than three-quarters of polled Americans said they would blow the whistle under the protections and incentives now offered by the government.

GOP 'super PAC' leader: On fundraising, 'neither side is going to unilaterally disarm' (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - 'Super PAC' leaders Norm Coleman and Brian Walsh are, respectively, chairman and president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super political-action committee focused on electing Republican House candidates. Super PACs can raise unlimited funds to influence elections. The two leaders were guest speakers at the Nov. 29 Monitor breakfast in Washington.




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