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STOCKHOLM (AP) — A car explosion and what appeared to be a suicide attack injured two people, killed the apparent bomber, and caused panic among Christmas shoppers in Stockholm Saturday. Stockholm Police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander said a car exploded near Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street in the center of the city. Shortly afterward, a second [...]

A medical examiner arrives at the the apartment building where Mark Madoff resides on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 in New York. Update: Fox News is reporting that his two-year old kid was in the apartment, while his wife was in Florida New York (AP) – One of Bernard Madoff’s sons was found dead Saturday of [...]

Politico: Two years ago, liberals saw President Barack Obama as the second coming of FDR. Now they’re accusing him of practicing Reaganomics, taunting him at caucus meetings and trying to get him to renege on his first bipartisan deal since Republicans won the mid-term elections. At best, House Democrats’ rage at the Obama tax bill [...]

ABC News: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables, could face spying charges in the U.S. related to the Espionage Act, Assange’s lawyer said today. “Our position of course is that we don’t believe it applies to Mr. Assange and that in any event [...]

(Reuters) – Violence in north, south and east Afghanistan killed more than a dozen civilians and wounded several more as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to unveil a review of his strategy for the near decade-long war. The latest string of attacks comes near the end of the deadliest year since the 2001 overthrow of [...]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – After more than eight years of waiting, Elizabeth Smart has finally heard the word she’s been waiting for: guilty. A federal jury on Friday convicted street preacher Brian David Mitchell of snatching a then-14-year-old Smart from her bed at knifepoint in the dead of night and forcing sex on her [...]

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Czech and Polish prime ministers that she would welcome their countries into the eurozone, daily Lidove Noviny reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources. By inviting the two central European countries, Merkel wants to boost the position of fiscally disciplined and economically strong countries within the bloc, the paper [...]

The Telegraph: Students can be heard chanting “off with their heads” as they kicked the vehicle and the footage shows a visibly shaken Duchess of Cornwall. The Prince and Camilla were on their way to the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium when their car came under-attack from rioters. Their 1977 Phantom VI had [...]

MILLBRAE, Calif. (AP) – Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated his resolve to prosecute hate crimes while standing behind the methods used in anti-terrorism cases during a speech Friday night before a Muslim advocacy group near San Francisco. Speaking to Muslim Advocates, a San Francisco-based group, Holder told the group that he’s heard from many Muslim [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Mexico City — Mexican authorities said Friday that they believe a top leader of the violent La Familia cartel was killed during two days of pitched fighting in the home state of President Felipe Calderon. In violence that erupted Wednesday afternoon and raged until early Friday, federal forces deployed in [...]

Los Angeles Times: The sinister-looking black coupe sits in a corner of the showroom floor, oozing macho and muscle. Square headlights. Evil sneer for a grille. Six cylinders of turbocharged fury. If Darth Vader drove a car, this is what you might find in his garage. This new car is 23 years old. It’s a [...]

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — A U.N. climate conference on Saturday approved a deal to create a “green” fund for developing countries and to take other small steps to address global warming, over heated objections from Bolivia that the pact doesn’t go far enough. The agreement in Cancun went a long way to restoring faith in [...]

Fox News: Tweaking one word in the name of a landmark normally wouldn’t cause a diplomatic fracas. Except when that word is “Persian,” and it’s changed to “Arabian.” The U.S. Navy has invited outrage from Iranian advocacy groups, the Iranian government and Facebook protesters for making it official policy to call the Persian Gulf the [...]