| What Really Happened With Charlie Sheen's Arrest? Posted: 26 Dec 2009 07:31 AM PST  Oh, Charlie At first I thought it could be a good thing Charlie Sheen was arrested on Christmas Day. Most people are away from their televisions and the Internet on Christmas, plus more news-worthy events were occurring, so maybe the news would quietly fade away. But Charlie wasn't so lucky, because everyone is still talking about his arrest.
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| China unveils 'world's fastest train link' Posted: 26 Dec 2009 05:40 AM PST ![]() BEIJING (AFP) – China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world -- a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres (217 miles) an hour.
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| Irony will reign if Pacquiao-Malignaggi is made Posted: 26 Dec 2009 01:13 PM PST ![]() Given recent circumstances, Manny Pacquiao's choice of next foe could turn out richly ironic.
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| Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Way Posted: 26 Dec 2009 12:19 AM PST ![]() President Obama baffles observers because he's an ideologue and a pragmatist all at once, and he prefers cutting deals to walking away from the negotiating table.
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| Sri Lanka tsunami aid misappropriated: watchdog (AFP) Posted: 26 Dec 2009 09:14 AM PST  AFP - Nearly half a billion dollars in tsunami aid for Sri Lanka is unaccounted for and over 600 million dollars has been spent on projects unrelated to the disaster, an anti-corruption watchdog said Saturday.
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| Device Was on Fire in Terror Suspect's Lap, Plane Passenger Says Posted: 26 Dec 2009 07:28 AM PST  Cnn: A n****ian man is "talking a lot" to the FBI, said a senior U.S. official, after what the United States believes was an attempted terrorist attack on an inbound international flight. The initial impression is that the suspect was acting alone and did not have any formal connections to organized terrorist groups, said the official, who is familiar with the investigation. The suspect, identified by a U.S. government official as 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, ignited a small explosive device Friday, shortly before a Northwest flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, landed at Detroit
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| A firefighter's Christmas Posted: 25 Dec 2009 07:57 PM PST  On Saturday morning, the 15 men of B-shift, or as they call themselves, "the greatest shift in the Nacogdoches Fire Department," will be resting their heads for the first time since Christmas morning. And yesterday, while families across Nacogdoches were opening their presents, watching football games and sleeping soundly, they kept watch. But sometime around dusk the men took a break from their stations and met up inside the kitchen of downtown station #5, where they joined together for their own Christmas dinner. It wasn't your typical Christmas dinner in that there was no turkey, no baked h
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| Airlines: New rules keep passengers in seats (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:57 AM PST  AP - Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing
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| Airline passengers see tighter security (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:02 AM PST  AP - Extra pat-downs before boarding. No getting up for the last hour of the flight. More bomb-sniffing dogs. Airports worldwide tightened security a day after a passenger tried to light some kind of explosive on a flight into Detroit.
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| Florida's Meyer resigns amid health concerns Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:13 PM PST ![]() By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer
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| Body of Missing Maryland Girl Found Near State Border Posted: 26 Dec 2009 07:07 AM PST  FoxNews.com: The body of a Maryland girl who authorities say was abducted by a registered sex offender was found Friday in a wooded area near the Delaware state line after thousands of volunteers spent Christmas searching for her.
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| Folk-rocker Vic Chesnutt dies in Ga. at 45 (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2009 07:34 AM PST ![]() AP - Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. He was 45.
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| Terror hero: I didn't hesitate Posted: 26 Dec 2009 10:50 AM PST ![]() A Dutch airline passenger told The Post how he leapt into action when an alleged Muslim terrorist tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner packed with 300 people just moments before landing. Chaos erupted as alleged terrorist Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, 23, tried to set off a sophisticated explosive device...
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| Accused bomber used 'high explosive' Posted: 26 Dec 2009 02:05 PM PST ![]() The U.S. charged a 23-year-old n****ian man with attempting to destroy an aircraft.
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| Pakistan: US men had maps of nuclear power site (AP) Posted: 26 Dec 2009 08:01 AM PST  AP - Police are trying to determine whether five Americans detained in Pakistan had planned to attack a complex that houses nuclear power facilities, authorities said Saturday.
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