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Texas Mayor Wasn't Target of Drive-By in Mexico
 Christopher Sherman
A Texas border mayor said he doesn't think he or the Mexican officials he was with Tuesday were the targets of a drive-by shooting that killed a woman in front of a popular restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico.
 Obama's Weekly Address: Celebrating Christmas and Honoring Those Who Serve
 The White House Blog
For the first time in a weekly address, the President is joined by the First Lady as they celebrate Christmas.
Brazil Boy Reunited with U.S. Dad
 American father David Goldman has been reunited with his nine-year-old son Sean after a bitter custody battle with the boy's Brazilian relatives.
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US Senate Passes Health Care Bill on Party Line Vote
 Erica Werner
Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history.
Privatization of War
 The Real News Network
Jeremy Scahaill: Will the mistakes that plagued military contracting in Iraq be repeated in Afghanistan? The Obama administration has hired more private contractors than Bush did.
Report Says 225,000 Haiti Children Work as Slaves
 Evens Sanon & Jonathan M. Katz
Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday.
Castro: Obama Seeking to Topple Cuban Communism
 Will Weissert
Raul Castro gave the strongest signal yet his government's would-be honeymoon with the Obama administration is over, delivering a harshly worded speech Sunday charging that the White House endorses efforts to topple the island's communist system.
Congress Passes $636 Billion in Military Spending
 Agence France-Presse
The US Congress on Saturday sent US President Barack Obama a massive annual military spending bill that funds current operations in Afghanistan and pays for the troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Brazil AG's Appeal Backs US Dad in Custody Battle
 Bradley Brooks
A U.S. man caught in a tug-of-war with his late ex-wife's relatives for custody of his son got a boost from Brazil's top prosecutor in a dispute that is testing an international child abduction treaty and heating up into a political tussle.
Obama's Weekly Address: The Patient's Bill of Rights and Health Reform
 The White House Blog
The President looks back to the bipartisan Patient's Bill of Rights, a bill that was defeated in Congress at the hands of special interests and their supporters, and notes that health insurance reform covers the same ground and much more in terms of giving the consumers the upper hand over their insurance companies.
Sotomayor Disappointed by 'Wise Latina' Souvenirs
 Mike Melia
Sonia Sotomayor said Friday that she is touched by the outpouring of public support as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court but disappointed with the commercialization of her image and, at times, startled by her own celebrity.
Colombia Says Mexico Capo Death Weakens Cartel Ties
 Luis Jaime Acosta
The death of Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva will help disrupt trafficking ties between Mexican cocaine gangs and their Colombian counterparts, the Andean country's police chief said on Friday.
Mexican Police Force Aims to Revive Tourism
 Elliot Spagat
Mexican cities south of the California border are broadening their policing expertise with the aid of San Diego in a bid to revive their tourism business.
Salvadoran Police: Filmmaker Killed Over Gang Film
 Associated Press
Police in El Salvador arrested 10 more gang members Wednesday in the September killing of French journalist Christian Poveda, and said he was apparently killed because he showed gang members committing illegal acts in his documentary.
Americans Fed Up with Obama and His Democrats
 Capitol Hill Blue
President Barack Obama's teflon is gone. The many problems affecting the nation have driven his job approval numbers below 50 percent and a plurality of Americans now view the party in a negative light.
Bolivia, Venezuela Call for More Aid
 The Real News Network
Bolivian President Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are also in Copenhagen to attend the Climate Change Conference. Both are urging industrialized nations to help developing countries fight climate change.
Amid Repression, Mobilizing Against the Coup Continues in Honduras
 Dawn Paley
Hundreds of Hondurans marched in the capital city on Friday, demanding the return of elected President Jos้ Manuel Zelaya Rosales, who was deposed in a coup d้tat on June 28.
US Gives Mexico 5 Helicopters to Aid Drug War
 E. Eduardo Castillo
U.S. officials delivered five helicopters to Mexico on Tuesday to help the country in its fight against drug cartels.
4 US Presidential Candidates Join Afghan War Protest
 The Real News Network
Following Obama Nobel speech, Nader, Kucinich, Gravel and McKinney speak out against the war.
Outraged Brits Want Blair Prosecuted for War Crimes
 Agence France-Presse
Tony Blair's admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes.
Castro Says US on Offensive in LatAm Despite Obama
 Will Weissert
Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America - more evidence of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations after a thaw had seemed possible just months ago.
AP Investigation: Monsanto Seed Biz Role Revealed
 Christopher Leonard
Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops.
Mexican Drug Cartel Recruitment of Teenagers in the USA
 Samuel Logan
While the reality of teen recruitment across Texas fluctuates according to geography and proximity to the border, there remains a solid record of teen recruiting in at least two border cities Laredo and El Paso.
Chile Runoff Pits Ex-President Against Billionaire
 Michael Warren
A conservative billionaire who fell shy of a first-round presidential victory can win a January runoff if he peels enough voters away from the center-left coalition that has governed Chile for nearly two decades.
Obama's Self-Imposed Grade: A 'Solid B-Plus'
 Associated Press
President Barack Obama, in an interview that aired Sunday, gave himself "a good solid B-plus" grade for his first year in office.
Hundreds Detained at Mass Climate Rally
 Associated Press
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Copenhagen and at least 600 were detained.
U.S. Will Settle Indian Lawsuit for $3.4 Billion
 Charlie Savage
The federal government announced last week that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds, potentially ending one of the largest and most complicated class-action lawsuits ever brought against the United States.
US Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says
 Alan Bjerga
A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.
Obama's Weekly Address: Learning from History to Reform Wall Street
 The White House Blog
The President explains that while he continues to focus on jobs, it is also profoundly important to address the problems that created this economic mess in the first place.
Blackwater Served as "Extension" of CIA
 Pamela Hess
Blackwater on the job in Iraq (AFP)Private security guards working for Blackwater USA participated in clandestine CIA raids against suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported this week.
Zelaya Will Leave Brazil Embassy by Jan. 27
Associated Press
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says he will leave the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras by Jan. 27, when his presidential term ends, according to an interview broadcast Friday.
Honduras Backs Out of Safe Passage Offer for Zelaya
 Tracy Wilkinson
De facto rulers had agreed to let Mexico send a plane to pick up the deposed president, but then added a caveat saying Zelaya could travel only as a private citizen seeking asylum. He refused.
Ron Paul: War-Monger Obama Should Have Returned Nobel Award
 Russia Times
US Republican Congressman Ron Paul says Obama's recent war plans show he shouldn't have been awarded the peace prize.
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Speech: A Just and Lasting Peace
 Barack Obama
President Barack Obama delivers remarks during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall, Dec. 10, 2009.
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