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AP – Congressional Democrats and the White House worked to resolve their last disputes Monday over terms of a $15 billion bailout for U.S. auto makers ? complete with a ‘car czar’ to oversee the industry’s reinvention of itself ? that’s expected to come to a vote as early as Wednesday.

AP – After nearly 25 years in prison, Diane Downs has again changed her story about the night she and her children were shot on a rural road near Springfield.

The White House censored her subversive Christmas tree ornament — only to spread its anti-Bush cheer.

Col. Sean MacFarland, who told Jean Feggins her son was killed by enemy action, is the same officer who may have covered up her son’s death byfriendly fire.

On bended knee, and with promises to retool their operations, the Big Three ask Congress for billions to save the auto industry. They might get it this time.

As General Motors tells Congress it is weighing the fate of the gas guzzler, Salon compiles a scrapbook. Enjoy these proud moments in Hummer history.

The midterm elections are only two years away. Can the Democrats defend their gains?

Sanity was nowhere to be found at the press conference held by the alarmists who believe Obama is not a U.S. citizen.

Now that he’s the president-elect, Obama just can’t get a hold of anyone anymore. A Florida congresswoman on the receiving end of his phone calls thought she was getting punked by a well-trained impersonator and promptly hung up. Not once, but twice. It’s tough being the most popular dude in the country. Is Clinton allowed […]

What do you get the First Lady-elect who has everything? (And by “everything,” I mean one helluvah husband!) Try a diamond-encrusted black gold ring worth nearly $30,000. A spokesman for the designer of the ring says Obama was considering the finger candy as a thank-you-for-not-divorcing-me-during-these-last-two-years-in-hell gift for Michelle. But a rep. for Obama denies the […]

Folk legend and civil rights activist Odetta Holmes passed away this week from heart disease. She was 77. Known to her legions of fans simply as Odetta, she rose to fame in the ’50s, and in 1961 none other than Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed her as the “Queen of Folk Music.” Odetta lent her […]

The unemployment rate has risen to 6.7 percent. The loss of 533,000 jobs this past November was the greatest one month decline of that nature the country has seen since December 1974. Some may call it delayed justice, others a come-uppance, paying the piper, or what-have you. I don’t know what to call it, but […]