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Last news: January 2, 2009 21:47:59

AP - Banks that have their hands out in Washington this year were handing out multimillion-dollar rewards to their executives last year.

Reuters - California Attorney General Jerry Brown unexpectedly joined the fight to reverse a ban on gay marriage, telling the state Supreme Court on Friday the voter-approved ban violates the constitutional right to liberty.

AP - The Bush administration came to the rescue of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in loans in exchange for concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and their workers.

AP - President George W. Bush says hes offering $17.4 billion in loans to the auto industry because letting them collapse is "not a responsible course of action." - [Read more]

Politico - W. Mark Felt, a former FBI official who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" in 2005, died Thursday night. He was 95. - [Read more]

AP - With Republican incumbent Norm Colemans lead shrinking to just two votes, the state board examining disputed ballots in Minnesotas U.S. Senate race is close to wrapping up its decisions on challenges.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama is nearly finished choosing his Cabinet as he prepares to leave Saturday on a holiday vacation in his native Hawaii.

AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevichs attorney is offering a glimpse of his clients unfolding legal strategy, saying hell challenge the lawfulness of court-ordered wiretaps at the heart of federal corruption allegations against the Democrat. But the two-term governor may go public to defend himself first.

AP - President George W. Bush and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are assessing the stalled U.S.-backed negotiations with Israel that will almost certainly fail to meet a year-end deadline for a peace deal.

AP - The top congressional watchdog overseeing the nations financial bailout says she wouldnt buy a winter coat without a spending plan. And she says shes frustrated by the Treasury Departments refusal to explain how it is doling out billions in taxpayer money.

AP - A transsexual singer has been acquitted of charges of criticizing mandatory military service in Turkey. - [Read more]

AP - First lady Laura Bush waved from the White House on Thursday as a video camera transmitted her greeting to Afghan women gathered around a table nearly 8,000 miles away in Kabul.

Reuters - The top legal officer in Illinois told Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday the state will not pay for his defense against charges he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obamas vacated U.S. Senate seat.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan, the head of the Chicago school system, as education secretary Tuesday and declared that failing to improve classroom instruction is "morally unacceptable for our children."

AP - Russian warships have been plying the waters off Venezuela and Panama in recent weeks and are now heading for Cuba, but U.S. officials are not so much wringing their hands as yawning.

AP - Even without an election, the battle over Barack Obamas vacant Senate seat resembles a classic political campaign, complete with negative ads and heated rhetoric.

AP - Members of a board refereeing more than 1,000 disputed ballots in Minnesotas U.S. Senate race started their work gingerly Tuesday, squinting at ballots as they tried to figure out what some voters intended.

AP - Federal regulators alleged Tuesday that an Illinois-based company bought the only two medicines approved to treat premature babies born with a potentially life-threatening congenital heart defect, and then increased prices nearly 1,300 percent. - [Read more]

AP - A dozen grade schoolers got their own chance to quiz President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday, getting an earful on such issues as longer school days, how it feels to be on television, and even the first puppys "business."

AP - Barbara Neuschwander can still recall the stench and taste created by the massive fire that burned for days after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals crashed two years ago near her home south of Louisville, Ky. - [Read more]