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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, left, at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013.
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. Please note some stories are not yet published:
1. WHEN US TROOPS WILL PULL OUT OF AFGHANISTAN
That will be the topic of discussion between Obama and Karzai when they meet today. Click here for story
2. WHAT THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS TO DO ABOUT GUNS
A consensus is emerging to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and tighten background checks. Click here for story
3. THIS SEASON’S PERFECT ACCESSORY: THE HANKIE
Flu in the U.S. has struck early and, in many places, hard. Click here for story
4. BOMBINGS KILL AT LEAST 120 IN PAKISTAN
Toll includes 86 dead in an attack on a crowded billiards hall. Click here for story
5. HOW A MOM REACTED WHEN HER SON WAS FOUND
Lisa Harter was “jumping up and down for joy” when she heard police discovered him 19 years after his abduction.
6. REPORT CALLS SAVILE’S SEX ABUSE ‘UNPRECEDENTED’
Police say the late entertainer committed more than 200 sex crimes on children and teens. Click here for story
7. WHY GASOLINE SHOULD BE CHEAPER IN THE NEW YEAR
Forecasters point to ample oil supplies and weak U.S. demand.
8. A BEAUTY QUEEN SENDS A MESSAGE ABOUT BREAST CANCER
Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will undergo a double mastectomy after the disease killed her mother, an aunt and her grandmother. Click here for story
9. SPACE ROCK A THREAT? HEAVENS, NO
Scientists now say an asteroid feared to be on a collision course with Earth in about 20 years will miss us by a long shot. Click here for story
10. WHO IS SUING JENNI RIVERA’S COMPANY
Relatives of four passengers killed with the singer in a plane crash claim she was negligent in choosing the jet. Click here for story
Jan 13, 2013 at 7:54 p.m.
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Garyprimer - do you really have no idea who THEY are or are you asking a rhetorical question?
Jan 11, 2013 at 1:19 p.m.
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Aliens have been here for years.
Didn't you see "Men In Black"?
Jan 11, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
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I honestly wish people had as much passion for the much more dangerous and ever growing debt and upcoming inflation and dollar devaluation as they did about guns and their cushy benefits.
Jan 11, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
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I honestly wish people had as much passion for the much more dangerous and ever growing debt and upcoming inflation and dollar devaluation as they did about guns and their cushy benefits.
Jan 11, 2013 at 12:26 p.m.
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The aliens. They are coming! Run!
Jan 11, 2013 at 8:32 a.m.
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Who is "they"?
Jan 11, 2013 at 8:09 a.m.
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If they try to take our guns there will be a civil war....thats why we have guns.
Jan 11, 2013 at 7:49 a.m.
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In regards to #2 - we have already seen what the whitehouse does about guns. They give them to mexican drug lords no questions asked. Then when the mexican drug lords kill people (at last count somewhere around 600 people have been killed) the whitehouse can blame the US on too many guns.
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