President Barack Obama issues a warning to North Korea over their nuclear ambitions during a speech in Japan [www.clipsyndicate.com | Press Association UK]
Interview with Former SEC Commissioner Harvey Pitt (Bloomberg News) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Bloomberg]
While many children are eagerly waiting for Santa and his reindeer to make their annual journey, some reindeer in Alaska have already made another trip, to the table. (Dec. 21) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
Washington, D.C., police are investigating after Internet videos showed a detective waving his gun during a mass snowball fight on a city street. (Dec. 21) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit "Clueless" and rose to stardom in "8 Mile," has died in Los Angeles. (Dec. 20) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
A Vermont student is suing over co-ed bathrooms. Green Mountain College student Jennifer Weiler has filed a civil lawsuit over the lack of single-sex bathrooms in her co-ed residence hall, FOX News reports. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WFXT FOX 25 Boston, MA]
A fierce weekend storm dropped record snowfall and stranded travelers up the coast from Virginia to New England, but its timing helped minimize headache-inducing work commutes and left many with the prospect of a very white Christmas. (Dec. 21) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
The Chacaltaya glacier ski run in Bolivia - once famous for being the highest in the world - is set to disappear completely within the next few months. The melt is one element of a crisis in the country's water supply. (21 December 2009) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
The Auschwitz sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" has been stolen from the entrance of the former concentration camp [www.clipsyndicate.com | Press Association UK]
Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step Thursday of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor. Lieberman currently is the target of liberal wrath over his opposition to a government-run insurance plan in the health care bill. (Dec, 18) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
A Springfield man is scheduled to go on trial for indecent exposure after police say he stood naked inside his home as a 7-year-old boy and his mother walked by. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTTG FOX 5 Washington, DC]
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Angie Lau reports on the threat posed by Asian carp in the Chicago canal, which connects the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm wants the canal's locks closed to keep the non-native fish from entering Lake Michigan and hurting the region's $7.09 billion sport fishing industry. (Source: Bloomberg) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Bloomberg]
A young girl is calling a neighbor a superhero because of what he did when she was trapped beneath a car. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KCTV FOX 5 Kansas City]
Two hundred Mexican Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed a reputed drug cartel chief in a two-hour gunbattle, one of the biggest victories yet in President Felipe Calderon's drug war. (Dec. 17) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
A dog is being praised for alerting a Florida woman to an infant who was drowning. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KVVU FOX 5 Henderson, NV]
When car owners hand over their keys to a valet, they expect their cars to be treated with care. But at one St. Louis hotel, that was not the case. Caught on tape and posted on YouTube, a valet is seen having a heyday with vehicles, spinning out and making maneuvers around an underground parking garage at the Hyatt hotel. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WOFL FOX 35 Orlando, FL]
Mehmet Goren is jailed for life for the 'honour killing' of his 15-year-old daughter Tulay Goren more than a decade after she disappeared [www.clipsyndicate.com | Press Association UK]
Almost 100 boxes of cremated remains from a former funeral home in the Atlanta-area have been found in a storage unit. Some remains date back 25 years. (Dec. 17) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
Police say a suspected thief in Miami Beach, Florida, targets places of prayer, like churches and synagogues. He's suspected of hitting up at least five of them. (Dec. 16) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
The stars came out to the Hollywood premiere of James Cameron's new movie, Avatar [www.clipsyndicate.com | Press Association UK]
The Army psychiatrist charged in last month's deadly shooting at Fort Hood has been moved from a hospital's intensive care unit to a private room, his attorney said Wednesday. (Dec. 17) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
Five days into the search for two missing climbers, authorities in Oregon were piecing together a theory about what may have gone wrong as hope dimmed that the pair would be found alive. (Dec. 16) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
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