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Across the U.S., reasons to celebrate
Video: The holiday season begins across America — and even in the space shuttle Atlantis.
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‘Security couldn’t have been tighter’
Video: NBC anchor Brian Williams recounts the arrival of the White House dinner crashers.
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Black Friday holiday shopping kicks off
America's retailers are ushering in the traditional start of the holiday shopping season with expanded hours and deep discounts on everything from toys to TVs to lure crowds of shoppers.
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Dad gets 3 years for stealing fire truck
A Nebraska man who told a judge he fled with his wife and children into the S.D. wilderness to avoid authorities has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a fire truck.
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China vows to slow carbon emissions growth
China announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output.
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570,000 9/11 pager messages released
Some 570,000 pager messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001, some of them by government officials, were being disclosed Wednesday by a nonprofit activist group.
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Patrols and turkey in Afghan combat zone
For one unit serving in Afghanistan, Thanksgiving meant digging into a traditional American meal and being grateful for having survived a year in a war zone.
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Meet Tiana, Disney’s first black princess
Nov. 26: Little girls lining up in New York and Los Angeles for the limited preview of Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” will witness a first: a princess who happens to be African-American. NBC’s Chris Jansing reports.
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Experts: Catholic church covered up abuse
The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests, an expert commission reported after a probe into previously secret church records.
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Salvation Army kettles now take plastic
There could be less jingle in the Salvation's Army's hallmark red kettles this season. The charity is testing kettles that take debit and credit cards.
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Proposal to merge black schools draws fire
Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past.
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