War rhetoric rises between North and South Korea (AP)

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• War rhetoric rises between North and South Korea (AP)
• Going's good for most holiday travelers, for now (AP)
• Italy reports: Anarchists claim embassy blasts (AP)
• Election board: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor (AP)
• Broadcaster Pat Robertson questions harsh pot laws (AP)
• Romanian flings himself from parliament balcony (AP)
• Venezuelan students protest university law (AP)
• Storm lashes California and leaves polluted water (AP)
• WWII pilot who forever repaid rescuers dies at 94 (AP)
• Gov't had 'extreme interest' in Steinbrenner probe (AP)
• North Korea warns of "sacred war" in standoff with South (Reuters)
• Toyota to pay $10 million to settle suit over California crash (Reuters)
• Data reinforce solid fourth-quarter growth hopes (Reuters)
• Police check Rome embassies after blasts hurt two (Reuters)
• New homes sales, prices rise in November (Reuters)
• Obama to renominate Diamond to Fed, official says (Reuters)
• Russian Duma could ratify START within days (Reuters)
• China says willing to help euro zone return to health (Reuters)
• N.Korea 'ready for sacred war' as South holds major drill (AFP)
• Bomb blasts hit Swiss, Chilean embassies in Rome (AFP)

War rhetoric rises between North and South Korea (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST AP - One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their rhetoric Thursday, with South Korea's president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a "sacred" nuclear war if provoked.

Going's good for most holiday travelers, for now (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST AP - Fair weather helped make the holiday sojourn a not-so-painful experience in much of the country Thursday, even with more people hitting the roads and skies than last year, but travelers' good luck might be running out.

Italy reports: Anarchists claim embassy blasts (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:57 PM PST AP - Italian news reports say a claim by an Italian anarchist group was found at the site of one of the twin embassy package bomb blasts in Rome.

Election board: Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:38 PM PST AP - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor although he spent much of the last two years living in Washington while working for President Barack Obama, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners ruled Thursday.

Broadcaster Pat Robertson questions harsh pot laws (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:34 PM PST AP - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" audience that harsh penalties for marijuana possession are costly for the nation and damaging to young people, but a spokesman said Thursday he was not calling for decriminalizing pot.

Romanian flings himself from parliament balcony (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:38 PM PST AP - A Romanian television engineer apparently distraught that budget cuts had reduced benefits for his autistic teenage son dived more than 20 feet (about seven meters) from a balcony onto the floor of Romania's parliament Thursday, then shouted "Freedom!" as emergency workers took him out on a stretcher.

Venezuelan students protest university law (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:32 PM PST AP - Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets Thursday as thousands of students protested against a law passed by Venezuela's congress that increases government powers over the country's universities.

Storm lashes California and leaves polluted water (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:42 PM PST AP - Many California residents who endured flooding, mudslides and evacuations during a weeklong onslaught of rain must now clean up or even rebuild — and could face the prospect of not being able to spend Christmas at home.

WWII pilot who forever repaid rescuers dies at 94 (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:51 PM PST AP - Fred Hargesheimer, a World War II Army pilot whose rescue by Pacific islanders led to a life of giving back as a builder of schools and teacher of children, died Thursday morning. He was 94. Richard Hargesheimer said his father had been suffering from poor health and passed away in Lincoln.

Gov't had 'extreme interest' in Steinbrenner probe (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:35 PM PST AP - Newly released documents show Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox expressed "extreme interest" in a 1970s criminal investigation of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for illegal campaign contributions.

North Korea warns of "sacred war" in standoff with South (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 10:56 AM PST Reuters - North Korea threatened a nuclear "sacred war" on Thursday and South Korea vowed a "merciless counterattack" if it was attacked again as both sides raised the rhetoric on a day of more military exercises in the South.

Toyota to pay $10 million to settle suit over California crash (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:09 PM PST Reuters - Toyota has agreed to pay $10 million to settle the lawsuit brought by the family of a California state trooper and three relatives whose fatal car wreck helped spark the automaker's wide-ranging safety recall.

Data reinforce solid fourth-quarter growth hopes (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:37 PM PST Reuters - Demand for a range of long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods surged in November and consumer spending rose for a fifth straight month, cementing views of a solid economic growth pace in the fourth quarter.

Police check Rome embassies after blasts hurt two (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 09:38 AM PST Reuters - Italian police checked foreign embassies in Rome on Thursday after two people were wounded in separate explosions at the Swiss and Chilean missions that the government suggested could be the work of anarchist groups.

New homes sales, prices rise in November (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 07:50 AM PST Reuters - New single-family home sales rose in November but to a lower- than- expected rate , a government report showed on Thursday, highlighting the weakness in the housing market even as the broader economic recovery gains momentum.

Obama to renominate Diamond to Fed, official says (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:23 AM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will again nominate economist Peter Diamond to the Federal Reserve Board next year, a White House official said on Thursday, setting up a potential clash with Republicans, who will have more influence in the new Senate.

Russian Duma could ratify START within days (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 04:03 AM PST Reuters - Russian lawmakers said they could approve a nuclear arms reduction pact that is crucial to the "reset" in ties with the United States as early as Friday if a successful U.S. Senate vote left the terms of the treaty intact.

China says willing to help euro zone return to health (Reuters) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 01:32 AM PST Reuters - China is willing to help countries in the euro zone return to economic health and will support the International Monetary Fund element of a bailout package for the bloc, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.

N.Korea 'ready for sacred war' as South holds major drill (AFP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:41 AM PST AFP - North Korea on Thursday said it was ready for a "sacred war" using its nuclear weapons as the South held a live-fire drill in a show of strength a month after Pyongyang's deadly attack on a border island.

Bomb blasts hit Swiss, Chilean embassies in Rome (AFP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:45 PM PST AFP - Bomb blasts in the Chilean and Swiss embassies in Rome injured two staffers on Thursday in attacks that officials said may have been carried out by anarchists like the ones behind a similar plot in Greece.

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