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A suspect in Sunday morning's coffee-shop ambush that left four police officers dead is holed up in a Seattle house. A police spokesman says Maurice Clemmons has been shot and might be dead. The ex-con was once freed from prison by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

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Senate to Begin Health Care Debate

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will try to bring his party together in the Senate to get health care reform legislation to the president's desk as debate starts. But it won't be easy. Some Democrats threaten to jump ship over the bill's abortion coverage. Others say they won't vote for it unless there's a public option.

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Black Friday Crowds Bought Deals

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The big holiday shopping weekend got retailers off to a good start, with crowds mobbing stores and sales topping last year's. But shop owners aren't out of the woods yet. Many customers focused hard on deep discounts, and kept their wallets closed when it came to regular-priced goods.

Pirates Attack US-Bound Oil Tanker

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About 800 miles off the coast of Somalia, pirates seize a Saudi tanker bringing crude oil to the United States. The tanker has a capacity of more than 300,000 tons, and the oil on board could be worth millions of dollars.

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Woods Says Accident Was His Fault

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Tiger Woods breaks his two-day silence about his SUV accident early Friday, saying the incident is an embarrassment and that his wife acted "courageously" when she saw he was injured. The golfer posts the statement on his Web site. But he cancels a meeting with police about the wreck, the third time he has done so.

Man Saves Drowning Wife, Loses Son

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A man is forced to choose between the life of his wife and their child after the family's car plunges into a river in New Zealand Saturday night. Stacy Horton says he had to give up trying to rescue his son from the submerged vehicle in order to save his wife.

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For-Profit Colleges Rake in Federal Bucks

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Last year, the five institutions that got the most federal Pell Grant dollars were all for-profit colleges, collecting a total of more than $1 billion. That's two and a-half times what the schools hauled in just two years earlier, according to the AP. Some are giant publicly traded chains, such as the University of Phoenix and DeVry.

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Party Crashers Reportedly Try to Cash In

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The Virginia couple who got into last week's state dinner at the White House without an invitation are trying to sell their story to TV networks for hundreds of thousands of dollars, a television executive says. Meanwhile Michaele and Tareq Salahi, whose party crashing embarrassed the Secret Service, canceled a "Larry King" appearance.
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