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House Speaker John Boehner says he opposes a Senate-approved bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefit for just 2 months. He wants congressional bargainers to write a new measure that will last an entire year.

Tributes are appearing around Prague today to the dissident playwright who lead Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet Revolution. Vaclav Havel died today aged 75 in his weekend house in northern Czech Republic.

U.S. Troops like these national guards have been coming home just in time for Christmas. These families reunited as the last American troops left Iraq early Sunday.

And AAA says gas prices will be a grinch this Christmas. Drivers are paying the highest ever prices for this time of year. The national average's 3 dollars and 25 cents a gallon.


I'm Matt Friedman , the Associated Press with AP News Min.

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