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President Barack Obama greets troops at a rally during an unannounced visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010.

photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Did the Framers Mean a "Literal" Commander-in-Chief?
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When General George Washington kneeled and handed over his sword to Congress, a symbolic act acknowledging its sole power to declare war and to raise and support armies in accordance with the U.S. Constitution, he still had five other swords. During his second presidential term in 1794, he unsheathed...

A man walks next to Greenpeace activists who form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 10, 2010.

photo: AP / Israel Leal

Cancun summit nod to climate fund
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A UN conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions in carbon emissions causing earth to steadily warm. Though the accords were limited, it was the first time in three years the 193-nation conference...

A police officer uses a megaphone to speak to demonstrators as a man holds up a sign with an image of presidential candidate Michel Martelly during riots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010.

photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery

Haiti presidential candidates reject vote recheck
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two of the top three candidates in Haiti's presidential election on Saturday rejected a plan to have vote tally sheets rechecked by a new commission amid allegations of irregularities and fraud. The presidential palace Guard of Honour attend a flag hoisting after four days of protests in Port-au-Prince December 10, 2010....

Members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner use a stretcher remove the body of Mark Madoff from the apartment building in which he lived in the Soho neighborhood of New York on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Mary Altaffer

Madoff's eldest son hangs himself in NYC apartment
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NEW YORK (AP) - Every day for two years, he carried the toxic burden of a name that meant fraud to the world. On Saturday, the eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment, another casualty in the saga that sent his father to prison and swindled thousands of their life savings. On the second anniversary...

In this image from video, showing emergency services as they attend the scene after a car exploded in the center of Stockholm on Saturday Dec. 11, 2010.

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Explosions kill 1, injure 2 in central Stockholm
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Stockholm, Dec 12, (AP): Sunday, December 12, 2010 --> A car explosion and what appeared to be a suicide attack injured two people, killed the apparent bomber, and caused panic among Christmas shoppers in Stockholm. Stockholm Police spokeswoman Petra Sjolander said a car exploded near Drottninggatan, a busy shopping street in the centre of the...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, center, visits a cholera treatment center run by the NGO Samaritan's Purse in Cabaret, Haiti, Saturday Dec. 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa

Sarah Palin visits Haiti under tight guard
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began a tightly stage-managed visit to Haiti on Saturday in which she visited cholera clinics while avoiding crowds and the press. The 2008 vice presidential candidate was a guest of Rev. Franklin Graham, whose aid group works in the impoverished country. Haiti is facing a brutal cholera...

Supporter of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, holds a poster with his photo during a protest in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti

Worldwide demos called in support jailed WikiLeaks chief
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People demonstrate to support WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Barcelona... Supporters of WikiLeaks demonstrate in Amsterdam. The sign on the left read... People demonstrate to support WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Barcelona... Spanish online supporters of Julian Assange called for worldwide demonstrations Saturday to press for the release...

A U.S. military armored personal carrier vehicle passes by a damaged military check post after a suicide attack in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010.

photo: AP / Fulad Hamdard

Car bomb explodes near Afghan police HQ, wounds 6
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— A car bomb exploded outside a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, wounding at least six people and blowing out the windows of buildings up to a mile (a kilometer and a half) away, officials said. Two civilians and four police officers were wounded, said Zalmai Ayubi, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar...

People walk past a sand sculpture made by activists of Oxfam, a group of non-governmental organizations, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.

photo: AP / Israel Leal

Nations Approve Cancun Climate Package
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By CASSANDRA SWEET CANCUN, Mexico—The world's nations on Saturday agreed to a package of climate initiatives, including billions of dollars in funding for poor countries, although they failed to adopt a binding climate treaty amid a stalemate among the U.S., China, Japan and other nations. The agreement calls on rich countries to cut their...

Hugo Chavez. President of Venezuela, addresses the 61st session of the U.N. General Assembly at UN headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006. (AP Photo/Ed Betz) fa0

photo: AP Photo/Ed Betz

President Chavez seeks decree powers in Venezuela
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he will ask his congressional allies to again grant him special powers to enact laws by decree. Chavez said he needs an "enabling law" for the fourth time in his presidency to pass emergency laws quickly in a range of areas, including housing, land use and banking. "There is...