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Clem's Chronicles: Sotomayor Hearings/Grisly Florida Murders/Obama Health Care

Happy Monday folks-here's what's doin' tonight....... SOTOMAYOR HEARINGS-Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor was up in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today for the first day of her confirmation hearings. In her prepared remarks, Ms. Sotomayor addressed critics by...

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Bob Woodruff Grounded by Huge Sandstorm in Iraq

ABC's Bob Woodruff reports from Iraq: This has been a long, interesting and now unpredictable adventure. That is because we have been grounded by a huge sandstorm. The blue sky turned orange and thick, nearly covering the sun so it...

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Car From Ghostbusters Movies For Sale on eBay

Car aficionado? Ghostbusters fan? New York Magazine is reporting that the car from Ghostbusters is for sale on eBay. A cool 40-grand will land you the keys to the set of wheels -- which is actually a 1959 Cadillac hearse....

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How Many Weekend Drivers are on Drugs? Maybe More Than You Think...

ABC's Brian Hartman reports from Washington: An unusual government survey found 16 percent of people randomly pulled over while driving on weekend nights tested positive for drugs. That included: - 8.6 percent / marijuana - 3.9 percent / cocaine -...

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'What is President Obama doing about it? Perhaps too much...' Quotes of the Day

“Empathy-based rulings, no matter how well-intentioned, imperil the legal system that has been so essential to our liberties and so fundamental to our way of life.” -- Senator Jeff Sessions on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in a Boston Herald op-ed, published...

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What Bailout? Goldman Sachs Back In the Money

Well, that didn't take long. Are the 'happy days here again'? The New York Times and others are reporting this morning that Goldman Sachs, long the envy of Wall Street, is about to announce that it is very much back...

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South Park Episode Mocking Putin Censored

ABC's Alexander Marquardt reports from Moscow: An episode of the infamously irreverent cartoon South Park was edited by a Russian television channel last week, slicing out a sequence that poked fun at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The adult cartoon channel...

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Bob Woodruff: Why I’ve Gone Back to Iraq

ABC's Bob Woodruff reports: Today I have traveled back to Iraq for the first time since I was injured with my cameraman, Doug Vogt, three years ago. It has not been an easy decision to make this trip. I have...

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