States eye taxing miles driven, not gasoline

States are exploring ways to tax drivers based on the number of miles they drive instead of how much gas they use, and Oregon has gone so far as to install GPS monitoring devices in 300 vehicles.

Ex-Bush aides: He didn't recover from Katrina

Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster.

Turkey, ham on Christmas menu for Obamas

President-elect Barack Obama and his family planned a Christmas Day that includes opening presents in the morning and sharing a traditional turkey and ham dinner in the evening.

Woman claims 'Merry Christmas' got her fired

A Christian woman claims she was fired from her job because she greeted callers with "Merry Christmas," but the vacation rental company says it's no Scrooge and the woman is just a disgruntled employee.

New crackdown reported in Zimbabwe

President Robert Mugabe's regime has renewed assaults on dissidents, a human rights group said Tuesday.

Cosby pooh poohs 'Huxtable effect' for Obama

Bill Cosby says that while a writer's theory that "the Huxtable effect" helped get Sen. Barack Obama elected are flattering, he is looking beyond the influence of a TV family to that of a real one: the household in which the future president was raised.

George Takei says gay marriage fight not over

George Takei doesn't feel defeated by the apparent passage of a ban on gay marriage in California, he says he's "galvanized."

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