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Nigeria fuel strike ends with soldiers in streets (AP)

Protesters run away from tear gas fired by police officers during a demonstration against spiraling fuel prices in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers barricaded key roads Monday in Nigeria's two biggest cities as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations that he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP – Labor unions ended a crippling nationwide strike Monday in Nigeria after the country’s president partially restored subsidies that keep gasoline prices low, though it took soldiers deployed in the streets to stop demonstrations in Africa’s most populous nation.


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After encampment ends, NYC Occupiers become nomads (AP)

Donna Marinelli, of New Britain, Conn., foreground, and her cousin David Monarca, use their phones as they spend the night in a church space being funded by Occupy Wall Street for Occupy Wall Street protestors at the West Park Presbyterian Church in New York, Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012. The refugees from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park had found their way to the cavernous Presbyterian church, hoping to stay for a few nights, maybe longer.  (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)AP – It was only a few nights after the Occupy protesters began sleeping in his church sanctuary when Pastor Bob Brashears realized that his laptop was missing.


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When free preventative care ends up costing you a bundle

Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free. Then he received a bill for $1,100.

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Payroll tax deadlock ends as House caves (AP)

House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is followed by reporters after holding a news conference on the payroll tax cut on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 in Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers. The breakthrough almost certainly spares workers an average $20 a week tax increase Jan. 1.


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Economy ends tough 2011 on a surprising upswing (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2011, file photo, a shopper takes a rest with purchases at Northpark Mall in Ridgeland, Miss. The U.S. economy is ending 2011 on a roll. Growth in the fourth quarter likely accelerated to the fastest pace since mid-2010, and the job market appears to be strengthening.  (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Vickie D. King, File) NO SALESAP – WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy is ending 2011 on a roll.


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Packers’ perfect season ends with 19-14 loss to KC (AP)

AP – Mike McCarthy never put a whole lot of stock in a perfect season, except as a means of gaining home-field advantage and setting the Green Bay Packers up for another Super Bowl run.

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Last US troops elated to leave Iraq as war ends (AP)

A soldier gestures from the gun turret of the last vehicle in a convoy of the US Army's 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. The brigade's special troops battalion are the last American soldiers to leave Iraq. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP – The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief. Their convoy’s exit marked the end of a bitterly divisive war that raged for nearly nine years and left Iraq shattered, with troubling questions lingering over whether the Arab nation will remain a steadfast U.S. ally.


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