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Holiday sales fa-la-la-la from boffo 

The final Christmas tally from retail trade group the National Retail Federation showed a 4.1% increase in holiday sales, slightly more than expected.

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IN THE end, Christmas sales were ho-ho-hum.

The final Christmas tally from retail trade group the National Retail Federation showed a 4.1% increase in holiday sales, slightly more than expected.

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Last-minute holiday shopping gives lift in finale (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2011 file photo, a last-minute shopper leaves the Toys R Us flagship store in New York's Times Square. A mall trade group said Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, that last minute shoppers gave merchants a solid lift during the final week before Christmas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP – Last-minute shoppers gave merchants a solid lift during the final week before Christmas, a mall trade group said Wednesday.


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Holiday season gives birth to new shoppers (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2011 file photo, Christy Embry, left, and Crystal Coleman wait in a long check out line during the Black Friday sale at Bass Pro Shops, in Memphis, Tenn. A new economic reality and new traditions gave birth to new types of shoppers this holiday 2011 season: the extreme discount bargain hunter, the Black Friday novice, the big returner and the selfish shopper. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Alan Spearman, file)AP – Four new types of American shoppers have emerged this holiday season.


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NORAD Santa trackers having record holiday (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2010 file image provided by noradsanta.org, the official NORAD tracking of Santa Claus is shown on a satellite map of the world. NORAD Tracks Santa, the official name of the exercise, began in 1955 when a Colorado Springs newspaper ad invited kids to talk to Santa on a hotline. The phone number had a typo, and dozens of kids wound up dialing the Continental Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, the predecessor to NORAD. Volunteer Santa-trackers at NORAD are bracing for tens of thousands of calls and emails on Christmas Eve this year. (AP Photo/NORAD, via noradsanta.org)AP – Santa’s piling up more than presents this year. The big man’s trackers at NORAD say Santa Claus also broke records this Christmas Eve.


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Tax cut survives: Congress votes holiday approval (AP)

President Barack Obama signs the payroll tax cut extension, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, in the White House Oval Office in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP – Barely beating Santa’s sleigh, Congress delivered a last-minute holiday tax-cut extension to 160 million American wage-earners on Friday, just when it looked like they and millions of unemployed workers were going to be left with coal in their stockings.


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Holiday showdown over payroll tax tests Obama, GOP (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks of the floor of the House chamber on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, in Washington. The House rejected legislation to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months, drawing a swift rebuke from President Barack Obama that Republicans were threatening higher taxes on 160 million workers on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP – Stuck in a stalemate, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are slugging it out in Washington rather than reaching for a holiday season accord to prevent payroll taxes from going up on 160 million workers.


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Negative ads mix with holiday cheer in Iowa (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with his wife Callista, talk to a supporter at a Hy-Vee store in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP – Iowa residents flipping their TV channels this season aren’t finding a whole lot of Christmas cheer. A barrage of negative campaign ads is flooding the airwaves, with ghoulish images of Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi crowding Santa and doomsday music drowning out holiday song.


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