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Panetta formally shuts down US war in Iraq (AP)

The US Forces Iraq colors are lowered before being encased in a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec., 15, 2011. The ceremonies mark the official end of the US military mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)AP – After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq — a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy.


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Occupy rally shuts down shipping port indefinitely (AP)

Occupy Oakland protesters march Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, in Oakland, Calif.  Thousands of anti-Wall Street protesters are in the streets of Oakland, as part of a day-long series of events aimed at showing the movement's strength and unity.  (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP – Occupy Wall Street protesters declared victory after thousands of demonstrators shut down one of the nation’s busiest shipping ports late Wednesday, escalating a movement whose tactics had largely been limited to marches, rallies and tent encampments since it began in September.


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Twitter shuts down then reactivates protest acct

Trouble keeps finding the Occupy Wall Street protesters and their supporters – even when city cops are not squirting them with pepper spray.

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Calif border crossing shuts after scaffold falls (AP)

Border officials and emergency personnel look over the construction site where a scaffolding collapsed at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011.  Three people have been taken to hospitals after construction scaffolding collapsed on cars at the nation's busiest border crossing connecting San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP – Scaffolding collapsed on more than a dozen cars at the nation’s busiest border crossing Wednesday, injuring 11 people and halting all traffic entering from Mexico, authorities said.


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‘Carmageddon’: Los Angeles freeway shuts down (AP)

A view of Interstate 405 freeway seen from north of the bridge at Palms  Boulevard after it closed for construction at mid-night on July 15, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)AP – A 10-mile stretch of one of the nation’s busiest freeways has turned into a virtual ghost road.


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Illinois’ death row officially shuts down (AP)

FILE - This Jan. 21, 2003 file photo shows an unidentified death row inmate in his cell in the North Condemned Unit at Pontiac Correctional Institution in Pontiac, Ill. On Friday, July 1, 2011, a ban that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law in March took effect, shutting down Illinois' death row. It's a quiet last chapter to the story of capital punishment in Illinois, which captured the attention of the world in 2000 when then-Gov. George Ryan imposed a moratorium. Ryan cleared death row entirely three years later. Illinois has executed 12 men since 1977 when the death penalty was reinstated, the last one in 1999. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)AP – After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois’ death row officially died Friday when a state law abolishing the death penalty quietly took effect.


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Closed! Minnesota govt shuts down over budget disagreement

Minnesota is closed for business. The state government shut down Friday at midnight after Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative majorities failed to reach a deal on their budget before the deadline.

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