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What happened on December 21, 2012

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What happened on December 21, 2012

BUSINESS

Last-minute shoppers: Tips for online, downloadable gifts By Hayley Tsukayama

National Geographic returns to Instagram By Hayley Tsukayama

Dear Washington: Small business owners’ holiday wish list By J.d. Harrison

Facebook releases ‘Poke’ app By Hayley Tsukayama

Holiday smartphone shoppers set records for mobile retail By Caitlin Dewey

Instagram outrage reveals a powerful but unaware Web community By Craig Timberg

Facebook rolling out new privacy layout By Hayley Tsukayama

Proposed exchange merger brings renewed calls to consolidate SEC and CFTC By Dina Elboghdady

10 emerging tech companies to watch in 2013 (they’re mostly energy tech) By Katie Fehrenbacher | Gigaom.com

Ireland requests U.S. assistance in case of abortion-related robocalls By Craig Timberg

How to take back control of your own social networks By Dylan Tweney | Venturebeat.com

At the brink: Plunge over ‘fiscal cliff,’ or economic leap up? By Zachary A. Goldfarb

Dear Washington: A holiday wishlist from small business owners By J.d. Harrison

Research in Motion still has a long road ahead of it By Hayley Tsukayama

Unemployment drops slightly in District, Virginia and Maryland By J.d. Harrison

T-Mobile adds iPhone-friendly coverage in 14 markets By Sean Ludwig | Venturebeat.com

NATIONAL

Chicago grapples with gun violence; death toll soars By Peter Slevin

Genetically altered salmon are safe, FDA says By Brady Dennis

Dreams, design and the art of the tree house By Emi Kolawole

EPA imposes new pollution limits on boilers, cement plants By Juliet Eilperin

Pope Paul VI inches one step closer to sainthood By By Alessandro Speciale| Religion News Service

After Newtown shooting, Girl Scouts come together to support their own By Kevin Sullivan

New Year’s resolutions for federal leaders in 2013 By Tom Fox

My top 10 picks for 2012 By By A. James Rudin| Religion News Service

As bells toll, clergy push Congress on gun control By By Adelle M. Banks| Religion News Service

John Boehner, after ‘Plan B’ By Jena Mcgregor

From Red Lake to Newtown, a symbol of hope is again passed By Marc Fisher

Four Maryland hepatitis C cases linked to infected worker By Lena H. Sun

Newtown shooting prompts Obama to talk about God By Sally Quinn

Truck driver pleads guilty to setting Ohio mosque on fire By By David Yonke| Religion News Service

POLITICS

Put armed police in every school, NRA urges By David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger

Training healthcare providers to reduce medical errors By The Partnership For Public Service

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre: the force behind the nation’s gun lobby By Jerry Markon

Federal employees to get Christmas Eve off work By Joshua Hicks

Obama calls on Congress to craft at least a minimal ‘fiscal cliff’ deal By Ed O’keefe, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Lori Montgomery

Hagel, under fire as possible nominee, says remarks on gays “do not reflect my views” By Peter Wallsten

Tax fight sends GOP into chaos By Karen Tumulty

Obama recalls Inouye’s ‘dignity and grace’ during emotional service By Scott Wilson

If confirmed, John F. Kerry could bring his face-to-face style of diplomacy to State Department By Karen Deyoung

OPINIONS

Five myths about gun control By Robert J. Spitzer

The death of a child: A parent’s worst nightmare By Ann Hood

Did Nancy Lanza live in fear? Why many mothers of the mentally ill do. By Asra Q. Nomani

The NRA’s simplistic response to Newtown: ‘Good guy with a gun’ By Editorial Board

Free war-zone journalist Austin Tice By Marcus Brauchli and Anders Gyllenhaal

Blame the killing machines: guns By Philip Caputo

Geronimo by Robert M. Utley By H.w. Brands

When fatherless young offenders are fathers themselves By Colbert I. King

‘The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies’ by David Thomson By Ann Hornaday

A missed opportunity to help ex-offenders By Johnathan Smith

Happy Holidays from the Obamas By Alexandra Petri

Sally Jenkins’s steadfast support of Lance Armstrong By Patrick B. Pexton

Rewriting history on the filibuster By George F. Will

Instead of leaving cookies, let’s give Santa the boot By Dante Chinni

Why I taught my 13-year-old daughter to shoot By Ken Ringle

Reducing U.S. risk helps terrorists By David Ignatius

“Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality” by John Schwartz By David Levithan

The Kennedys through a lens, lightly By Kathleen Parker

President Obama’s opportunity on the ‘fiscal cliff’ By Editorial Board

Is Massachusetts ready for Scott Brown again? By Mark Horan

Who had the worst week in Washington? House Speaker John Boehner. By Chris Cillizza

Sen. Joe Manchin: Between Obama and the NRA, another path to stopping mass violence By Joe Manchin Iii

Two guys who really liked ‘Raiders’ By Justin Moyer

John Boehner’s animal House By Dana Milbank

Book review: ‘Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us’ by Donald K. Yeomans By Marcia Bartusiak

WORLD

CIA complains about depictions in Osama bin Laden movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ By Greg Miller

Senate committee scraps anti-leaks measures from intelligence spending bill By Greg Miller

Local officials in France voice opposition to gay marriage By Edward Cody

End of the world: Not this year By William Booth

Military academies report increase in sexual assaults By Ernesto Londoño

Al-Azhar mosque at heart of concerns over Islamist turn in Egypt By Griff Witte

Obama nominates John Kerry as secretary of state By Anne Gearan and Scott Wilson

Syrians turn to black humor amid misery By Michael Peel | Financial Times

Iraq confirms arrest of minister’s bodyguards By Sinan Salaheddin and Adam Schreck

An expressway outside New Delhi mirrors India’s problems and promise By Rama Lakshmi