As year ends, US commanders are offering glowing assessments of war progress in Afghanistan


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Read more: Conn. Shooter Adam Lanza: Quiet, Bright, Troubled

An open school intercom broadcast to students at Sandy Hook Elementary School the murder of their principal and the terrified cries of other children. It's not clear whether the intercom was turned on purposefully to alert the school's staff to the menace or whether the intercom was on for morning announcements. Either way, it caught the initial moments of Adam Lanza's lethal fury and gave teachers and others life saving moments to lock their doors and try to hide their children.


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Hundreds pack local churches in Newtown, Conn. for prayer vigils honoring victims.


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Among Adam Lanza's 27 victims were a principal, a teacher who died protecting her students, the shooter's own mother and 20 young children.


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South African presidency: Nelson Mandela undergoes successful surgery to remove gallstones


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New details emerge this morning about Adam Lanza's mother and family members.


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TOKYO — Japanese voters head to the polls Sunday in an election that is expected to shift the balance of power back to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, just three years after it was ousted in dramatic fashion by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan....


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Gunman Adam Lanza began his day with the murder of his own mother.


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