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• Afghanistan decision coming within days, White House says
  President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the White House said late Monday night.
  
• BART police seek arrest video
  Authorities have begun questioning witnesses to a confrontation that led to a BART police officer shoving an unruly man into a window, a top official said Monday.
  
• Abortion, politics tough for Catholics
  A dispute over abortion between the only remaining Kennedy in Congress and his Roman Catholic bishop has highlighted the political volatility of the issue.
  
• Two executed over tainted milk
  Two people were executed Tuesday in China for their part in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six babies and sickened about 300,000 others, state-run media reported.
  
• Black Friday shopping expected to soar
  Black Friday shopping is expected to pick up more than 16 percent this year, according to a survey released Tuesday.
  
• Sanford faces 37 ethics charges
  The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission on Monday.
  
• Health care bill moves ahead
  Senate Democrats cleared a major hurdle this weekend by voting to move ahead with debate on health care reform, but it was hardly a unified party standing behind the bill.
  
• Fort Hood victim 'died as she lived'
  Huddling under umbrellas in a chilly rain, friends, relatives and comrades gathered at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to lay to rest another of the victims of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.
  
• Philippines massacre blamed on 'thugs'
  Gunmen kidnapped and killed at least 21 people in the Philippines today in what a presidential adviser called the most "gruesome massacre of civilians" in recent history.
  
• U.N. worker's body found after 24 years
  The body of a United Nations worker, who had been missing for 24 years, has been found in eastern Lebanon, a representative of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.