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Essential News from The Associated Press
Latest Headlines  World leaders bow, pray at Nelson Mandela's casketDecember 11, 20135:15 AM ET PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — World leaders bowed and prayed Wednesday before the flag-draped casket containing the body of Nelson Mandela, having a final look at the anti-apartheid icon in the amphitheater where he was sworn in 19 years earlier as South Africa's first black president.   GOP, Obama line up behind modest budget dealDecember 11, 20133:23 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans and President Barack Obama are lining up behind a modest but hard-won bipartisan budget agreement that seeks to replace a portion of tough spending cuts facing the Pentagon and domestic agencies.   Behind eulogies, US deeply conflicted on MandelaDecember 11, 20133:20 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — The Nelson Mandela eulogized to the world by President Barack Obama as "a giant of history" and the "last great liberator of the 20th century" seemed a different person from the one the United States held at arm's length, to put it diplomatically, for much of his life and career.   Ukraine police stand down after protest growsDecember 11, 20134:40 AM ET KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in Ukraine on Wednesday pulled back as protesters claimed victory after an overnight face-off in which authorities removed some barricades and tents and scuffled with demonstrators occupying Kiev's main square.   AP-GfK poll: Low approval of Congress, ObamaDecember 11, 20133:41 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into a congressional election year, Americans hold Congress in strikingly low regard, and nearly two-thirds say they would like to see their House member replaced, a new poll finds. 
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