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PORTLAND, Ore. - Shopping on Black Friday can be daunting, with massive crowds, pre-dawn start times and long checkout lines.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Workers at Butterball's turkey-tips hot line are used to oddball situations:

WASHINGTON - Republicans are using everything short of forklifts to show Americans that Democratic health care legislation is an unwieldy mountain of paper. They pile it high on desks, hoist it on a shoulder trussed in sturdy rope and tell people it's longer than "War and Peace," which it isn't.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - French officers on Tuesday showed off a cutting-edge warship to a potential buyer — the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.

DETROIT - A deal for General Motors Co. to sell Saab to a specialty carmaker has collapsed, leaving the storied Swedish brand born from jets in 1947 close to extinction.

WASHINGTON - Seeking firmer footing for U.S.-India relations, President Barack Obama tried Tuesday to calm India's fears about Asian rival China, salving bruised feelings in the world's largest democracy with an elaborate state visit and assurances of India's "rightful place as a global leader."

Dear Mrs. Riches:My husband's family is accustomed to very lavish Christmas spreads with gifts a-plenty. Try telling these folks Christmas doesn't come from a store! The trouble is that my husband lost his job recently, so it will be very hard for us to participate in the holiday gift-athon to our usual degree.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc , the insurer that received billions of dollars in a U.S. bailout, has been authorized by its board to pay Chief Executive Robert Benmosche's $7 million compensation, after it laid to rest concerns that he may quit the post.

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve doesn't expect the recovery will be strong enough to quickly drive down the jobless rate, and acknowledged its efforts to keep the rebound going could feed a new speculative bubble.

WASHINGTON - The summer's trend of rising home prices faded at the end of the traditional home shopping season, two reports Tuesday showed.

There are plenty of articles about how to slash your holiday spending. Sure, you can clip coupons, make retailers play "match the markdown price" and spend your Thanksgiving evening loitering in some dark, damp parking lot guarding your place in line so you can snag those Black Friday door buster deals.

WASHINGTON - The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday promised swift action to get dangerous products off the market, acknowledging that the agency didn't move quickly enough on a record recall of more than 2 million cribs linked to four deaths.

NEW YORK - A national advertising watchdog is asking Sprint Nextel Corp. to drop its ads calling itself "America's most dependable 3G network."

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WASHINGTON - Failure is not an option on health care, a leading Democratic senator said Monday, even as Republicans turned up the heat on moderates who hold the fate of the legislation in their hands.

WASHINGTON - A lot more Americans are feeling stressed out by debt this holiday season, raising the glum likelihood they'll behave like Scrooge rather than Santa.

NEW YORK - Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc., the nation's two largest brick-and-mortar book sellers, both posted quarterly losses Tuesday and forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition from discount chains and online retailers is stiffening.

Oil prices fell to around $76 a barrel Tuesday with new data showing a slow U.S. economic recovery and consumer confidence that remains lukewarm at best.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam attacked a U.S. regulator's lawsuit on Tuesday, denying insider trading charges and saying government wiretaps violated his constitutional rights.

Year to date, Chinese stocks on U.S. exchanges have led the uptrend.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Shoppers are expected to come out in force but cling a bit tighter to their wallets for the kickoff of the holiday gift-giving season this weekend, new surveys showed Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - Most Americans don't expect a health care overhaul to affect their lives directly, but those who worry about the fallout outnumber those expecting to come out ahead, a poll out Tuesday has found.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Blue Coat Systems Inc. on Tuesday reported a fiscal second-quarter profit, reversing a year-ago loss, as sales of its security hardware and software products rose slightly and costs declined.

CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire is ramping up efforts to attract out-of-state shoppers for tax-free holiday shopping with a variety of lodging deals that include everything from gift wrapping supplies to a 4 a.m. ride to the mall.

PHOENIX - A top executive with the company set to take over Asarco LLC says the Tucson-based copper miner will emerge from a grueling four-year bankruptcy court battle modern, competitive, profitable and environmentally sound.

NEW YORK - A brighter economic forecast from the Federal Reserve helped the stock market pare losses that followed uninspiring reports on consumer sentiment and housing.

Reports on GDP and consumers signal modest rebound

DUBLIN (AFP) - Recession-hit Ireland was severely disrupted by a one-day strike Tuesday as about 250,000 public sector workers protested at planned austerity cuts in next month's budget.