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Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is working aggressively with Pakistan to prevent the American troop surge in Afghanistan from driving insurgents across the border, a top diplomat said. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans accused Democrats of pandering to the pharmaceutical industry and putting off a vote on a bipartisan plan to allow the importation of cheaper medicines from Canada and other nations. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama had not even accepted his Nobel Prize in Oslo yesterday before environmental advocates began calling on him to earn it when he attends climate talks in Copenhagen next week. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House voted to tighten rules for derivatives and create powers to break apart healthy financial firms that threaten the economy in legislation passed today over objections of Wall Street and Republicans. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is turning to local militias in Afghanistan and expanding support of provincial authorities to overcome weaknesses in President Hamid Karzai’s government in Kabul, officials said at hearings on the war that ended yesterday in Washington. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The case of five Muslim Americans who traveled to Pakistan, possibly to train to fight against the U.S., may represent part of a growing threat: homegrown Islamic extremists. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Commando raids against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters will accelerate as the U.S. adds more forces in Afghanistan, top military commanders said. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- States should rewrite laws that impede Obama administration priorities such as tying teacher pay to student performance and lengthening the school year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s biggest lobbying group, let go 15 percent of its 250-person staff in an effort to modernize advocacy efforts, said Jack Gerard, the group’s president. Full Story »

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The first draft agreement for a climate treaty from the Copenhagen talks calls for the world’s richest nations to make far steeper cuts to their greenhouse-gas emissions than they’ve pledged. Full Story »