| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Storm moving Northeast | | Schools, stores and icy airports shut down throughout the Midwest Thursday as record accumulations made mobility next to impossible. Up next: The storm heads Northeast. |
| Army Rangers get stuck high in trees | | Three Army Rangers are now safe and sound, spare a "couple of bumps and bruises," after they got entangled Thursday in tall evergreen trees while parachuting on a sprawling military base in Washington state, a base spokesman said. |
| Welcome to Madrid: City of protests | | The highest unemployment since the 1930s is forcing many Spaniards out of their homes and out of options as the country's recession enters its 2nd year. "Even people with degrees are living on the street," says one man. |
| Blame, not solutions, on spending | | Why are there no formal negotiations taking place with Congress on break this week as leaders from both parties accuse each other of intransigence Once again, the answer is the Washington blame game. |
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