Top three news stories 12/14/11
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-Payroll tax cut row could shut down gov't : - A Republican payroll tax cut bill that sailed through the House despite a White House veto threat is dead on arrival in the Senate, and it will soon be time for talks on a final package, the Senate's top Democrat says.
-Ex-POW: Troops "still need our prayers":Jessica Lynch was just 19 when the world first saw her: a broken, blond soldier caught on combat video in Iraq, her face wearing something between a grimace and a grin.The Army supply clerk was being carried on a stretcher after nine days as a prisoner of war. She had been captured along with five others after the 507th Maintenance Company took a wrong turn and came under attack in Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003. Eleven of her fellow soldiers died.
-French still foils in American politics: Mitt Romney happens to speak French. Fluently. Because he lived in France, where he was a Mormon missionary in the 1960's.


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