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President Bush issues praise and condemnation for Congress during a year-end press conference. The legislature's adoption of war-spending bills and a freeze on the alternate minimum tax is met with cheer while he sharply criticizes some of their other work.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story riffs on the spate of recent movies that seem to stick to a formula: young man with a miserable childhood gets married too young, develops a drug problem and gets a recording career that reflects the ups and downs of his life.

The county has hired a group called Common Ground to determine which homeless people are the worst off. Those people will be offered a free place to live. A similar strategy helped decrease homelessness by 87 percent in New York's Times Square, according to the nonprofit.

You can sit at the bar at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and drink history. Order a Sazerac — it's the very first cocktail, dating back to the early 1800s, concocted by Antoine Peychaud of his own bitters and Sazerac cognac for extra zest.

Baseball fans at the ESPN Zone sports bar in Washington, D.C., McGillycuddy's bar in Milwaukee, and the Student Center at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, react to the Mitchell report on the illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball.

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball finds a "serious drug culture" in the sport. His report names several high-profile players linked to doping.

The Environmental Protection Agency has blocked California's efforts to establish tougher emission standards. Proposed regulations are no longer needed, the agency says.

The big news for millions of taxpayers is Congress's last minute decision to adjust the alternative Minimum Tax. It is a dreaded feature of the tax code that was created decades ago to make sure wealthy people don't deduct their way out of paying taxes.

Youths on a baseball team in suburban Phoenix love baseball so much, they play it all year long. The kids react to the release of the George Mitchell report, which found widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs by Major League Baseball players.

South Africa's top prosecutor says he has enough evidence for corruption charges against new African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma, which could derail his election as the country's next president. Zuma beat President Thabo Mbeki in a bitter ANC leadership contest Tuesday.