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Good morning on this Christmas Eve, I'm Reggie Aqui from the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.
 
The Wall Street is limping toward the end of what has been a brutal¹ year for stocks. The Dow lost 100 points on Tuesday. US markets will close early this afternoon and won't reopen until the day after Christmas.

Who is on Santa's naughty list this year? A CNN opinion research poll finds Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is the naughtiest politician in 2008, followed by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and then former senator and presidential hopeful John Edwards.

The former Utah state trooper who police say is a suspect in Monday's deadly rush-hour shootings in Dallas is now in a hospital. Police say 37-year-old Brian Smith tried to commit suicide and he is now in serious condition at a local hospital. Police used ballistics test that links Smith to shootings where one driver was killed and another injured.

The IRS says it conducted more audits² this year than last, but collected nearly five percent less in taxes. It says it collected just under 56 and a half billion dollars for 2008. Your best bet for getting audited³ this year was if you were in the income bracket between 200, 000 and a million dollars.

A Mexican beauty queen is in custody⁴ after police say she was found riding in a car with 7 heavily armed men and more than 50, 000 dollars in cash. The group was stopped outside a checkpoint in Central Mexico. The 23-year-old model and the men now face arms charges. The model reportedly told police that she was traveling with the men to go shopping.

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