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Dig beneath the surface of the raucous Republican presidential race and you will find even deeper turmoil: Four in 10 GOP voters have switched candidates in the past month alone, and nearly two-thirds say they may change their minds again. Complete Story...

Kitchen table worries pushed ahead of the war in Iraq over the past month, a shift toward pocketbook issues that has gained currency as the election year dawns.

SETTING PRIORITIES

THE HORSERACE, THE DEMOCRATS

The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The second wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,821 people between December 14-20 who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.

An industry group says it has won a new round in a court battle with Yahoo Inc.'s China arm, which is accused of helping online music pirates.

JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.

Curious about Britney Spears...and wrestling...and Iran? So are millions of Internet users, said Yahoo Search. Spears topped Yahoo's list of top 10 searches in 2007. The pop star's troubled year propelled her past professional wrestling mecca WWE, Paris Hilton, the Japanese cartoon Naruto and Beyonce. Lindsay Lohan, the online adventure game Rune Scape, Fantasy Football, Fergie and Jessica Alba also made the list, respectively.

Adobe Systems Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch a service Thursday allowing publishers to insert advertisements into many online newsletters or other electronic documents.

Julie Murray says life is good. Yet gasoline prices are crimping her grocery budget, she can't afford a larger house, and she says President Bush is not focused enough on people's problems at home.

PERSONAL HAPPINESS

The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of more than 2,000 people throughout the presidential election campaign. The first wave of this study included an extensive national survey of 2,230 people conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under the direction and supervision of AP's polling unit.

Democrats and Republicans alike have strong opinions about who has the best chance of capturing the presidency in 2008 — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, that is — but that's not necessarily the candidate they'd rather go bowling with, take along on a family vacation or even vote for.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has inked a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company's artists to Yahoo, the companies said Tuesday.

Yahoo Inc. has added 17 more newspapers to its group of online publishing partners, giving the group added heft as it approaches its one-year anniversary.

Yahoo Inc., reeling from a growing backlash over human rights and its China operations, settled a lawsuit Tuesday that accused it of illegally helping the Chinese government jail and torture two journalists.

The New York Daily News has joined Yahoo Inc.'s year-old effort to generate more revenue by helping newspapers sell more online advertising.

Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive and top lawyer on Tuesday defended their company's involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist. Irate lawmakers accused them of collaborating with an oppressive communist regime.

Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang testified to lawmakers on Tuesday that the company has been "open and forthcoming" about its role in a Chinese government investigation that led in 2005 to a journalist's imprisonment.

A House committee chairman doesn't buy Yahoo Inc.'s explanation of why it provided incomplete information to Congress about its role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist.

Jerry Yang has investors feeling better about Yahoo Inc. again, four months after taking over as chief executive in an attempt to revive the struggling Internet icon that made him a billionaire.

A Yahoo Inc. executive was accused Tuesday of giving false testimony to Congress last year regarding the company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist.

Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is discussing swapping social networking Web site MySpace for a 25 percent stake in Yahoo Inc., The Times newspaper reported Wednesday.

Coming off Yahoo Inc.'s toughest year since the dot-com bust, Chairman Terry Semel remained upbeat Tuesday as he faced shareholders who have watched their investments shrivel while rival Google Inc. sprinted further ahead in the online advertising race.