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BBC: A lawyer for John Demjanjuk, accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, has accused German prosecutors of double standards. Mr Demjanjuk, 89, denies he was a guard at Sobibor camp, in wartime Poland. As the case began in Munich, his legal team said in previous cases Germans assigned to [...]

The Washington Times: Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama’s explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit. The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. [...]

Rasmussen: Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government’s policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry. [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama issued new orders for the war in Afghanistan from the Oval Office Sunday night, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday. Obama finalized the orders during a meeting with advisers including Adm. Mike Mullen, Gens. James Cartwright and David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chief of Staff Rahm [...]

Politico: The House homeland security committee has summoned Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and Tareq and Michaele Salahi to testify on last Tuesday’s White House gate-crash, according to committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). The invitees have yet to respond, according to a committee spokesman. “This is a time for answers, recognition of security deficiencies past [...]

GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) – Workers plowed snow away from Roman Polanski’s Alpine chalet on Monday, as Swiss authorities worked with the director’s lawyers to meet the conditions of his $4.5 million bail and house arrest. The Swiss Justice Ministry wouldn’t say when Polanski would be released from jail. Spokesman Folco Galli said there were still [...]

MAUMEE, Ohio (AP) – Police in northwest Ohio have arrested a man who they say swiped a Salvation Army red kettle full of donated money and pushed one of the charity’s bell ringers to the ground. Police in Maumee (maw-MEE’) say 44-year-old Shawn Krieger of Toledo grabbed the kettle Saturday evening outside a general store. [...]

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After a long weekend of sorting this out with PopModal, the series is being uploaded for release today. It turns out that the files were still too big for PopModal, but they referred me to Blip.tv were the upload is currently in progress. PoPModal is going to run the series as well, from Blip.tv’s embed. [...]

Times Online: State troopers probing Tiger Woods’ mysterious car crash were today said to be applying for a search warrant allowing them to seize his hospital records. Florida Highway Patrol wants to establish whether the facial injuries for which Mr Woods was treated at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida, last Friday were consistent with [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington – Hours after issuing orders to launch his new strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama this morning began calling world leaders to tell them of his decision and ask for their assistance. But Obama does not plan to disclose the number of new troops he will deploy to the war [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The heavily indebted Dubai World is not guaranteed by the emirate’s government, a top financial official from the city state said Monday, offering little direction to anxious investors on a day when the United Arab Emirates registered a record fall on the back of Dubai’s debt mess. On the [...]