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New York Times: LOS ANGELES — A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil companies, raising concerns among conservationists as it emerges as a test of public support for potentially costly environmental measures during tough economic times. Charles and David Koch, [...]

Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. John McCain escalated a confrontation Thursday over the Democratic leader’s move to give some illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, with the nation’s military budget hanging in the balance. Reid announced this week that he would attach to the defense authorization bill a program to grant [...]

The Hill: Republicans will not sign the new “Contract with America,” and GOP candidates won’t be invited to the document’s unveiling, unlike in 1994. Sixteen years ago, more than 300 Republican congressional candidates marched up the Capitol steps to sign the original pledge, which called for fiscal responsibility, term limits and a crackdown on crime. [...]

Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday renewed her pledge to pass an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, but now she’s leaving the door open to extending the tax cuts for upper-income Americans. The California Democrat, speaking in the same room House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared in earlier in [...]

Politico: Gay rights advocates went on high alert Thursday afternoon after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), a key proponent of repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, said that he believes Senate Republicans can kill the defense authorization bill containing the repeal c– a step Sen. John McCain has already threatened to take. “The question [...]

Fo From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline. The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it [...]

The Hill: President Obama claimed Thursday that without his economic stimulus package the poverty rate would have been much worse. The Census Bureau reported Thursday that 4 million people fell below the poverty line last year, bringing the total to 44 million Americans. That boosted the poverty rate to 14.3 percent, which is the highest [...]

Fox News: The Seattle cartoonist whose artwork sparked the controversial “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!” has gone into hiding at the advice of the FBI after being targeted by a radical Muslim cleric, according to the newspaper that published her comics. Molly Norris has moved and changed her name, the Seattle Weekly said Wednesday, after U.S.-born [...]

Daily Mail:Michelle Obama thinks being America’s First Lady is ‘hell’, Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet book. Miss Bruni divulges that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’ Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Democrats joined Republicans on Wednesday in calling for the preservation of tax breaks for Americans of every income level, bolting from President Obama’s plan to preserve cuts for those who earn less than $200,000 and let taxes for the wealthy rise. “We should not be raising taxes in the middle of [...]

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Chicago Tribune: CHICAGO – Most of the two dozen former pimps and madams questioned by DePaul University researchers for a study on Chicago’s sex trade had suffered both physical and sexual abuse as children.

New York Post: Workers at polling places for today’s primary and November’s general election are being required to file tax withholding forms for the first time ever in a move that could be aimed at inflating the nation’s employment numbers.

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