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Politico: A prominent Republican congressman raised the specter Friday of a government shutdown if the GOP wins control of the House.

Daily Beast: NEW YORK – David Koch is fuming about a New Yorker article accusing him of using his fortune to secretly fund an anti-Obama insurgency.

Arizona Republic: Two federal investigations have concluded that Arizona is violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act by shortchanging thousands of students whose first language is not English. Unless remedied, the violations could lead to a loss of federal funding for education in Arizona. One of the complaints alleges that the Arizona Department of Education has [...]

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Phoenix (AP) The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t want the author of Arizona’s new immigration law to be a party in the state’s appeal of a ruling that put parts of the law on hold. The Justice Department tells the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that state Sen. Russell Pearce shouldn’t be a party to [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says President Barack Obama should speak as bluntly to the Islamists planning a mosque near the Sept. 11 attack site as he has to the minister threatening to burn the Quran. The Republican told ABC’s “Good Morning America” he believes “it’s wrong to burn the Quran and [...]

Washington Post: Under a bright Afghan moon, eight U.S. paratroopers trudged along a ridge in the Korengal Valley, unaware they were walking right into a trap. Less than 20 feet away, a band of Taliban fighters executed the ambush plan perfectly, enveloping the paratrooper squad in an explosion of bullets and grenades. Army Spec. Salvatore [...]

The Hill: Congress should cut discretionary spending and freeze federal workers’ pay, the top Senate Republican on budget issues urged. Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that Congress should cut discretionary spending by 2 percent over the next five years, along with a three-year freeze on cost-of-living adjustments [...]

Politico: President Barack Obama came out swinging at a White House news conference on Friday — denouncing Republican policies that he said contributed to the recession and declaring that the Senate must end a month-long standoff over a small-business jobs bill “that’s been held up by a partisan minority.” “I ran for president because I [...]

The Hill: The Obama administration thinks it can convince voters that Republicans would revive Bush-era policies between now and the election, press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Friday. Despite polling this week showing that voters are not convinced that electing GOP candidates would mean a return to policies sought by President George W. Bush — the [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Representatives say Glenn Beck will donate his speaking fee from his upcoming appearance with Sarah Palin in Anchorage. Christopher Balfe, president of Beck’s media company, says the fee from Saturday’s event at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. The organization provides scholarships and [...]

New York Post: The NYPD has called up “an army of cops” to handle rival protests expected to draw thousands to the site of the planned Ground Zero mosque on the anniversary of 9/11, sources said yesterday. “We want to keep everyone in their corners. You don’t want the opposing sides to clash,” an NYPD [...]