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Washington Post: Aggressively looking to distance themselves from their party’s past, three top Republican House members have written a book that repeatedly criticizes former GOP leaders as well as President Obama but lays out few new details of how Republicans would govern if they were in charge.

Mediaite: When Vietnam veteran Dave Roever found himself in Wasilla, Alaska with no TV equipment to make his appearance with Glenn Beck, Palin offered both her studio and her personal make-up artist services free of charge. Think of it as the political opposite of the John Edwards hair-fiddling tape: here is Palin, a global superstar [...]

Arizona Republic: MEXICO CITY – The U.S. government punished Mexico on Friday for human-rights abuses in its war against drug cartels, cutting $26 million from an upcoming $175 million aid payment, and demanded that Mexican soldiers be tried in civilian courts. It is the first time the U.S. State Department has withheld funds over human-rights [...]

New York Times: FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama. Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job [...]

The Hill: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis touted administration progress on getting Americans back to work Friday, even as the latest job numbers showed unemployment ticking up to 9.6 percent. “I think the good news is that, again, the strides that we have made in this administration to put recovery first and foremost is happening,” Solis [...]

YARMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — In the end, Hurricane Earl wasn’t even as bad as some of the no-name nor’easters that pound New England from time to time. The storm, far less intense than feared, brushed past the Northeast and dumped heavy, wind-driven rain on Cape Cod cottages and fishing villages, but caused little damage. It [...]

Delaware Online: U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell alleged in a published interview Thursday that her political opponents follow her home at night and hide in the bushes, suggesting Republican leadership is behind a plot against her since 2008 when she was their endorsed candidate. Only a few days ago, O’Donnell saw an upswing in national [...]

Arizona Republic: SANTA ANA, Calif. – A night of winning at a casino turned into terror for a man who was robbed then killed when his assailants ran him over with their car early Friday morning, Santa Ana police said. The man was a victim of what appears to be a follow-home robbery and killing. [...]

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POTTER TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY (AP) – Police have arrested a third person in connection with the murder of Samuel Boob.

The Telegraph: An influential American general has endorsed a report that criticises President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister’s decision to set a withdrawal date for Afghanistan that “emboldens” the Taliban to fight on. Gen Jack Keane, who was one of the prime movers behind the Iraq surge of 2007, has backed a foreign policy [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York City is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas. The developer leading the project confirmed Friday [...]

Fox News: An American Muslim organization is asking the U.S. Army to deny a Muslim soldier’s request for conscientious objector status, accusing him of treason and urging the military to punish him to the full extent of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Pfc. Naser Abdo, a 20-year-old infantryman who joined the Army one year [...]

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) – Mexican soldiers killed at least 30 suspected cartel members in two shootouts near the U.S. border in a region that has become one of biggest battlegrounds in the country’s drug war, authorities said Friday. Twenty-five of the suspects were killed Thursday during a raid on a building in Ciudad Mier in [...]