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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The three-way race for the Senate became a discussion of extremes during a debate Wednesday night — radical-right, far-left and all over the place. Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s running as an independent, and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek teamed up to call Republican Marco Rubio a radical conservative. Crist and Rubio said [...]

(CBS) Some cheerleaders in Connecticut are stirring up quite a controversy over their outfits. They say they’re uniforms are too skimpy and hurt their self esteem.

The Guardian: Both the Afghan and US governments have recently made contact with the most fearsome insurgent group in Afghanistan, the Haqqani network, the Guardian has learned. Hamid Karzai’s government held direct talks with senior members of the Haqqani clan over the summer, according to well-placed Pakistani and Arab sources. The US contacts have been [...]

Fox News Texas: HOUSTON – Dreams brought legal immigrant Kenneth Chibuogwu to America and in time determination brought many of those aspirations within reach. “I worked hard. I came to this country with nothing,” says Kenneth. It is a country this father and husband have deeply embraced, along with its core convictions. “If you don’t [...]

Haaretz: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos are to arrive in Israel Sunday to move ahead President Nicolas Sarkozy’s idea of a summit in Paris later this month between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. According to French diplomats and officials in Netanyahu’s bureau, the two [...]

Mediaite: The coming edition of the NY Times Sunday Magazine features an in-depth and reasonably fair portrayal of Glenn Beck that describes him as a “sage” (among other things.) But that’s not the best evidence that Beck has finally been accepted by both the mainstream media and “cultural elite.” No, the better example is that [...]

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Washington Times: President Obama’s new immigration enforcement strategy led to a record number of criminal aliens being deported last year, but removals of other illegal immigrants fell to the lowest rate since 2007, before the Bush administration began a crackdown. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 392,862 aliens in fiscal year 2010, slightly less than [...]

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New York Times: As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald’s and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law’s standards. The waivers [...]

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The Hill: Healthcare reform is hurting the reelection chances of freshman Democrats in the House, according to The Hill/ANGA poll. A majority of voters in key battleground districts favor repeal of the legislative overhaul Congress passed this year. President Obama predicted in the spring that the new law would become popular as people learned more [...]

Politico: White House officials blocked the release of a more accurate and dramatic estimate of the Gulf of Mexico oil spil according to an Oil Spill Commission staff report released Wednesday. The report says that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wanted to make some of its worst-case scenarios for the BP spill available to [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – First lady Michelle Obama beat out heads of state, chief executives and celebrities to rank as the world’s most powerful woman in Forbes magazine’s annual listing on Wednesday. Kraft Foods Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld, who led a hostile $18 billion takeover of Britain’s Cadbury, came in second, followed by talk show [...]