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Fox News: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, leaving the funeral of a murdered Border Patrol agent Wednesday, scolded a reporter for asking her to address the victim’s family’s concerns that not enough is being done to secure the southern border. The family of agent Brian Terry had complained that Napolitano had offered them “empty words” [...]

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Christian Science Monitor: For years, MTV has made a living, its detractors would say, peddling rock-star debauchery to wide-eyed teenagers. But according to a new government study that shows the US teen birthrate falling dramatically in 2009 after a five percent increase from 2005 to 2007, experts say the network may have redeemed itself with [...]

Politico: All the momentum President Barack Obama picked up at the tail end of the 111th Congress means he’ll hit the partisan wall that much harder when the 112th Congress opens, according to liberal and conservative lawmakers who are girding for political warfare in January. “Nov. 2 wasn’t about working with the president,” Ohio Rep. [...]

Fox News: Economists, like doctors and weathermen, tend to hedge what they say carefully, so as to protect their reputation for accurate diagnoses, prescriptions, and prognoses. But the current economic climate is especially conducive to such hedging, because virtually every slice of economic data currently available depicts the U.S. economy as unusually fragile, a mixed [...]

Fox News: Nissan’s first all-electric cars are rolling out this month to consumers on a wait list of 20 thousand. Nissan officials said consumer interest in the “LEAF” exceeded their expectations. The company has temporarily stopped accepting new reservations for the car until it can finish processing the initial 20 thousand requests sometime next year. [...]

The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a schedule Thursday for setting greenhouse gas standards for power plants and oil refineries. While EPA is pledging a “common-sense” approach, the move is likely to escalate a battle between the Obama administration and Republicans, who argue climate regulations will hurt the economy. Members of the GOP [...]