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Salt Lake Tribune: An overnight lockdown, triggered when a vial of the deadly VX nerve agent went temporarily missing, was lifted early Thursday morning at Utah’s sprawling, 801,000-acre Dugway Proving Ground. Video Courtesy of KSL.com Officials at the remote Army installation, 90 miles southwest of Salt Lake City in Utah’s western desert, abruptly ordered gates [...]

Politico: Rep. Mike Pence is expected to announce late Thursday whether he is running for president, POLITICO has learned. The announcement will appear first in the Indianapolis Star, an aide said. Pence has been deliberating over his political future, stepping down from House Republican leadership as he mulls whether to run for president or governor [...]

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Fox News: A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News. The book, “In Memory of Our Martyrs,” was spotted Tuesday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent out of the Casa Grande substation who was patrolling a route known for smuggling [...]

Los Angeles Times: In a case aimed at stemming the flow of U.S. weapons to the Mexican drug war, federal authorities indicted 20 men Tuesday on charges of buying an estimated 700 weapons in Arizona and conspiring to transfer them across the border, chiefly to the Sinaloa drug cartel. The arrests, carried out by at [...]

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington — Positioning herself more and more like a presidential candidate, Sarah Palin issued a lengthy and blistering response to President Obama’s State of the Union address late Wednesday, saying that the president had lost the trust of the American people. “Real leadership is more than just words; it’s deeds,” [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Social Security’s finances are getting worse as the economy struggles to recover and millions of baby boomers stand at the brink of retirement. New congressional projections show Social Security running deficits every year until its trust funds are eventually drained in about 2037. This year alone, Social Security is projected to collect [...]

Washington Post: The world’s Muslim population will grow at double the rate of non-Muslims over the next 20 years, according to a broad new demographic analysis that is likely to spark controversy in Europe and the United States. If current trends continue, the study found, the number of Muslims in the United States will more [...]

The Hill: Staffers from the House Judiciary Committee will meet with Obama administration officials Thursday to examine the effectiveness of federal laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, according to a Republican aide with the panel. The closed-door gathering will focus on whether a federal system of background checks [...]

Related: Unable To Find It, Hawaii’s Governor Can’t Release Obama’s Alleged Birth Certificate, Makes Cover-Up Announcement Blaming Privacy Law Only World Net Daily: It could be a game-changer. A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office is approaching critical mass, even though it has just been [...]

DALLAS (AP) – A woman described by police as a U.S. missionary died at a South Texas hospital Wednesday after her husband brought her mortally wounded over a Rio Grande bridge from Mexico, where he said she had been shot in the head by gunmen in a pickup truck. Nancy Davis, 59, died in a [...]

Washington Times: Saying it has become an obsolete waste of money, the House on Wednesday voted to end the taxpayer-funded presidential campaign finance system that has fallen out of favor over the past decade as candidates have chosen to ignore it. The bill steps back from the 1970s-era dream of publicly financed campaigns. More than [...]