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Washington (CNN) – More members of Congress are seeing something cleared for only a select group of Americans: Photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. Republican Sen. James Inhofe told CNN’s Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday he saw about 15 photos of bin Laden’s body, most taken at the al Qaeda leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Three [...]

Army Times U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait have inhaled microscopic dust particles laden with toxic metals, bacteria and fungi — a toxic stew that may explain everything from the undiagnosed Gulf War Syndrome symptoms lingering from the 1991 war against Iraq to high rates of respiratory, neurological and heart ailments encountered in the [...]

Solar Thermal The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced $1 million in available funding for one or two U.S.-based organizations to train energy assessors, who will assist manufacturing facilities in China and India to reduce their energy use. Under the program, competitively selected energy efficiency experts will work with engineers and energy managers abroad [...]

Bloombergs Mitt Romney is using a speech in Michigan tomorrow to address questions about the 2006 health- care bill he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts that is among his biggest political liabilities as he prepares for a likely run for the Republican presidential nomination. “If I am elected president, I will issue on [...]

Mediaite The pastor who took pictures over the weekend of TSA agents at Kansas City International Airport patting down an eight-month old baby says he’s “never seen anything quite that bad,” said Jacob Jester, who pulled out his phone and take pictures. He sent the pictures to Twitter, setting off a viral firestorm. “So far, [...]

IndyStar About 60 opponents of immigration reform protested today at Gov. Mitch Daniels’ office in the Indiana Statehouse. Undocumented immigrant youth and others spoke out about their immigration status publicly — risking detention under federal law, organizers say — and asked Gov. Mitch Daniels to veto Senate Bill 590 and House Bill 1402. The protest [...]

Fox News: INDIANAPOLIS — Planned Parenthood says it will continue seeing patients with appointments as the group awaits a federal ruling on its request to block Indiana’s effort to become the first state to cut all funding to the organization. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt is expected to rule Wednesday on the organization’s request [...]

NBC New York: The invitation of rapper Common to the White House this week is drawing the ire of the union representing New Jersey state police. While even casual hip-hop fans wouldn’t characterize him as a controversial rapper, Common found himself under the microscope after First Lady Michelle Obama invited him to the White House [...]

CSMonitor Newt Gingrich, the man of a million ideas, is now definitively running for president. After some false starts, and years of consideration, the former House speaker is announcing Wednesday via Twitter and Facebook that he’s a full-fledged candidate, not just launching an exploratory committee. Over the years, Mr. Gingrich has championed welfare reform, term [...]

(Reuters) Iran on Wednesday postponed the trial of three Americans on spying charges without giving a reason, their lawyer said. The U.S. State Department had on Tuesday urged the Islamic Republic, with which Washington has no relations, to quickly resolve the case of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, who were arrested in July 2009 after [...]

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein WSJ WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama [...]

Dallas (AP) – Four months after Gov. Rick Perry put out an urgent request to wrap up a bill cracking down on cities providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants, the Texas House passed it Monday night, advancing it to the state Senate, which is expected to approve it and send it to Perry’s desk. Under the [...]

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