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Source: Mitchell Steps Down As Mideast Envoy
Source: Mitchell Steps Down As Mideast Envoy (WCTI)
Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell is resigning as the Obama administration's Mideast envoy, a senior U.S. official told CNN Friday.

NASA counting down again for next-to-last launch (Athens Banner-Herald)
NASA's countdown clocks began ticking again Friday for the next-to-last space shuttle launch, delayed two weeks ago by an electrical problem aboard Endeavour.

Gingrich: GE 'clever' to avoid corporate taxes (Salon)
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Friday that General Electric's aggressive legal and accounting strategy, which led to reports of a zero corporate tax liability last year, was a clever and rational response to the nation's high tax rates.

U.S. pushes school cafeterias toward healthier offerings
U.S. pushes school cafeterias toward healthier offerings (Today's 6)
School lunches have long served as the punch line of jokes, prompting chuckles about "mystery meat" and angry lunch ladies.

Some Politicians Begin Viewing, Confirming bin Laden Death Images (huliq)
As was noted earlier, some on Capitol Hill have been invited to view the Osama bin Laden death photos, and they've started to comment on them.

Dunkin' Donuts Reminds Triskaidekaphobians That It's Still National Apple Pie Day (huliq)
Today is Friday the 13th, and that is bad luck if you are superstitious, but Dunkin' Donuts has sent out a press release telling folks to ignore that, because it's National Apple Pie Day.

Rising Mississippi takes aim at Cajun country (cbsnews)
In the latest agonizing decision along the swollen Mississippi River, federal engineers are close to opening a massive spillway that would protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans but flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country.

Slow migration unfolds in flood's path in Miss (jacksonsun)
A slow migration is unfolding here as people and wild animals — hogs, deer and snakes among them — seek higher ground from the floodwaters rising inexorably along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Brett Robinson drove slowly down River Road near his Yazoo City farm on Thursday, gazing out over corn fields now beginning to look more like lakes. He stopped his truck, pulled out a rifle and shot dead a wild hog swimming through his corn. He'll lose the crop anyway, but that hog could be a nuisance long after the water recedes. ...

Southern Flooding Update (volunteertv)
The worst may not be over for Mississippi- the river it shares it's name with is expected to crest sometime next week at 57 feet.

Randy Newman "Louisiana 1927" (youtube)
"Louisiana 1927" The greatest flood until now, the great Mississippi Flood of Spring, 1927. Greater than the great 2010 floods.

Suspects in Terror Case Wanted to Kill Jews, Officials Say (nytimes)
The 26-year-old man from Queens had discussed growing a beard and the side curls of a Hasidic Jew, the police commissioner said, a disguise that he apparently hoped would enable him to attack a synagogue in Manhattan "and take out the whole entire building." New York Police Department Officers arresting Ahmed Ferhani, 26, at 58th Street along the ...

Obama presses Congress on cybersecurity measures (reuters)
The White House on Thursday pressed Congress to pass strong cybersecurity measures to protect consumers' personal information and safeguard the nation's financial system and electric power grid from potentially devastating attacks.

Did Mitt Romney help his candidacy with yesterday's speech? (news.bostonherald)
Mitt Romney made the savvy move yesterday of adopting candor as a campaign strategy. He fessed up to the fact that the Massachusetts plan he signed into law has become a huge liability. He admitted that voters' biggest concern is an individual mandate that whacks people with fees if they don't get coverage.

Ron Paul says he's running for president a third time (washingtonpost)
From Dr. No to tea party godfather Texas Rep. Ron Paul announced Friday that he will run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012, the third attempt for the man known on Capitol Hill as "Dr. No" for his enthusiasm for bashing runaway spending and government overreach.

Some states want TSA to ease up (usatoday)
The more aggressive pat-down procedures ordered by the federal Transportation Security Administration in October, along with machines that peer through clothing, go too far and violate people's privacy and their protections from intrusive government, the legislators say.

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