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• U.S. condemns North Korean attack, but military strike unlikely (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
• Airport protest never takes off, few delays seen (AP)
• Color-coded terror warnings on track to disappear (AP)
• FLOTUS's White House 'not Camelot' (Politico)
• Feds’ insider trading probe could hinge on what’s ‘public’ information (The Lookout)
• Why Ending Elections for Senators Is a Bad Tea Party Idea (Time.com)
• Lame duck cuts Congress' break short (Politico)
• Obama pardons turkeys (Politico)
• US surrenders e-mails on Gulf oil leak estimates (AP)
• TSA Chief: No intel pointing to terror threat (AP)
• Attorney asks court to free Demjanjuk (AP)
• Obama says he doesn't think about race vs. Palin (AP)
• Could Ahmadinejad Be Impeached? (The Atlantic Wire)
• Norm Coleman won’t run for RNC chair if Steele does (Daily Caller)
• Obama admin accused of not supporting Cuban dissidents, pursuing policy of ‘aggressive niceness’ toward communist country (Daily Caller)
• Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin's Presidential Run 'Genius' or 'Ultimate Insanity' (ContributorNetwork)
• Everyone Is Hate-Reading Sarah Palin's New Book (The Atlantic Wire)

U.S. condemns North Korean attack, but military strike unlikely (Exclusive to Yahoo! News) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:16 AM PST Exclusive to Yahoo! News - By Yochi J. Dreazen National Journal The exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea early Tuesday was the worst cross-border strife on the disputed peninsula in several decades, according to experts,  but the crisis seems unlikely to escalate into …

Airport protest never takes off, few delays seen (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:42 PM PST AP - The big Opt-Out looked like a big bust Wednesday as Thanksgiving travelers around the country patiently submitted to full-body scans and pat-down searches rather than create havoc on one of the busiest flying days of the year. In fact, in some parts of the country, bad weather was shaping up as a bigger threat to travelers' hopes of getting to their destinations on time.

Color-coded terror warnings on track to disappear (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:53 PM PST AP - Goodbye danger defined as yellow, orange and red. The Homeland Security Department is looking to scrap the five-tiered color-coded terror warning system in favor of a streamlined one with as few as two alerts. The post-9/11, Bush-era system has been criticized as too vague to be useful in communicating the terror threat to the public, either ignored or the butt of jokes.

FLOTUS's White House 'not Camelot' (Politico) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:28 AM PST Politico - She has glamorized kitchen gardening, spotlighted childhood obesity and invited thousands of students, many of them minorities, to official White House events.

Feds’ insider trading probe could hinge on what’s ‘public’ information (The Lookout) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 01:05 PM PST The Lookout - Yesterday, in an act still reverberating around the financial industry, the FBI seized documents at three large northeast hedge funds. The coordinated government dragnet came days after the Wall Street Journal reported that for the last three years the feds have been probing suspected insider trading worth tens of millions of dollars, by hedge funds, [...]

Why Ending Elections for Senators Is a Bad Tea Party Idea (Time.com) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:20 AM PST Time.com - Some Tea Party activists have jumped on board a curious, misguided campaign to repeal the 17th Amendment, which gives the people the right to vote directly for their Senators

Lame duck cuts Congress' break short (Politico) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:28 PM PST Politico - Senate aides and senators believe that adjournment this year will be close to Christmas – again.

Obama pardons turkeys (Politico) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 08:21 AM PST Politico - Obama dishes out a bit of mercy to two lucky turkeys, “Apple” and “Cider."

US surrenders e-mails on Gulf oil leak estimates (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:48 PM PST AP - The Obama administration is defending the science behind its estimates of how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico.

TSA Chief: No intel pointing to terror threat (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 09:44 AM PST AP - Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole says there's no specific intelligence indicating a terror threat to the U.S. during this Thanksgiving holiday.

Attorney asks court to free Demjanjuk (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:51 AM PST AP - John Demjanjuk's attorney has asked a Munich court to free his client for the duration of his trial.

Obama says he doesn't think about race vs. Palin (AP) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:42 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he respects Sarah Palin's political skills but hasn't thought about the possibility of facing her in the 2012 presidential election.

Could Ahmadinejad Be Impeached? (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:17 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - The Iranian Parliament recently attempted to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's legislative body has revealed. They were blocked by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who exercises total control over the country's political institutions. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Parliament had accused Ahmadinejad of "illegally importing gasoline and oil, failing to provide budgetary transparency and withdrawing millions of dollars from Iran's foreign reserve fund without getting parliament's approval." Despite this, Members of Parliament have begun a motion to openly debate impeaching Ahmadinejad; they have 40 of the required 74 votes to move forward. Here's what this means and what experts say about Ahmadinejad's--and Iran's--future.

Norm Coleman won’t run for RNC chair if Steele does (Daily Caller) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 10:55 PM PST Daily Caller - Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman says he will not mount a campaign for chairman of the Republican National Committee if Chairman Michael Steele decides to run for re-election.

Obama admin accused of not supporting Cuban dissidents, pursuing policy of ‘aggressive niceness’ toward communist country (Daily Caller) Posted: 23 Nov 2010 10:11 PM PST Daily Caller - The United States has long stood for democracy and freedom, but in Cuba, a dissident who opposes Fidel and Raul Castro’s communist regime tells The Daily Caller that he and his compatriots are feeling an icy breeze from the Obama administration. Democracy advocates say the lack of support can be attributed to the Obama administration's strategy of "aggressive niceness" toward the communist country.

Meghan McCain: Sarah Palin's Presidential Run 'Genius' or 'Ultimate Insanity' (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:59 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Everybody seems to be trying to figure out Sarah Palin these days: who she is, what she's doing, what she might be doing in the next few months or years, what she meant, what the hell it was she just said. Meghan McCain has figured out just what in world Palin might be doing -- for the most part.

Everyone Is Hate-Reading Sarah Palin's New Book (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:45 PM PST The Atlantic Wire - When the final Harry Potter book was published, many wondered what author could follow J.K. Rowling and stoke such rabid anticipation for every release among her readers. The answer: Sarah Palin. Palin's book, America by Heart, is in stores now and pretty much everyone is writing about it, though in the Alaskan's case, many have to hold their noses to do it.

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