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• Obama to world leaders: Must help on economy, too (AP)
• Miller sues over ‘Murkowski’ spelling on Alaska ballots (The Upshot)
• The Fast Fix: Presidential Memoirs. Rewriting History? (The Newsroom)
• Obama team braces for Rep. Darrell Issa, avid investigator (The Christian Science Monitor)
• White House edits stain its reliance on science (AP)
• House veterans to newcomers: Sweat the small stuff (AP)
• Should Democrats compromise on tax cuts? (The Week)
• Why the Removal of Iowa Judges Hurts Judicial Independence (Time.com)
• House leadership elections Wednesday (Politico)
• Pressure builds against Steele (Politico)
• Democrats pressing Pelosi to step aside (AP)
• DOJ: Lawyer's recovered e-mails show no misconduct (AP)
• Clarification: Pope story (AP)
• Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security (AP)
• How well are American Muslims challenging extremists? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Boehner will not use military jet for travel to home district as House Speaker (Daily Caller)
• AP-GfK Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd (AP)
• Sarah Palin hopes TV show will "correct some untruths" (Reuters)

Obama to world leaders: Must help on economy, too (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 02:06 PM PST AP - Under worldwide pressure, President Barack Obama told global leaders Wednesday the burden is on them as well as the U.S. to fix trade-stifling imbalances and currency disputes that imperil economic recoveries everywhere. The president promised the United States would do its part but declared "the world is looking to us to work together."

Miller sues over ‘Murkowski’ spelling on Alaska ballots (The Upshot) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 07:23 AM PST The Upshot - It was probably only a matter of time: The bizarre hard-fought race for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat is turning into a dispute over voters' spelling skills. Republican challenger Joe Miller filed a federal complaint (PDF) on Tuesday arguing that any misspellings of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski's name on write-in ballots shouldn't be counted in her [...]

The Fast Fix: Presidential Memoirs. Rewriting History? (The Newsroom) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 08:28 AM PST The Newsroom - Can a memoir change the perception of a presidency? Get The Fix in your e-mail inbox! Click here to sign-up for the Morning Fix newsletter. Click here for the Afternoon Fix newsletter. Follow The Fix on Twitter @thefix or @thehyperfix.

Obama team braces for Rep. Darrell Issa, avid investigator (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Nov 2010 02:54 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama and the Democrats have just endured one painful political tsunami. Now they’re bracing themselves for another: Darrell Issa.

White House edits stain its reliance on science (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST AP - The oil spill that damaged the Gulf of Mexico's reefs and wetlands is also threatening to stain the Obama administration's reputation for relying on science to guide policy.

House veterans to newcomers: Sweat the small stuff (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:37 AM PST AP - Be work horses, not show horses. Choose details over drama. The small stuff? Sweat it. And do it fast.

Should Democrats compromise on tax cuts? (The Week) Posted: 09 Nov 2010 10:48 AM PST The Week - Republicans insist that everyone — including the rich — should keep their Bush era tax cuts. After his party’s midterm drubbing, is it time for Obama back down?

Why the Removal of Iowa Judges Hurts Judicial Independence (Time.com) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:40 PM PST Time.com - Iowa voters' removal of the three respected judges who had joined last year's pro-gay-marriage ruling should send a shiver down the spine of anyone who cares about the American system of justice

House leadership elections Wednesday (Politico) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 01:20 PM PST Politico - Pelosi receives the go-ahead from House Democrats to hold elections next week.

Pressure builds against Steele (Politico) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:58 AM PST Politico - Sources say the top priority of many committee members is to ensure the chairman isn't reelected.

Democrats pressing Pelosi to step aside (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST AP - In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.

DOJ: Lawyer's recovered e-mails show no misconduct (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PST AP - The Justice Department reviewed newly found e-mails sent by a Bush administration lawyer and stands by a conclusion that the attorney did not commit professional misconduct in authorizing CIA interrogators to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics, a department letter shows.

Clarification: Pope story (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:25 AM PST AP - In a story Nov. 7, The Associated Press reported that Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudi died a few years after the Sagrada Familia basilica was begun. Gaudi died in 1926; construction on the still-unfinished basilica began in 1882.

Deficit panel leaders' plan curbs Social Security (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST AP - The leaders of President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission launched a daring assault on mushrooming federal deficits on Wednesday, proposing reducing annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security, gradually raising the retirement age to 69 and taking aim at popular tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction.

How well are American Muslims challenging extremists? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:43 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama, visiting Indonesia, noted that the world's largest Muslim country is a model of tolerance and moderation. But here at home, controversies over the so-called ground zero mosque and the Florida pastor who threatened to burn the Quran have spurred a new exchange of recriminations: Muslims tolerate extremism; non-Muslims suffer from Islamophobia.

Boehner will not use military jet for travel to home district as House Speaker (Daily Caller) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:04 PM PST Daily Caller - Maybe he likes the peanuts.

AP-GfK Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 crowd (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST AP - Sarah Palin is the most polarizing of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, while impressions of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney lean more positive, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. As for the rest — Pawlenty, Barbour, Thune, Daniels — most Americans say, "Who?"

Sarah Palin hopes TV show will "correct some untruths" (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:35 AM PST Reuters - Sarah Palin says she hopes her upcoming TV reality show will "help correct some untruths out there", but her husband Todd isn't counting on the program to boost his wife's popularity with her critics.

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