- Both sides say they have reached a deal to prevent another government shutdown tonight that includes extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the Medicare "doc fix".
- Writer and atheist Christopher Hitchens has lost his battle with cancer at age 62 after a career writing for both the right and the left.
- The Obama administration has ordered the Treasury to all but halt minting Presidential dollar coins, with some 1.4 billion coins sitting unused in vaults across the country.
- Farmville creator Zynga will meet its IPO goal, raising a billion dollars in the country's biggest initial stock offering since Google in 2004.
- A federal judge has thrown out a case of Twitter harassment on first amendment grounds citing the right of criticism of a public, religious figure.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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