- Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf al-Fares, has become the latest al-Assad regime official to defect and join the Syrian rebels, urging the country's military to turn on the regime.
- 2012 is the Year of the Woman in Congress, with a record number of women, at least 295, running for federal office.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pledging to spend nearly $1 billion over the next eight years on contraception access to the world's poorest nations.
- European carmaker Peugeot will shut down a French auto plant and cut 14,000 jobs amid Europe's continuing economic crisis.
- The DEA has installed license-plate recognition cameras in southweest border states trying to record patterns of vehicles used to smuggle drugs, but privacy experts are appalled.
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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