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Today: Gallup Editor: Romney 'Collapsing' , Last Hope for Costa Concordia’s Missing as Ship Tanks Risk Bursting , Gingrich Gains In South Carolina
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January 20, 2012
FEISTY

In the first interview since her husband’s debacle, Anne Sinclair opened up to French ELLE, describing an ‘Orwellian’ invasion of privacy, and strikes back at her feminist critics. The Daily Beast’s Eric Pape breaks down her reemergence.

Flailing

Newt Gingrich’s gain is Mitt Romney’s loss, Frank Newport explained on MSNBC Friday. The editor in chief of the Gallup polling organization predicts that new data set to come out this afternoon will show Romney’s support “clearly collapsing.” Talking Points Memo confirms that its poll average also shows Romney slipping. “We have seen more movement, more rollercoaster kind of effect this year than any other Republican primary in our history of tracking,” said Newport, adding, “It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility if Romney recovers. We’ll wait and see.”

LIFELINE

Salvagers stand ready to siphon 500,000 gallons of fuel from the Costa Concordia as the crippled ship teeters toward environmental disaster. But families of the 24 missing are pleading for more time. The Daily Beast’s Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.

Upset?

In the past week, Newt Gingrich has been in the spotlight, both for his arguably racist rhetoric (his janitorial jobs for urban kids plan and his insistence on calling Obama “the food-stamp president”) and for his ex-wife’s revelation that Newt proposed an open marriage while already in the middle of an affair with a young House staffer, which reinvigorated the stories of Gingrich’s philandering and cruelly timed divorces from two separate women with life-threatening illnesses. He also snapped at Thursday night’s debate when asked about his ex-wife’s interview. This is the type of attention that could kill a campaign, and yet the people of South Carolina are loving it! Polls show Gingrich’s support surging so high that he may even be on track to beat Mitt Romney in Saturday’s primary. Even Romney strategist Stuart Stevens has confirmed this idea. “Do I think we could lose South Carolina? Sure. Of course,” he told CNN, insisting the question shouldn’t be whether Romney could lose in South Carolina, it should be “Does he have a chance in South Carolina?”

BLACKOUT

It must have been really tough around the Senate without Wikipedia. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday that the vote on a controversial—and highly unpopular—online piracy bill had been delayed indefinitely. The House later announced a similar measure for its equivalent bill, known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The bills had caused Wikipedia and several other websites to go dark Wednesday in protest. While a number of high-profile senators had pulled back their support of the bills in recent days, it placed Democrats between two powerful interest groups: Hollywood, which supports a crackdown on online piracy, and Silicon Valley, which believes the bills in their current form would hinder the Internet’s business model. One of the Senate bill’s sponsors, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, said delaying the bill is a victory for “overseas criminals” who would “drain our economy.”


CRISIS
Greece Near Debt Deal
While government agrees to rent out ancient sites to raise funds.
WE DID IT
Anonymous Hacked Justice Dept., FBI Sites
After feds shut down popular file-sharing website.
BLAZE
26 Homes Destroyed in Reno Fire
Flames only fifty percent contained.
OBIT
Etta James Dies at 73
R&B singer suffered from leukemia.
UNLIKELY ALLIES
Cain, Colbert Hold S.C. Rally
Comedian asks voters to ‘rock me like Herman Cain.’
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FDA clears more orange juice imports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health regulators cleared more orange juice imports from five countries after testing for the fungicide carbendazim, but made no mention of samples from top grower Brazil, which accounts for half of U.S. juice imports. | Full Article
U.S. gives church groups a year on birth control rule
January 20, 2012 03:03 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday ruled that religiously affiliated nonprofit organizations, including hospitals and universities, will have to offer birth-control coverage to women employees but gave the organizations an extra year to comply. | Full Article
Analysis: Goal for Alzheimer's drug by 2025 too ambitious?
January 20, 2012 08:39 AM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government has set a deadline of 2025 for finding an effective way to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease, an ambitious target considering there is no cure on the horizon and one that sets a firm deadline unlike previous campaigns against cancer or AIDS. | Full Article
Bird flu researchers suspend study of deadlier mutations
January 20, 2012 04:54 PM ET
(Reuters) - Researchers studying a potentially deadlier, airborne version of the bird flu virus have voluntarily suspended their studies for 60 days because of concerns it could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism, according to a letter published in the journals Nature and Science on Friday. | Full Article
Docs more likely to suspect abuse in poor kids
January 20, 2012 04:14 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When a toddler has a broken bone, pediatricians may be more likely to suspect abuse if the family is lower-income, a new study finds. | Full Article
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Hours before key primary, Romney lowers expectations
January 20, 2012 04:51 PM ET
GILBERT, South Carolina (Reuters) - With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, front-runner Mitt Romney on Friday lowered expectations for how well he will do and acknowledged he is in a neck-and-neck race with Newt Gingrich. | Full Article
Supreme Court throws out Texas election maps
January 20, 2012 02:53 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court handed Texas Republicans a partial victory in a partisan fight over election redistricting that has erupted after a huge increase in the state's Hispanic population. | Full Article
Megaupload site wants assets back, to fight charges
January 20, 2012 04:52 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internet website Megaupload.com, shut down by authorities over allegations that it illegally peddled copyrighted material, is trying to recover its servers and get back online, a lawyer for the company said on Friday. | Full Article
Home sales hit 11-month high
January 20, 2012 04:52 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home sales hit an 11-month high in December and the number of properties on the market was the fewest in nearly seven years, pointing to a nascent recovery in the housing sector. | Full Article
Major powers signal openness to Iran talks
January 20, 2012 04:53 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major powers seeking to negotiate an end to Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons on Friday signaled their openness to renewed talks with Tehran but diplomats said the powers remain divided on their approach. | Full Article
BUSINESS NEWS
Dow and S&P 500 post best week since Christmas
Greece, creditors close in on debt cut deal
Chevron appeals $18 billion ruling in Ecuador lawsuit
Exclusive: Activist hedge fund MMI liquidating - sources
Probe of Chevy Volt fires closed
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