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December 13, 2011 | | CHECK THE TAPE This won’t help Mitt Romney seal the deal with conservative voters in the GOP primary: a newly surfaced tape from his 2002 gubernatorial run shows Romney telling reporters, “My views are progressive”—a potentially poisonous claim in the runup to Iowa’s caucus. DEADLY At least four people are dead and 64 wounded following a deadly gun and grenade attack in the city of Liege, Belgium, Tuesday. Police identified the attacker as Nordine Amrani, and they believe he acted alone. Amrani also reportedly threw two grenades into a crowded square from a rooftop before killing himself. The public prosecutor said terrorism was not a cause. PENN STATE Accused child molester and former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky waived his right to a pretrial hearing to determine if there was enough evidence for the charges against him. The rural Pennsylvania courthouse was packed in the early morning with journalists, who the judge ruled on Monday can text, tweet, and email during the hearing. Sandusky faces more than 50 criminal counts relating to the alleged sexual assaults over 15 years of 10 boys in his home, the Penn State property, and elsewhere. Sandusky, 67, has long proclaimed his innocence, and his lawyer said that the former coach plans on pleading not guilty on all charges. Sandusky's plea on Tuesday came as somewhat of a surprise, after his lawyer, Joe Amendola, said Monday that his client was "looking forward" to facing his accusers. POLLS The Republican primary may be a circus, but it’s not making lots of swing-state voters feel better about President Obama. According to a new CBS/Gallup poll, the two leading GOP candidates, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, would beat Obama in every swing state, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Romney leads by 5 percent, and Gingrich by 2 percent. But do polls matter this far out? An NBC/Marist poll shows Obama with a comfortable lead over both GOP candidates in Florida and South Carolina. EUREKA Not your average piece of news for a Tuesday. Scientists said Tuesday that they have narrowed down their search for the so-called God particle, or the Higgs boson, the particle believed to be the basic building block of the universe. Researchers from two independent labs associated with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Energy based in Switzerland, said that the particle is more likely to be found in lower mass or energy ranges from the massive atom smasher used to track it down. Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who heads the team running one of the experiments, said there are indications of Higgs’s existence that, with enough data, it could either be unambiguously discovered or ruled out next year. | | 
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