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January 26, 2012 | | FLORIDA Florida’s high-stakes primary is only five days away, and Gingrich has barnstormed the state with harsh new attacks against the “grotesquely hypocritical” Mitt Romney. Lois Romano reports from the campaign trail. SCARY Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s son, Sam LaHood, and at least four other U.S. citizens have been barred from leaving Egypt as part of a crackdown that followed security forces raiding the offices of Washington-backed groups who are monitoring the elections. Sam LaHood is the director of the Egyptian program of the International Republican Institute, which has close ties to the Republican Congressional leadership. Sam LaHood and the other IRI employees were not given a reason why they couldn’t leave and they still have their passports, but they have been allowed to keep their passports. The IRI is one of 17 foreign nongovernmental organizations raided by Egyptian security forces on Dec. 29, in an effort by the Egyptian government to find what they call the “foreign influences” behind the recent protests. SCUFFLE Rowdy protests marked Australia’s national holiday today, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard had to be pulled away by security officers when she got held up in a crowd of demonstrators. The group, with some 200 people, was advocating for Aboriginal rights outside of a Canberra restaurant where the prime minister was officiating a ceremony. Gillard lost a shoe in the scuffle, and looked visibly frightened, according to an Australian report, but said afterward that she was made of “pretty tough stuff” and thanked the police for their service. A senior Aboriginal leader condemned the protesters for their “aggression.” CRIME Greg Kelly, Fox’s Good Day New York co-host and the son of police commissioner Ray Kelly, has been accused of rape. Kelly was not on the air Thursday morning at Good Day New York. The woman said she had drinks with Kelly at South Street Seaport on Oct. 8 and she alleges that he raped her in her law office in downtown Manhattan while she was incapacitated. She did not report the alleged assault until Tuesday night. DNA Info reported that the woman is now pregnant and that she called up Kelly and said “what did you do to me?” The accuser reportedly told police that her boyfriend was so angry about the alleged assault that he approached the police commissioner at a public event. Kelly denied the accusation through his lawyer, and Good Day New York gave a brief report on the incident but did not note Kelly’s status with the program. COSTA CONCORDIA With no hope of finding more survivors, the Concordia drama has moved into new territory two weeks after the deadly shipwreck. The captain’s wife called the investigation a “manhunt” and insisted “they are just looking for a scapegoat.” And now one of the attorneys who helped free Amanda Knox has filed a class-action lawsuit. The Daily Beast’s Barbie Latza Nadeau reports. | | 
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