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February 03, 2012 | | Last Laugh Donald Trump may have decided to endorse Mitt Romney, but it was the Obama campaign that celebrated when it heard the news. Obama deputy campaign manager Julianna Smoot is taking full advantage of the endorsement, mocking it in a new fundraising email to supporters. “Yesterday, Mitt Romney said he was ‘humbled’ to accept Donald Trump’s endorsement. Seriously. Yes, Donald Trump—birth certificated conspiracy leader—has decided that Mitt Romney’s his guy, and Romney has embraced him without reservation. He made a speech and even sent out a press release welcoming him. Meanwhile, here’s what we’re humbled by: 38,830 supporters have donated to the Two-Term Fund.” BACKTRACK The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation issued a statement Friday apologizing for pulling funding from Planned Parenthood—and pledged to continue funding existing grants with Planned Parenthood. The move came at the end of a tumultuous week for the Komen Foundation, which had faced furious backlash after announcing earlier this week that they would pull their funding for cancer screening from Planned Parenthood—a decision that many suspected was because of abortion politics. Komen denied the link to politics and instead linked it to a recent congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood, but in Friday’s statement, the charity said they “amend our criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political.” In the 24 hours after Komen’s decision on Tuesday, Planned Parenthood received a spike in donations that nearly made up for the loss of funds from the charity. Escalation Violence is rocking Cairo amid claims the new government allowed Wednesday’s soccer deaths to happen, writes Alastair Beach. Who are the diehard fans who say they’re defending the revolution? POTUS President Obama previewed his plan to help U.S. veterans get back to work in his State of the Union address, but now he’s outlined a new program that, if passed, would help war vets get jobs working for the federal government. He will also reissue a request for $5 billion in his 2013 budget to encourage local law enforcement agencies and fire departments to hire military veterans who have served since the September 11 attacks. “They’ve already risked their lives defending America. They should have the opportunity to rebuild America,” the president said. WIRED The hacking collective Anonymous recorded a call between investigators on both sides of the pond—who were talking about Anonymous. The 15-minute-long recording of a conference call between British and American investigators was “illegally obtained,” the Bureau said, and an investigation into who hacked the call is underway. The group, which has targeted the sites of governments and law enforcement agencies before, bragged on Twitter that the FBI “might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now.” On the call, investigators discussed an ongoing case involving two British men with ties to Anonymous. smitten Pippa’s New Guy The younger Middleton is reportedly dating George Percy. | | 
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