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Election 2012
2:00 am
Mon January 23, 2012

Romney Criticizes Gingrich: He Resigned In 'Disgrace'

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is campaigning in Florida following a big loss over the weekend to Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary. Romney told a crowd that Gingrich resigned in disgrace after four years as speaker of the House.

Remembrances
2:00 am
Mon January 23, 2012

Joe Paterno's Death Is A Sad Day For Happy Valley

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Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died Sunday at the age of 85. He was fired by the university last fall following the sexual abuse charges against one of his former coaches.

NPR Story
2:00 am
Mon January 23, 2012

Ponzi Trial To Open For R. Allen Stanford

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Originally published on Mon January 23, 2012 7:25 am

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Here's a name back in the news: R. Allen Stanford. In the midst of the financial crisis he was charged with running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme against thousands of investors in the United States and Latin America. Now his trial is set to begin today in Houston.

From member station KUHF, Andrew Schneider has more.

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2:00 am
Mon January 23, 2012

Syria Rejects Arab League Plan To Quell Fighting

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The Arab League has launched a new plan to stop the crisis in Syria. The plan was announced in Cairo by the premier of Qatar. It comes after the Arab League's own observers completed a month-long mission in Syria.

Author Interviews
10:01 pm
Sun January 22, 2012

'Taft 2012': A Presidential Time Warp

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Jason Heller is a pop-culture journalist, editor and author. He lives in Denver.
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Originally published on Mon January 23, 2012 1:01 am

A burly beast of a man bursts into a presidential press conference and is shot in the leg by secret police. Two days later, the White House reveals that the befuddled intruder with a handlebar mustache is really former President William Howard Taft.

So begins Taft 2012, a novel that gives a satirical take on contemporary politics through the eyes of a president who served a century ago. Author Jason Heller places Taft in a 21st-century election campaign, where he is forced to sit in bars on New Year's Eve and master Twitter along the way.

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