Good morning, it's Sunday. Here's what's going on...
A snowstorm is wreaking havoc in the Midwest and Northeast, combat is intensifying in Gaza and the University of Virignia and Swarthmore College can claim "best value" status among U.S. universities.
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The New York Times reports that President Bush declined an Israeli request to hit Iran's main nuclear processing location with bunker-busting bombs. Bush instead offered Israel improved access to U.S. intelligence on Iran's nuclear activities.
The man who would be senator from Illinois, Roland Burris, talks issues with the Chicago Tribune. He says he would support President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus efforts but wouldn't be a "rubber stamp."
A Los Angeles Times reporter writes of riding with the Taliban in Afghanistan. From Paul Watson: "In Ghazni province, at least, the Taliban militants are not frightened fighters skulking in caves, sneaking out to ambush and then scurrying off to another mountain hide-out. They live comfortably in the farming villages where many of them were born, holding territory, recruiting and training new troops, reveling in what they see as God's gift of inevitable victory against heathen foreign occupiers."