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Illinois lawmakers crack down on social media 'flash mobs'
Seeking to keep pace with changing technology, Illinois toughened penalties Saturday for those who use social media and text messaging to organize violent "flash mobs" like those that have occurred on Chicago's Michigan Avenue and in other tourist areas.
Source: FOX

Michelle Obama Makes Light of President's Failures
Delivering her only speech at a high school graduation this year, first lady Michelle Obama joked about the failures her husband, President Obama, has encountered in life as she told a graduating class of high school seniors in Nashville, Tenn. today that in order to...    
Source: ABC

Immigration bill, Heritage study spark debate about so-called cost of 'doing nothing'
A recent-cost study on the Senate immigration-reform bill has sparked debate in Washington about whether the United States would be better off economically by allowing its roughly 11 million illegal immigrants to remain in the country under their non-legal status instead of giving them the opportunity to become citizens.
Source: FOX

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin.
Source: FOX

Lawyer confirms she asked planted question that broke open IRS scandal
The first revelation that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups came in a planted question during a lawyers? conference earlier this month, the attorney who asked the question confirmed Saturday with Fox News.
Source: FOX

State Sen. Mark Obenshain nominated for Virginia attorney general by GOP
State Sen. Mark Obenshain has won the Republican nomination for attorney general in Virginia 35 years after his father won the party's U.S. Senate nomination.
Source: FOX

Obama Goes Golfing After Week of Political Scandals
WASHINGTON ? President Obama ? despite dealing with a trio of political scandals that flared up this week ? squeezed in some time on the golf course today, and included a woman in his foursome for the first time this year. The president played golf...    
Source: ABC

Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles
Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota -- showing that Republicans aren't the only ones with internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.
Source: FOX

Parking fees at California state beaches heat up
Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic.
Source: FOX

New Virginia GOP gov. nominee Cuccinelli is Tea Party favorite
Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation.
Source: FOX