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The State Department's point person on human rights says his office is in a "cat and mouse" game with authoritarian governments that are trying to restrict free speech on the Internet.

Budget negotiations continue on Capitol Hill as a government shutdown looms. Many seem to agree that House and Senate leaders are close on numbers but cannot agree on policy riders.

In a Buffalo, N.Y., cemetery, a female goose who lost her mate is getting support from a male deer. She spends her days nesting by an urn. He circles the spot, on-guard if others approach. The man in charge of the Forest Lawn Cemetery sees it as love: "one creature of the Lord looking out after another creature of the Lord."

A Pennsylvania accountant turned in his own company. The federal government netted $20 million in taxes and interest, and is sharing some of that with him. Of course, he had to pay taxes on that award.

One contested issue in the ongoing budget debate revolves around the benefits and drawbacks of regulations, especially those of the EPA. Ike Brannon and Sam Batkins of The Weekly Standard argue that regulations are being wrongly skewed by the EPA and Obama as promoting job growth and economic stimulation.

Two years ago, U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Shawn Hill was killed in Afghanistan. Back home, a stretch of highway was dedicated to him. Thursday, 18-year-old Aaron Shawn Hill died there.

Entrenched strongman Laurent Gbagbo remained holed up in a bunker under the building in Abidjan as it was surrounded by troops loyal to the country's president-elect. The U.N. said more than 100 bodies had been found in the past 24 hours in several cities.

The paper reports that the aid package was potentially worth $1 billion or more over several years.

An investigation into microbial contamination that led to blood infections of 19 hospitalized patients in Alabama has found a genetic match between bacteria cultured from a dozen infected patients and water samples from a faucet in a pharmacy that prepared IV nutrition products.

Jupiter's ocean moons