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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Chaz Bono is officially a man and has his new name. (more)

NEW YORK  — A federal appeals court on Wednesday handed the government a victory by temporarily blocking a judge’s finding that Congress was wrong to halt federal funding to the activist group ACORN. (more)

Catholic bishops, already waging a bitter battle with the government over birth control, received an unwelcome gift on Monday when female activists delivered them two baskets of condoms. (more)

President Obama has been talking tough on deficit reduction, but many left-leaning pundits and economists warn that such rhetoric will prolong the economic slump. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow warned that Obama’s proposed partial spending freeze was Herbert Hoover’s strategy, while Budget Director Peter Orszag cautioned that FDR’s attempt in 1937 to rein in the deficit prolonged the Great Depression. These warnings may also help prolong the economic slump because they are based on faulty history. (more)

Who’s running the Tea Party? As with most questions debated by its activists, there is no consensus. Members of the cross-country network of conservative grassroots groups will say only that they shun formal leadership. (more)

More than 60 Tea Party leaders from across the country — originating from more than two dozen states — gathered over the weekend in Washington, D.C., to develop 2010 midterm plans at a leadership summit hosted by former Republican Rep. Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks. (more)

JAIPUR, India (AP) — A London-based environmental campaigner traveling around the world in a biofuel-driven bus was released on bail in western India on Monday after being arrested last week for illegally using a satellite phone, his lawyer said. (more)

LONDON (AP) — A London-based environmental campaigner traveling around the world in a biofuel-driven bus has been arrested in India on terrorism-related charges, his family and Italian officials said Sunday. (more)