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The Florida man arrested after he was caught masturbating in the toy aisle of a Walmart with the aid of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has cut a plea deal that bars him from future visits to the retail giant “or any store where children’s toys are sold,” court records show. (more)

There was a time when, under the Cuban constitution, citizens were allowed to petition the National Assembly for formation of new political parties. In 1981, Andres J. Solares took advantage of his constitutional rights and began gathering signatures for formation of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. (more)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama-Auburn has always been one of the most storied rivalries in college football, in a class with Ohio State-Michigan, Texas-Oklahoma and Florida-Georgia as the best in the country. (more)

John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston are parents to son Benjamin, who was born Tuesday in a Florida hospital. (more)

The 925 ballots for the 2010 Heisman Trophy were mailed Monday from New York. The voters, mostly journalists, have until Dec. 6 to return the ballot, although in recent years the vast majority have been submitted online. (more)

Andrew Davis, [the ex-governor's] adviser, saw the Palins off, and I met him for coffee later that morning in Midtown Manhattan. Davis is a personable and quick-witted 33-year-old Massachusetts native who was a deputy campaign manager for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in 2004 and later an opposition researcher for the Republican National Committee before working with Palin at the close of the 2008 campaign. He’s nonetheless low-profile in the extreme, like all of Palin’s senior associates. (The New York Times Magazine’s photo editors had been trying to find an image of Davis; he assured me that they would not succeed.) Davis and his colleagues recognize that the issue of trust informs Sarah Palin’s every dealing with the world beyond Wasilla since her circular-firing-squad experience at the close of the 2008 presidential campaign. Her inner circle shuns the media and would speak to me only after Palin authorized it, a process that took months. They are content to labor in a world without hierarchy or even job descriptions — “None of us has titles,” Davis said — and where the adhesive is a personal devotion to Palin rather than the furtherance of her political career. (more)

PHILADELPHIA — Expectations seemed impossibly high for Roy Halladay in 2010. (more)

LAND O’LAKES, Florida — Casting for an all-nude reality TV show in Florida is scheduled to get under way and will be streamed live on the Internet. (more)

AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn quarterback Cam Newton has been stalked by news reports that his father shopped him to Mississippi State, asking for money for his son to play football. The rumors seemed to be everywhere over the past two weeks, except inside Jordan-Hare Stadium. (more)

This Cameron Newton story has legs, lots and lots of legs — and it’s sprouting more every day. With any luck, it will run off and lead everyone on a merry chase that ends badly. (more)

In the constellation of new GOP stars, none shine brighter than Marco Rubio. (more)

The redemptive narrative of Auburn quarterback Cam Newton, the front-runner for the Heisman Trophy, has taken another turn. (more)

With the 2010 midterm elections behind us, the focus has turned to the new class of Republican leaders that were swept into office. Several have already been labeled as future stars of the party. Among them are Senator-elect Marco Rubio of Florida, Congresswoman-elect Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Governor-elect Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Senator-elect Rob Portman of Ohio, and Governor-elect Brian Sandoval of Nevada. These names have been floated as potential presidential and vice presidential candidates in the coming years. Here is a look at several other newly elected officeholders who have the potential be stars for the GOP: (more)

HARRISBURG – At 5:30 p.m. on Election Day, you could catch him live on Hardball With Chris Matthews on MSNBC. (more)

GAINESVILLE — Florida’s Chas Henry has heard the fuss about the choke sign Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham made at him Saturday. And the Gators punter-turned-kicker thinks it’s “ridiculous.” (more)

Trent Lott, the former senate majority leader from Mississippi, made news last summer when he said this of incoming tea party-backed senators: “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” Lott’s words have since been held up as evidence that the Republican establishment in Washington is corrupt and out of touch – as case made most recently by Sen. Jim DeMint, in a widely-read op-ed that ran in Wednesday’s Wall St. Journal. (more)

Kentucky’s new Senator-elect Rand Paul is already questioning whether establishment Republicans will take him and his fellow Tea Partiers seriously. (more)

It looks like Tiger Woods has one less problem to worry about. (more)

This election season, the conservative women’s group, The Kitchen Cabinet, has announced that it will have representatives in all fifty states monitoring the elections Tuesday to ensure a fair process. (more)

Florida’s Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is accepting support from former President Bill Clinton at a Monday rally, even after Clinton tried to talk Meek into dropping out of the three-way race to give independent candidate Governor Charlie Crist a chance to beat GOP nominee Marco Rubio. (more)