The TW&E History Book

• Nov. 11, 1620—Fourty-one Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sign the Mayflower Compact, setting forth the type of government they will live under in America.
• Nov. 13, 1979—In a televised address, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan announces he's running for president.
• Nov. 13, 1998—President Bill Clinton pays former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones $850,000 to settle a sexual harrassment suit. The suit related to an alleged incident in 1991 when Clinton was governor of Arkansas.

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Praying for the persecuted church

• Sunday (Nov. 13) is the 16th annual observance of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
• Godfrey Yogarajah, based in Sri Lanka, is the executive director of the Religious Liberty Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance.

At the movies

• WORLD News Group film reviewer Megan Basham says In Time is interesting as a science fiction concept—but dull as a political allegory. Her review is here.

The last U.S. veteran from World War I

Remembering Family Circus creator Bil Keane

• The Washington Post covered the re-opening of the D.C. World War I Memorial
• Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. vet from World War I, died Februrary 27, 2011.
• The Associated Press reported on the death of Bil Keane at age 89.

Iran working on nuclear weapon?

Debt woes topple governments in Italy and Greece

The debt-reduction Super Committee seems to be making little or no progress

• The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran appears to be developing a nuclear weapon as reported here by the Associated Press.
• Reporter Warren Cole Smith covers the economy and the markets for WORLD News Group.
• Linda Kenyon is a Capitol Hill reporter for SRN News.

Wounded Warriors

• Read more about U.S. Marine Capt. Ryan Voltin.

The Census Bureau releases a 'supplemental poverty measure'

• The Bureau says its new measurement is "intended to better reflect contemporary social and economic realities and government policy effects and thus provide a further understanding of economic conditions and trends."
• Robert Rector is a Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C.

Election Roundup

• Read WORLD News Group's coverage of the defeat of the Mississippi personhood initiative.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on the reining in the federal judiciary

• This is the latest installment in our series, "Let the Candidate Speak," focusing on presentations by candidates running for the GOP presidential nomination.
• Listen to our earlier segments with Georgia businessman Herman Cain and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

D.C. Circuit upholds Obamacare

Michael Jackson's doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter

More evidence shredded in Kansas Planned Parenthood case

Presidential politics

• Read "Shredded Again," WORLD News Group's latest coverage of the Planned Parenthood investigation in Kansas.