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Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., took aim at Mitt Romney’s comments that he lost the presidential race because of the “gifts” that President Barack Obama gave to black, Hispanic and young voters, saying at the Republican Governors Association meeting that the party’s future depended on expunging the belief that Republicans are not committed to policies that benefit “every American who wants to pursue the American dream - period.”

Dana Leland, 29, of Central Falls, R.I., has pleaded innocent in Attleboro, Mass., to counterfeiting charges over allegations that he used fake $100 bills, featuring a picture of President Abraham Lincoln instead of Benjamin Franklin, to make purchases at a Target store.

Louise Erdrich, 58, took home the National Book Award for fiction for her novel, The Round House, and the New Yorker’s Katherine Boo won the nonfiction prize for her debut work, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers.

Dave Bing, mayor of Detroit, announced that the Frederick Douglass Homes, a now-vacant housing project that once was home to the Supremes before the talented trio struck gold with Motown, will be demolished.

Sen. Tom Coburn, ROkla., says in a new report that defense spending could be cut by $68 billion over 10 years if the military stopped spending millions on running grocery stores, operating its own schools and even developing a roll-up version of beef jerky.

David Cooper, 26, has been sentenced in Fort Worth to 10 years’ probation for trying to claim squatter’s rights on a house - unoccupied because a family member was undergoing cancer treatment in Houston - using the state’s “adverse possession” law.

Frank Fuchs, 51, of Cedar Hill, Mo., has been sentenced to three years in prison for hiding a video camera in the ceiling of a grocery store’s women’s restroom.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/16/2012

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