Quake Jolts Chile; Hawaii Sees Tsunami  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — A deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, collapsing buildings, shattering major bridges and highways across a long strip of the country, and sending tsunami warnings along the Pacific basin.  —  Multimedia

Liberalism, atheism linked to IQ  —  (CNN) — Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a new study finds.  —  Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ …

Transformation — By: Andy McCarthy  —  On Sean's panel last night, when the conversation turned to how nervous Democrats supposedly are over what for now is teeing up like a very bad November, I felt like I was channeling Mark Steyn, Mark Levin and Rush.  That is, I think our side is analyzing …

A Kennedy considers running for House seat  —  With speculation mounting that US Representative William D. Delahunt will not seek reelection, Joseph P. Kennedy III, son of the former congressman and great-grandson of the Kennedy family patriarch, is eyeing a run to succeed …

Pelosi Struggles to Corral Votes for Health Care Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The future of President Obama's health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats in the House of Representatives — abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives — whose indecision signals …

Crist says he would not scrap Dem health care reform, can't identify part worth keeping  —  Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, told The Palm Beach Post editorial board on Friday that, unlike many Republicans in Washington, he didn't think President Obama should scrap his health care reform proposal:

To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case  —  ATLANTA — For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state's largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions.  But, staff members said …

President LeBron  —  Jon Chait was so in awe of Obama's commanding awesomeness that he described the healthcare summit as follows: … Hmm - let's watch that dunk again on videotape!  The AP Fact Check ran the transcript and concluded that both Obama and Alexander were correct but misleading.

Coburn warns against majority-vote tactic in weekly Republican address  —  Should Democrats use the budget reconciliation process to pass healthcare reform, it would fly in the face of public opinion, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in the Republicans' weekly address.

Man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ‘at centre of hedge funds plot to cash in on fall of the euro’  —  A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.  —  Representatives of George Soros's investment business …

A fundraiser as social secretary  —  The promotion of Julianna Smoot to White House Social Secretary is good news for wealthy donors to President Obama's campaign, for whom Smoot — the chief campaign fundraiser — is friend and point of contact.  —  Smoot, who had been working …