The Emerging Offer  —  It hasn't been announced, and you won't hear about it today, but the final volley of the fiscal impasse, at least for House Republicans, is already being brokered.  And according to my top sources — both members and senior aides — it won't end with a clean CR, or with a sprawling, 2011-style budget agreement.

GOP House can't claim to speak for America  —  Editor's note: Tom Mann is a senior in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and the W. Averell Harriman Chair.  His most recent book, co-authored with Norman Ornstein and now out in paperback, is “It's Even Worse Than It Looks …

Dems plan discharge petition to force vote on ending shutdown  —  House Democratic leaders will begin circulating a discharge petition Friday in hopes of forcing a vote on a “clean” spending bill.  —  GOP leaders have so far refused to stage a vote on the Senate-passed continuing resolution …

Priests threatened with arrest if they minister to military during shutdown  —  In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown.  —  “With the government shutdown …

Angola 3 member Herman Wallace died quietly in his sleep, friends say  —  New Orleans native, former Black Panther and member of the Angola Three Herman Wallace died Thursday night because of complications from liver cancer, friends and counsel confirmed Friday morning.

Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Haven't Signed Up for Obamacare, Says His Father  —  An exclusive Reason.com interview with Bill Henderson.  —  Chad Henderson is the media's poster boy for Obamacare.  Reporters struggled this week to find individuals who said they had been able …

Tea Party's Ross Says Debt Worth Yielding on Obamacare  —  U.S. Representative Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, said he would support a broad spending deal that didn't include changes to the health-care law, becoming the first Tea Party-backed House lawmaker to publicly back off the fight …

Man Found With Burns on Nat'l Mall in Critical Condition  —  The man may have set himself on fire, police said.  —  Park Police officials tell NBC Washington a man may have set himself on fire at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon.  —  The incident was reported around 4:30 p.m …

Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity  —  Secret servers and a privileged position on the internet's backbone used to identify users and attack target computers  —  The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency.

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’  —  The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.  The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Letterman to Stay at CBS Through 2015  —  CBS announced on Friday that it had extended the contract of David Letterman to continue as the network's late-night star through 2015.  —  The deal offered no indication that this would be Mr. Letterman's last contract with the network …

Iran gets senior seat on UN nuclear disarmament committee  —  Israeli officials, Jewish groups assail decision; duties to include relaying disarmament information and reports.  —  NEW YORK - Hours after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu railed against Iran's nuclear program …