* CIA publishes new informational brochure, “How to Tell if You’re Involved in the Petraeus Scandal.” * Handy flowchart guide to the Petraeus affair. * In Texas, 77,000 sign petition to secede from the union. * France's Hollande now bringing in a massive corporate tax rebate, warning the state will
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* U.S. to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017. * Overview of what's happening at the BBC. * Newspaper reactions from 1909 when the English Channel was crossed in an aircraft for the very first time. * Berlusconi's latest showgirl gunning for
* Two weeks after Sandy, pockets of misery. * For those displaced by war, refugee camps are a recurring way of life—and worry for the young is constant. * What could save us from the fiscal cliff: Mitt Romney's plan to limit overall tax deductions. * Q&A with Al
* Fuel-efficiency rules and fracking will make the U.S. the world's largest oil exporter by 2020. * Horrific images from Syria in ruins—a reminder of how the civil war's brutality is worsening in places. * Another way to support Sandy victims: Donate your vacation time. * With
* During Sandy, 15 inmates escaped from a New Jersey halfway house when the power went down and the doors unlocked. * Ex-members of the Sri Lankan rebel army turn to garment factories for employment. * Large explosion damages 20 homes in Indianapolis neighborhood. * The saga of a man accused of murdering
* The world can't have a Nate Silver. * Ready in case of a president-elect, Romney's full Secret Service detail quietly departed after his concession. * SEAL Team Six reprimanded for revealing classified information to video-game makers. * The man boycotting all Democrats listens to Oingo Boingo because
* Obama's reelection all but guarantees healthcare legislation will survive, but disinformation needs to be corrected. * How two brothers busted a brutish Philly union and shifted decades of power—thanks in part to few viral videos. * Foxconn considers opening U.S. factories owing to rising labor costs in China.
* Hours after winning reelection, the president phoned Congressional Republicans to begin the haul back from the fiscal cliff. * The fiscal cliff explained in three scenarios. * Fascinating: Why the first debate went so badly for Obama and how the campaign regained its footing. * Obama's mandate. * Also on the agenda
* Dem super-majority in California is a message to the GOP: What's broken will be fixed, demographics are changing. * Get to know the female senators and representatives. * Openly gay senator, Hindu in congress, demographic change in the Malia Generation aren't a problem, but an inevitability. * As
