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It was raining lightly,two hours after sunset, and Trayvon began to follow the man who had been following him for the last 10 minutes. The man appeared to be some sort of watchman or rent-a-cop. The watchman, now known to be George Zimmerman lost sight of Trayvon for a moment. Trayvon appears in front of George with an angry expression, demanding to know why he was being tracked and talked about in a radio-phone. Trayvon decided to end their short discussion with a slamming punch to George's face, breaking his nose, and knocking him down onto the wet manicured lawn....

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration named Holly Petraeus--wife of retired Gen. David Patraeus, who resigned last week as CIA director after revealing he had had an extramarital affair--to a $187,605-per-yer job in the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB, created by the Dodd-Frank law, was placed by that law under the umbrella of the Federal Reserve. The funding of the CFBP, which comes from the Federal Reserve, is not subject to congressional oversight. Mrs. Petraeus became a member of the CFPB Implementation Team on Jan. 12, 2011. She is now the assistant director for the Office of...