Police: Man Who Froze to Death was Living Out of His Car at Palisades Center - Nyack-Piermont, NY Patch

Fort Lee, NJ, man spent days at mall, nights in parking lot.

NationalJournal.com - Browner's Exit Signals Obama's Move to the Center - Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Advocates of climate policy and fossil fuel industry viewed the move as a sign that the White House is a abandoning an aggressive environmental agenda, as Obama seeks to define the second half of his term as more moderate and business-friendly.

“Part of this election was at least a certain segment of the voting public saying, “Mr. President we’re not so sure about your friends. So the night before the State of the Union, when the president is trying to patch it up with some of the American people, the coincidence of saying, “This is one of the friends that I’m going to jettison” – I don’t think anyone could define this kind of announcement … as a quiet breakup,” said a senior House Democratic aide who was closely involved in the energy and climate negotiations. “This is about creating a second chapter. They could have chosen someone who dealt with health care or financial reform as a sacrificial lamb but this is what they chose. This is very much like the second chapter of the Clinton presidency.”

Record-Low Temperatures Grip Eastern Canada

A record-breaking cold snap has gripped east and central Canada with temperatures dipping as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius.