WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 -- and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years -- which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat?

State economic forecasters predicted Friday that without additional appropriations, Floridas Medicaid program could begin running a deficit as soon as the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

Incoming Gov. Rick Scott continues to meet with as many legislative members as possible before he takes office in January.

Public Policy Polling, a firm with ties to Democrats, released a poll this week that showed President Barack Obama maintaining a healthy lead in Minnesota over possible Republican candidates.

Derrick Burts, 24, started working as a porn-film actor in June. By October, he'd contracted the HIV virus. The AP story on Burts contained this jaw-dropping sentence: "He said he began to have doubts about the business after contracting chlamydia, gonorrhea and herpes in his first month of work, but was convinced to keep working."

On the second to last day of his "Let's get to work" jobs tour, Gov.-elect Rick Scott spoke with tourism employees and business leaders aboard the Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas cruise ship.

Florida will get at least one, and possibly two, more congressional districts after the U.S. Census data is released, but the state Legislature will decide where those new districts will be drawn on the map.