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Francois Hollande, on course to become France's first Socialist president in 24 years, topped a field of national socialists, centrists and communists in that country's elections Sunday. Every poll has predicted that Hollande, 57, will win the May 6 runoff against center-right President Nicolas Sarkozy, who finished second in Sunday's first round. Hollande deftly played to his left by singling out "finance" as his "worst enemy" and pledging to soak the rich with a 75 percent tax on annual earnings over 1 million euros, the Daily Telegraph reported.

As if you needed any more proof that Washington is broke and broken, check out these statistics from the 112th Congress: More than 6,700 bills were proposed, most of them involving some form of spending. Approximately 138 budget reform bills have been introduced. Of those budget reform bills, 132 failed to receive a hearing.

The states 12th public university, Florida Polytechnic University, will take on life this summer over the objections of some legislators, students and officials in the Lakeland area. Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 1994 on Friday, creating the independent school by splitting off the 14-year-old branch campus from the University of South Florida. In a statement with the signing, Scott declared the school will be "vital to our economy in the years to come."

Gil Kerlikowske, the nations drug czar, is scheduled to address the first meeting of the states new Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns on Tuesday in the state Capitol Cabinet meeting room. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kerlikowske, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, would be a special guest at the inaugural meeting of the task force.