:: National News ::

• Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control (Reuters)

  Reuters - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.

• Police begin clearing Occupy DC protest site (Reuters)

  Reuters - Police removed bedding and most tents on Saturday at an "Occupy" protest site just blocks from the White House, enforcing a no-camping rule at a public square that has housed protesters for months.

  
  

• Major snowstorm barrels down on Central Plains (Reuters)

  Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.

• Class War 2012: Why Both Parties Are Flying the Anti-Wall Street Banner (Time.com)

  Time.com - Gingrich ended his campaign against Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney's senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason

• Inside Facebook's IPO: How the Social Web Will Reshape the Economy (Time.com)

  Time.com - Facebook's IPO -- the largest in Internet history -- is a once-in-a-generation milestone in the evolution of the web

• Senior Indiana official convicted of perjury, fraud (Reuters)

  Reuters - A jury early on Saturday convicted Indiana's Republican Secretary of State Charlie White on six felony counts including perjury, theft and voter fraud but cleared him on a seventh charge.