Morning Matters

• The Obama administration proposes new financial regulations.
• The Iranian government detains over a hundred opposition leaders as post-election protests rock the country. Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reversed himself and ordered a probe of election fraud allegations.
• Janet Napolitano calls for replacing Real ID with "Pass ID."
• The battle over the pending war funding vote.
• The literary class takes over a newspaper for a day.
• Is Cheney salivating over the prospect of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil?
• More on the D.C. boomtown effect. Plus, Reuters says the best and brightest college grads are increasingly coming to D.C. instead of entering the private sector.
• French high court guts Sarkozy plan to police the Internet.

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