President Barack Obama's first year in the White House is ending with a heavy dose of compromise. To accomplish his other goals, Obama will likely have to keep up the give and take. A sampling of what his 2010 compromises could look like.

Rep. Parker Griffith, a conservative Democratic Congressman from northern Alabama, will announce today that he is switching from the Democratic to the Republican party, Politics Daily has confirmed with senior Democratic aides. The news was first reported by Josh Kraushaar in Politico

Most experts agree that the United States' best opportunity to kill or capture Osama bin Laden came in the earliest days of the U.S.-led response in Afghanistan, when bin Laden fled from Kabul to Jalalabad to Tora Bora. Now, Peter Bergen, the author of "The Osama Bin Laden I Know," has written a definitive account of the U.S.-orchestrated attack on Tora Bora for The New Republic.

The economy grew at a 2.2 percent pace in the third quarter, as the recovery got off to a weaker start than previously thought. But all signs suggest the economy will end the year on stronger footing.

Using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom, scientists now suggest.

The man who inspired the title character in the Oscar-winning movie "Rain Man" has died. Kim Peek was 58. His father, Fran, says Peek had a major heart attack Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray