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(TrendHunter.com) The always fashionable new First Lady, Michelle Obama, shined in a striking black and red dress at the Barack Obama victory speech on Nov. 4. That dress has now been identified as a Spring 2009 Narciso…

A slugfest for nearly two years, Minnesota's U.S. Senate race headed into a new round Wednesday as the campaigns girded for an automatic statewide recount to determine whether Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's bare lead over Democratic challenger Al Franken would stand. Coleman declared himself the winner of Tuesday's election, but Franken said he would let the recount play out, hoping it would erase the incumbent's 475-vote lead out of nearly 2.9 million ballots.

Taylor Swift is opening up for the first time about her breakup with Joe Jonas – and she's even singing about it on her new album. "[It's] a song about watching somebody completely fade away in a relationship and wondering what you did wrong," Swift, 18, tells PEOPLE about "Forever and Always," the track inspired by her October split with Jonas, 19. The song appears on her new album Fearless, due Nov. 11.

Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park" and other thrillers, dies at age 66.

Before resting from the grueling presidential race, John McCain began discussing with senior aides what role he will play in the Senate now that he has promised to work with the man who defeated him for president.

by Claudine Zap

Obama's victory may have signaled the end for the 2008 Republican ticket. But for the 44-year-old VP candidate Sarah Palin, the rise of her journey into national politics has only just begun. The addition of the first Republican woman candidate for vice president was historic. It delivered a jolt of energy to John McCain's sagging campaign and revived the dispirited Republican base.

Yesterday, California voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 2, a historic move that brings animals legal rights in the land of factory farming. Prop 2 guarantees farm animals improvements in their current large scale farm conditions, requiring farmers give them space to turn around, spread their wings, stand up and lie down.

While these are only slight moves to better the well being of farm animals, the Prop 2 victory is historic.

California's Proposition 8, which amends the state's Constitution to overturn a previous state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage, was too close to call earlier Wednesday. Now, it appears to have passed -- among others, the Associated Press has called it for the proposition's backers. With 96 percent of precincts in, the "yes" votes were leading 52.2-47.8.

For same-sex couples, the roller coaster ride for the right to marry shifted Wednesday from the rough and tumble of a political campaign back to the California Supreme Court.

It's official. Ron Prince has been fired as Kansas State's head football coach, the K-State department of athletics announced in a release just after 3 p.m. GoPowercat.com reported Prince's resignation through multiple sources just after 1 p.m. Wednesday. Athletics Director Bob Krause, Deputy Athletics Director Jim Epps and head coach Ron Prince will speak to the media via teleconference at 4 p.m