PM BRIEF: NOVEMBER 8, 2010

1. Spill panel: Risks taken, bad calls made before rig blast. [MSNBC]
2. Is Cantor only semi-serious about closing the budget gap? [The Washington Examiner]
3. Haiti cholera death toll reaches 544. [BBC News]
4. JFK's election: On 50th anniversary, never-seen photos emerge. [The Atlantic]

5. The Flash Crash, in miniature. [The New York Times]
6. Gov. George Pataki 'looking at' run for President; Peekskill 'twice the size of Wasilla'. [ABC News]
7. Connecticut home invasion: Jury chooses death penalty for Steven Hayes. [CBS News]
8. Smoking chimp rescued in Lebanon, sent to Brazil. [Associated Press]