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Top Talkers: Senate Republicans delayed a vote on defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel when they didn't give him the 60 votes needed. The Morning Joe panel – including the Council on Foreign Relations' Richard Haass, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell and fmr. Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., -- discusses the ongoing battle to get Hagel confirmed. (Morning Joe)

The Boy Scouts of America are putting off a change in their policy on admitting gay scouts and leaders. The organization's board of directors will take up the issue again later this year. NBC's Pete Williams reports. (Nightly News)

The Boy Scouts of America delays until May a vote on whether to end a ban on gay members NBC's Jay Gray reports. (NBC News)

Violence erupts near the site of Enrique Pena Nieto's presidential inauguration in Mexico City. Telemundo's Jose Diaz-Balart reports. (msnbc)

After a lengthy delay, President Barack Obama has collected Florida's 29 electoral votes. NBC's Kerry Sander reports. (Nightly News)

NBC's John Yang explains why voting in the crucial battleground state of Ohio may end up delaying the presidential election results. (msnbc)

House Speaker John Boehner said Congress will tackle the farm bill at the end of year. When the current law expires in 10 days, there will be a lapse in farm subsidies, loans and insurance programs. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. (Nightly News)

A cockpit recording details a 7-hour JetBlue flight delay at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Conn., where overflowing toilets and no water were just part of the nightmare. NBC's Tom Costello reports. (TODAY)

The weather forecast for Friday for the stretch of Southern Florida they call the "Space Coast" is not looking very promising. NBC's Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, along with his attorney Dick DeGuerin, say that his recent criminal conviction was more about politics than proof that he had a hand in money laundering. (TODAY show)