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| Obama hits Romney for ‘cradle-to-grave tax hikes and fees’ Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 01:18 PM PDT NASHUA, N.H. â€" Mocking Mitt Romney's vow to bring "big change" to Washington, President Barack Obama charged at a campaign rally here Saturday that his Republican rival was actually offering a "big re-run" of George W. Bush's policies. The embattled incumbent also hit Romney's record as governor of nearby Massachusetts, accusing him of imposing "cradle-to-grave [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sandy: East Coast braces for epic hurricane, ‘life-threatening’ storm surge Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 07:25 AM PDT [UPDATED: 3:00 p.m. ET] "Superstorm." "The Perfect Storm." "Frankenstorm." Whatever you want to call it, the East Coast is bracing for Hurricane Sandy, a "rare hybrid storm" that is expected to bring a life-threatening storm surge to the mid-Atlantic coast, Long Island Sound and New York harbor, forecasters say, with winds expected to be at [...] Full Story | Top |
| Des Moines Register backs Mitt Romney Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 05:37 PM PDT LAND O'LAKES, Fla.â€"Mitt Romney won a major newspaper endorsement on Saturday, as the Des Moines Register's editorial board formally backed the GOP candidate's bid for the presidency. It was the first time in 40 years the influential battleground state paper endorsed a Republican in the general election, dating back to its support of Richard Nixon [...] Full Story | Top |
| Biden Flubs VA Senate Candidate Tim Kaine's Name Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 05:38 PM PDT LYNCHBURG, Va. â€" Vice President Joe Biden mixed up the name of the Democratic Senate candidate in Virginia today, calling him by the wrong first name not once, but twice. “I want to tell you, it’s good to be in a state that’s going to... Full Story | Top |
| Marines, police prep for mock zombie invasion Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 02:38 PM PDT  Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special ops, soldiers, police, firefighters and others to prepare them for their worst nightmares. Full Story | Top |
| Insurers nervous over prospect of a Romney victory Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 04:58 AM PDT Health insurance industry dislikes 'Obamacare,' but finds the prospect of its repeal unnerving Full Story | Top |
| Madonna booed after touting Obama in La. Concert Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 01:28 AM PDT  Madonna drew boos and triggered a walkout by several concertgoers after she touted President Barack Obama on her "MDNA Tour" in New Orleans. Full Story | Top |
| Rubio drops off Romney bus after daughter’s car accident Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 04:33 PM PDT LAKEWOOD CREST, Fla.â€"Florida Sen. Marco Rubio abruptly dropped off Mitt Romney's campaign bus just east of Tampa Saturday evening after word that his 12-year-old daughter had been injured in a car accident in Miami and airlifted to a local hospital. According to his office, Rubio, who had been campaigning with Romney in Florida today, was [...] Full Story | Top |
| October storm scrambles presidential contest Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 02:11 AM PDT  Scrambling to avoid the superstorm that threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of Americans up and down the East Coast, Republican Mitt Romney is returning to battleground Ohio to fight for momentum nine days before the election. Full Story | Top |
| Advantage Obama in hunt for 270 electoral votes Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 09:37 AM PDT  President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt Romney's attempts to convert momentum from the debates into support in all-important Ohio, according to an Associated Press analysis a week before Election Day. Full Story | Top |
| Rubio's daughter in fair condition after accident Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 08:19 PM PDT  The 12-year-old daughter of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was in fair condition Saturday evening at Miami Children's Hospital after she was airlifted there following a golf-cart accident in a gated community, the senator's office said. Full Story | Top |
| Romney calls for cooperation in Florida Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 05:31 PM PDT  With the election 10 days away, Mitt Romney is calling for more partisan cooperation in Washington as he rallies supporters in Florida. Full Story | Top |
| Superstorm could impact 60 million people in US; coastal residents told to get out of the way Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 11:43 PM PDT SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. - Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way. Full Story | Top |
| Close race makes up for waning zeal in expat vote Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 02:38 AM PDT  BERLIN (Reuters) - With the presidential election too close to call, hundreds of thousands of Americans living in Europe have been posting their absentee ballots with a sense that they could truly make a difference on November 6. From Berlin to Paris and London to Madrid, they have closely tracked the battle between Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, though the emotional temperature is several degrees lower than four years ago, when most expats rallied behind Obama after two terms of George W. Bush, whom many thought had tarnished the U.S. image abroad. ... Full Story | Top |
| Romney woos Florida early vote; Obama eyes NH Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 08:11 PM PDT  Juggling politics and storm preparations, Mitt Romney dangled a plea for bipartisanship before early voters in Florida on Saturday as Barack Obama worked to nail down tiny New Hampshire's four electoral votes. Both campaigns scrambled to steer clear of a most unlikely October surprise, a superstorm barreling up the East Coast. Full Story | Top |
| Blood and Astronaut Pee: Creepy Cargo Returns to Earth on SpaceX Capsule Today Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 12:25 AM PDT  A privately built spacecraft will carry some extra creepy cargo back to Earth from the International Space Station Sunday (Oct. 28): astronaut blood and urine. Full Story | Top |
| Holy pop! Obama's campaign snazzes up its slogan Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 02:50 PM PDT  President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is getting a boost! Full Story | Top |
| 'Frankenstorm': Worse than sum of its parts Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 08:41 AM PDT  The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much more than just an ordinary weather system. It's a freakish and unprecedented monster. Full Story | Top |
| Economic hardship argument is tough sell for Ryan in Ohio Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 04:15 PM PDT NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told an Ohio rally on Saturday about a friend's financial hardship, but his party's narrative that President Barack Obama has failed on the U.S. economy may be a difficult sell in the crucial battleground state. "I've got a buddy who was making 25 (dollars) an hour who went to make 9 dollars an hour as a cashier at a gas station temporarily with no benefits. That's the story of the American economy right now," Ryan told a crowd of 1,000 people at an excavator factory. ... Full Story | Top |
| Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off Canadian coast Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 08:32 AM PDT  A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed. Full Story | Top |
| Ryan: Obama hasn't made case he deserves new term Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 04:31 PM PDT  Starting a two-day bus tour of Ohio's small towns and cities, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan told voters Saturday that President Barack Obama hasn't made the case he deserves a second term. Full Story | Top |
| Biden: GOP ticket counting on voter 'amnesia' Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 06:39 PM PDT  Vice President Joe Biden says Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are fleeing from their record to appear more moderate than they are. Full Story | Top |
| Woman set on fire during C-section loses suit against doctor: report Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 01:57 PM PDT (Reuters) - A New York jury has ruled that an obstetrician is not liable for his former patient's abdomen catching fire during a Caesarean section in an incident that left her with a third-degree burn, a newspaper reported on Saturday. The Post-Standard of Syracuse said a jury in Onondaga County state Supreme Court decided the case on Thursday in favor of Dr. Stephen Brown regarding the 2010 surgery at Crouse Hospital. The fire was the result of a surgical tool igniting an alcohol-based antiseptic applied to the patient's skin, the newspaper said. ... Full Story | Top |
| US superstorm threat launches mass evacuations Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 01:28 AM PDT  Residents up and down the East Coast are being urged to move inland ahead of a potentially huge storm formed by the merging of Hurricane Sandy with two wintry weather systems. Full Story | Top |
| Supreme Court weighs new look at voting rights law Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 05:03 AM PDT Supreme Court to decide whether to take a new look at key part of landmark voting rights law Full Story | Top |
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