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Romney: 'Hope is not a strategy'

Detroit Free Press - ‎39 minutes ago‎
by Gregory Korte, USA TODAY by Gregory Korte, USA TODAY LEXINGTON, Va. -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney attacked President Obama on Monday for being too passive on the world stage and ceding American leadership to others.
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Reports: Sandusky denies 'false allegations' on eve of sentencing

Boston.com - ‎59 minutes ago‎
By Jeremy Roebuck and Jeff Gammage, Philadelphia Inquirer BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Defiant and unrepentant, Jerry Sandusky accused his victims of lodging "false allegations" against him in a taped jailhouse statement aired by a local radio station one day ...
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Libya Cable Detailed Threats

Daily Beast - ‎22 hours ago‎
In a dispatch sent the day he was killed, Ambassador Christopher Stevens described how the militias keeping the peace in Benghazi threatened to quit over a political feud.
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Cardinals rock Nationals in Game 2 to even series

USA TODAY - ‎1 hour ago‎
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Obama dedicates Cesar E. Chavez National Monument

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
President Obama on Monday officially dedicated the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in the Central Valley where the farmworker labor movement took place.
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Victory Tightens Chávez Grip on Power

Wall Street Journal - ‎33 minutes ago‎
By JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA And SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ Rodrigo Abd/AP A mural depicting Mr. Chávez in Caracas on Monday. The president called Sunday's election 'a perfect democratic battle,' but critics say his control of petrodollars let him sway voters.
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Huawei Labeled Cyberspying Threat Faces U.S. Phone-Gear Lockout

Bloomberg - ‎22 minutes ago‎
Play War of Words Over US Chinese Spying Warnings Huawei Technologies Co., which has been shut out from a series of US deals, will have fewer options to win American business after a House committee said the phone-equipment maker may enable Chinese ...
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Fall of rebel stronghold could hasten Syrian ceasefire

Irish Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
THE LIKELY fall of the rebel stronghold in Homs and the suggestion that Turkey and the expatriate opposition could compromise on a transitional regime could be game changers in Syria and encourage UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to press for a ...
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Lengthy review possible at damaged Cal nuke plant

Union Democrat - ‎1 hour ago‎
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. (AP) -- Federal regulators disclosed Monday that the proposed restart of the long-shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California could lead to an exhaustive review that might last months or ...
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Dual prayer events to be held for Jessica Ridgeway in Superior, Westminster on ...

Daily Camera - ‎41 minutes ago‎
By John Aguilar, Camera Staff Writer A Louisville pastor has organized dual prayer gatherings in Superior and Westminster for missing 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway at 7 pm Tuesday.
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IMF cuts global growth forecasts

Financial Times - ‎21 minutes ago‎
By Claire Jones in Tokyo The failure of US and eurozone policy makers to tackle their fiscal woes is threatening an already “slow and bumpy” global economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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California gasoline prices set to plunge as spike ends

Reuters - ‎28 minutes ago‎
By Braden Reddall and Erwin Seba | SAN FRANCISCO/HOUSTON (Reuters) - The unprecedented price spike that added more than 50 cents a gallon to California pump prices last week ended as quickly as it began, market analysts said, and consumers should see ...
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Katy Perry dons an Obama manicure for fundraiser [Poll]

Los Angeles Times
3 hours ago
Written by
Christie D'Zurilla
Katy Perry had her hands full of President Obama at a Los Angeles fundraiser Sunday night. "Today I am so honored to play for the President!
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Paul Ryan Courts Veterans in Ohio

Fox News (blog) - ‎2 hours ago‎
by Joy Lin | October 08, 2012 SWANTON, Ohio -- With just 29 days to go until election day, Paul Ryan is trying to shore up every possible military vote, taking the opportunity in the Toledo area Monday to rebut efforts by President Obama's campaign to ...
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Paul Ryan's mom offers simple debate advice; sister describes goosebumps

Palm Beach Post - ‎18 minutes ago‎
by George Bennett | October 8th, 2012 FORT LAUDERDALE - Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's mother offered some simple advice to her son in advance of Thursday night's debate with Vice President Joe Biden.
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That's a Lot of iPad Minis

DailyFinance - ‎24 minutes ago‎
By Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool An iPad Mini is coming. This is effectively in the bag at this point. Media invites for the event might even go out as soon as this Wednesday, which implies the unveiling taking place a week later.
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Apple backs web development resource site Web Platform Docs

Apple Insider - ‎3 hours ago‎
By Mikey Campbell Web Platform Docs, an online knowledge base dedicated to the Open Web Platform that will one day deliver comprehensive references and tutorials for developers, launched in "alpha form" on Monday, with the initiative supported by ...
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Deadly exploit briefly massacres World of Warcraft

CNET
2 hours ago
Written by
Christopher MacManus
Something goes terribly wrong in the most popular massively multiplayer role-playing game in the world as players fall waste to a megabug.
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Mila Kunis is Esquire's sexiest woman alive

Newsday - ‎1 hour ago‎
Mila Kunis is Esquire's sexiest woman alive Actress Mila Kunis has been named Esquire magazine's "Sexiest Woman Alive 2012," succeeding last year's titleholder, singer Rihanna.
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Why Lena Dunham Totally Deserves a $3.5 Million Book Advance

E! Online - ‎28 minutes ago‎
So Girls creator/star Lena Dunham is getting more than $3 million to write a book? Is that even fair? —Smiles, via Facebook If the book were crafted from the vellum of flying sheep and typeset in ink made from crushed moon rocks, that payday still ...
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Nick Cannon Talks Wife Mariah's 'Idol' Feud, Celebrates Kids Website

Extra (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
“America's Got Talent” host Nick Cannon was joined by wife Mariah Carey and their adorable 1-year-old twins in Santa Monica over the weekend, as he hosted the official launch of Safe Communications Kuboo.
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Redskins Expect Griffin Back Soon

New York Times - ‎58 minutes ago‎
Robert Griffin III felt good enough to attend something called a Rookie Success Program meeting Monday morning and seemed, by all accounts, to be doing just fine on the day after sustaining his first NFL concussion.
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Texans-Jets Preview

Yahoo! Sports - ‎42 minutes ago‎
It's all going according to plan for the Houston Texans, who are enjoying the best start in team history but still see room for improvement.
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Orioles' Comeback Story Is Rewritten

New York Times (blog) - ‎18 minutes ago‎
By ZACH SCHONBRUN BALTIMORE - If the Orioles could have described an ideal setup for deciding Game 1 of their American League division series, based on how their season has gone, it might have looked awfully similar to Sunday night.
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Report: Tiger Woods Apologizes To Rookies After Ryder Cup Loss

Golf Channel - ‎22 minutes ago‎
By Ryan Lavner In the aftermath of the Americans' stunning collapse at Medinah, Tiger Woods spoke privately to the team's rookies - Keegan Bradley, Brandt Snedeker, Webb Simpson and Jason Dufner - and apologized for not earning enough points, ...
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The bedlam at NASCAR's Talladega race: A postscript

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
After the cars came to rest at Talladega Superspeedway following their spectacular crash -- including one car that flipped on its roof -- one of the television announcers said, "The fans loved it [and] the TV audience, but 43 drivers are not too happy.
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Holy Crap, Here's a 100-Million-Year-Old Spider Eating a Wasp

Gizmodo
1 hour ago
Written by
Casey Chan
100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still around, this spider had captured a wasp in his web. The wasp was going to be the spider's dinner.
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Austrian Felix Baumgartner set for skydive record attempt

BBC News - ‎38 minutes ago‎
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Roswell The Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle.
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SpaceX launch problems revealed: Dragon's OK, but satellite goes awry

NBCNews.com (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎
SpaceX video of the Falcon 9 rocket's Oct. 7 ascent shows an engine anomaly at the 1:30 mark in the video, or T+00:01:19. A slow-motion version can be seen here: http://www.
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Stem-Cell Scientists Win Nobel Prize

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
By GAUTAM NAIK John B. Gurdon of the UK and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in so-called cellular reprogramming.
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Meningitis Focus Shifts to Oversight

Wall Street Journal - ‎35 minutes ago‎
By TIMOTHY W. MARTIN, THOMAS M. BURTON and BETSY MCKAY As many as 13000 patients may have been exposed to fungal meningitis from tainted spinal steroid injections, authorities said Monday, as some lawmakers called for bringing certain specialized ...

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