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Campaigning in Virginia, Obama Presses Fight for Women's Vote

New York Times
32 minutes ago
Written by
Michael Shear
FAIRFAX, Va. - President Obama reached out to female voters in this battleground state on Friday, saying that Mitt Romney would “turn back the clock” on women's rights and accusing him of developing “Romnesia” by conveniently forgetting his most ...
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Blast in Beirut Is Seen as an Extension of Syria's War

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
BEIRUT, Lebanon - A powerful bomb devastated a Christian neighborhood of this capital city of Lebanon on Friday, killing an intelligence official long viewed as an enemy by neighboring Syria and unnerving a nation as Syria's sectarian-fueled civil war ...
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Man Is Charged With Plotting to Bomb Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan

New York Times - ‎Oct 17, 2012‎
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man with conspiring to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, saying he tried to remotely detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb in a van he parked outside the ...
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Zito Subdues Cardinals and Gives Giants Hope for Another Comeback

New York Times - ‎28 minutes ago‎
ST. LOUIS - The San Francisco Giants have secured another two days to dream and a plane ticket home, where they will hope to conjure more of the magic that brought them here in the first place.
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Romney: Obama Focuses on 'Smaller and Smaller Things'

Wall Street Journal (blog) - ‎27 minutes ago‎
By Colleen McCain Nelson. Mitt Romney said Friday he has big, bold ideas for the country but that President Barack Obama increasingly appears to be focused on minutiae.
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As NECC is sued, meningitis outbreak's patient zero is autopsied

Los Angeles Times
3 hours ago
Written by
Amina Khan
A CDC laboratory scientist studies the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with suspected fungal meningitis. The CDC is investigating the multiple-state outbreak of a rare form of fungal meningitis that has left at least 21 people dead.
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UN-AL envoy pushes temporary cease-fire in Syria

Xinhua - ‎2 hours ago‎
DAMASCUS, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- UN-Arab League (AL) joint special representative Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Damascus on Friday, continuing his bid to secure a cease-fire in Syria during the upcoming Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha holiday.
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China's naval exercises in East China Sea send warning to regional rivals

Christian Science Monitor
15 hours ago
Written by
Ariel Zirulnick
China's naval exercises in East China Sea send warning to regional rivals. Chinese naval exercises today simulated a conflict in disputed waters.
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1 Pr. George's officer acquitted, one convicted in U-Md. beating case

Washington Post - ‎7 minutes ago‎
One of the two Prince George's County police officers shown on video beating an unarmed University of Maryland student after a raucous basketball postgame celebration was acquitted Friday night of all charges against him.
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Judge: Zimmerman Defense Can See Martin Records

ABC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
A judge ruled Friday that attorneys for a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer can inspect the school records and social media postings of the unarmed teenager he is accused of murdering.
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Shares Fall as Earnings Disappoint on Wall St.

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
General Electric and McDonald's disappointed analysts and sounded cautionary notes about future global economic growth. That came on the heels of weak reports on Thursday from the technology giants Google and Microsoft.
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Shares Fall Sharply as Google Earnings Are Released Early

New York Times - ‎Oct 18, 2012‎
For Google, mobile has been a mixed blessing. Smartphones and tablets are bringing in new users - and the advertisers that follow them - but it makes less money on mobile ads than on desktop ads.
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With Florida race tight, Romney rallies bikers in Daytona Beach

Los Angeles Times
54 minutes ago
Written by
Maeve Reston
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With a new poll showing a neck-and-neck race between Mitt Romney and President Obama here in Florida, the Republican nominee rallied a crowd of thousands at the edge of Daytona Beach on Friday night and promised to ...
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Democratic Money Pours Into 'Super PACs'

New York Times (blog)
2 hours ago
Written by
Nicholas Confessore
Three leading Democratic “super PACs” raised more money in September than in any other month this election cycle, officials said, underscoring the growing willingness of wealthy Democrats to bankroll groups whose existence they had long opposed.
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Salt Lake City paper endorses Obama, lambastes Romney

Boston Globe - ‎25 minutes ago‎
The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed President Obama for reelection Friday, with an editorial that was highly critical of Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who is as close to being a favorite son candidate from Utah, the historic and cultural center of the Church of ...
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Man Aiding GOP Voter Registration Drive Is Charged

New York Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
A Republican Party effort to register voters in advance of next month's presidential election became the focal point of new controversy Friday when the authorities in Virginia charged a voter registration supervisor who had allegedly thrown eight completed ...
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Microsoft already updating Office RT Preview to final version

Ars Technica
2 hours ago
Written by
Peter Bright
Anyone buying a Windows RT tablet—including Microsoft's own Surface tablet—won't have to wait long to get their hands on the final version of Office 2013.
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Apple: Jury foreman comments were 'balanced, not biased'

CNET
15 minutes ago
Written by
Josh Lowensohn
Weeks after Samsung filed paperwork requesting a new trial over objections with a particular juror, a big damages tally, and patent issues, Apple has filed its response.
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Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake Are Married!

E! Online - ‎3 hours ago‎
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are husband and wife! E! News has confirmed that the longtime couple kept us guessing for years, but said arrivederci to singledom today by tying the knot in front of family and close friends at the Borgo Egnazia resort in the ...
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Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 4

California Literary Review - ‎1 hour ago‎
Movie Still: Paranormal Activity 4. © 2012 - Paramount Pictures. Movie Poster: Paranormal Activity 4. Paranormal Activity 4. Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Screenplay by Christopher Landon.
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Some Livestrong supporters want their money back

CNN - ‎58 minutes ago‎
NEW: "We were really hoodwinked," a former Livestrong donor says; NEW: Rabobank cuts its ties to professional cycling after 17 years; "This industry can only survive with big international firms," a cycling team manager says; The sport's governing body is to ...
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Ex-commissioner Paul Tagliabue to hear appeals by players | NFL

The Seattle Times - ‎28 minutes ago‎
Ex-commissioner Paul Tagliabue to hear appeals by players | NFL. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell recused himself from his role overseeing the appeals of four players suspended in the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal.
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NHL cancels games through Nov. 1

Los Angeles Times
1 hour ago
Written by
Helene Elliott
NHL cancels games through Nov. 1. The league extends cancellations for a total of 135 games, a day after negotiations between the NHL and the players' association broke down.
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Defensive Problems Clear in Nets' Loss

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
The preseason calendar is shrinking, the tuneups growing more critical, and ever more revealing. The Nets may be a long way from establishing a firm identity, but it is coming into focus.
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Sprint Cup drivers go 'crazy' fast

FOXSports.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
With the new, smooth surface of Kansas Speedway, all 43 NASCAR Sprint Cup competitors obliterated the previous qualifying track record of 180.856 mph on Friday.
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Mars rover starts 'to eat dirt'

BBC News - ‎18 hours ago‎
Nasa's Curiosity rover has ingested its first Martian soil sample. The robot has taken a pinch of dust into the CheMin instrument, one of its two big onboard analytical tools.
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Galaxy study finds unexpected patterns

UPI.com - ‎4 hours ago‎
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 19 (UPI) -- A study of hundreds of galaxies found an unexpected pattern of change going back 8 billion years, more than half the age of the universe, U.S.
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Sunscreen recalled after users catch fire

ABC 4 - ‎13 minutes ago‎
The makers of Banana Boat sunscreen are issuing a recall after concerns some sunscreen sprays could burst into flames. The company is pulling 500,000 bottles of spray off store shelves nationwide.

Moderate weight loss alone doesn't lower heart disease risk in diabetics, study ...

Washington Post - ‎38 minutes ago‎
Losing a small amount of weight doesn't appear to lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people with diabetes who are already getting good medical care, according to a long and expensive clinical experiment whose results were announced Friday.
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Egg freezing works to preserve fertility, new guidelines say

Boston.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
By Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff. Here's good news for women who are thinking about freezing eggs from their ovaries because they're not ready to have a baby -- and are worried that they'll be too old when they are -- or are undergoing chemotherapy or ...

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