Archives: October 2012
50 dead, 8.2 million without power,
16,000 flights canceled, over $30 billion in damage…
Rebuilding could boost economy in coming quarters…
Nuclear power plants handled storm better than other parts of grid…
Sandy supercharged by highest ocean temperatures on record off East Coast…
Obama administration crafting new Syrian opposition council…
Why are US troops still stationed in Europe?
PDF: Foreign policy under either Obama or Romney ‘would have a lot in common…’
488,136 absentee ballots mailed but not counted in 2008…
15-min video: Easy ways to steal an election…
Is Romney confident because the GOP is stealing the election?
No: 5 reasons Karl Rove is not going to electronically steal this election…
Disney to buy Lucasfilm, rights to Star Wars for $4 billion…
George Lucas will receive half in cash, half in stock…
Disney vows to make three more Star Wars movies…
Presidential leadership lessons from Lincoln…
‘No American president has ever been as hated as Abraham Lincoln…’
New Spielberg Lincoln film ‘has nothing to do with the current politics…’
14 dead, 6 million without power, 12,000 flights canceled
Sandy fits pattern of more extreme weather attributed to climate change…
Labor Dept plans to release final pre-election jobs report on time Friday…
SnapSheet lost power in Hurricane Sandy and went offline on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
FEMA: ‘The time for preparing and talking is about over…’
NOAA environmental prediction chief:
‘This is the worst-case scenario…’
Google Crisis Center on Hurricane Sandy…
Photos 1-min apart from the New York Times building…
5 reasons Sandy is a superstorm…
SANDY TO HIT EAST COAST TONIGHT…
Ohio governor predicts Romney will win the key state…
Obama has lost independents; signs of defeat ‘too clear to ignore…’
Is the race really down to just Ohio?
Don’t believe any early predictions on the outcome – the race is tight…
Syrian bombardment resumes as ceasefire crumbles…
‘This conflict has now taken a dynamic of its own which should be worrying to everyone…’
Amateur videos appear to show government airstrikes aiming at suburbs…
Only Iran and Iraq are considered riskier investments than Greece…
Greek journalist arrested for revealing names on ‘Lagarde list’ of tax evaders…
Chinese protest new Sinopec chemical plant despite assurances it will be halted…
‘A freakish and unprecedented monster’
threatening 60 million Americans…
Could breach flood walls in Manhattan…
NY, NJ, Connecticut declare states of emergency,
NYC opens 65 shelters in public schools…
Google cancels Nexus 4 smartphone event in New York…
5-day forecast cone, Nat’l Hurricane Center, FEMA prepare page
Romney has a ‘decided leg up’ on Obama…
Romney is a stronger candidate…
Behind the fiscal cliff scare, the economy is improving…
No, it’s actually weaker than it looks…
How long until the recession ends?
Slow growth, worsening budget deficit, low tax receipts…
Bond investors punishing nation
with steepest yield curve on record…
Obama targets young voters on MTV…
Bob Shrum: Why Obama will win…
Rick Wilson: Actually, Obama knows this is over…
Nate Silver: No, Obama is on track to take the Electoral College…
Jennifer Rubin: Really? Then why is he panicking?
Obama/Romney race is all about Ohio’s 18 electoral-college votes…
Obama barely ahead of Romney in Ohio…
Iran filling nuclear bunker with centrifuges…
Iranian public supports government’s nuclear program…
Windows 8 ushers in ‘a new era at Microsoft…’
Unlike systems from Apple and Google, Win 8 was designed for creating content, not just consuming it…
Is anyone impressed? Not really…
Still, with 670 million PCs waiting to be upgraded, it’s too big to fail…
Google’s Android will be used on more devices than Microsoft’s Windows within four years…
Public deserves a White House response to Benghazi…
Ousting pro-Western governments in Egypt and Libya, only to
bring anti-Western Islamic extremists to power, would be
‘a foreign policy disaster of the first magnitude…’
Men and materiel flowing across Libya’s borders…
LIBYAN BLOWBACK FROM US MEDDLING…
‘Frankenstorm’ Sandy could be worst in 100 years to hit Northeast US…
‘Could be a natural disaster for the record books…’
‘Rare mix of three big merging weather systems over a densely populated region…’
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un recalibrating power from military to his regime…
Will the US, S Korea, and China step in when N Korea collapses?
CIA torture whistleblower, John Kiriakou, sentenced to 2.5 years in prison…
‘Kiriakou will be going to jail, while [the torturer] happily enjoys retirement…’
Earth to Obama, Romney: Remember the fiscal cliff?
Not so bad: Likely to slow growth, but not cause recession…
Romney has erased Obama’s lead among women…
Is Romney campaign faking this late-stage poll surge?… No, ‘a clear trend in Romney’s favor…’
6-min video: Romney still faces a ‘narrow road’ to 270 electoral votes…
WikiLeaks to release US DoD docs detailing procedures at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, others…
‘The Detainee Policies’ is more than 100 once-secret files in chronological order since 2002…
Clarified: ‘I did not mean to suggest that God wants rape… I want to assure every woman who hears this and who reads the stories of this [that] I abhor [rape] and that God abhors it…’
Even John McCain pounces on Mourdock’s quote, demands apology…
But Romney stands by endorsement of Mourdock…
Hurricane Sandy a potential super storm for US…
Hits Cuba as a category two hurricane…
White House ‘disposition matrix’ lists kill targets for years to come…
Timeline suggests US only at midpoint of war on terrorism…
Making counterterrorism a permanent part of US policy…
China paying rewards for planned Tibetan self-immolation tip-offs…
Syrian: ‘I don’t support the regime, but
I am crying rivers of blood for my country…’
Syria kills 20 at Aleppo bakery…
Fungus found at pharmacy linked to meningitis outbreak…
Raises questions about oversight of customized drug mixing industry…
308 cases, 23 deaths, 16 states…
Third-party candidate views inserted into third Obama/Romney debate…
90-min video: Third-party debate moderated by Larry King…
Obama, Romney show US to be ‘intellectually adrift’ on foreign policy sea…
As expected, last debate did not shift voting trends…
Obama won final debate, but Romney won overall debate series…
Concluded with ‘a bold bet that boldness was not required…’
R’s final debate plan: Agree with O, move to middle, veer to high unemployment…
Home stretch strategies: Obama as underdog, Romney as inevitable…
Gallup: Romney 51, Obama 46; ABC/WaPo: Romney 49, Obama 48; Ipsos/Reuters: Obama 47, Romney 46…
But Obama favored by only count that matters: electoral college…
Apple unveils thinner, smaller, iPad mini…
At $329 to $659, expensive enough for competitors to sell tablets more cheaply…
Which mini tablet is right for you?
Growth potential in a green economy…
USA must ‘eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon,’ grow green investments…
Obama expressed views forcefully, Romney echoed them…
Dissent: Romney won unequivocally.
He just need to continue momentum from first debate, and he did…
RedState: Obama looked like ‘a man who knows the gig is almost up…’
Won’t matter, anyway: Voters care about economy, not foreign policy…
The least enlightening debate… ‘A faux debate on tactics,’ no substance…
Fact checks: Annenberg, National Journal, NY Daily News, Politico, Salon
Full transcript and 83-min video, 2-min highlight reel, 7 takeaways
‘Obsession over Iran’s nukes is a grave mistake…’
The mullahs are the problem: ‘The regime is an incorrigible enemy of the US…’
Leading state sponsor of terrorism…
Google searches provide insight into eurozone interest rate pressures…
Spanish and Italian bond prices rising…
Posters in Madrid: ‘The rescue is coming!’
China apparently escalating crackdown on Tibet…
Tibetans still burning themselves to death…
Close: Obama 47%, Romney 47%… Reasons either could win…
Topics for tonight’s foreign-policy debate:
red lines in Iran, terrorism, rise of China…
Six 15-min segments, questions from CBS anchor Bob Shieffer…
Obama’s terrorism-fighting record strong,
Romney will attack with Benghazi accusations…
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) exposes Libyan nationals in Benghazi document dump…
David Axelrod: ‘The way [Issa and the GOP] handled this issue is disgraceful…’
John Kerry: ‘A moment of real incompetence and irresponsibility…’
Issa defends revealing identities of Libyan nationals…
Has Benghazi opportunism run its course?
Fake Benghazi scandal a waste of time: ‘There’s not much there there…’
Lebanon boiling over after funeral of assassinated intelligence officer…
Army: ‘Tension in some regions is rising to unprecedented levels…’
Sniper fire, gun shots, soldiers on the streets…
‘Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling…’ stripped of all seven Tour de France titles…
Greg LeMond becomes only American to win the tour…
Armstrong banned from cycling for life…
Doping investigation ‘exposed the rot in a popular sport… quite an achievement…’
Time for Armstrong to come clean…
How Wall Street rigs the game…
Less than 1/3 of new laws implemented, 3/4 of deadlines missed by regulators…
Google’s massive global data centers…
Israel knows nothing of the breakthrough…
US asks India to pressure Iran toward international talks…
US, IRAN TO DISCUSS NUKE PROGRAM…
11 ways the economy still isn’t fixed…
BLS: Only one million more jobs now than in Feb 2009…
Where’s Obama’s second-term agenda?
Lebanese angered by Syria killing intelligence officer…
Thousands gather for ‘day of rage’ against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Lebanon…
Roads blocked, people confined to homes…
‘President Obama would take away their bologna, their Twinkies and their gas guzzlers—not to mention their guns and their right to whop their kids as they see fit;
‘Romney would force them to jump through hoops for their welfare checks and their food stamps…’
The year’s best movie posters…
Iraqi prime minister to US:
‘Speed up the arming of the Iraqi army…’
From being Iraq’s top trading partner,
US now fifth after Iran, Russia, Turkey, and China…
‘Simply put, Russia is suddenly all over the Middle East…’
World economy looking up for a change…
Fear of eurozone catastrophe ramping down…
Tech stocks deliver disappointing earnings, sink stocks…
Biggest drop since June… ‘People got spooked when Google went negative…’
Criminal law expert: ‘This is a blowout that will
have ripple effects in many directions…’
Boy Scouts of America releases suspected pedophile records…
‘Perversion list’ reveals 20 years of sex abuse…
‘Police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors’
shielded suspected abusers…
Popular vote swings Romney’s way, electoral vote still Obama’s…
Either can still win… paths to 270:
Another nationwide strike in Greece…
Taxes and wage cuts so bad families ‘can no longer afford to bury their dead…’
65-year old protester collapses and dies…
Strikes on Iran will not be ‘surgical…’
‘Expect casualties in the range of 12,000 – 70,000 people…’
More like ‘a battlefield amputation, not modern surgery…’
Is the US ‘igniting a military conflagration in the Middle East’?
15 financial CEOs warn Obama, Congress to avoid ‘fiscal cliff…’
Tax hikes and spending cuts could spike interest rates…
Obama will veto solution that does not include higher taxes on wealthy…
Consequences of inaction on markets, growth, employment ‘would be very grave…’
Is Clinton planning to run for President in 2016? ‘You know? I am not…’
Finished with politics at the end of Obama’s current term…
Why are anti-war activists silent on Assad’s killing?
Obama administration’s ‘decision to sit on the
sidelines is causing unwanted blowback…’
Rebels getting weapons from extremists,
including al Qaeda-like groups…
Now toting anti-aircraft missiles…
SYRIAN REBELS DOWN HELICOPTER…
Meanwhile, Australia and India begin drafting civil nuclear power cooperation…
Bangladeshi man attempts to blow up Federal Reserve Bank of NY…
Tricked into dialing fake cell phone detonator, proving intent…
Wanted to do ‘something big, that will shake the whole country… that will make us one step closer to run the whole world…’
‘We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom…’
Held without bail…
Annual welfare spending now $1 trillion… Food stamp spending up most…
The US ‘spends more on federal welfare than any other program in the federal budget…
‘The administration ludicrously argues that every five dollars in food stamp spending results in nearly 10 dollars in economic benefit…’
One million more Americans on food stamps now than one year ago…
Student loan debt among new grads up 5%…
Beck: ‘As soon as [Romney] begins to win, she shuts him down…’
7-min video: Crowley explains the debate from her perspective…
Fournier: ‘Likely did nothing to reshape the closely fought race…’
Sargent: ‘Obama accomplished something of a turnaround…’
Lowry: ‘Mitt Romney has established himself
as a plausible alternative with a plausible plan…’
Fact checks: Annenberg, CBS, Chicago Trib, HuffPo, Wonkblog
90-min video, transcript, 10 best lines, 7 best moments
Sanctions won’t stop Iran from getting nukes…
Netanyahu: ‘Have not yet rolled back the Iranian program…’
Iranians blame inflation, unemployment on government squandering of oil profits…
Mediator: Syria’s civil war could spread across borders into ‘all-consuming’ conflict…
Suggests ceasefire around Muslim holiday…
Syrian Christians skeptical of both rebels and Assad regime…
Feds raid lab linked to deadly meningitis outbreak…
Moldy ceiling tiles? Dusty shoes of a careless employee? An ingredient?
Expert: ‘We’re nowhere near the end of this problem…’
US housing starts rise to 4-year high in September…
Green party candidates arrested for trying to enter site of Obama/Romney debate…
Obama/Romney two sides of same coin…
Nike cuts ties with Lance Armstrong on evidence of doping…
‘When Nike drops an athlete, you know he or she has done something terribly, irreparably wrong…’
Armstrong steps down as chairman of Livestrong…
Obama to pitch tax breaks for middle class, increases for wealthy…
Needs more of ‘the vision thing…’
Romney to emphasize ‘a clear choice on debt and deficits…’
Town-hall format will help Obama, hinder Romney…
Moderator Candy Crowley a concern to both sides…
ROUND 2:
Make or Break for Obama…
Libya turning into ‘a spectacular scandal that keeps growing more outrageous every day…’
3-min video: Romney ‘cravenly trying to exploit’ Libya attack…
Bill gathering informal legal team in case Obama officials continue blaming Hillary…
Stain on her reputation ‘could seriously damage her chances for election’ as president in 2016…
Switzerland preparing for violent unrest across Europe…
Conducting army exercises against the possibility of riots along its borders…
Defense minister: ‘I can’t exclude that in the coming years we may need the army…’
EU tightens anti-nuke sanctions on Iran…
Back in the US from Europe, editor ‘can’t find nonfiction books that I want to read…’
The challenge and joy of not speaking…
Obama to ‘come out swinging’ in second debate…
Romney campaign not worried…
‘He can’t change his record, he can’t change his policies…’
Obama advantage evaporating…
Must find a way to alter the direction of the race…
Former senator Arlen Specter dead at 82…
‘Will be remembered as one of the great independents…’
5 Royal Marines charged with murder in Afghanistan…
Def Sec: ‘Everybody serving in theatre knows the rules of engagement…’
Roubini: QE3 reduces risk of recession, but ‘unlikely to lead to a sustained recovery…’
Global economy triple threat: EU debt, US fiscal cliff, Asian slowdown…
Senators maneuvering into position for fiscal cliff showdown…
Strong September jobs numbers ‘not as bad as feared nor as good as hoped…’
Fed should keep rates low until unemployment falls below 5.5%…
Microsoft builds Xbox streaming music service into Windows 8…
Free with ads, $9.99/mo without, challenges Pandora and Spotify…
iOS, Android versions to arrive within a year…
Cloud-based connectivity will allow access to playlists and music collections across devices…
Jesse Jackson Jr. accused of using campaign money to decorate home…
May also have used campaign funds to fly swimsuit model in for visit…
On leave since June for treatment of bipolar disorder…
Baumgartner breaks sound barrier in jump from 24 miles above Earth…
9-min descent, half in free fall of 119,846 feet…
Romney on a roll in Ohio…
‘A growing crescendo of enthusiasm…’
Romney ad buys soaring in key states…
For first time since summer, Obama trailing in ad spending…
‘It’s starting to look like Mr. Obama is behind the eight ball…’
Debates this Tuesday and next Monday…
Iran crows about Hezbollah’s drone launch into Israel…
Beamed back live images of secret Israeli military bases…
Syrian torture victim describes brutal techniques…
‘They put my arms and legs in a tire, like a roasted chicken, and then beat me…’
Consumer sentiment highest since 2007…
‘A combination of rising home prices and higher equities…’
Really? Only half of Americans own stock, lowest since 1999…
Top 20% of households own 90% of stock wealth…
‘The stock market simply has little or no direct financial importance to the majority of US households…’
Does China care that Tibet’s ‘wave of immolations’ has reached 54?
23-mile-high, speed-of-sound skydive today…
GOP goes after White House on mishandling of Libya attack…
Clinton: ‘Nobody wants to know more about
what happened, and why, than I do…’
Why did two officials draw different conclusions from the same briefing?
GOP congressmen blaming White House
voted to cut diplomatic security funding…
Syrian civil war intensifies… hundreds killed each day…
Assad not giving the West an excuse to attack…
Turkey moves tanks to hilltop overlooking Syria… 500 Syrian officers desert to Turkey…
Nobel Peace Prize goes to the EU…
For transforming ‘most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace…’
‘An absolute disgrace…’
‘First Al Gore, then Obama, now this. Parody is redundant…’
US deficit over $1T for fourth year in a row…
Total government debt now $16.12T, just shy of $16.39T debt ceiling…
US will hit debt ceiling again in late December…
Party out of power always makes deficit a big issue: Dems in 2008, GOP now…
Whoever is the next president, he’ll have his hands full…
Low rates from Fed helping banks more than borrowers…
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo: Housing market has turned the corner…
Government close to suing Google…
Allegedly using search dominance to stifle competition, boost ad prices…
100-page memo sums up 19-month investigation…
FTC questions Google’s use of AdWords, smartphone business…
Biden goes all in on Romney’s 47% comments…
1-min video: Biden busting up…
1-min videos: 6 must-see moments…
Complete 90-min video and full transcript…
Fact check rundown: CBS, National Journal, Washington Post
CBS poll: 50% think Biden won, 31% Ryan…
CNN poll: Essentially a draw…
But most talk is about Biden…
‘One of the best debates I can remember. It was a great service to all Americans…’
SHARP WORDS IN RYAN, BIDEN DEBATE…
IMF’s Lagarde: Give Greece two more years to meet budget targets…
Calls for ‘decisive action’ on US debt ceiling…
France ‘uncovers biggest bomb plot in years…’
Detains 7 Islamic extremists, 19-25 years old, French-born…
Discovered weapons and materials ‘useful in the making of what are known as improvised explosives’ in Paris suburb…
Japan’s Softbank hopes to buy 70% of Sprint…
Would disrupt a US wireless industry dominated by AT&T and Verizon…
‘This must be causing chills to run down the spines of AT&T and Verizon executives…’
On Tokyo exchange, Softbank crashes 17 pct, Japanese market hits two-month low…
Space Shuttle Endeavour completes final journey – through LA streets…
From LAX to Calif Science Center on widest boulevards…
2-min video: Logistical challenge over 12-mile route… 3 types of turns…
5 potential disasters en route…
US first-class stamp to rise 1 cent to 46 cents on Jan 27…
For the arts to revive in the US, young artists must be rescued from their sanitized middle-class backgrounds…
Four possible Bidens: Uncle Cornball, Dan Quayle the Second,
Bazooka Joe, Delaware Joe…
Both men must avoid outshining their bosses, inconsistent messages…
‘If everybody’s talking about you, you’re doing it wrong…’
Romney/Ryan lead CO, VA…
Obama/Biden lead FL, MI, OH, VA, WI…
S&P downgrades Spain’s credit rating two notches to BBB- from BBB+…
Just one notch above ‘junk’ status, with a ‘negative outlook…’
Bonds inch toward the critical 6% mark…
Worst-case scenario: Spiraling unemployment, secession of Catalonia, permanent ECB life support…
German Finance Minister: No one in the eurozone is thinking of giving up on the euro…
Poll: More Germans want Greece in eurozone than out…
Lamb, who evaluated the request: ‘We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11…’
Ambassador Kennedy: ‘Under that kind of lethality, we’re never going to have enough guns. We’re a diplomatic service. We are not an armed camp…’
Libyan guard: ‘We were not expecting such a massive attack. We were not ready for it…’
Kennedy defends Rice: ‘The information she had… is the same that I had…’
Not enough: House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa requests classified briefing…
Why are left-wing bloggers ‘trying to ignore’ the Libya scandal?
4-min video: Mother of slain agent says government telling her ‘outright lies…’
Jobless claims fall to 339,000 – lowest in 4.5 years…
USADA report: 26 witnesses, 11 former teammates, 200 pages…
2-min video: Attorney says report one-sided, USADA ‘out to get Lance…’
Genetics explains between a third and a half of the variability among people on their political attitudes. Being raised in a liberal or conservative household accounts for much less…’
War game reveals high odds of US involvement if Israel attacks Iran…
Sobering conclusion: ‘Washington could quickly lose control
of events after an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities…’
Ahmadinejad: ‘Iran’s response to any aggression will be crushing…’
50,000 Greeks violently protest Merkel visit…
Merkel: ‘There is progress every day… We are partners and we are friends…’
Little EU progress: ‘Lacks teeth…’ ‘even in Germany, hardly anything was implemented…’
Germany should dump the euro and return to the Deutsche mark…
Prosperous European regions demanding independence…
230 ‘security incidents’ recorded in run-up to attack…
State Dept denies linking Libya attack to anti-Muslim video…
Romney’s new cheer for Obama supporters: ‘Four more weeks’ not ‘four more years…’
Son, Tagg Romney, created ‘let Mitt be Mitt’ makeover to refresh dad’s image…
1-min video: Ryan quits local TV interview when reporter ties gun violence to tax cuts…
Nobel Prize in medicine to Briton and Japanese for stem cell work…
Specialized cells can turn back the developmental clock under certain circumstances…
Arab journalist: Arab leaders caused ‘the starvation, the killings, and the destruction…’
‘Who is the real enemy of the Arab world?’
Meningitis death toll rises to 12…
All were injected with a pain drug shipped from a pharmacy in Massachusetts…
Officials scrambling to notify 13,000 more who may have received the drug…
Doctors reconsidering use of custom pharmacies…
‘We enhance the quality of our lives by going for the slow option, the path which takes a little bit of effort…’
Spec-Ops team requested ‘more, not less’ reinforcement…
LIBYAN LETDOWN:
White House ignored requests for security,
covered up in wake of ambassador’s death…
Protesters prepare for Merkel to visit Athens…
Snipers, helicopters, and water cannons in place…
Merkel to offer encouragement: ‘I know that Greece is not going through an easy time at the moment…’
One in five Americans reports no religious affiliation…
Pew: Only 10% of ‘nones’ are looking for religion…
Obama lead vanishes after debate…
Pew poll reversal ‘devastating, just devastating…’
‘Before the debate, Obama had a 51 – 43 lead; now, Romney has a 49 – 45 lead. That’s a simply unprecedented reversal for a candidate in October…’
Gallup: Romney debate victory biggest ever…
Not a bad debate night for Obama, a bad four years in office…
Obama on notice to bring more clarity to Oct 16 debate…
IMF: Recession risk alarmingly high, confidence in financial system exceptionally fragile…
Cuts world growth forecast to 3.3% from 3.5%, sees lower growth in 2013…
US growth dependent on avoiding fiscal cliff…
100-million-year-old spider attack fossil discovered…
‘The wasp was watching the spider just as it was about to be attacked, when tree resin flowed over and captured both of them…’
Both spider and wasp species now extinct…
Chavez: ‘What has taken place here
is a democratic and peaceful revolution…’
With 90% tallied: Chavez 54%, Capriles 45%…
Health in question, but Chavez expects 20 years in office…
A final victory for Fidel Castro?
Eurozone kicks off €500B permanent bailout fund, focus on Spain…
Greece: ‘There are no cars in the streets… People don’t go out anymore…’
World’s economic recovery ‘on the ropes…’
Daily routine: swimming and weight-lifting exercises, a breakfast of porridge, drive to work, late-night work sessions…
13-year legacy: Economy entirely dependent on oil and gas, political dissent stifled…
Documentary: Tireless, no-nonsense leader contemptuous of criticism…
Brown, Warren battling hard for Massachusetts’s US Senate seat…
Warren leads by 5 points, but unfavorability rising…
NASA contractor SpaceX launches 1,000-lb payload to space station…
1-min video: Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral…
First of 12 SpaceX cargo flights under $1.6B NASA deal ‘critical’ to the space station…
Challenger Capriles: ‘President Chavez, your time
is over… You abused your position of authority…’
Chavez facing biggest challenge yet…
46-sec Video: Chavez’s red rally in the rain…
Turkey and Syria exchange fire again…
Panetta: ‘May escalate and spread to neighboring countries…’
5-min Video: ‘The kind of flashpoint that can create World War III…’
Syrian living in Damascus: Weeped convulsively, ‘My people, my country…’
7 killed by rare fungal meningitis outbreak across 9 states…
Those affected fell ill after receiving steroid injections…
Roughly 75 clinics in 23 states received the recalled lots…
Is Obama tired of being president?
Rasmussen: Romney 49%, Obama 47%
O’Reilly vs Stewart debate spirited…
‘My friend Bill O’Reilly is completely full of sh*t…’
Entitlement society: ‘They advertise on the radio for food stamps!…’
Not as good as their shows, but at least it ‘wasn’t moderated by Jim Lehrer…’
Business Insider: ‘He’s correct…’
Jack Welch: ‘Unbelievable…can’t debate so change numbers…
these numbers defy logic…’
Goldman Sachs: ‘Looks like a genuine move…’
Barron’s: ‘Vastly overstates the meager
improvement in the labor market…’
UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS TO 7.8%
First time below 8% since Obama took office…
Iran’s plan to end nuke crisis farcical: ‘They could restart the program in a nanosecond…’
Sanctions working, low likelihood of Israel attack, Persian Spring rising?
But history of sanctions suggests Iran is far from collapse…
Border Patrol agent probably killed by friendly fire…
14th agent killed in the line of duty since 2008, including three this year…
Island dispute leads China banks to pull out of financial meetings in Japan…
‘China is playing a dangerous game…’
Japanese companies diversifying away from China to Southeast Asia…
California gasoline averages $4.48/gal, many places over $5…
Video: Some stations shutting down…
What you need to know about gerrymandering…
What’s on the line in Maryland…
Bill O’Reilly vs Jon Stewart tonight, 8pm Eastern…
‘The debate you really want to watch…’
Training for it as presidential candidates would… ‘will have many fireworks…’
Turkey’s parliament authorizes military action against Syria…
Thousands protest war in Istanbul’s Taksim Square…
Every country bordering Syria facing
‘threat to internal stability and national security…’
Syrian crisis straining US-Turkey relations,
a storm ‘appears almost unavoidable…’
Russia’s most famous human-rights workers ‘threatened and killed in broad daylight…’
Human Rights Watch will double ‘efforts to do our work in Russia…’
Companies borrowing dollars and euros at record-low interest rates…
Is this a rescue of the eurozone, ‘or a permanent drip feed?’
Requisite fact-check of the debate: Who lied?
Peggy Noonan: ‘The next Obama-Romney debate will be different. The same Obama will not show up…’
SpaceX Dragon capsule cargo mission set for launch Oct 7…
First commercial resupply mission to the Int’l Space Station…
‘Privately funded space exploration is becoming a routine…’
Analyst note: iPad Mini 4-6 weeks delayed, supply constraints hold back full sales potential…
‘Could look absolutely stunning…’
How it compares with Google Nexus 7 and Microsoft Surface Pro…
Facebook tops 1 billion users…
Andrew Sullivan: ‘A disaster for the president…
he may even have lost the election…’
Will Wilkinson: Obama’s ‘lead
in question, if not actually in peril.’
Two-min Video: Chris Matthews unloads,
‘Where was Obama tonight?… He went in there disarmed…’
James Joyner: Romney cogent, Obama tired…
Joe Klein: ‘One of the most inept performances
I’ve ever seen by a sitting president…’
‘Romney vastly exceeds expectations…’
‘It wasn’t a TKO, it was a knockout…’
ROMNEY WINS DEBATE ONE:
New race Chris Christie predicted…
Turkey launches artillery attacks against Syria…
Retaliation for mortar strike…
‘Our armed forces…responded immediately to this abominable attack…’
Hillary Clinton outraged, ‘very, very dangerous situation…’
Eurozone crisis could come to a head this month…
Survey: Back in recession, ‘inevitable…’
Pressure mounting on the European Central Bank to take action…
But is its unlimited bond-buying program illegal?
ECB waiting for Spain to request aid…
Ex TSA agent: We steal from travelers all the time… X-ray scanners used to find valuable items…
ABC stings agent for theft of iPad…
Video: New TSA ‘freeze drill…’
Agents grabbed camera, erased checkpoint footage…
Chinese surveillance ships enter Japanese territorial waters… second day in a row…
Debate: ‘Jim Lehrer may be the worst moderator in the history of moderation…’
‘Fairly quickly in, he seemed to give up… lost control, early and often…’
But could ‘anyone without a mute button or buzzer’ have done better?
Occupy protesters couldn’t fill Denver intersection on debate night…
For moderator Jim Lehrer, like ‘a walk down a knife blade…’
Video: 10 moments from debates past…
Breaking down the vulnerabilities on both sides…
Two men on equal footing…
US hunting down Benghazi killers, may use drone strikes…
Joint Special Operations Command preparing ‘target packages…’
Libya approves FBI for attack site investigation…ironing out details…
Local witness not yet contacted by investigators… ‘nobody has called, nobody cared…’
Benghazi consulate bombed twice in five months before 9/11 anniversary…
US diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for higher security…denied in Washington…
Jon Stewart on White House’s mixed messages: ‘So, you guys talk to each other, or…?’
If Benghazi was a scandal, what was 9/11?
Iranian economy in free fall, currency at record low, people switching to hard assets…
Will not abandon nuclear program despite ‘enormous pressure…’
Report: Homeland Security ‘fusion centers’ providing ‘shoddy’ intelligence…
Threatened civil liberties while doing little to combat terrorism…
Nearly 48,000 killed in Mexican drug-war violence since Dec 2006…
Manhunt for killers of US agent along Arizona-Mexico border…
US Embassy vehicle targeted by Mexican organized crime?
New film offers a ‘more contemplative’ view of the carnage in Mexico…
Presidents of Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala question US-led war on drugs… ‘serious shortcomings…’
Total failure: Price of cocaine 74% cheaper now than 30 years ago…
Occuflop: Tens of protesters gather one year after Occupy DC…
Swirled in hula hoops and chatted while the DJ played Prince’s 1999…
Romney op-ed: Obama ‘allowed our leadership to atrophy,’
thinks weakness will win favor with rivals…
Op-ed ‘sets a new bar for its vacuity,
aimlessness and lack of coherence…’
Change of focus because attacks on bad economy not working?
A ‘JIMMY CARTER STRATEGY’
to make Obama look weak on defense…
Bernanke: $2T stimulus no green light for ‘bad fiscal policy…’
Senate begins tiptoeing around the fiscal cliff…
Inaction raises taxes on 90% of Americans… average $3,500 per household…
Good news: includes an 8.2% cut in funding for Congress…
Polls tight: Obama 50%, Romney 47%…
40% will vote before Election Day…
Obama can’t convince Americans he’s ‘just OK’ in a debate…
David Frum: 10 questions for Obama…
Eliot Spitzer: 2 questions for each…
Eurozone unemployment hits record highs: 11.4% overall, 24.4% Greece, 25.1% Spain…
Cross border claims leave Germany on hook for €1T if eurozone breaks up…
Greek recession entering sixth year…
Athens debt talks deadlock as lenders reject €2B in spending cuts…
Goal remains to rescue Greece, keep it in the eurozone…
Google’s stock market value passes Microsoft’s…
US search market share: Google 66%, Microsoft 16%…
Google ‘got into mobile before it became an important computing platform…’
Web more crucial than hardware…PC channel in chaos…
Yet, Taiwan-based notebook ODMs shipped 30-50% more in September ahead of Windows 8…
Apple Maps fiasco: canary in the coal mine?
CEO-in-waiting ‘Scott Forstall should be fired over this mess…’
The gray tsunami: The world faces a wave of aging…
Wrenching social and economic changes on the way…
Great barrier reef cut in half due to acidification of oceans, other factors…
Christie: It’ll be a whole new race Thursday morning…
Facts will matter in Wednesday’s debate…sample questions…
Obama adviser Plouffe: Romney will get
‘more benefit out of this debate’ than Obama…
Challengers do better in first debates…
Sharing a stage with the president is elevating…
Romney better prepared ‘than any candidate in modern history…’
Bureau of Labor Stats adjusting data in Obama’s favor?
Chris Christie to Obama: ‘Stop lying’ about Romney’s economic plan…
Fed’s Fisher: US ‘drowning in unemployment,’ recovery ‘quite disappointing…’
Maybe Obama’s future will be ‘peachy’ but ‘we have to live in his present…’
Consumers spending more than they earn, lots on gasoline, ‘unsustainable…’
Durable goods orders down 13.2% in August, pointing toward new recession…
The Obama-Romney map is turning blue…
David Brooks: Romney running ‘the most insincere campaign I think I’ve ever seen…’
Path to victory narrowing…needs ‘the upper hand’ in nearly all nine nail-biter states…
Yahoo CEO: Anything not doable in six months isn’t worth doing…
