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- America could be 'taken over,' warns Ross Perot
- Mystery illness solved when family discovers new home was a meth lab
- NYC gym teacher claims 6-year-old student beat him up
- Obama Leads on Expectations - But the Race Itself Stays Close
- Calif. woman fatally shot after allegedly driving into border patrol agent
- Even before debates, electoral map appears largely written in stone
- Diaper Shortage Possible After Plant Explosion
- Peanut butter recall includes major retailers
- Paul Ryan on tax plan: 'It would take me too long to go through all the math'
- American Airlines Seats Become Loose in Flight Before Emergency Landing
- What would Romney's Supreme Court look like?
- Colorado's pro-pot initiative could threaten medical marijuana paradise
- Huge tax increase looms at year-end 'fiscal cliff'
- Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds
- Episode 23: From $180,000 a year to $8 an hour
- Friends for 91 Years Celebrate 100th Birthdays Together
- Obama: Romney 'a good debater,' 'I'm just ok'
- As race stands, Obama within reach of second term
- Obama Team Studies Romney Tapes as Debate Camp Begins
- More 'Fast and Furious' Guns Linked to Mexican Crimes
- Ohio ground game: Three yards and a cloud of dust
- Romney shifts focus back to Obama's foreign policy
- Ahmadinejad's Cameraman Defected During His U.N. Visit
- Official: Man's NYC arrest in Lohan dispute voided
- California law bans gay teen 'conversion' therapy
- Obama: Debate prep is 'a drag'
- IKEA Regrets Women Erased From Saudi Catalog
- Obama camp: No 'zingers' at debate with Romney
- D.C. sniper 10 years later: 'I was a monster'
- GOP Sends Mixed Messages on Romney Debate Expectations
- Colo attack victim wants debates to address guns
- The 12 Most Cringe-Worthy Debate Moments in History
- Ikea deleted women from Saudi version of catalogue
- Bangladeshi Muslims torch Buddhist temples, homes
- High school food fight ends with felony charge
- Half of Great Barrier Reef Lost in Past 3 Decades
- Girl, 11, Killed After Falling Out of Party Bus
- Hugo Chavez says he'd vote for Obama
- Anne Hathaway Marries Adam Shulman
- Retired locksmith sells 'firemen's key ring' on eBay, alarming FDNY
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America could be 'taken over,' warns Ross Perot
Mon,1 Oct 2012 08:24 AM PDT
Former presidential contender and billionaire Ross Perot is worried that America is a sitting duck for an unnamed foreign invader. In an interview for his new autobiography, Perot said the nation's weak economy has left us open for a hostile takeover—and neither presidential candidate is the man to save the country. Citing an impending fiscal [...] Full Story | Top |
Mystery illness solved when family discovers new home was a meth lab
Mon,1 Oct 2012 11:48 AM PDT
Click image to see more photos. The Hankins family in June after buying the foreclosed home from government-sponsored Freddie Mac. (Photo courtesy of the Hankins family) The foreclosed house for sale on the up-and-coming street pined for fresh paint and other fixes, but the Hankins family saw its potential. Plus, at $36,000, the price was [...] Full Story | Top |
NYC gym teacher claims 6-year-old student beat him up
Mon,1 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT
At 5-foot-10 and 220 pounds, gym teacher John Webster is not a slight figure. But the former college football player claims a 50-pound, 6-year-old student physically assaulted him and sent him into therapy. The New York Post reports that Webster fractured his ankle and injured his knee, all at the hands of 4-foot-2 Rodrigo Carpio. [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama Leads on Expectations - But the Race Itself Stays Close
Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:03 PM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  Registered voters by 2-1 think Barack Obama will win the upcoming presidential debates and go on to prevail in the November election. But expectations aside, the race remains close, with strengths and vulnerabilities for both candidates in the campaign ahead. After a challenging period for...
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Even before debates, electoral map appears largely written in stone
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:10 AM PDT
Many see potential for Wednesday's presidential debate to be a deciding moment in the 2012 election. From the Signal's perch here on Forecasting Mountain, we don't see a whole lot left to be decided. Since we posted our first forecast of the state-by-state presidential election on Feb. 16, 2012, six months before the Republican Party [...] Full Story | Top |
Diaper Shortage Possible After Plant Explosion
Mon,1 Oct 2012 05:16 AM PDT
As so often happens, moms are left to deal with the mess. An explosion at a Japanese chemical plant this weekend has the spectre of a global diaper shortage. The plant in the coastal city of Himeji, operated by Nippon Shokubai Co., is one... Full Story | Top |
Paul Ryan on tax plan: 'It would take me too long to go through all the math'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:15 AM PDT
Paul Ryan says "it would take me too long to go through all the math" involved in the tax plan he and Mitt Romney are proposing. The Republican vice presidential nominee said on "Fox News Sunday" that their plan--a 20 percent across-the-board income tax cut--would focus on deductions and closing tax loopholes for the rich, [...] Full Story | Top |
What would Romney's Supreme Court look like?
Mon,1 Oct 2012 03:55 AM PDT
Should Mitt Romney win the presidential election this November, one institution stands to receive a substantial makeover: the Supreme Court. The venerable justices begin a new term Monday, and it could be one of the last of its kind. During his four year term, the Republican pick for president would very likely get to nominate [...] Full Story | Top |
Colorado's pro-pot initiative could threaten medical marijuana paradise
Mon,1 Oct 2012 10:25 AM PDT
DENVER—A ballot initiative in Colorado that could make the state the first to effectively legalize marijuana has an unlikely bunch of people very nervous: owners of the state's medical marijuana dispensaries. Despite an expected surge in demand, some fear passage of the initiative, called Amendment 64—which legalizes the buying and selling of up to one [...] Full Story | Top |
Huge tax increase looms at year-end 'fiscal cliff'
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:08 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A typical middle-income family making $40,000 to $64,000 a year could see its taxes go up by $2,000 next year if lawmakers fail to renew a lengthy roster of tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, according to a new report Monday
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Episode 23: From $180,000 a year to $8 an hour
Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:03 PM PDT
While Titina gave up her teaching career to raise their two children, Claude had a lucrative career as pharmaceutical sales representative. But Claude's lay-off earlier this year, coupled with a $75,000 debt from a previous marriage and $69,000 a year in child support, has sent shock waves through the family's finances. Now seriously considering a move to Titina's home country of Canada, the couple seeks alternative options by speaking with finance expert Farnoosh Torabi. Full Story | Top |
Friends for 91 Years Celebrate 100th Birthdays Together
Mon,1 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT
It really was the celebration of the century. Best friends for 91 years, Joseph Katz and Al Spiegal, celebrated their 100th birthdays together in Lauderhill, Fla., on Saturday. "We've been friends since we were 10-years-old. We both went to the same elementary school and we... Full Story | Top |
Obama: Romney 'a good debater,' 'I'm just ok'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 07:08 PM PDT
Looking to his first face-to-face clash with Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd of supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday that his Republican foe was "a good debater" while he himself was "just ok." The Democrat, addressing a crowd of 11,200 packed onto the soccer field of Desert Pines High School, said [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama Team Studies Romney Tapes as Debate Camp Begins
Mon,1 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News -  LAS VEGAS — President Obama convened the final debate camp of his political career here on Sunday, huddling with top advisers at a posh lakeside resort 20 miles east of the Strip for a three-day crash course on Republican rival Mitt Romney. Aides said a...
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More 'Fast and Furious' Guns Linked to Mexican Crimes
Mon,1 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT
ABC OTUS News - By Jake Tapper, Devin Dwyer and Jason Ryan A new report by our partners at Univision has found addional links between violent crimes in Mexico and guns involved in the Obama administration's flawed "Fast and Furious" operation. Fifty-seven previously unidentified weapons tied to the operation... Full Story | Top |
Ohio ground game: Three yards and a cloud of dust
Mon,1 Oct 2012 10:03 AM PDT
LEWIS CENTER, Ohio – For all the fascination with high-tech campaign apps and social networking strategies, the volunteer armies for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney go into battle equipped with the oldest political weapon of them all—the clipboard. The voter contact lists may be based on sophisticated algorithms, but the streetwalkers and the doorknockers of politics still depend on time-honored techniques like broad smiles, practiced pitches and infinite patience. Full Story | Top |
Romney shifts focus back to Obama's foreign policy
Mon,1 Oct 2012 05:15 AM PDT
BOSTON—Sensing a potential opening, Mitt Romney is shifting his focus back to foreign policy amid controversy over the Obama administration's response to a terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead. The Republican presidential nominee published an op-ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal criticizing President Barack Obama's suggestion that the developments overseas are "bumps [...] Full Story | Top |
Ahmadinejad's Cameraman Defected During His U.N. Visit
Mon,1 Oct 2012 03:40 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  A Iranian cameraman who came to New York as part of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations last week . According to the Associated Press, Hassan Gol Khanban came to the States as part of the 140-person Iranian entourage attending last week's General Assembly meeting, but he managed to stay behind and to represent him. The lawyer made the announcement about the asylum request on Sunday night, but didn't provide any other details about his client's decision or how he slipped out of the group.
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Official: Man's NYC arrest in Lohan dispute voided
Sun,30 Sep 2012 06:54 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A 25-year-old man initially arrested Sunday on an assault charge after Lindsay Lohan claimed he grabbed her in her New York hotel room in an argument over cellphone images was freed hours later and his arrest voided when the charge could not be substantiated, law enforcement officials said.
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Obama: Debate prep is 'a drag'
Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:07 PM PDT
President Barack Obama, holed up at a swank Las Vegas-area resort to get ready for his first debate with Mitt Romney, jokingly told a volunteer on Monday that debate prep can be "a drag." Obama popped in his campaign's field office in Henderson, Nev., to give staff there a pep talk and phone a few [...] Full Story | Top |
IKEA Regrets Women Erased From Saudi Catalog
Mon,1 Oct 2012 05:53 PM PDT
ABC News -  Compare the annual IKEA catalogs disbursed around the world and they are nearly identical, save for a slight difference. The difference is not in the Swedish translations of the furniture or the mock layouts of the numerous living rooms in the catalog. The discrepancy lies...
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Obama camp: No 'zingers' at debate with Romney
Sun,30 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT
LAS VEGAS - President Barack Obama won't be using 'zingers' against Mitt Romney when they clash Wednesday in their first face-to-face debate, a campaign spokeswoman said Sunday. And while beer has featured prominently in recent campaign swings, Obama will be sure to reach out to soda-drinkers, too. "This will be a very large audience," Jen [...] Full Story | Top |
D.C. sniper 10 years later: 'I was a monster'
Sun,30 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT
Lee Boyd Malvo, who was convicted along with John Allen Muhammad in the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings that left 10 dead and three wounded, says he remembers the killings vividly but can't explain why he did what he did. "I was a monster," Malvo told the Washington Post in a recent interview from a Virginia [...] Full Story | Top |
Colo attack victim wants debates to address guns
Mon,1 Oct 2012 11:07 AM PDT
Associated Press - A man wounded in the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater is appearing in a nationwide television spot aimed at drawing attention to gun violence as part of the upcoming presidential debates. Full Story | Top |
High school food fight ends with felony charge
Mon,1 Oct 2012 09:22 AM PDT
A Phoenix-area high school student faces a felony charge after a senior prank food fight got out of hand. The messy food fight in May happened during the lunch hour at Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. Prosecutors have charged Conner Floyd-Elsesser with aggravated assault on a teacher, according to azfamily.com. Aggravated assault is a [...] Full Story | Top |
Half of Great Barrier Reef Lost in Past 3 Decades
Mon,1 Oct 2012 12:10 PM PDT
LiveScience.com -  Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a glittering gem — the world's largest coral reef ecosystem — chock-full of diverse marine life. But new research shows it is also in steep decline, with half of the reef vanishing in the past 27 years.
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Girl, 11, Killed After Falling Out of Party Bus
Sun,30 Sep 2012 06:26 PM PDT
An 11-year-old girl was killed after she fell out the emergency window of a party bus during a birthday celebration in downtown Portland, Ore. The child, who was identified as Angie Hernandez, was leaning against the emergency exit. When the bus turned, the window opened... Full Story | Top |
Hugo Chavez says he'd vote for Obama
Sun,30 Sep 2012 12:11 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has weighed in on the U.S. presidential race, saying he prefers President Barack Obama. "If I were American, I'd vote for Obama," Chavez said in a televised interview that aired Sunday.
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Anne Hathaway Marries Adam Shulman
Sun,30 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT
Access Hollywood -  Forget "Rachel Getting Married" - this weekend it was Anne Hathaway's turn to tie the knot! The "Dark Knight Rises" star, 29, wed her love of four years, 31-year-old actor/jewelry designer Adam Shulman, in scenic Big Sur, Calif., on Saturday night.
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Retired locksmith sells 'firemen's key ring' on eBay, alarming FDNY
Mon,1 Oct 2012 07:17 AM PDT
A retired New Jersey locksmith sold a "firemen's key ring" on eBay to a New York Post reporter, alarming some city officials who fear the keys—at least those that apparently still work—could be used for evil. Daniel Ferraris, the 69-year-old retired locksmith from Union City, N.J., sold the set of five keys to the "undercover" [...] Full Story | Top |
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