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  • GOP candidates Romney and Perry take part in the CNN Western Republican debate in Las Vegas
    Democratic SuperPAC targets Romney in social media AP - 2 hrs 40 mins ago

    A Democratic super PAC is targeting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney with a new social media campaign that raises questions about his economic agenda one year before the 2012 election. More »Democratic SuperPAC targets Romney in social media

    GOP candidates Romney and Perry take part in the CNN Western Republican debate in Las Vegas

    A Democratic super PAC is targeting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney with a new social media campaign that raises questions about his economic agenda one year before the 2012 election.

  • A protester sleeps under a blanket at the Occupy Oakland encampment Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland is bracing for Wednesday's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week. The union representing Oakland's police officers, who had a violent clash with Occupy Wall Street protesters last week, has written an open letter to residents, pointing out that the officers are also part of "the 99 percent." The letter also questions the mayor's decision to give city workers the day off to participate in a Wednesday strike that seeks to shut down the Port of Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
    Oakland prepares to be Occupy movement epicenter AP - 4 hrs ago

    Oakland prepared Wednesday to again become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street movement as local organizers aided by labor unions and advocacy groups finalized plans for a broad-based call to action that was expected to include … More »Oakland prepares to be Occupy movement epicenter

    A protester sleeps under a blanket at the Occupy Oakland encampment Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland is bracing for Wednesday's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week. The union representing Oakland's police officers, who had a violent clash with Occupy Wall Street protesters last week, has written an open letter to residents, pointing out that the officers are also part of "the 99 percent." The letter also questions the mayor's decision to give city workers the day off to participate in a Wednesday strike that seeks to shut down the Port of Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

    Oakland prepared Wednesday to again become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street movement as local organizers aided by labor unions and advocacy groups finalized plans for a broad-based call to action that was expected to include marches, pickets outside banks, school shutdowns and an attempt to close the nation's fifth-busiest …

  • A woman leaves the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan
    FBI interested in regulatory probe of MF Global Reuters - 28 mins ago

    (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is interested in the investigation of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday. More »FBI interested in regulatory probe of MF Global

    A woman leaves the office complex where MF Global Holdings Ltd have an office on 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan

    (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is interested in the investigation of MF Global Holdings Ltd, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.

  • Information boards as flights were cancelled after a Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines made an emergency landing in Warsaw at the Chopin airport , Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
    Fog halts air travel in Poland after Warsaw drama AP - 3 hrs ago

    Heavy fog grounded planes at several Polish airports on Wednesday even as Warsaw's international airport remained closed following a dramatic emergency landing a day earlier. More »Fog halts air travel in Poland after Warsaw drama

    Information boards as flights were cancelled after a Boeing 767 of Polish LOT airlines made an emergency landing in Warsaw at the Chopin airport , Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

    Heavy fog grounded planes at several Polish airports on Wednesday even as Warsaw's international airport remained closed following a dramatic emergency landing a day earlier.

  • A Syrian army defector speaks to The Associated Press in the Lebanese border town of Arida on Monday Oct. 31, 2011. Syrian official and witnesses say Damascus is planting landmines along parts of the border with Lebanon. A Syrian official familiar with government strategy said the mines are meant to prevent arms smuggling across the border. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
    Arab League to unveil plan to ease Syria crisis AP - 1 hr 24 mins ago

    The Arab League will unveil on Wednesday its plan to ease violence in Syria, calling for the withdrawal of tanks and armored vehicles from the streets and free elections, diplomats involved in the process said Wednesday. More »Arab League to unveil plan to ease Syria crisis

    A Syrian army defector speaks to The Associated Press in the Lebanese border town of Arida on Monday Oct. 31, 2011. Syrian official and witnesses say Damascus is planting landmines along parts of the border with Lebanon. A Syrian official familiar with government strategy said the mines are meant to prevent arms smuggling across the border. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

    The Arab League will unveil on Wednesday its plan to ease violence in Syria, calling for the withdrawal of tanks and armored vehicles from the streets and free elections, diplomats involved in the process said Wednesday.

  • Ex-cop to be sentenced for Katrina cover-up AP - 1 hr 50 mins ago

    Federal prosecutors are seeking leniency for a former police lieutenant who will be sentenced Wednesday for his role in a plot to cover up deadly police shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

  • French magazine attacked after it portrays Mohammed Reuters - 20 mins ago

    PARIS (Reuters) - The headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were gutted on Wednesday by what its editor said was a firebomb, after it put an image of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover.

  • Piece by piece, will Obama's health-care reform law be dismantled? Christian Science Monitor - 26 mins ago

    The landmark health-care reform law – President Obama's signature domestic triumph – has suffered its first major body blow, dealt not by Republican lawmakers intent on dismantling "Obamacare" but by the administration's own Health and Human Services (HHS) Department.

  • Congress to honor Japanese-American soldiers AP - 4 hrs ago
    World War II veteran Don S. Miyada of Westminster, Calif., looks to the stage during a ceremony in honor of Japanese American World War II veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Nearly seven decades after Pearl Harbor, Congress is honoring Japanese-American military units that helped the United States win World War II on two fronts despite the hardships endured by many troops’ families back home. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    In the days following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Lawson Sakai learned how much the world had changed for Japanese-Americans in 1941. Sakai and some of his buddies drove to the local Navy recruiting station and tried to enlist. While his white friends were quickly accepted, Sakai was told he was considered an "enemy …

  • USPS revising plan for "Village Post Offices" Reuters - 1 hr 26 mins ago

    (Reuters) - The financially troubled U.S. Postal Service has determined that its plan to replace money-losing offices with retailers contracted to offer basic services will not work in many rural communities.

  • Israel test fires missile that can hit Iran AP - 7 mins ago

    Israel successfully test-fired on Wednesday a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and striking Iran, fanning a public debate over whether the country's leaders are agitating for a military attack on Tehran's atomic facilities.

  • Survey: China, Russia seen most likely to bribe AP - 19 mins ago
    Elena Panfilova, director of Transparency International Russia, speaks at a news conference in Moscow Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. The watchdog group's Bribe Payers Index released Wednesday shows Russian and Chinese companies most active in using corrupt practice when working abroad. (AP photo/ Misha Japaridze)

    Companies from Russia, followed closely by those from China, are seen as most likely to use bribery to secure foreign contracts, according to a new survey released Wednesday by Transparency International.

  • Movember: Do men with mustaches deserve a tax break? Christian Science Monitor - 27 mins ago

    Happy Movember! If you've ever contemplated growing a mustache – and if you happen to possess the requisite hormones that allow you to do so – this is the month to give it a shot. Started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia, Movember encourages men to seek sponsorships to stop shaving their upper lips for 30 days, with the money …

  • Bamboo building bonanza in Bali AP - 3 hrs ago
    In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo an Indonesian worker puts the finishing touches on a chocolate factory made entirely of bamboo in Bali, Indonesia. Bamboo, a tough, flexible plant which can grow up to four feet a day, is being used to build everything from schools and luxury villas to exclusive resorts. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

    Off Bali's beaten track, past a towering banyan tree and next to an ancient Hindu temple, the world's largest bamboo commercial structure is slowly taking shape: a chocolate factory.

  • German minister combats road rage with Mozart AP - 3 hrs ago

    Germany's transport minister is sharing one of his own stress-reducers — the slow movements of Mozart's piano concertos — with drivers in hopes the soothing music will help reduce road rage on the nation's autobahn freeways.

  • Greece's Papandreou heading to EU showdown AP - 2 hrs 13 mins ago
    Parliament member Milena Apostolaki reacts during the speech of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to the Socialist members of parliament in Athens, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Apostolaki's office said in Athens, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 she had declared herself an independent deputy in a letter to Parliament speaker. The Greek governing party deputy has defected over the prime minister's surprise decision to hold a referendum on a European debt deal, leaving the Socialists with a marginal two-seat majority in Parliament. (AP Photo/Eurokinissi, Tatiana Bolari) GREECE OUT

    Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will try to win over irate European leaders later Wednesday, hours after persuading his cabinet to back a hugely-controversial referendum on the debt-crippled country's latest rescue package.

  • Markets remain rattled by Greek referendum pledge AP - 31 mins ago
    A currency trader reacts at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. A wave of selling swept across Wall Street and stock markets around the world Tuesday after Greece's prime minister said he would call a national vote on an unpopular European plan to rescue that nation's economy. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

    World markets remained rattled Wednesday over whether the Greek prime minister's decision to take his country's latest rescue package to a referendum was a huge miscalculation. Worries over Italy kept investors on edge too.

  • WikiLeaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal AP - 21 mins ago
    FILE - This is a Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he leaves Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London. Assange on Tuesday Nov. 1, 2011 awaits a judge's extradition verdict, it could be WikiLeaks' very future that's at stake. Its finances under pressure and some of its biggest revelations already public, WikiLeaks may not have the strength to survive if Britain's High Court judge decides Wednesday in favor of a Swedish request to extradite Assange to face trial over rape allegations, some experts argue. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer sex crime allegations, but said Wednesday he will now consider whether to take his protracted fight to Britain's highest court.

  • Amid harassment furor, Cain visits Capitol Hill AP - 43 mins ago
    FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2011 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. Herman Cain denies he's changed his story as he struggles to contain the fallout from sexual harassment allegations from the 1990s when he led the National Restaurant Association. The Republican presidential contender's explanations raise new questions about his ability to manage a political crisis, even as he's been rising in the polls. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Dogged by sexual harassment allegations from the 1990s, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is trying to project an image of campaign business as usual Wednesday even as the lawyer for one of his accusers seeks to free her from a confidentiality agreement so she can tell her side of the story.

  • Federal Reserve wraps up policy meeting AP - 1 hr 16 mins ago
    FILE - Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers the board's Monetary Policy Report to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington in this July 19, 2006 file photo. The Federal Reserve, after employing a dwindling set of policy options at its last two meetings, may hit the pause button in hopes that the faint signs of the economy's rebound will grow stronger. The Fed's decision will be announced around mid-day Wednesday Nov. 2, 2011 following two days of closed-door discussions. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)

    The Federal Reserve, after employing a dwindling set of policy options at its last two meetings, may hit the pause button in hopes that the faint signs of the economy's rebound will grow stronger.

  • Strife continues over remains of 9/11 victims AP - 5 hrs ago
    FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2011 file photo, Rosemary Cain, center, of Massapequa, N.Y., who lost her son, FDNY firefighter George Cain, while responding to the 9/11 attacks at ground zero, stands with Sally Regenhard, left, who lost her son, FDNY firefighter Christian Regenhard, and FDNY firefighter John Darcy, right, during a wreath laying ceremony to honor of over 6,000 human remains of their loved ones which are housed in a temporary structure at Memorial Park in New York. The group objects to a plan where the city of New York and the administration of the national Sept. 11 memorial and museum plan to put those remains in a room below ground that would share space with the museum. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

    An emotionally laden debate over the future resting place of thousands of unidentified remains of Sept. 11 victims is lingering as the attacks' 10th anniversary recedes, with several relatives saying they aren't satisfied with a recent city effort to spread the word about a plan to house the remains in the forthcoming 9/11 …

  • Congress to honor Japanese-American soldiers AP - 4 hrs ago
    World War II veteran Don S. Miyada of Westminster, Calif., looks to the stage during a ceremony in honor of Japanese American World War II veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Nearly seven decades after Pearl Harbor, Congress is honoring Japanese-American military units that helped the United States win World War II on two fronts despite the hardships endured by many troops’ families back home. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    In the days following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Lawson Sakai learned how much the world had changed for Japanese-Americans in 1941. Sakai and some of his buddies drove to the local Navy recruiting station and tried to enlist. While his white friends were quickly accepted, Sakai was told he was considered an "enemy …

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