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| Obama rebuts claims he’s lying about attack on US Consulate in Libya Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:43 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully denied deliberately misleading Americans about the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, telling radio host Michael Smerconish, "I've always been straight with the American people." Speaking to Smerconish during a 15-minute Oval Office interview, Obama also declared he was "absolutely" prepared to kill those [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lena Dunham’s Obama ad makes waves Friday, Oct 26, 2012 10:06 AM PDT Your first time should be "amazing." That's what "Girls" creator Lena Dunham has to say to virgin -- voters. In her controversial new Obama ad, "Your First Time," the actress who mocked herself as "a voice for a generation" in her show, has some advice for the first-time voter: When the time comes… to vote, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama tour wraps with personal touch Friday, Oct 26, 2012 06:02 AM PDT CLEVELAND, Ohioâ€"President Barack Obama's voice sounded coarse and tired when he delivered the final speech of a cross-country tour that had taken him to eight states in three days. About 12,000 supporters were waiting on the airport tarmac here when Air Force One landed and rolled behind the stage. With the music of U2 blaring [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama camp sees ‘comeback’ in improved economic growth Friday, Oct 26, 2012 08:22 AM PDT President Barack Obama's re-election campaign cheered the modestly improved economic growth data released on Friday as "more evidence" that the country is still clawing back from the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown. Republican candidate Mitt Romney called the news a "discouraging" sign of an anemic recovery. "While we have more work to do, today's GDP growth [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney pressed on abortion question Friday, Oct 26, 2012 05:13 AM PDT  Republican Mitt Romney is renewing his focus on the nation's economy while facing continued pressure to break his silence on a GOP Senate candidate's statement that any pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended." Full Story | Top |
| Obama up 4 percentage points over Romney in Ohio Friday, Oct 26, 2012 01:45 PM PDT A new CNN/ORC poll of likely voters shows President Barack Obama leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the crucial state of Ohio with less than two weeks before Election Day: According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a four point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the contest for [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama yearns for protest tunes, worries about Malia on Facebook Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:48 PM PDT  President Barack Obama told MTV in an interview Friday that he wished there were more overtly political music today and said that he's not as concerned about elder daughter Malia dating or driving as he is about her being on Facebook. Interviewer Sway Calloway had asked the commander in chief whether he was more worried [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney sticks with ‘change’ in his closing argument Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:59 AM PDT AMES, Iowaâ€"Mitt Romney again cast himself as an agent of change who is better equipped than President Barack Obama to turn around the nation's economy. With just over a week to go before Election Day, Romney aides described the candidate's speech at a rally in this battleground state as his closing argument to voters. He [...] Full Story | Top |
| Smearing yard signs with Vaseline to protect against vandalism: N.C., Va. share swing-state stories Friday, Oct 26, 2012 07:29 AM PDT As Election Day approaches, Yahoo News has asked voters in swing states to share what it's like being in the thick of things as President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney smother them with attention. This week, we look at North Carolina and Virginia, two Southern states that are being contested this year. In [...] Full Story | Top |
| Boston Globe: Romney rejected birth certificate changes for gay parents Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:16 AM PDT Mitt Romney rejected a plan while governor of Massachusetts that would have allowed same-sex married couples to both be listed as the parents of children born to them, the Boston Globe reports from state records it obtained this month. After the state's highest court legalized gay marriage in 2003, the Registry of Vital Records presented [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney on economy: Obama 'made the problem worse' Friday, Oct 26, 2012 09:18 PM PDT  Seizing on fresh evidence of economic sluggishness, Republican challenger Mitt Romney said Friday that President Barack Obama inherited a bad situation when he took office and then "made the problem worse." Obama looked ahead to the second term he's hoping to win. Full Story | Top |
| Up to 40 percent may vote early in election; Obama ahead Friday, Oct 26, 2012 06:39 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Early voters could account for up to 40 percent of all ballots cast in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, and polls of people who already voted show President Barack Obama with a comfortable lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Both candidates have been urging supporters not just to vote but to do it early as Republicans and Democrats campaign vigorously - particularly in key battleground states - to lock up as many votes as possible before Election Day on November 6. Polls of people who say they already have voted show Obama with a lead in many of the states. ... Full Story | Top |
| Why don't these voters decide? Some like to mull Friday, Oct 26, 2012 09:18 PM PDT  Who are these people who still can't make up their minds? They're undecided voters like Kelly Cox, who spends his days repairing the big rigs that haul central California's walnuts, grapes, milk and more across America. Full Story | Top |
| Drone of silence: the national-security policy that Obama and Romney won’t debate Friday, Oct 26, 2012 08:56 AM PDT Robert Gibbs was holding court in the press room at last week’s second presidential debate at Hofstra University. The former White House press secretary turned senior adviser to the Obama campaign had a single-minded mission of boosting the president to quote-obsessed reporters. So it is easy to imagine Gibbs’ exasperation when he began being hectored by video journalists from the activist group We Are Change. Full Story | Top |
| Hurricane Sandy as the October election surprise Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:56 PM PDT As Hurricane Sandy heads toward land on the East Coast, the storm and its aftermath could lend an interesting twist to the upcoming general election, as some power outages could last into Election Day. Full Story | Top |
| Unprecedented 'black mold' meningitis a challenge Friday, Oct 26, 2012 05:29 AM PDT  The black mold creeping into the spines of hundreds of people who got tainted shots for back pain marks uncharted medical territory. Full Story | Top |
| Hurricane Sandy slogs toward U.S., 41 killed in Caribbean Friday, Oct 26, 2012 04:54 PM PDT  MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic cyclone that threatens to be one of the worst storms to hit the Northeast in decades, slogged slowly northward on Friday after killing at least 41 people in the Caribbean. Forecasters said wind damage, widespread and extended power outages and coastal and inland flooding were anticipated across a broad swath of the densely populated U.S. East Coast when Sandy comes ashore early next week. "We're expecting a large, large storm. ... Full Story | Top |
| East Coast braces for monster 'Frankenstorm' Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:35 PM PDT  The pre-Halloween hybrid weather monster that federal forecasters call "Frankenstorm" is looking more ominous by the hour for the East Coast, and utilities and local governments are getting ready. Full Story | Top |
| Sen. Reid taken to hospital after Vegas car crash Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:29 PM PDT  Troopers say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been taken to the hospital in an ambulance after what appears to be a rear-end crash on an interstate through Las Vegas. Full Story | Top |
| Flight Attendant Claims Magic Fired Her For Being 7 Minutes Late Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:32 PM PDT  Is being seven minutes late grounds for dismissal? Apparently so,  says Latina Thomas,  Magic Johnson’s former personal flight attendant, who claims to have been fired last month for being a tiny bit tardy. Thomas, 45,  is suing Magic Johnson Entertainment and Clay Lacy Aviation, her... Full Story | Top |
| Florida and Ohio, show us your election! Friday, Oct 26, 2012 07:18 AM PDT Florida and Ohio residents, it's no mystery that the 2012 presidential candidates see your states' electoral votes as key to winning the election. So, you're getting a lot of attention from President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and their running mates that the rest of us don't see. We want to know what it's like, and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Hurricane Sandy Barrels Towards US Friday, Oct 26, 2012 03:55 AM PDT  East Coast Faced With the Prospect of Hurricane, Arctic Front and jet Stream Full Story | Top |
| Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash Friday, Oct 26, 2012 02:02 PM PDT Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash. Full Story | Top |
| Muslim pilgrims stone devil in symbolic hajj rite Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:59 PM PDT  Millions of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia on Friday furiously cast pebbles in a symbolic stoning of the devil, carrying out a final rite of hajj, as Muslims around the world celebrated the start of Islam's biggest holiday, the Feast of Sacrifice. Full Story | Top |
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