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• Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf
• Obama warns Americans storm 'is not yet over'
• Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions
• Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf
• More than 1.2 million ballots cast in key state of Ohio
• Romney moves to reframe debate on abortion, autos
• Obama warns Americans storm 'is not yet over'
• Gingrich raising cash, profile for Akin Senate bid
• Obama and Christie make unlikely traveling companions
• Bank of Canada repeats rate message, sees debt slowing
• For Chris Christie, a Jersey shore drama that's also political
• One dead in Tunisia clashes between police, militants
• U.S. and EU push for progress in troubled Balkans
• PM Note: After Sandy, Obama Will Tour Jersey with Christie, Playing in Pennsylvania, Tracking Romney 49, Obama 48
• Mexican pleads guilty to U.S. agent's murder tied to gun probe
• Euro zone ministers to discuss Greece, no decisions seen
• Greek government gets key backing to pass reforms
• Canada sees G20 talks pressuring Europe, U.S
• Obama cancels campaign trip, to view storm damage
• Obama to air ads in Mich. touting auto bailout
• Al Gore: 'Sandy' a Symptom of Larger Climate Crisis
• Obama, Romney put aside campaign for storm relief - for now
• Canadian minister silent on talks over Petronas bid
• Some US emergency call centers down after Sandy: FCC
• Poll: Race Still Tight Before Storm
• Washington D.C. escapes worst of storm Sandy
• TransCanada mulls new oil line, no damage from Sandy
• Romney, Obama, talk of Sandy week before election
• Factbox: Northeast service suspensions due to Hurricane Sandy
• New Italy law tackles rampant corruption
• East Coast crippled by gigantic storm, 30 dead
• Indicted ex-lawmaker poses dilemma for Ill. Dems
• Lukewarm jobs report awaits Americans as election nears

Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:20 PM PDT Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into play. It's forcing President Barack Obama to defend his own turf — he's pouring money into television ads in the states and dispatching top backers — in the campaign's final week.

Obama warns Americans storm 'is not yet over' Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:16 PM PDT Seeking to project command in a crisis, President Barack Obama told storm-stricken residents along the East Coast that "America is with you" but warned that the disaster "is not yet over."

Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions Posted: 30 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out.

Romney, GOP suddenly plunging onto Democratic turf Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:20 PM PDT Mitt Romney is suddenly plunging into traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and his GOP allies are trying to put Michigan into play. It's forcing President Barack Obama to defend his own turf — he's pouring money into television ads in the states and dispatching top backers — in the campaign's final week.

More than 1.2 million ballots cast in key state of Ohio Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1.2 million Ohio residents have already voted in the state which is seen as one of the most crucial in deciding the November 6 presidential election. The Ohio Secretary of State's office said that as of October 26, about 1.26 million voters had cast ballots by mail-in absentee ballots or through early in-person voting. That represents about 22 percent of the number of people who voted in the 2008 presidential election. Secretary Jon Husted said the pace of early voting was picking up ahead of next week's election. ...

Romney moves to reframe debate on abortion, autos Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:14 PM PDT In ads, his own remarks and most recently the words of a top supporter, Republican Mitt Romney seems determined to soften emphasis on abortion and ignore facts critical to the auto industry as he seeks support from key voting groups in the waning days of a close race for the White House.

Obama warns Americans storm 'is not yet over' Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:16 PM PDT Seeking to project command in a crisis, President Barack Obama told storm-stricken residents along the East Coast that "America is with you" but warned that the disaster "is not yet over."

Gingrich raising cash, profile for Akin Senate bid Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:15 PM PDT Shunned by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin instead turned Tuesday to former presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich to help raise his profile and cash in the closing week of his campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Obama and Christie make unlikely traveling companions Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No one's calling it a "campaign" event. But it will surely dominate the presidential campaign on Wednesday when Democratic President Barack Obama and New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie inspect storm damage in the hard hit coastal state - together. Had Obama been traveling with any old Republican governor, few would have taken notice. But Christie is not any old governor. He's young, at 50, and a possible Republican presidential contender as soon as 2016, should Mitt Romney happen to lose. And he's not just any critic of Obama. ...

Bank of Canada repeats rate message, sees debt slowing Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:11 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - There are signs that Canada's soaring household debt and its heated housing market - two of the biggest headaches for the country's policymakers - are decelerating, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Tuesday Speaking to legislators, Carney also maintained his stance as the most hawkish central banker in the Group of Seven rich countries, saying the bank is more inclined to raise interest rates than to lower them, although not any time soon. ...

For Chris Christie, a Jersey shore drama that's also political Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When someone dared to ask Chris Christie how Superstorm Sandy would influence next week's U.S. elections, the New Jersey governor displayed the confrontation-loving, hard-charging style that has made him a rising national figure. "I don't give a damn about Election Day," Christie told a news conference on Tuesday in Ewing, New Jersey, 64 miles southwest of New York City. "Let the politicians who are on the ballot worry about Election Day. It's not my problem. ...

One dead in Tunisia clashes between police, militants Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:02 PM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - One person was killed when police opened fire during clashes with hardline Salafi Muslims in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Tuesday,‮‮ ‬‬a security source said‮‮‮‬, in the latest sign of religious tensions in the home of the "Arab Spring". "One Salafi was killed after security forces fired when Salafists attacked a police station," a security source said. Tunisia, whose authoritarian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was overthrown in a popular uprising last year, now has an elected Islamist-led government. ...

U.S. and EU push for progress in troubled Balkans Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:47 PM PDT SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Europe and the United States teamed up on Tuesday to press Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo to overcome the legacy of Yugoslavia's bloody collapse as a condition of closer integration with the West. "If you do not make progress you will be left behind," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned at the start of a trip to the region with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. NATO member Croatia will follow Slovenia in joining the 27-nation EU next year, but accession is a very distant prospect for the other five countries carved from federal Yugoslavia in the 1990s. ...

PM Note: After Sandy, Obama Will Tour Jersey with Christie, Playing in Pennsylvania, Tracking Romney 49, Obama 48 Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:45 PM PDT Which of these is more nakedly political?: 1. Mitt Romney traveled to the swing state of Ohio to load boxes of relief items into a truck bound for the hurricane ravaged East Coast. Okay – nice gesture, but the relief event had some trappings of...

Mexican pleads guilty to U.S. agent's murder tied to gun probe Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:44 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - A Mexican man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree murder in the 2010 death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, a killing linked to a controversial U.S. attempt to track gunrunning to Mexico drug cartels. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes made a deal with prosecutors and entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Tucson in the shooting death of agent Brian Terry in the Arizona borderlands, federal officials said. He could face life in prison, but prosecutors will not seek the death penalty. Osorio-Arellanes, 36, was one of five Mexican suspects charged in Terry's murder. ...

Euro zone ministers to discuss Greece, no decisions seen Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers will hold a conference call on Wednesday to discuss progress in negotiations of the revised Greek bailout but are not expected to make any decisions yet, two euro zone officials said on Tuesday. Representatives of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are in talks with the Greek government on reforms that Athens, cut off from market borrowing in 2010, has to implement to get emergency credit from the euro zone and IMF flowing again. ...

Greek government gets key backing to pass reforms Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - An overwhelming majority of Greek Socialist lawmakers have agreed to vote in favor of contested austerity reforms, party officials told Reuters on Tuesday, sharply increasing the odds of securing parliamentary approval for the measures. Near-bankrupt Greece needs to push through spending cuts and tax measures worth 13.5 billion euros as well as a raft of reforms to appease EU and IMF lenders and secure bailout money needed to avoid running out of cash next month. ...

Canada sees G20 talks pressuring Europe, U.S Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:36 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - This weekend's meetings of the Group of 20 leading nations are likely to keep pushing Europe and the United States to confront their debt troubles, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Tuesday. The Mexico City meetings of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors follow talks in Tokyo more than two weeks ago, which endorsed a checklist of policy reforms aimed at pressuring Europe and the United States to tackle their debt troubles. ...

Obama cancels campaign trip, to view storm damage Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama canceled campaign appearances in Ohio on Wednesday and scheduled a trip to New Jersey instead to survey damage caused by powerful storm Sandy, a move designed to portray him as a strong leader a week before Election Day. Obama, who is in a close race with Republican rival Mitt Romney, has dropped three days of campaigning in battleground states to oversee the government response to the mammoth storm, which crippled New York City and much of the eastern United States. ...

Obama to air ads in Mich. touting auto bailout Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:28 PM PDT President Barack Obama's campaign plans to air advertising in Michigan beginning Wednesday touting the president's support of the auto industry, responding to Republican ads criticizing the president.

Al Gore: 'Sandy' a Symptom of Larger Climate Crisis Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT Former Vice President Al Gore warned in a blog post today that Hurricane Sandy is a "disturbing sign of things to come" if the world doesn't quit "dirty energy." At 1:21 p.m. ET, with large swaths of the Northeast still swimming in the storm's mess,...

Obama, Romney put aside campaign for storm relief - for now Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:16 PM PDT KETTERING, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday briefly put aside their fierce battle for the White House, as they avoided politics to focus on relief efforts after mammoth storm Sandy left millions of Americans struggling to recover. With a week left in a deadlocked election race, Obama canceled campaign trips planned for Tuesday and Wednesday to stay in Washington and supervise storm recovery, while Romney held a storm relief event in the swing state of Ohio but ducked most political talk. The campaign truce was likely to be short-lived. ...

Canadian minister silent on talks over Petronas bid Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:13 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Industry Minister Christian Paradis on Tuesday declined to comment about talks with officials of Petronas , the Malaysian state oil company aiming to revive its C$5.2 billion ($5.2 billion) bid to buy Progress Energy Resources Corp . Paradis stunned markets on Oct 19 by rejecting the deal on the grounds it would not bring a net benefit to Canada. He gave Petronas an extra 30 days to modify its bid, and the company met industry ministry officials last week. "When there is a review under consideration I cannot comment on specifics. ...

Some US emergency call centers down after Sandy: FCC Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:08 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Floods, high winds, snow and related power outages brought on by Hurricane Sandy knocked out a small number of 911 call centers, forcing the emergency service to be re-routed, the Federal Communications Commission's top official said on Tuesday. Some of the rerouted calls came in without location information that police or firefighters need to find the caller, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told a news conference to discuss communications outages. FCC officials declined to say where the affected call centers were. ...

Poll: Race Still Tight Before Storm Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:01 PM PDT   A tightening of the gender gap and a closer race among political independents mark trends among likely voters the past several days, but with no meaningful change to the bottom line in the evenly matched 2012 presidential race. Likely voters divide by 49-48 percent...

Washington D.C. escapes worst of storm Sandy Posted: 30 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The nation's capital appeared to have escaped the worst of the mammoth storm Sandy on Tuesday, although concerns remained about the potential for severe flooding along the Potomac River. Washington, D.C., suffered high winds and rains that brought down trees on some homes and flooded a few roads. But the area got off lightly compared to New York City and New Jersey, where Sandy came ashore on Monday night. More than 4 inches of rain fell over the course of the storm in Washington, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. ...

TransCanada mulls new oil line, no damage from Sandy Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:59 PM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp said on Tuesday it will decide early next year on whether to go ahead with a pipeline to carry up to one million barrels of crude oil a day from Alberta's oil sands to refineries in Eastern Canada and on the U.S. East Coast. The company, Canada's largest pipeline operator, also reported a 4 percent drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday and said its power plants in the U.S. Northeast, including the 2,480-megawatt Ravenswood plant in the New York borough of Queens, were undamaged by Hurricane Sandy. ...

Romney, Obama, talk of Sandy week before election Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT A day after the East Coast superstorm, both presidential candidates were appealing for donations — but for relief agencies instead of for their campaigns.

Factbox: Northeast service suspensions due to Hurricane Sandy Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:37 PM PDT (Reuters) - As the Northeast recovers from Hurricane Sandy, the following is a list of service updates for New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia area: * More than 15,770 flights had been canceled as of early Tuesday, covering Sunday through Wednesday, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com. * JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports are closed until further notice, according to the Port Authority. * Dulles and Reagan airports near Washington, D.C., Philadelphia International Airport and Boston's Logan Airport all said some flights would resume on Tuesday afternoon. ...

New Italy law tackles rampant corruption Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:26 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italy passed an anti-corruption law on Tuesday, the latest move by the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti to shed the country's image tarnished by former leader Silvio Berlusconi. Monti, who took office last November to replace the scandal-plagued Berlusconi, made approval of the law a confidence motion in his administration in order to speed its passage through both houses of parliament. The new law increases prison sentences for public officials convicted of demanding bribes, abuse of office or influence peddling. ...

East Coast crippled by gigantic storm, 30 dead Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of the massive storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and a wide swath of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and extensive power outages. The death toll climbed to at least 30. Sandy, which crashed ashore with hurricane-force winds on Monday near the New Jersey gambling resort of Atlantic City as the biggest storm to hit the country in generations, swamped parts of New York's subway system and Manhattan's Wall Street district, closing financial markets for a second day. ...

Indicted ex-lawmaker poses dilemma for Ill. Dems Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT Punching a straight Democratic ticket on Election Day has been a Chicago tradition for decades.

Lukewarm jobs report awaits Americans as election nears Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth likely picked up in October, but not enough to prevent the unemployment rate from rising off a near four-year low, although that might not matter for next week's presidential election. Coming four days ahead of the tight contest, the closely watched employment report on Friday is not expected to shift much from its recent pattern, limiting its impact on voters. Employers are expected to have added 125,000 jobs to their payrolls in October, up from 114,000 in September, according to a Reuters survey of economists. ...

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