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• Romney's comments ripple across battleground map
• Romney comments bring battleground-states debate
• THE RACE: GOP struggles to parse Romney remarks
• Romney's comments ripple across battleground map
• Google competition probe will be done by year end: trade agency
• Mexico's Pena Nieto optimistic on labor reform bill
• Obama boosted by upbeat housing reports, new polls
• NY-NJ Port Authority needs toll hikes: consultants
• Six million Americans likely to pay healthcare tax in 2016
• Suu Kyi meets Obama, receives medal from Congress
• Corporate corruption a consideration for U.S. voters: poll
• Quebec says its pension fund to help fend off takeovers
• Marco Rubio Calls Romney's I-Wish-I-Were-Latino Comment: 'A Joke'
• U.S. official says Benghazi consulate was "terrorist attack"
• Benghazi police mutiny after U.S. Libya envoy killed
• Bernanke briefs lawmakers on fiscal cliff
• Heller seeks distance from Romney comments
• Al Qaeda threatens to kill French hostages in Niger
• Boeing defense CEO says BAE-EADS merger needs scrutiny
• Officer: Insider attacks aimed at Western resolve
• Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets Congress' highest honor
• Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people
• Analysis: Options limited to finance Chicago teachers contract
• Police begin enforcing controversial Arizona immigration measure
• Inspector faults 14 Justice employees, clears Holder in gun probe
• Actress sues California man linked to anti-Muslim film
• U.N. chief says anti-Islam filmmaker abused freedom of expression
• Romney comments bring battleground-states debate
• Nexen takeover by China's CNOOC faces political test in Canada
• In Presidential Decathlon, Obama is Winning
• Islamic states to reopen quest for global blasphemy law
• International tourism to U.S. taking off again: White House
• Romney's "47 percent" remarks damage his image with voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Romney's comments ripple across battleground map Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:34 PM PDT Mitt Romney's off-handed comment that he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes has quickly entered the bloodstream in the presidential campaign's most hard-fought states.

Romney comments bring battleground-states debate Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT Mitt Romney's comments about Americans who don't pay income tax sparked discussion across the presidential campaign's battleground states. Some examples.

THE RACE: GOP struggles to parse Romney remarks Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:38 AM PDT Being called "obviously inarticulate" by your running mate isn't something a presidential candidate ever wants to hear.

Romney's comments ripple across battleground map Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:34 PM PDT Mitt Romney's off-handed comment that he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income taxes has quickly entered the bloodstream in the presidential campaign's most hard-fought states.

Google competition probe will be done by year end: trade agency Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission is moving expeditiously to decide if Google used its search clout to harm competitors and expects to complete its investigation by the end of the year, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said on Wednesday. In a speech at Georgetown University's law school, Leibowitz said the agency was weighing evidence to decide if Google, the world's largest search engine, manipulated its search results to steer users to its new businesses, like travel search, which could be in violation of the law. ...

Mexico's Pena Nieto optimistic on labor reform bill Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Mexico's incoming president Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday raised pressure on his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to back a labor reform proposed by the outgoing administration, saying he was optimistic Congress would pass it. The draft bill put forward this month is viewed as a litmus test of cooperation between the centrist PRI and President Felipe Calderon's conservatives. The lower house of Congress has 11 more days to either approve or reject it. ...

Obama boosted by upbeat housing reports, new polls Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:30 PM PDT Fresh signs of a national housing rebound and growing support in public opinion polls boosted President Barack Obama's bid for a new term in the White House on Wednesday as Republican rival Mitt Romney struggled to quell his video controversy.

NY-NJ Port Authority needs toll hikes: consultants Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:27 PM PDT (Reuters) - The long-awaited World Trade Center should be finished within its $14.8 billion budget, but the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the agency rebuilding the site, must raise tolls as it still faces major shortfalls in cash flow in coming years, a consultants' report said on Wednesday. As a result, the Port Authority not only must rely on planned toll increases, but also must find additional ways of raising money - from advertising to public-private partnerships - which could produce about $150 million a year, said consultants at Navigant Consulting Inc and Rothschild Inc. ...

Six million Americans likely to pay healthcare tax in 2016 Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. budget experts raised their forecast on Wednesday of how many Americans will probably have to pay a penalty in 2016 for not buying health insurance to 6 million from 4 million. The 50 percent increase was likely to draw fire from Republicans on the campaign trail who want to repeal President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and who reject the penalty as a government intrusion into the lives of individuals. ...

Suu Kyi meets Obama, receives medal from Congress Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House and received the highest congressional award on Wednesday. Suu Kyi, making a coast-to-coast U.S. tour, held private talks with Obama in the Oval Office after being feted by lawmakers in the ornate U.S. Capitol, where she was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal for her long fight for democracy in a country ruled by army generals since 1962. ...

Corporate corruption a consideration for U.S. voters: poll Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:20 PM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - A survey conducted for a U.S. lawfirm found that almost two-thirds of likely voters polled would consider a candidate's commitment to addressing corporate wrongdoing as part of their decision-making process in the upcoming U.S. election. The law firm Labaton Sucharow LLP, which has a practice that specializes in representing whistleblowers, released its 2nd annual "Integrity Survey of the American Public" on Wednesday, in what it termed an attempt to gauge attitudes toward corporate ethics. The poll was conducted by the market research firm ORC International. ...

Quebec says its pension fund to help fend off takeovers Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:19 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - New Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, who fought the U.S. takeover bid for home-improvement chain Rona Inc, said on Wednesday that the role of Quebec's pension fund should be strengthened to keep corporate headquarters in Quebec hands. The separatist leader made the comments as she named former academic Nicolas Marceau as finance minister in her new government, telling him that part of his mandate was "to restore order to our public finances. ...

Marco Rubio Calls Romney's I-Wish-I-Were-Latino Comment: 'A Joke' Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:19 PM PDT ABC News' Michael Falcone: In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called Mitt Romney's I-wish-I-were-Latino comment, which came to light in a leaked video tape this week, a "joke." "I think he meant it as a joke," Rubio said on a conference...

U.S. official says Benghazi consulate was "terrorist attack" Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top U.S. counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars struck the consulate on September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died. ...

Benghazi police mutiny after U.S. Libya envoy killed Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:19 PM PDT BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan police in Benghazi have mutinied and refuse to serve under the man appointed by the government to take over security following last week's storming of the U.S. consulate in which the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. With no one clearly in charge in Libya's second city and major oil port, the officer named by the government in Tripoli to replace both Benghazi's police chief and the deputy interior minister responsible for the eastern region told Reuters that he had asked for the army to be sent in if he could not start work. ...

Bernanke briefs lawmakers on fiscal cliff Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:14 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke trekked to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to tutor Senate lawmakers on the economic dangers of the looming "fiscal cliff," the nearly $600 billion in planned spending cuts and tax hikes that will bite at the start of next year unless lawmakers act. Bernanke, who has publicly warned that dawdling by lawmakers was putting the U.S. economy in peril, was expected to speak to members of the Senate Finance Committee for about an hour behind closed doors on Wednesday, in a meeting requested by the panel chairman, Democrat Max Baucus. ...

Heller seeks distance from Romney comments Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:13 PM PDT Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada distanced himself Wednesday from fellow Republican Mitt Romney's comments that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on the government.

Al Qaeda threatens to kill French hostages in Niger Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The North African arm of al Qaeda threatened to kill French hostages kidnapped in Niger if Paris tried to mount a military intervention in northern Mali, a regional news website reported on Wednesday. Sahara Media quoted a statement from al Qaeda's north African arm AQIM as saying France had "imprudently" worsened the crisis in Mali by seeking armed intervention in the north of the country. AQIM, which operates across West and North Africa's vast Sahara desert, now controls with its Islamist allies the northern two-thirds of Mali, which borders Niger. ...

Boeing defense CEO says BAE-EADS merger needs scrutiny Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A merger of Europe's EADS and Britain's BAE Systems Plc would raise national security and industrial questions and should be reviewed carefully by government regulators, the head of Boeing Co's defense operations said on Wednesday. "We would expect that to be subjected to all the normal regulatory scrutiny," Dennis Muilenburg told Reuters at the annual Air Force Association conference. "There are ... national security questions, industrial questions, and those will have to be dealt with. ...

Officer: Insider attacks aimed at Western resolve Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:05 PM PDT A series of "insider attacks" against U.S. and allied troops by Afghan forces are an attempt by the Taliban to drive a wedge between coalition and Afghan troops, a senior officer said Wednesday. But he said that while Western troops are now warier of Afghan partners, they are determined to avoid a full breakdown in trust.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets Congress' highest honor Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT Lawmakers united by their respect of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee) have presented her with Congress' highest civilian honor in a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda.

Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:59 PM PDT Nearly 6 million Americans — most of them in the middle class — will face a tax penalty for not carrying medical coverage once President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law is fully in place, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday.

Analysis: Options limited to finance Chicago teachers contract Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago public school teachers returned to their classrooms on Wednesday but thorny questions remained over how Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the cash-strapped school system will pay for the tentative contract that ended a strike of more than a week. The three-year contract, which has an option for a fourth year and which awaits a ratification vote by the 29,000-member Chicago Teachers Union, calls for an average 17.6 percent pay raise over four years and some benefit improvements. ...

Police begin enforcing controversial Arizona immigration measure Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona police on Wednesday began enforcing a controversial "show-your-papers" provision of a state law targeting illegal immigration as civil rights groups prepared to document allegations of racial profiling. Police in the border state with Mexico are now authorized to begin conducting immigration status checks of anyone they stop for any reason and suspect of being in the country illegally after a federal judge on Tuesday lifted an injunction against the provision requiring such checks. The measure, upheld by the U.S. ...

Inspector faults 14 Justice employees, clears Holder in gun probe Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:44 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog faulted 14 federal employees on Wednesday for the botched anti-gun-trafficking effort known as "Operation Fast and Furious," prompting two senior officials to leave the government but clearing Attorney General Eric Holder of any wrongdoing. Congressional Republicans during a series of hearings investigating the failed operation sharply criticized Holder, the nation's top law-enforcement official appointed by President Barack Obama, during this year's presidential campaign. One U.S. ...

Actress sues California man linked to anti-Muslim film Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:43 PM PDT (Reuters) - An actress in an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world sued a California man linked to the film on Wednesday, accusing him of duping her into appearing in the video she had been led to believe was a desert adventure movie. Actress Cindy Lee Garcia also named Google Inc and its YouTube unit, where the film was posted on the Internet, as defendants in the case, citing invasion of privacy and other allegations. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court also requested that the film be removed from the Internet. ...

U.N. chief says anti-Islam filmmaker abused freedom of expression Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday the maker of an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world abused his right to freedom of expression by making the movie, which he called a "disgraceful and shameful act." The film, posted on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims," mocked the Prophet Mohammad and portrayed him as a womanizer and a fool. It sparked days of deadly anti-American violence in many Muslim countries, including an assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in Libya in which the U.S. ...

Romney comments bring battleground-states debate Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT Mitt Romney's comments about Americans who don't pay income tax sparked discussion across the presidential campaign's battleground states. Some examples.

Nexen takeover by China's CNOOC faces political test in Canada Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Nexen Inc should have an easy time getting its shareholders to approve the $15.1 billion takeover of the Canadian oil and gas producer by China's CNOOC Ltd . The biggest risks to the deal come from politicians and bureaucrats in Canada and the United States as they agonize over how much of the continent's energy assets should be absorbed by a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Nexen shareholders vote on CNOOC's $27.50-a-share offer at a meeting at a Calgary conference center on Thursday morning, and the transaction is expected to get their blessing easily. ...

In Presidential Decathlon, Obama is Winning Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:35 PM PDT Presidential campaigns aren't decided on the last day of a race.  They are decided in all the days and moments leading up to Election Day. They turn toward the candidate who puts together a lead going into the final voting in November, and who won...

Islamic states to reopen quest for global blasphemy law Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - A leading Islamic organization signaled on Wednesday that it will revive long-standing attempts to make insults against religions an international criminal offence. The bid follows uproar across the Muslim world over a crude Internet video clip filmed in the United States and cartoons in a French satirical magazine that lampoon the Prophet Mohammad. But it appears unlikely to win acceptance from Western countries determined to resist restrictions on freedom of speech and already concerned about the repressive effect of blasphemy laws in Muslim countries such as Pakistan. ...

International tourism to U.S. taking off again: White House Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More people from around the world are holding court with Disney World princesses and pondering the Grand Canyon's depths this year, all the while boosting the U.S. economy, according to a White House report released on Wednesday that found international tourism to the United States is growing. The number of international visitors to the United States rose 10 percent in the first three months of 2012 from the same period in 2011, the report found, which estimated that demand for tourist visas would grow almost 19 percent this year from last. ...

Romney's "47 percent" remarks damage his image with voters: Reuters/Ipsos poll Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's dismissal of almost half the U.S. electorate in a secretly recorded video has hurt his image, although it may not determine how people vote on November 6. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday showed that more than two in five registered voters, or 43 percent, viewed Romney less favorably after an excerpt of the video was shown to them online. ...

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