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• Clinton takes Benghazi responsibility; GOP unmoved
• Aide: Obama takes responsibility for Libya attack
• Obama-Romney II, three weeks before the election
• Obama-Romney II, three weeks before the election
• Big cash spent in AZ, PA, MA Senate race reports
• Clinton takes Benghazi responsibility; GOP unmoved
• Insight: Could Obama's "ground game" clinch the election?
• Aide: Obama takes responsibility for Libya attack
• Pressure rises on Obama in debate rematch
• Egypt must free Christian held for blasphemy over film: Amnesty
• Political leaders to memorialize slain U.S. ambassador to Libya
• Supreme Court gives Obama camp a win in Ohio early voting tussle
• Q+A: Presidential campaigns invest in grass-roots efforts
• Glenn Beck Puts Out Blue Jeans Line
• Fighting in Sudan border states kills 600: minister
• Colombia, FARC rebels set to start peace talks Wednesday
• No quick appeals review of Fla. voter purge case
• Red State Hero Glenn Beck Has New Blue Jeans Line
• Paul Ryan Opts for Dramatic Entrance in Virginia
• Afghanistan's safest province falling prey to Taliban
• Crowley to Bend Rules at Debate
• Election 2012: No Fun for the Middle
• Social Security benefits get a 1.7 percent bump
• Exclusive: Mineral traders in Rwanda helping fund Congo rebels - U.N. panel
• Exclusive: Rwanda, Uganda arming Congo rebels, providing troops - U.N. panel
• Guantanamo prisoner's opinion on LeBron James treated as top secret at Guantanamo
• Canada set to lose WTO green energy dispute: report
• Analysis: As more U.S. audit work moves to India, concerns arise
• Biden Exaggerated Social Security Role
• Factbox: Obama, Romney positions on energy future
• Bin Laden driver's conviction reversed by U.S. court
• Computer models of Earth's climate change confirmed on Mars
• High court won't block early voting in Ohio

Clinton takes Benghazi responsibility; GOP unmoved Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:01 PM PDT Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's pre-election bid to shoulder blame over the deadly terror attack in Libya failed to silence GOP criticism that President Barack Obama is not protecting U.S. diplomats overseas.

Aide: Obama takes responsibility for Libya attack Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:49 PM PDT A top campaign aide says that President Barack Obama takes responsibility for the consulate attack in Libya that killed four Americans.

Obama-Romney II, three weeks before the election Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:21 PM PDT President Barack Obama sought a steadier showing, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney strove for further political gains in their second of three campaign debates Tuesday night, a nationally televised town hall-style encounter exactly three weeks before Election Day.

Obama-Romney II, three weeks before the election Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:21 PM PDT President Barack Obama sought a steadier showing, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney strove for further political gains in their second of three campaign debates Tuesday night, a nationally televised town hall-style encounter exactly three weeks before Election Day.

Big cash spent in AZ, PA, MA Senate race reports Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:10 PM PDT Republican candidates for the Senate in conservative-leaning states generally outraised their Democratic opponents in the latest fundraising quarter ending Sept. 30, but Arizona proved an exception as former surgeon general Richard Carmona raised nearly $500,000 more than Republican Jeff Flake. Self-funding Republican Tom Smith is pouring millions of his own money into the contest in Pennsylvania. And in Massachusetts, Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren's $12 million haul has helped keep the Massachusetts contest the most expensive Senate race in the nation.

Clinton takes Benghazi responsibility; GOP unmoved Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:01 PM PDT Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's pre-election bid to shoulder blame over the deadly terror attack in Libya failed to silence GOP criticism that President Barack Obama is not protecting U.S. diplomats overseas.

Insight: Could Obama's "ground game" clinch the election? Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:53 PM PDT CLEVELAND/MIAMI (Reuters) - From the outside, it looked like an abandoned storefront in a run-down part of Cleveland. But inside, dozens of supporters of President Barack Obama gathered on a recent Sunday for an event that was part political rally, part religious revival. "Gotta vote" signs hung from the ceiling and smoke from an outside grill wafted through the room. Hot dogs, buns, chips and sugar cookies were laid out on a table for the volunteers, most of whom were African-American. ...

Aide: Obama takes responsibility for Libya attack Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:49 PM PDT A top campaign aide says that President Barack Obama takes responsibility for the consulate attack in Libya that killed four Americans.

Pressure rises on Obama in debate rematch Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:36 PM PDT HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's camp promised that the American public would see a more energized and visionary incumbent on Tuesday night as Obama tries to keep Republican challenger Mitt Romney at bay. Romney's campaign got a much-needed shot in the arm two weeks ago when the Republican came out swinging in the first matchup between the two candidates, while Obama appeared passive and tongue-tied at times. ...

Egypt must free Christian held for blasphemy over film: Amnesty Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:33 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian Coptic Christian arrested on suspicion of posting online an anti-Islam film that ignited Muslim protests around the world should be freed immediately, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Computer science graduate Alber Saber was detained by police in Cairo last month after his neighbors accused him of uploading sections of the film "Innocence of Muslims" and of making another movie that mocks all religions. ...

Political leaders to memorialize slain U.S. ambassador to Libya Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:32 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners were expected to fill a marble rotunda in San Francisco's City Hall on Tuesday for a public memorial to U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, who was killed in a militant attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi last month. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she took responsibility for the security situation at the U.S. Consulate prior to the September 11 attack that killed four Americans. The attack has become the subject of fierce partisan debate ahead of the U.S. presidential campaign. ...

Supreme Court gives Obama camp a win in Ohio early voting tussle Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:31 PM PDT (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Ohio's request to curtail early voting in the state, a victory for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign which had battled Republican efforts to scale back in-person balloting in the days leading up to Election Day. Ohio, critical to the election hopes of Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, began early in-person voting earlier this month but planned to cut it off on November 2, the Friday before the election, except for members of the military. ...

Q+A: Presidential campaigns invest in grass-roots efforts Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the November 6 election just three weeks away, the presidential campaigns are kicking into high gear their efforts to galvanize grass-roots supporters and ensure Americans turn out to vote. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have each mobilized a "ground game" that has local staff knocking on doors, making phone calls, sending mail and otherwise ensuring each campaign's message is widely spread. ...

Glenn Beck Puts Out Blue Jeans Line Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT Radio host Glenn Beck's boycott of his once-beloved Levi's jeans brand, which began last year when he took exception to the "Palestinian kind of march" shown in one of their television commercials, has inspired a new boutique denim line, "cut and sewn in Kentucky in...

Fighting in Sudan border states kills 600: minister Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:29 PM PDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) - More than 600 people have been killed in insurgencies that erupted in two Sudanese states bordering South Sudan last year, Sudan's interior minister said on Tuesday in the first official count. Fighting between Sudan's army and SPLM-North rebels broke out in the oil-producing state of South Kordofan in June 2011, shortly before South Sudan became independent. Violence then spread in September 2011 to nearby Blue Nile state which also borders the new African republic. ...

Colombia, FARC rebels set to start peace talks Wednesday Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:20 PM PDT BOGOTA/OSLO (Reuters) - Colombia's government and Marxist rebels will start peace talks as planned on Wednesday in Oslo in a bid to end nearly half a century of conflict after logistical problems delayed departure of the delegates, Colombia's government said. President Juan Manuel Santos, facing criticism on security issues, has launched the latest attempt to negotiate a deal with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. "We're leaving now with hope, with moderate optimism. ...

No quick appeals review of Fla. voter purge case Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:17 PM PDT The legal fight over Florida's plan to purge almost 200 voters from the rolls because they aren't citizens will have to wait until after the election.

Red State Hero Glenn Beck Has New Blue Jeans Line Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:15 PM PDT Radio host Glenn Beck's boycott of his once-beloved Levi's Jeans brand, which began last year when he took exception to the "Palestinian kind of march" shown in one of their television commercials, has inspired a new, boutique denim line "cut and sewn in Kentucky in...

Paul Ryan Opts for Dramatic Entrance in Virginia Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:07 PM PDT LYNCHBURG, Va. — Three weeks from Election Day, Paul Ryan was wooing voters in the battleground state of Virginia, trying to lure those who had voted for Obama's "promise of hope and change" in 2008 to the Republican ticket in 2012. "You know the dispirited...

Afghanistan's safest province falling prey to Taliban Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Violence is returning to what has long been the most tranquil region of Afghanistan, where fears of a resurgent Taliban are as stark as the ragged holes left by the bombing of two ancient Buddha statues in cliffs facing the Bamiyan valley. Bamiyan had been seen as the country's safest province due to its remote location in the central mountains and the opposition of the dominant local tribe, the Hazara, to the Taliban, mostly ethnic Pashtuns who massacred thousands of Hazara during their austere rule. ...

Crowley to Bend Rules at Debate Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT All is fair in a presidential debate, especially for the moderator. Candy Crowley, CNN's chief political correspondent and tonight's town hall debate moderator, has made it known  that she will dispense with the rules about asking her own questions and interject whenever she sees fit....

Election 2012: No Fun for the Middle Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT Memo to presidential candidates: For most people in the middle of American politics, the 2012 election is a turn-off. It's a result worth knowing as the presidential candidates head into their second debate tonight: The contest overall is resonating more among partisan and ideological true-believers...

Social Security benefits get a 1.7 percent bump Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:58 PM PDT More than 56 million Americans on Social Security will get raises averaging $19 a month come January, one of the smallest hikes since automatic adjustments for inflation were adopted in 1975, the government announced Tuesday.

Exclusive: Mineral traders in Rwanda helping fund Congo rebels - U.N. panel Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:58 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Traders in Rwanda profiting from tin, tungsten and tantalum smuggled across the border from mines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are helping fund a rebellion in their resource-rich neighbor, according to a U.N. expert panel report. The confidential report, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, said while Congolese government requirements that exporters ensure minerals are conflict-free had halted nearly all trade from the country's east, smuggling into Rwanda and Burundi had increased. ...

Exclusive: Rwanda, Uganda arming Congo rebels, providing troops - U.N. panel Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:56 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda's defense minister is commanding a rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is being armed by Rwanda and Uganda, who also sent troops to aid the insurgency in a deadly attack on U.N. peacekeepers, according to a U.N. report. The U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts said in a confidential report that Rwanda and Uganda, despite their denials, continued to support M23 rebels in their six-month fight against Congolese government troops. ...

Guantanamo prisoner's opinion on LeBron James treated as top secret at Guantanamo Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:51 PM PDT GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. security restrictions governing the statements of former CIA captives held at Guantanamo are so stringent that one prisoner's assessment of basketball star LeBron James was treated as a top national secret for two months, his lawyer said on Tuesday. The incident was disclosed by Navy Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki, a defense lawyer for Yemeni defendant Ramzi Binalshibh, one of five prisoners charged with orchestrating the September 11 plot to crash hijacked commercial planes into U.S. buildings. ...

Canada set to lose WTO green energy dispute: report Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:47 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - Canada is set to lose a dispute at the World Trade Organization brought by the European Union and Japan over support for renewable energy in Ontario, according to a newsletter published by a Geneva-based trade think-tank. Ontario's green scheme aimed to guarantee prices for renewable energy as long as it was generated with Canadian made equipment, which Japan described as protectionism when it brought the case against Canada. ...

Analysis: As more U.S. audit work moves to India, concerns arise Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT NEW YORK/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Auditing of U.S. corporations' financial books, a vital underpinning of investor confidence, increasingly relies on work carried out in India, where there is no clear system of oversight. U.S. audit regulators do not conduct regular physical inspections of offshore centers in India where U.S. audit work is performed, Indian accounting officials and employees of large audit firms told Reuters. The U.S. ...

Biden Exaggerated Social Security Role Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT During the vice presidential debate last week, Vice President Joe Biden seemed to significantly over-state his role in the 1983 negotiations over Social Security. Asked about Medicare reform, the vice president said, "Look, I was there when we did that with Social Security in 1983. ...

Factbox: Obama, Romney positions on energy future Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have vastly different strategies on how to regulate the newfound U.S. oil and natural gas bounty and the development of alternative energy sources. Ahead of Tuesday night's debate, advanced car battery maker A123 Systems filed for bankruptcy protection. The company was awarded a $249 million grant through Obama's 2009 stimulus program. Romney's campaign quickly seized on the bankruptcy, saying it was another failure of Obama's "disastrous" energy policy. ...

Bin Laden driver's conviction reversed by U.S. court Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:24 PM PDT (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard, Salim Hamdan, on charges of supporting terrorism, in a long-running case emerging from the American military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that providing support for terrorism was not a war crime at the time of Hamdan's alleged conduct from 1996 to 2001 and therefore could not support a conviction. Human rights activists hailed the ruling as a blow to the legitimacy of the U.S. ...

Computer models of Earth's climate change confirmed on Mars Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Computer models have accurately forecast conditions on Mars and are valid predictors of climate change on Earth, U.S. and French astronomers said on Tuesday. These computer programs predicted Martian glaciers and other features on Earth's planetary neighbor, scientists found. ...

High court won't block early voting in Ohio Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:18 PM PDT The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for voters in the battleground state of Ohio to cast ballots on the three days before Election Day, giving Democrats and President Barack Obama's campaign a victory three weeks before the election.

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