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• THE RACE: After final debate, a mad rush to home
• In debates and life, Romney likes the rules
• Questions and answers on third presidential debate
• Meningitis probe could hit hospital drug supplies: U.S.
• Baha'is most persecuted religion in Iran: U.N. investigator
• Buzzy or Bust? Campaign Slogans Stump Some Voters
• Face to face: It's the final Obama-Romney debate
• Akin aide uses profanity in shot at McCaskill
• Presidential Debate: Live Blog and Fact Check
• Guinea-Bissau: Portugal behind failed coup bid
• Syria says sanctions hurting its children
• Analysis: Final debate to come down to leadership
• Obama faces tough call on Iran oil sanctions
• Republican Senate hopefuls in tight races warm to Romney
• GOP's McMahon ad targets Conn. Obama voters
• Report: Super PAC, House ad spending nearly on par
• AP Exclusive: France to send drones to Mali region
• Dead Heat Ahead of Debate: ABC News Poll
• Catholics want more focus on poverty than abortion: survey
• Estranged wife of suspected Wisconsin spa gunman among dead
• Clintons preside at star-studded opening of Haitian industrial park
• Candidates seek foreign policy edge in 3rd debate
• Real Oct. Surprise ... or Rick Roll?
• Iran hangs ten drug smugglers: report
• Rep. Rush: Ailing Rep. Jackson en route to Mayo
• No longer a blank slate: Obama, 4 years later
• Obama and Romney meet for final debate as race tightens
• Factbox: Obama, Romney positions on energy policy
• Correction: Presidential Campaign-Hispanic Voters
• Decision soon on general's demotion, punishment
• Obama's Bear-Hugger Invited to Debate
• Romney Heard But Not Seen in Mia Love Ad
• Correction: Romney-Russia story

THE RACE: After final debate, a mad rush to home Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:14 AM PDT After Monday's final debate, just two weeks remain. Expect President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney to supercharge their ground games in a last-ditch effort to close the deal with voters.

In debates and life, Romney likes the rules Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:26 AM PDT When it comes to debates, Mitt Romney loves the rules.

Questions and answers on third presidential debate Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:38 AM PDT Libya. Israel. The Palestinians. Iran. Afghanistan. Pakistan. China. Terrorism.

Meningitis probe could hit hospital drug supplies: U.S. Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:59 PM PDT (Reuters) - The extended shutdown of a sister company of the pharmacy at the center of the deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak may exacerbate drug shortages for some hospitals and healthcare providers as the number of infection cases neared 300, U.S. health regulators said. Ameridose, a drug manufacturer owned by the same people who own New England Compounding Center (NECC), has been closed since October 10. It will remain shuttered until November 5 while authorities inspect the plant, at least temporarily cutting off supplies to its customers. ...

Baha'is most persecuted religion in Iran: U.N. investigator Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:48 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Members of the Baha'i community in Iran are the most persecuted religious minority in the Islamic Republic, where suppression of alternative faiths is growing worse, U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed said on Monday. Shaheed also warned that the increasingly harsh sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program may be preventing normal Iranians from exercising their human rights because they face greater difficulties accessing medicine and other basic necessities. ...

Buzzy or Bust? Campaign Slogans Stump Some Voters Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:45 PM PDT Voters sound off on 2012 slogans for Mitt Romney, President Obama

Face to face: It's the final Obama-Romney debate Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:44 PM PDT Foreign policy took command of the campaign spotlight Monday at the third and final debate between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, two weeks before Election Day in a close race for the White House dominated by pocketbook issues and the economy.

Akin aide uses profanity in shot at McCaskill Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:40 PM PDT An aide to Todd Akin on Monday used a profanity in a tweet to extend the GOP Senate hopeful's weekend analogy comparing Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill to a "dog" who fetches problems from Washington. Meanwhile, McCaskill launched a campaign tour with a series of small-town stops aimed at improving her showing in rural Missouri.

Presidential Debate: Live Blog and Fact Check Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:40 PM PDT ABC  News will be live blogging and fact checking the third and final presidential debate, which is focused on foreign policy, will be moderated by CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer, and held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. Anchored live stream coverage from ABC...

Guinea-Bissau: Portugal behind failed coup bid Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:35 PM PDT BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's interim government accused Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries of being behind an assault on an air force base, saying it was part of a strategy to return to power the West African nation's exiled former prime minister. The military of the tiny coup-prone former Portuguese colony repelled the attack near the capital Bissau early on Sunday during a two-hour gun battle that killed six people. "The attack ... ...

Syria says sanctions hurting its children Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:31 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sanctions imposed on Syria by the European Union, the United States and others over its 19-month conflict are "immoral and illegal" and harming Syrian children, the government wrote in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released on Monday. The letter from the Syrian government was in response to a recent report by Leila Zerrougui, Ban's special representative for children and armed conflict, who accused both sides in Syria of targeting children with bomb attacks, sexual violence and torture. ...

Analysis: Final debate to come down to leadership Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:28 PM PDT Voters care much less about global problems than they do about the economy, but Monday's debate on foreign policy still matters in a way that could tilt the election. This is the night for President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney to leave a lasting impression about leadership.

Obama faces tough call on Iran oil sanctions Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:26 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just weeks after the election, President Barack Obama will be faced with a pivotal decision on oil sanctions on Iran, in which he will have to balance the need to stay tough on Tehran without pushing oil prices too high. In considering whether to extend a new series of six-month exemptions to Washington's oil sanctions, the administration must decide whether China, India, South Korea and other nations have done enough to wean themselves from Iranian oil. Forcing cuts that are too aggressive could fuel a new rally in oil prices, benefiting Iran and hurting allies. ...

Republican Senate hopefuls in tight races warm to Romney Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:25 PM PDT (Reuters) - Republican Senate candidates in tight races in Indiana and Arizona have begun featuring endorsements from Mitt Romney following the Republican presidential candidate's rise in the polls, campaigns said. Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock on Monday launched a television and radio ad statewide that features Romney endorsing the conservative state treasurer in a tight race against Democratic congressman Joe Donnelly. "This fall, I'm supporting Richard Mourdock for Senate," Romney says in the ad. ...

GOP's McMahon ad targets Conn. Obama voters Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon is courting ticket-splitters in a new ad in which four supporters of President Barack Obama, who has a double-digit lead in the state, say they also will cast ballots for her. Her campaign strongly denied she was writing off Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, saying she supports the former Massachusetts governor "100 percent."

Report: Super PAC, House ad spending nearly on par Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:09 PM PDT Outside political groups are spending nearly the same as congressional campaigns themselves in about two dozen competitive elections this year.

AP Exclusive: France to send drones to Mali region Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT France will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali's feeble government win back the northern part of the country from al-Qaida-linked rebels, The Associated Press has learned.

Dead Heat Ahead of Debate: ABC News Poll Posted: 22 Oct 2012 02:01 PM PDT Mitt Romney carries newfound competitiveness in trust to handle international issues into the final presidential debate, combined with his highest personal popularity of the 2012 campaign. But continued weakness in his perceived economic priorities is keeping the race a close one. Among other shifts, after...

Catholics want more focus on poverty than abortion: survey Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:56 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most U.S. Catholics think the church should focus more on social justice and helping the poor, even if it means focusing less on issues like abortion, according to a poll released Monday by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute. The 2012 American Values Survey finding on Catholics goes against the focus of many U.S. Catholic bishops, who have stressed the church's ban on abortion and artificial contraception in their public policy statements. ...

Estranged wife of suspected Wisconsin spa gunman among dead Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:54 PM PDT MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The estranged wife of the suspected gunman in a shooting rampage at a Milwaukee-area spa was among the three women killed, officials said on Monday. Those killed in the Sunday morning shooting included Zina Haughton, 42, of Brown Deer, Wisconsin, who worked at the spa and was suspect Radcliffe Haughton's wife, officials said. Radcliffe Haughton, 45, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Azana Salon and Spa in suburban Brookfield hours after the shooting. The other women killed were Cary Robuck, 35, of Racine, Wisconsin, and Maelyn M. ...

Clintons preside at star-studded opening of Haitian industrial park Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:50 PM PDT CAP HAITIEN, Haiti (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the opening of a $300 million industrial park in Haiti on Monday, a venture led by a South Korea textile company that could bring thousands of jobs to the impoverished Caribbean nation. "The people of this country have made real progress in a short time, and we've reached a critical moment," Clinton told an investor lunch for 50 people after touring the 600-acre (246-hectare) park. ...

Candidates seek foreign policy edge in 3rd debate Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:29 PM PDT Still neck-and-neck after all these months, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney head into their third and final debate with each man eager to project an aura of personal strength and leadership while raising doubts about the steadiness and foreign policy credentials of the other guy.

Real Oct. Surprise ... or Rick Roll? Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:27 PM PDT Between Donald Trump's "big announcement" and the ongoing "October Surprise," there is intrigue on the Internet in this last leg of the presidential election. Trump's surprise started last week, with a cliffhanger of a tweet Friday afternoon: Donald J. Trump ‏wrote, "I'll be making a major announcement...

Iran hangs ten drug smugglers: report Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:24 PM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran hanged 10 people convicted of drug trafficking on Monday, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported, part of what rights group Amnesty International called a "state killing spree". Executions are regular events in Tehran, and the latest took place in a prison in the capital. The judiciary said those hanged were members of two drug smuggling gangs, Mehr said. Iran invariably dismisses criticism from Western human rights groups over its high rate of executions, saying it is implementing Islamic law and responding to a major drugs problem. ...

Rep. Rush: Ailing Rep. Jackson en route to Mayo Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:14 PM PDT An Illinois congressman who visited ailing Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says the Chicago Democrat looks good but is in fragile condition.

No longer a blank slate: Obama, 4 years later Posted: 22 Oct 2012 01:09 PM PDT Nearly four years after Barack Obama was elected to the most powerful office in the most powerful country in the world, the question remains: Who is he?

Obama and Romney meet for final debate as race tightens Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:59 PM PDT BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a final time on Monday as opinion polls show their battle for the White House has tightened to a dead heat. With 15 days to go until the November 6 election, the two candidates turn to foreign policy for their third and last debate, which starts at 9 p.m. (0100 GMT on Tuesday). The stakes are high. ...

Factbox: Obama, Romney positions on energy policy Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:59 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have vastly different strategies on how to regulate the newfound energy bounty as well as how to slash the country's dependency on oil imports. The two candidates will meet Monday night for their third and final debate ahead of the November 6 presidential election. While energy may not be in the forefront of the debate, which is slated to focus on foreign policy, the fight over the long-delayed Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline will likely merit a mention. ...

Correction: Presidential Campaign-Hispanic Voters Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT In a story Oct. 21 about Hispanic voters, The Associated Press misidentified New Mexico's governor. Her name is Susana Martinez, not Susannah Martinez. The AP reported erroneously that President Barack Obama signed an executive order in August adopting a new immigration policy for young people. He announced the policy change in June and an implementing directive was signed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Decision soon on general's demotion, punishment Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT Demoting a four-star general for spending misconduct could be harsh and would force the officer to lose as much as $1 million in retirement pay, the Army's top military officer said Monday, noting that a lower level officer would never be asked to pay such a high price.

Obama's Bear-Hugger Invited to Debate Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:47 PM PDT BOCA RATON, Fla. — President Obama's campaign has invited Scott Van Duzer, the bear-hugging Florida restaurant owner who gave Obama a lift last month, to be a guest at tonight's presidential debate. Obama got a friendly boost — literally — from Van Duzer when he...

Romney Heard But Not Seen in Mia Love Ad Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:41 PM PDT Mitt Romney is heard but not seen in a new ad for Utah Republican House candidate Mia Love . Love, who could be the first black woman to serve as a Republican in Congress, is locked in a close race with Democratic incumbent Rep. Jim...

Correction: Romney-Russia story Posted: 22 Oct 2012 12:39 PM PDT In a story Oct. 20 about Russia in the U.S. presidential campaign, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Moscow abstained in a U.N. Security Council vote allowing military intervention in Syria. That vote was on military intervention in Libya, not Syria.

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