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• Clinton: Romney claim about Jeep a 'load of bull'
• Obama aims to project leadership as storm hits
• A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign
• Clinton: Romney claim about Jeep a 'load of bull'
• Sandy's winds topple top of construction crane in New York
• Mourdock: Cannot 'unring the bell' of rape comment
• Canada says tougher rules not yet felt fully in housing market
• Biden, Clinton Fill in for Obama
• Court rules against Polish rocker who tore up Bible
• Anti-corruption crusader rattles India's political class
• Hurricane Sandy on verge of New Jersey landfall
• A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign
• Canada, Japan to start trade talks next month
• Citing Sandy, Sen. Scott Brown Pulls Out of Final Mass Senate Debate
• Washington Metro to remain closed on Tuesday morning
• Sandy "moving quickly" toward New Jersey, Delaware: Hurricane Center
• Ukraine ruling party ahead in vote monitors call flawed
• New Yorkers initially calm in face of Sandy, then worries set in
• Obama's iPod a bit like his electorate _ varied
• Romney Ad Misleading on Jeep Jobs
• Nuclear plants watch wind levels as storm advances
• Supreme Court weighs protection against gray market imports
• Insight: Unable to copy it, China tries building own jet engine
• As election, Sandy draw near, pressure mounts on disaster chief
• ABC / Post Poll: Obama, Romney Back to Tie
• New Romney ad misleads on auto bailout
• California ballot measures draw free-spending billionaires
• 32 Campaign Events Cancelled
• Romney, Ryan Pitched FEMA Cuts
• Obama, Romney curtail campaign events in face of hurricane
• ABC News Moves Penn., Minn., from 'Safe' to 'Lean' Obama
• Germany's Schaeuble tells skeptical UK "EU needs you"
• Obama aims to project leadership as storm hits

Clinton: Romney claim about Jeep a 'load of bull' Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:59 PM PDT Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton have criticized Mitt Romney for saying that Chrysler is shifting production of its Jeep brand autos from Ohio to China.

Obama aims to project leadership as storm hits Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT President Barack Obama the candidate stepped aside Monday so the commander in chief could take over.

A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:34 PM PDT Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy as the sprawling storm roared menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to "do your very best" in donating to relief efforts.

Clinton: Romney claim about Jeep a 'load of bull' Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:59 PM PDT Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton have criticized Mitt Romney for saying that Chrysler is shifting production of its Jeep brand autos from Ohio to China.

Sandy's winds topple top of construction crane in New York Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:59 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City evacuated neighbors of a partially built, 90-story apartment building after the top of a construction crane collapsed in high winds, prompting fears the entire rig could crash to the ground. With the city bracing for Hurricane Sandy, due to make landfall in southern New Jersey later on Monday, the upper arm of the crane dangled over the street near Central Park from what should eventually become the city's tallest residential building. ...

Mourdock: Cannot 'unring the bell' of rape comment Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:53 PM PDT GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says he can't "unring the bell" on comments he made last week about rape, and he's joining a national Republican effort to shift discussion away from his remarks.

Canada says tougher rules not yet felt fully in housing market Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:44 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday that it is too early to assess the impact on the heated housing market or tighter mortgage rules introduced earlier this year, even though there have been some signs of cooling. "The full impact has not been felt yet," Flaherty told CTV Television in an interview. He said there were several factors affecting the property market, including Canadian consumers heeding the repeated warnings by policy makers not to take on too much debt. ...

Biden, Clinton Fill in for Obama Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:44 PM PDT YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – While Hurricane Sandy punished the East Coast, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton stayed on the campaign trail Monday, speaking at the Covelli Center in Youngstown, Ohio Monday afternoon. President Obama canceled his campaign appearances for Monday and Tuesday...

Court rules against Polish rocker who tore up Bible Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:41 PM PDT WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Supreme Court opened the way on Monday for a blasphemy verdict against a rock musician who tore up a Bible on stage, a case that has pitted deep Catholic traditions against a new desire for free expression. Adam Darski, front man with a heavy metal group named Behemoth, ripped up a copy of the Christian holy book during a concert in 2007, called it deceitful and described the Roman Catholic church as "a criminal sect". ...

Anti-corruption crusader rattles India's political class Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:39 PM PDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) - From a shabby house in one of New Delhi's grimmest suburbs, a mild-mannered former tax official has launched a salvo of accusations of corruption involving some of India's most powerful people, rocking the political establishment. In quick succession, Arvind Kejriwal has publicly leveled charges of shady dealings against the son-in-law of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, the outgoing law minister and the leader of the main opposition party. ...

Hurricane Sandy on verge of New Jersey landfall Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:36 PM PDT NEW YORK/REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, lashed the densely populated East Coast on Monday, shutting down transportation, forcing evacuations in flood-prone areas and interrupting the presidential campaign. Fierce winds and flooding racked hundreds of miles of Atlantic coastline and heavy snows were forecast farther inland at higher elevations as the center of the storm moves ashore along the coast of southern New Jersey or Delaware on Monday evening. U.S. ...

A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:34 PM PDT Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Hurricane Sandy as the sprawling storm roared menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to "do your very best" in donating to relief efforts.

Canada, Japan to start trade talks next month Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:32 PM PDT OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada and Japan will launch their first full round of bilateral trade negotiations next month, Trade Minister Ed Fast said on Monday, the latest in a series of bilateral talks Canada has begun with trade partners with multilateral efforts stalled. "Both sides are committed to concluding a comprehensive agreement that will unlock the full potential of our relationship and benefit workers and businesses in both countries," Fast said in a statement. ...

Citing Sandy, Sen. Scott Brown Pulls Out of Final Mass Senate Debate Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:28 PM PDT Hurricane Sandy isn't just affecting the presidential race. It's hitting farther down the ballot as well. The campaign for Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who is in a tightly contested race with a Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, announced that Brown would not be participating in the fourth and final televised...

Washington Metro to remain closed on Tuesday morning Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major public transportation in Washington, halted because of Hurricane Sandy, will not resume on Tuesday morning, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said. Metrorail and Metrobus service will remain suspended due to the hurricane, which is expected to cause widespread havoc in the capital on Monday evening and early on Tuesday morning. WMATA said it will make an announcement on the timing of restored service after it is able to assess damage and weather conditions on Tuesday morning. (Reporting By Karey Wutkowski; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Sandy "moving quickly" toward New Jersey, Delaware: Hurricane Center Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy is "moving quickly" toward New Jersey and Delaware is expected to make landfall along or just south of the southern New Jersey coast within the next few hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Monday. The huge cyclone was 30 miles east-southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, and about 40 miles south of Atlantic City, New Jersey, the center said in an advisory at 5 P.M. EDT (2100 GMT). (Reporting by Kevin Gray' editing by Christopher Wilson)

Ukraine ruling party ahead in vote monitors call flawed Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich's party was on course on Monday to secure a new parliamentary majority, but international monitors condemned the election as flawed and said the country had taken a step back under his leadership. Exit polls and partial results from Sunday's vote showed Yanukovich's Party of the Regions would, with help from long-time allies, win more than half the seats in the 450-member assembly after boosting public sector wages and welfare handouts to win over disillusioned voters in its traditional power bases. ...

New Yorkers initially calm in face of Sandy, then worries set in Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:18 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy aimed straight for them, promising to hammer the place they live with lashing winds and extensive flooding, New Yorkers seemed to be all about nonchalance on Monday morning - an attitude that didn't last into the afternoon. Throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, few store owners had even bothered to board up their buildings. There was little taping of windows or buying of sump pumps. ...

Obama's iPod a bit like his electorate _ varied Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:12 PM PDT President Barack Obama's iPod could pass for a voter outreach tool.

Romney Ad Misleading on Jeep Jobs Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:08 PM PDT A misleading TV ad from Republican nominee Mitt Romney has prompted spirited objections from independent fact-checkers and Democrats for suggesting incorrectly, just days before the election, that automaker Chrysler is moving Jeep production out of Ohio to China. "Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy,...

Nuclear plants watch wind levels as storm advances Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:08 PM PDT Federal regulators and safety officials at nuclear power plants along the Eastern Seaboard were keeping a watchful eye on wind and water levels, preparing to shut plants down should Hurricane Sandy send levels surging.

Supreme Court weighs protection against gray market imports Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court voiced concern on Monday about letting U.S. copyright holders block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, in one of the court's biggest copyright cases in years. The case, likely to result in a close decision, could profoundly affect the roughly $63 billion gray market, in which third parties import brand-name goods protected by trademark or copyright into the United States. ...

Insight: Unable to copy it, China tries building own jet engine Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has designed nuclear missiles and blasted astronauts into space, but one vital technology remains out of reach. Despite decades of research and development, China has so far failed to build a reliable, high performance jet engine. This may be about to change. China's aviation sector is striving for a breakthrough that would end its dependence on Russian and Western power plants for military and commercial aircraft. ...

As election, Sandy draw near, pressure mounts on disaster chief Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the U.S. East Coast little more than a week before the presidential election, President Barack Obama's fortunes may in part depend on how well a former volunteer firefighter from Florida does his job. Craig Fugate, a former paramedic and firefighter who rose to become Florida's top emergency management official, heads the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is the man Obama is counting on to bring relief quickly to millions of people expected to be hit by monster storm Sandy. ...

ABC / Post Poll: Obama, Romney Back to Tie Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT With the election a week away Mitt Romney faces persistent skepticism about his commitment to the middle class, a vulnerability for the Republican challenger that's keeping the race locked tight – a precise dead heat in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, 49-49 percent....

New Romney ad misleads on auto bailout Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:59 PM PDT TITLE: "Who Will Do More?"

California ballot measures draw free-spending billionaires Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:56 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A handful of individual super-donors, business groups and unions have poured more than $350 million into California ballot initiatives ahead of the November 6 election, underscoring the extent to which the state's system of "direct democracy" has morphed into a big-money battleground. Some of the spending is directly tied to the financial interests of the donors. ...

32 Campaign Events Cancelled Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:52 PM PDT FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla.—At his only event of the day Monday after the other two were cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy, Paul Ryan began his rally in this storm-prone state asking the crowd of about 2,000 to send their "prayers and our thoughts to the people in...

Romney, Ryan Pitched FEMA Cuts Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:46 PM PDT As the nation's attention turns to the storm and the federal government gears up to assist states, it is worth noting how funding for FEMA and disaster relief have featured in national politics and the presidential race. Should FEMA be reformed to put a stronger...

Obama, Romney curtail campaign events in face of hurricane Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:44 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama suspended campaigning and returned to Washington on Monday to oversee the response to Hurricane Sandy, while his Republican rival Mitt Romney curtailed political events to show respect for the storm's potential victims. As the storm cuts into the final week of campaigning in an especially close race, both men are acting cautiously to avoid coming across as overtly political while millions of people are imperiled by the massive storm's fierce winds and driving rain. ...

ABC News Moves Penn., Minn., from 'Safe' to 'Lean' Obama Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT Here is the one map you will see today that does not include rain, flooding or wind figures. With one week to go, states that were once considered Obama strongholds now look less solid. Republican groups are putting resources into Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Team Obama...

Germany's Schaeuble tells skeptical UK "EU needs you" Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:36 PM PDT OXFORD (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged Britain on Monday to remain strongly engaged in the European Union, responding to a tide of Euroskepticism that Berlin fears could sweep London towards the exit. Schaeuble's plea, delivered during a visit to Oxford University, came days after British Foreign Secretary William Hague mapped out a very different vision of a much looser EU in which Britain would opt out of many policies. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would visit Britain, an "important partner", for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron next week. ...

Obama aims to project leadership as storm hits Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT President Barack Obama the candidate stepped aside Monday so the commander in chief could take over.

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