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• 'Ohio': So easy to say, so complicated to win
• Romney declines to visit 'sharp-tongued' hosts of 'The View'
• Russian punk band members to be sent to remote prison
• Cardinal sparks uproar with Muslim scare video at Vatican
• Top 20 best cities for trick-or-treating
• Costa Concordia captain apologizes to victims at hearing
• Senate is Democrats’ to lose as five more states shift
• Ohio appeals to Supreme Court on early, in-person voting
• Photos: Unusual modes of transportation
• ACLU sues Morgan Stanley for racial bias in subprime mortgages
• Amateurs find 'Tatooine' planet with two suns
• Cuban missile crisis: closer to WW III than you thought
• Hostpital at center of meningitis scare battles to save lives
• Obama camp predicts feistier showing in debate #2
• 9/11 kin to watch Gitmo hearings from Army bases
• Photos: Looking back at history's first ladies
• Syrian rebel arms going to jihadists, report shows
• Girls may not have riskier sex after HPV vaccination
• Landmark mosque in Aleppo burned in fighting
• Roth and Shapley win Nobel prize for economics
• Prepping for the next debate and more to watch today
• Centrist Sen. Specter died fighting for moderation
• This time, voters pose the debate questions
• Cardboard bicycle can change the world, says Israeli inventor
• Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett dies in auto accident in Texas

'Ohio': So easy to say, so complicated to win Posted: 15 Oct 2012 01:45 PM PDT O-HI-O. So easy to say, so complicated to win.

Romney declines to visit 'sharp-tongued' hosts of 'The View' Posted: 15 Oct 2012 01:29 PM PDT Ann Romney will visit ABC's "The View" solo Thursday, her husband no longer available to appear on the show he once referred to as "high risk."

Russian punk band members to be sent to remote prison Posted: 15 Oct 2012 12:57 PM PDT Russian prisons are notorious for squalid conditions and often brutal treatment of inmates by personnel.

Cardinal sparks uproar with Muslim scare video at Vatican Posted: 15 Oct 2012 12:40 PM PDT The seven-minute clip, called "Muslim Demographics," was the talk of an international gathering of bishops on Monday.

Top 20 best cities for trick-or-treating Posted: 15 Oct 2012 12:08 PM PDT For all you serious candy seekers hitting the streets this Halloween, look no further. Today, real estate website Zillow.com announced the results of their fourth-annual Trick-or-Treat Index, ranking the top 20 best cities for little ghosts and goblins around the nation to collect the most...

Costa Concordia captain apologizes to victims at hearing Posted: 15 Oct 2012 11:01 AM PDT Luciano Castro, an Italian survivor, said Francesco Schettino appeared "embarrassed" when they spoke briefly.

Senate is Democrats’ to lose as five more states shift Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:44 AM PDT The six-year terms in the Senate produce a curious electoral quirk: The party that controls the chamber going into the election is not necessarily the one in the best position to control it coming out of the election, even in a neutral political environment.  This is because the 33 or 34 seats up for election [...]

Ohio appeals to Supreme Court on early, in-person voting Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:26 AM PDT Three weeks before Election Day, Republican Party leaders in Ohio have asked the Supreme Court to step in and allow the state's early in-person voting restriction to take effect.

Photos: Unusual modes of transportation Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:09 AM PDT

ACLU sues Morgan Stanley for racial bias in subprime mortgages Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:36 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union sued Morgan Stanley on Monday, alleging racial discrimination over packaging subprime mortgage loans into securities. The suit is the first to directly accuse an investment bank, rather than a lender, over loans that violate federal civil rights laws, the group said at a press conference. Morgan Stanley encouraged a unit of now-bankrupt New Century Financial Corp to target black borrowers disproportionately with loans that had a strong possibility of foreclosure and unjustifiably high costs, the suit alleges. ...

Amateurs find 'Tatooine' planet with two suns Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:19 AM PDT Amateur astronomers have helped discover an alien planet with two suns and a twinkling twist: The entire twin-sun setup, a real-life version of Tatooine from "Star Wars," is orbited by two more stars — a solar system that is the first of its kind known.

Cuban missile crisis: closer to WW III than you thought Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT "My fellow Americans, with a heavy heart, and in necessary fulfillment of my oath of office, I have ordered – and the United States Air Force has now carried out – military operations with conventional weapons only, to remove a major nuclear weapons build-up from the soil of Cuba."

Hostpital at center of meningitis scare battles to save lives Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:43 AM PDT Staff at St. Thomas Hospital have battled around the clock for more than two weeks to the save the lives of patients stricken with meningitis.

Obama camp predicts feistier showing in debate #2 Posted: 15 Oct 2012 08:20 AM PDT Obama and his advisers are serving notice that he won't make the same mistakes twice.

9/11 kin to watch Gitmo hearings from Army bases Posted: 15 Oct 2012 07:53 AM PDT A military installation in Brooklyn is welcoming families of 9/11 victims this week to watch pretrial hearings in Cuba for five men charged in the terrorist attacks.

Photos: Looking back at history's first ladies Posted: 15 Oct 2012 07:28 AM PDT

Syrian rebel arms going to jihadists, report shows Posted: 15 Oct 2012 07:02 AM PDT For months, the U.S. has been helping Arab allies coordinate arms shipments to rebel fighters in Syria. Unfortunately, most of those weapons are going to radical Islamists instead of secular opposition groups.

Girls may not have riskier sex after HPV vaccination Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:31 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls who had been vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) weren't more likely to get other sexually transmitted infections or to become pregnant, in a new study from Georgia. That goes against worries on the part of some that getting the vaccine - which is supposed to ultimately help prevent cervical cancer - would encourage girls to become sexually active or engage in riskier sex than they otherwise would. ...

Landmark mosque in Aleppo burned in fighting Posted: 15 Oct 2012 04:53 AM PDT Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered on Monday immediate repairs to a historic mosque in the city of Aleppo after fierce fighting between rebels and regime forces set parts of the compound on fire over the weekend.

Roth and Shapley win Nobel prize for economics Posted: 15 Oct 2012 04:29 AM PDT The U.S. economists researched how to match different economic agents such as students for schools or even organ donors with patients.

Prepping for the next debate and more to watch today Posted: 15 Oct 2012 04:12 AM PDT President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will remain hunkered down Monday prepping for the second presidential debate, which is 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Obama's mission is to turn around what was widely panned as a lackluster performance in the first debate and be more aggressive and less "polite." Romney's mission is to come out the [...]

Centrist Sen. Specter died fighting for moderation Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:55 AM PDT Arlen Specter, a pugnacious and prominent former moderate in the U.S. Senate who developed the single-bullet theory in President John F. Kennedy's assassination and played starring roles in Supreme Court confirmation hearings, lost a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma at a time when Congress is more politically polarized than anyone serving there — or living in America — can remember.

This time, voters pose the debate questions Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:21 AM PDT The every-four-years ritual of a national "town hall" style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television. Moderator Carole Simpson was so nervous about turning over the microphone to regular folks and their questions that she spent days mapping out the presidential candidates and their issues on "a zillion 3-by-5 cards," in case she had to take over the questioning herself.

Cardboard bicycle can change the world, says Israeli inventor Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:04 AM PDT MOSHAV AHITUV, Israel (Reuters) - A bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard has the potential to change transportation habits from the world's most congested cities to the poorest reaches of Africa, its Israeli inventor says. Izhar Gafni, 50, is an expert in designing automated mass-production lines. He is an amateur cycling enthusiast who for years toyed with an idea of making a bicycle from cardboard. He told Reuters during a recent demonstration that after much trial and error, his latest prototype has now proven itself and mass production will begin in a few months. ...

Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett dies in auto accident in Texas Posted: 15 Oct 2012 02:48 AM PDT HOUSTON - Olympic BMX cyclist Kyle Bennett was killed in an automobile accident in eastern Texas. He was 33.

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