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• 'From away': Maine's 6 Senate hopefuls hail from elsewhere
• Nobel Prize-winning discovery opens new medical window
• Calif. gas prices hit all-time high, prompt calls for probe
• Wealth gap between Congress, average Americans widens
• Lost diaries may help solve 'young Mona Lisa' mystery
• Chavez win in Venezuela creates new set of challenges
• Students suspended for possession of energy mints
• Romney: U.S. should be more assertive on world stage
• Solar eruption may boost Northern Lights tonight
• Man who skipped out on hotel bill nabbed by toothbrush
• Election Day in sight, Romney shows a softer side to voters
• Video: Behind the scenes of Obama’s debate recovery
• Man dead, 3 arrested after hotel wedding brawl in Philadelphia
• 'I'm no vandal,' says man who defaced Rothko art
• Mom who glued kid's hands to wall faces life term
• Drone flight shows Israel is vulnerable: Iran military official
• Commander says Libyan ambassador wanted security team to stay
• Report: Joran van der Sloot impregnates girl despite being in prison
• Romney to slam Obama foreign policy: ‘Hope is not a strategy’
• Japanese, British researchers win Nobel medicine prize
• 6.0 earthquake strikes off northwest Mexico: USGS
• Romney to give foreign policy speech, looking to turn back criticism
• Romney to draw contrast with Obama on foreign policy
• Chavez wins third re-election in tightest race yet
• 50-foot finback whale found dead in Boston Harbor

'From away': Maine's 6 Senate hopefuls hail from elsewhere Posted: 08 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT Maine has always been proud of the commodities it claims as homegrown, among them Stephen King, L.L. Bean, lobster, and a host of political icons including Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell and Olympia Snowe.

Nobel Prize-winning discovery opens new medical window Posted: 08 Oct 2012 11:08 AM PDT Reprogramming ordinary cells to behave like embryonic stem cells offers a way to skirt around ethical problems with human embryos, but safety concerns make future use in treating disease uncertain.

Calif. gas prices hit all-time high, prompt calls for probe Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:51 AM PDT The average price in the state hit $4.668, according to AAA. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called on the FTC to investigate, saying residents need to be protected from "malicious trading schemes."

Wealth gap between Congress, average Americans widens Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:41 AM PDT The median net worth of the current Congress rose 5% during the recession while it fell 39% for the average American. The wealthiest one-third of lawmakers saw their net worth rise 14%.

Lost diaries may help solve 'young Mona Lisa' mystery Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:20 AM PDT Diaries said to have been sent to the U.S. from Britain in the 1960s could provide a vital clue to the origin of a controversial portrait presented in Geneva last month as the original 'Mona Lisa.'

Chavez win in Venezuela creates new set of challenges Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:47 AM PDT Hugo Chavez emerged from Sunday's vote both strengthened and sobered, having reconfirmed his masterful political touch but also winning by his tightest margin yet.

Students suspended for possession of energy mints Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT A group of high school students in Peoria, Ill., were suspended last week after school officials suspected the mints they were eating were actually illegal drugs. Jason McMichael, the father of one of the students, told the Journal Star that his 17-year-old son Eric was suspended for two days from Pekin Community High School and [...]

Romney: U.S. should be more assertive on world stage Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:14 AM PDT Republican Mitt Romney said Monday the risk of conflict in the Middle East conflict "is higher now" than it was when President Barack Obama took office. He proposed that the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria and claimed Obama's withdrawal of troops from Iraq has jeopardized U.S. interests.

Solar eruption may boost Northern Lights tonight Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:58 AM PDT A huge explosion on the sun has flung a wave of solar particles toward Earth, an eruption that may amp up northern lights displays on our planet Monday night (Oct. 8).

Man who skipped out on hotel bill nabbed by toothbrush Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:41 AM PDT A man who skipped out on a lodging bill was later caught later thanks to a common item he left behind in his hotel room. Stephen Evans left a Welsh seaside resort in Llandudno after two nights without paying, according to news.com.au. But Evans left his toothbrush. Police discovered the mouth cleaning instrument in the [...]

Election Day in sight, Romney shows a softer side to voters Posted: 08 Oct 2012 07:32 AM PDT Romney has apparently made the calculation that he cannot win the presidency without opening up about his private world and proving to voters he's not the emotionally distant man Democrats have painted him to be.

Video: Behind the scenes of Obama’s debate recovery Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:59 AM PDT A recent Obama rally in the battleground state of Colorado turned into something of a Seinfeldian air.

Man dead, 3 arrested after hotel wedding brawl in Philadelphia Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:42 AM PDT Philadelphia police have been investigating a violent brawl inside a hotel between the guests of two different wedding parties that left one man dead from an apparent heart attack, and three others arrested.

'I'm no vandal,' says man who defaced Rothko art Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:26 AM PDT A man who claims to have defaced a major painting by Mark Rothko said that Marcel Duchamp, the French artist most famous for his 1917 urinal that shocked the art establishment, would be "happy" at what he had done.

Mom who glued kid's hands to wall faces life term Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:53 AM PDT A Texas woman who admitted to beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall is to be sentenced.

Drone flight shows Israel is vulnerable: Iran military official Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:36 AM PDT The Israeli air force shot down a drone on Saturday after it crossed into southern Israel, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from.

Commander says Libyan ambassador wanted security team to stay Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:20 AM PDT U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens wanted a Security Support Team, made up of 16 special operations soldiers, to stay with him in Libya after their deployment was scheduled to end in August, the commander of that security team told ABC News.

Report: Joran van der Sloot impregnates girl despite being in prison Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:46 AM PDT A Dutch newspaper says that Joran van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima.

Romney to slam Obama foreign policy: ‘Hope is not a strategy’ Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:30 AM PDT Looking to bolster his foreign policy credentials in the final weeks before Election Day, Mitt Romney will accuse President Barack Obama of "passive leadership" in the Middle East.

Japanese, British researchers win Nobel medicine prize Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:23 AM PDT British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for the discovery that mature, specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into blank slates that can become any kind of cell.

6.0 earthquake strikes off northwest Mexico: USGS Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:29 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck in the Gulf of California off the Mexican coast early on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with initial reports suggesting it caused no casualties or significant damage. The quake was centered 57 miles southwest of Los Mochis in Sinaloa, Mexico, at a depth of 6.3 miles, USGS estimates showed. According to Mexico's national seismology institute, the quake measured 5.7 and was centered 99 kilometers (62 miles) southwest of Ahome, Sinaloa. It struck at 1.26 a.m. EDT. ...

Romney to give foreign policy speech, looking to turn back criticism Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:07 AM PDT Mitt Romney plans to deliver a foreign policy speech Monday in which he will try to reverse some of his perceived missteps, most notably his highly criticized response to the terrorist attack in Libya.

Romney to draw contrast with Obama on foreign policy Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:51 PM PDT Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will vow to pursue a more aggressive policy toward the Middle East on Monday if elected in an attempt to draw a sharp distinction with how President Barack Obama has handled Libya, Iran, Syria and the Arab-Israeli dispute.

Chavez wins third re-election in tightest race yet Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:19 PM PDT President Hugo Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project Sunday, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign in which the opposition accused him of unfairly using Venezuela's oil wealth and his near total control of state institutions to his advantage.

50-foot finback whale found dead in Boston Harbor Posted: 07 Oct 2012 09:25 PM PDT Coast Guard officials say a 50-foot finback whale has been found dead, floating in Boston Harbor.

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