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The strategy: Grind it out, get out the vote

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:59 PM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at Springfield High School during a campaign event, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The president is relying heavily on his campaign's massive ground game to carry him across the election finish line.


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Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:35 PM PDT

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How Sandy destroyed years of medical research

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 11:04 AM PDT

Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University Tisch Hospital, after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. Dozens of ambulances lined up outside NYU Tisch Hospital on Monday night as doctors and nurses began the slow process of taking people out. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)When generators at an NYU lab failed, cells, tissues, and animals used for medical research died slowly in idle refrigerators, freezers, and incubators.


Hyundai, Kia to compensate owners for overstating mileage

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 10:39 AM PDT

For the past few years, Hyundai has touted itself as selling more vehicles that achieve 40 mpg on the highway than any other automaker. Today, U.S. federal regulators announced that Hyundai and Kia Motors had inflated the fuel economy ratings on 900,000 vehicles sold since 2010. The automakers will compensate owners for their extra burned fuel — and kill their incorrect ads as well.

Gloves, off: Obama accuses Romney of ‘massaging' facts in Jeep ad

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:58 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama participates in a campaign rally in Hilliard"When you try to change the facts just because it's convenient to your campaign, that's not change.Trying to massage facts, that's not change," Obama told supporters in Ohio.


Zoo elephant can 'speak' Korean out loud

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 09:16 AM PDT

Koshik, a 22-year-old Asian elephant, puts his trunk in his mouth to modulate sound next to his chief trainer Kim Jong-gab at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Koshik uses his trunk to pick up not only food but also human vocabulary. He can reproduce five Korean words by tucking his trunk inside his mouth to modulate sound. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)Koshik is capable of saying "hello," "good," "no," "sit down" and "lie down" — all by using its trunk to do the work of lips in a process scientists don't fully understand.


Face yoga: The new anti-aging trend

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:37 AM PDT

The world of yoga keeps stretching to new extremes. There's aerial yoga, hot yoga and even karaoke yoga. Now the latest craze is yoga for the face.

Nightmare scenario: The election night that might not end

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 08:11 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds on in the back of his campaign bus with aide Garrett Jackson, center, and senior adviser Kevin Madden, left, after a campaigning at Meadow Event Park in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)A close election means that the winner may not be clear for hours, maybe even days…maybe even weeks.


Member of secret WWII Navajo code talker unit dies at 90

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:54 AM PDT

Navajo code talker George Smith (Paul Natonabah/Navajo Times)Navajo code talkersused their rare and ancient language to outwit the Japanese during World War II.


Iranians mark anniversary of US embassy seizure

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:37 AM PDT

Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of a U.S. flag and a caricature of President Barack Obama, in an annual state-backed rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. The rally marks the Nov. 4, 1979, storming of the building by militant students who held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days to protest U.S. failure to hand over the toppled shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Iran for trial. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi of the powerful Revolutionary Guard, not shown, addressed the rally saying the U.S. must annul the CIA, pull out its warships from the Persian Gulf and dismantle its military bases from 50 countries around the world if it wants to restore ties with Tehran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)A commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard offered a pot of gold to anyone who could prove that America is not "the most criminal regime on earth."


New Yorkers prepared for fourth night of darkness

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:21 AM PDT

A New York City policeman goes from taxi to taxi informing drivers that the gas station they have been in line for hours has run out of fuel in Midtown ManhattanSome Manhattanites walked miles to find open grocery stores to replenish dwindling food supplies, others ventured outside for the first time since the storm hit to reluctantly report to work without a functioning transportation system.


Full-bellied panda cub pushes up on four legs

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 07:05 AM PDT

Full-Bellied Panda Cub Pushes Up on Four LegsWe have clearance! The San Diego Zoo's pudgy giant panda cub can now push up on all four legs without his tummy touching the floor, and he's getting closer and closer to walking.


New Benghazi report Bolsters CIA account

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 06:48 AM PDT

New Benghazi Account Bolsters CIAThere was no order "to stand down in providing support" in Benghazi, as had been suggested in media articles, a report says.


Payrolls rise sharply, giving Obama some relief

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 05:58 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama holds up his plan for jobs during a campaign rally in DelrayWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers stepped up hiring in October and the jobless rate ticked higher as more workers restarted job hunts, a hopeful sign for a lackluster economy that has dragged on President Barack Obama's reelection chances. Employers added 171,000 people to their payrolls last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. The government also said 84,000 more jobs were created in August and September than initially estimated. The jobless rate edged a tenth of a point higher to 7.9 percent, but that was due to a surge of workers back into the workforce. ...


Support for jihadists in Syria swells as U.S. backing of rebels falls short

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 04:20 AM PDT

In this picture taken on Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012, a citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, buildings which were destroyed from the shelling by Syrian forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar Assad, at al-Qossour neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria. Syrian warplanes fired missiles at opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north on Wednesday as Turkey, a key backer of the anti-regime rebels, appeared to distance itself from an earlier call to impose a no-fly zone. (AP Photo/Lens Yong Homsi)Reluctance to provide weapons and cash to Syrian rebels is increasing the appeal of joining with well-funded and well-armed jihadists, many of them from abroad.


U.N. rights boss calls on China to address Tibetan self-immolations

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 03:46 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 and released by London-based rights group Freetibet.org, Dorje Rinchen, a farmer in his late 50s, runs after setting himself on fire on the main street in Xiahe in northwestern China's Gansu province. This was the second self-immolation death in two days near the Labrang monastery in Xiahe. The monastery is one of the most important outside of Tibet and was the site of numerous protests by monks following deadly ethnic riots in Tibet in 2008 that were the most sustained Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in decades. (AP Photo/Freetibet.org) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESThe top U.N. human rights official urged China on Friday to address longstanding grievances that have led to an "alarming escalation" in desperate forms of protest by Tibetans, including some 60 self-immolations since March.


NYC man arrested after pulling gun in gas line

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 02:24 AM PDT

The fight for fuel after Superstorm Sandy is starting to get nasty.

U.S. officials counter reports on Benghazi attacks

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 02:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, a man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The graffiti reads, Just days before the presidential election, U.S. officials are striking back at allegations they failed to respond quickly or efficiently against the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.


Isolated NYC borough says help is slow after Sandy

Posted: 02 Nov 2012 12:46 AM PDT

Glenda Moore, and her husband, Damian Moore, react as they approach the scene where at least one of their childrens' bodies were discovered in Staten Island, New York, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Brandon Moore, 2, and Connor Moore, 4, were swiped into swirling waters as their mother tried to escape her SUV on Monday amid rushing waters that caused the vehicle to stall during Superstorm Sandy. Police said the mother, Glenda Moore, was going to her sister's home in Brooklyn when she tried to flee the vehicle with the boys, only to have the force of the rising water and the relentless cadence of pounding waves rip the boy's small arms from her. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)The mother grabbed her two boys and fled their home as it filled with water, hoping to outrun Superstorm Sandy.


In Missouri Senate race, new Akin ad features rape survivor

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:41 PM PDT

U.S. Senate candidate Akin speaks to media after rally outside Missouri Capitol with New Women's Group in Jefferson City, MissouriTodd Akin, the GOP candidate in the closely watched U.S. Senate race in Missouri, released a new ad featuring a woman who says she was raped and had an abortion but supports Akin's anti-abortion stand.


Gas stations scramble in Sandy's aftermath

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:25 PM PDT

As temperatures begin to drop, people wait in line to fill containers with gas at a Shell gasoline filling station Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in Keyport, N.J. In parts of New York and New Jersey, drivers lined up Thursday for hours at gas stations that were struggling to stay supplied. The power outages and flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy have forced many gas stations to close and disrupted the flow of fuel from refineries to those stations that are open. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)There's plenty of gasoline in the Northeast — just not at gas stations.


Heckler interrupts Romney rally in Virginia

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:37 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures as he speaks at a campaign stop at Meadow Event Park, in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Mitt Romney was interrupted at a rally Thursday in Virginia Beach, Va. A rowdy audience member took advantage of a pause during the Republican presidential nominee's speech and shouted "climate change caused Sandy!" He then flashed a sign that read "End Climate Silence." While Romney seemed to take the heckler in his stride, the crowd [...]


4 injured at USC campus shooting in Los Angeles

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:04 PM PDT

Los Angeles police officers investigate a shooting that occurred Wed. night at a halloween party on the University of Southern California Campus in Los Angeles on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. Los Angeles police say two men apprehended after a Halloween shooting on the USC campus are still being interviewed and three of the four people wounded have been released from the hospital. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)Violence that sometimes borders the University of Southern California crept onto campus when an argument outside a Halloween party escalated to a shooting that critically wounded one man and injured three other people and led administrators Thursday to reassess policies of the school near high-crime neighborhoods.


Edwin Q. White, former AP Saigon chief, dies

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 08:59 PM PDT

In this undated photo, Associated Press Saigon newsman and Bureau Chief Edwin Q. White, right, stands with Saigon photo chief Horst Faas during the Vietnam War. White, a Saigon bureau chief for The Associated Press during the U.S. buildup in the Vietnam War, died Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 in Honolulu at age 90. (AP Photo)One night in 1969, as a salvo of Viet Cong rockets exploded in the streets of Saigon, Edwin Q. White paused after typing a dateline on his typewriter to light his pipe and reflect on his belief that as an American journalist, he belonged in Vietnam.


Biden jokes on Letterman: ‘If you vote early, you don’t have to pay taxes’

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 07:22 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden greets supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at the Municipal Auditorium in Sarasota, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Vice President Joe Biden hit "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Thursday, spreading the Obama campaign's gospel of early voting in a special "Top Ten List" five days before Election Day.


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NYC Mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:45 PM PDT

Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the media at Seward Park High School on the lower east side, the site of one of many public shelters set up in preparation of the storm, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in New York. Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate coastal areas Sunday as big cities and small towns across the U.S. Northeast braced for the onslaught of a superstorm threatening some 60 million people along the most heavily populated corridor in the nation. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election, citing his leadership on climate change.


Interactive: What we search about when we search about politics

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:13 PM PDT

Sandy upends final week of presidential raceBy filtering down to search queries that lead to publications with a political slant, we can expose the conspiratorial fringe of political news.


Video: Why (and how) did the salmon cross the road?

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:05 AM PDT

In Mason County, Washington, the salmon aren't just swimming upstream -- they're swimming across the street. Due to heavy rains, local rivers are flooding and the confused fish are winding up in some strange places. And that's just fine with at least one local dog. The pooch, who must be thinking that Christmas came early, [...]

Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:49 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters walk near a building damaged after a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria's President Assad fired missiles at Marat al-Numan near the northern province of IdlibThe soldiers were killed in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria's main north-south highway, a monitoring group said.


Police: Ex-Yankee Pascual Perez killed in home

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 14, 1991, file photo, New York Yankees' Pascual Perez throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the California Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York. Police in the Dominican Republic say the former major league pitcher has been killed in his home during an apparent robbery. (AP Photo/Mark D. Phillips, File)Police in the Dominican Republic say former major league pitcher Pascual Perez has been killed in his home during an apparent robbery.


Bulgaria claims to find Europe's 'oldest town'

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:59 AM PDT

A prehistoric town unearthed in eastern Bulgaria is the oldest urban settlement found to date in Europe, a Bulgarian archaeologist said Thursday.

NY brides trying to save Sandy-soaked wedding plans

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:43 AM PDT

ABC News' Linsey Davis reports: They say it's good luck if it rains on your wedding day, but all those brides-to-be whose walk down the aisle has been interrupted by Sandy might disagree. These brides are now facing their worst fears for their fairy tale...

Ex-Penn St. president charged in Sandusky case

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:26 AM PDT

File photo of Spanier and Sandusky in State CollegeGraham B. Spanier was charged Thursday with hushing up child abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky, making him the third school official charged in the alleged cover-up.


All eyes on—where else?—Ohio

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:09 AM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 31, 2012 file photo shows a woman voting at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland as early voting began in Ohio's March 6 presidential primary. A dispute over early voting rules in swing state Ohio is playing out in a political spat between the two presidential campaigns and in a federal court battle. At issue is the legality of an Ohio law cutting three days out of the early-voting period for everyone except members of the armed forces and Ohio citizens living overseas. The dispute reaches court Wednesday, thanks to what the Obama campaign describes as its first lawsuit anywhere in the nation for the 2012 election. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)Since the final presidential debate, 15 polls have surveyed voter opinion in Ohio, the state that is more likely than any other to determine the election. President Barack Obama leads former Gov. Mitt Romney in 13 of them. The candidates tied in one, and Romney leads in one. Those last two polls were both conducted [...]


Mystery of Angkor Wat's huge stones solved

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 08:53 AM PDT

The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat were brought to the site via a network of hundreds of canals, according to new research.

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 08:35 AM PDT

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week in St Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Death toll up, gasoline lines grow in monster storm's wake

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Sandy aboveThe subway is running in New York, but power remains out over parts of the city and N.J. and Long Island are still suffering.


Reddit co-founder defends site and Internet freedom of speech

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 07:29 AM PDT

RedditThe huge website has had quite a few months of attention-grabbing news - both positive and negative.


Storm-crippled subway creaks back into service

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 06:55 AM PDT

A commuter waits as the first A train approaches the platform at Penn Station as MTA resumed limited service Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, in New York. The decision to reopen undamaged parts of the nation's largest transit system came as the region struggles to restore other basic services to recover from a storm that ravaged the East Coast, killing more than 70 people and leaving millions powerless. (AP Photo/CX Matiash)Part of New York City remained dark, but traffic crawled over bridges, where police enforced mandatory carpooling.


Private sector adds most jobs in 8 months in Oct

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 06:05 AM PDT

Economists had forecast October's report would show a gain of 135,000 jobs, according to a Reuters poll.

Obama, Romney begin post-Sandy push, and more to watch

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Now begins the stage of the presidential campaign that really is the home stretch, the final push, the closing arguments — whatever term you want to use. President Barack Obama will be back on the campaign trail Thursday after taking three days off to monitor the response to Superstorm Sandy, including a tour Wednesday of [...]

Sandy frees 2 panthers in Fla.

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 05:15 AM PDT

Two young panthers are being hunted in Yulee, Fla., after they broke free with the help of superstorm Sandy.

Nearly 30 Air Force Academy cadets injured in annual ritual

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:42 AM PDT

An unauthorized ritual last week called "First Shirt/First Snow," in which freshman cadets try to throw their cadet sergeant into a snowbank, grew violent and resulted in injuries.

At least 22 killed in Riyadh fuel truck blast

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:09 AM PDT

Smoke rises after an explosion which severely damaged an industrial building in eastern RiyadhA truck crash triggered an explosion that brought down an industrial building, Saudi state television reported.


IOC to investigate Armstrong's Olympic bronze medal

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:36 AM PDT

To match Feature CYCLING-YEARENDER/The International Olympic Committee will launch an investigation into Lance Armstrong's 2000 Olympics bronze medal after the American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in the biggest doping scandal to hit the sport.


NYC's subways rolling again, with limited service

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:19 AM PDT

Katie Lynch stands on the street with her dog Merlin in the West Village as she checks her email and voicemail on her iPhone Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012 in New York. Lynch, who lives on West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, said she had no power, cell phone service or internet service, so she needed to go out to check her email and voicemail. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)New York's subways are rolling again — at least, some of them.


NYC subway creaking back as region assesses damage

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:39 AM PDT

Katie Lynch stands on the street with her dog Merlin in the West Village as she checks her email and voicemail on her iPhone Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012 in New York. Lynch, who lives on West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, said she had no power, cell phone service or internet service, so she needed to go out to check her email and voicemail. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)The cleanup of miles of New Jersey shorefront ripped apart by Superstorm Sandy has just begun, but New York City moved closer to resuming its normal frenetic pace by getting back its vital subways.


N.J.'s barrier islands are scenes of devastation

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 11:27 PM PDT

The view of storm damage over the Atlantic Coast in Seaside Heights, N.J., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, from a helicopter traveling behind the helicopter carrying President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, as they viewed storm damage from superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, Pool)New Jersey's delicate barrier islands, long and slender strips of land cherished by generations of sunbathing vacationers and full-time residents alike, are a hazardous wasteland of badly eroded shore, ruined beachfront homes, flooded streets and damaged utilities.


Thousands still trapped in homes after Sandy

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 11:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 file photo, a firefighter leaves the destroyed home in Pasadena, Md where Donald Cannata Sr. was killed overnight when a tree fell on it during superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)People along the battered U.S. East Coast slowly began reclaiming their daily routines Thursday, even as crews searched for victims and tens of thousands remained without power after superstorm Sandy claimed more than 70 lives.


Superstorm Sandy's extremes, by the numbers

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 09:47 PM PDT

Men stand near a destroyed home in Seagate, New YorkHurricane Sandy, after killing at least 69 people in the Caribbean, streamed northward, merged with two wintry weather systems and socked the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes with wind, waves, rain and snow. Some figures associated with Sandy's rampage through the U.S., as of Wednesday night: