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Exasperation builds on Day 3 in storm-stricken NYC
Military deploying rescue swimmers and 'bucket trucks'
Bloomberg: ‘I don’t think we’ve had a murder in two or three days’
Secret Service agent kills self amid affair probe
NJ's Springsteen, Bon Jovi join Sting in Sandy concert
U.S. officials claim there were no delays in rescue effort in Libya
Mass. man sentenced to 17 years in model plane terror plot
Obama hits final stretch with message of gravitas
Ex-Penn St. president accused of Sandusky conspiracy
Ad urges African Americans to vote GOP because Lincoln freed the slaves
Kennedy White House social secretary dies at 86
Horses tied to drug cartel auctioned in Oklahoma
Judge: Psychiatrist fooled mental health experts
Video: Why (and how) did the salmon cross the road?
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500
Polls: Obama has strong Iowa lead, narrower ones in other battlegrounds
Citing climate change, Mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama
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Exasperation builds on Day 3 in storm-stricken NYC

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:45 PM PDT

Traffic backed up for miles, crowds waited impatiently for buses into Manhattan and tempers flared in gas lines.

Military deploying rescue swimmers and 'bucket trucks'

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:32 PM PDT

As the cleanup continues in the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, some 12,000 National Guard troops have been mobilized to active-duty status in more than a dozen states to provide rescue and relief.

Bloomberg: ‘I don’t think we’ve had a murder in two or three days’

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:19 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg shared what he considers a small ray of light to come out of the darkness left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. "I don't think we've had a murder in two or three days," Bloomberg said at his daily press briefing on Thursday. "That's some good news." While it [...]

Secret Service agent kills self amid affair probe

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:32 PM PDT

A senior Secret Service agent who was being investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week in Washington, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

NJ's Springsteen, Bon Jovi join Sting in Sandy concert

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 03:27 PM PDT

New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi will join Sting and other top music stars on Friday for a benefit concert to aid victims of Sandy.

U.S. officials claim there were no delays in rescue effort in Libya

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:49 PM PDT

CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday as they laid out a detailed timeline of the CIA's immediate response to the attack from its annex less than a mile from the diplomatic mission.

Mass. man sentenced to 17 years in model plane terror plot

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 11:56 AM PDT

A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison in a plot to fly remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.

Obama hits final stretch with message of gravitas

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 04:02 PM PDT

Gone are the jokes about "Romnesia" and the loose talk of a "campaign marathon extravaganza."

Ex-Penn St. president accused of Sandusky conspiracy

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 09:47 AM PDT

Graham Spanier was charged today with perjury and child endangerment, accusing him of overseeing a cover-up that allowed convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky to prey on nearly a dozen children.

Ad urges African Americans to vote GOP because Lincoln freed the slaves

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 02:04 PM PDT

In the final days of the campaign in Ohio, the stops have been pulled out in the scramble to eke out a win. And that means one super PAC calling on African Americans to vote against President Obama because Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Cable viewers in several markets across the state are being treated to ads by an obscure self-described "alternative conservative" super PAC called the Empower Citizens Network. One of the group's ads accuses Obama and Democrats of imploding the economy by forcing mortgage companies to lend to "unqualified borrowers" while the Soviet national anthem plays. ...

Kennedy White House social secretary dies at 86

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:47 PM PDT

Letitia Baldrige, the White House social secretary during the Kennedy administration who came to be regarded as an authority on etiquette, has died.

Horses tied to drug cartel auctioned in Oklahoma

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:12 PM PDT

More than 300 horses that the federal government says were bought and trained as part of a Mexican drug cartel's money-laundering operation are being auctioned in Oklahoma City.

Judge: Psychiatrist fooled mental health experts

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:32 PM PDT

A once-prominent Northern California child psychiatrist is set to be retried on charges that he molested patients after a judge sided with prosecutors who argued that he fooled mental health experts into believing he had dementia to avoid prosecution.

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

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 10:45 AM PDT

In Mason County, Wash., the salmon aren't just swimming upstream—they're also 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, wanders [...]

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 08:24 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.

Polls: Obama has strong Iowa lead, narrower ones in other battlegrounds

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 06:05 AM PDT

The latest slate of swing state polls from NBC News, Marist College and the Wall Street Journal shows Obama earning the support of 50 percent of likely Iowa voters.

Citing climate change, Mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama

Posted: 01 Nov 2012 12:39 PM PDT

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday bemoaned President Barack Obama's "disappointing" first term in office. He complained the Democrat "devoted little time and effort" to pragmatic, centrist problem-solving while wielding "partisan attacks." He charged he has "embraced a divisive populist agenda focused more on redistributing income than creating it." And then the billionaire [...]