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Ryan's challenger campaigns against ... no one

Ryan's challenger campaigns against ... no one
By TODD RICHMONDAssociated Press JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Rob Zerban spent his morning on his hands and knees scrubbing a toilet in a homeless shelter. Half a country away, Paul Ryan stood under a spotlight in Virginia talking about why he should be the next vice president. So it goes in Zerban

Population bulge tests India's growth aspirations

Population bulge tests India's growth aspirations
By NIRMALA GEORGEAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) - Vijay Kumar clutched a worn plastic folder containing his high school diploma and his nursing aide certificate as he joined a long queue at an employment exchange in a New Delhi suburb. It's a familiar ritual. For six years he has struck

Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric

Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric
By DAVID ESPO and JULIE PACEAssociated Press BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) - President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and assured victims "we will not quit" until cleanup and recovery are

Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric

Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric
By DAVID ESPO and JULIE PACEAssociated Press BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) - President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and assured victims "we will not quit" until cleanup and recovery are

Disney buys LucasFilm, slates Star Wars 7 for 2015

Disney buys LucasFilm, slates Star Wars 7 for 2015
By Kate Stanhope, Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker are joining forces.

Politics ads, Olympics lift Belo 3Q profit 81 pct

Politics ads, Olympics lift Belo 3Q profit 81 pct
DALLAS (AP) - The election in November and the Olympics this summer lifted net income of Belo Corp. 81 percent, the television station owner said Tuesday, and declared a special dividend for investors. Belo, which is based in Dallas but owns 20 TV stations in 15 markets around the country, earned $

Oh no Ohio! Living under a political barrage

Oh no Ohio! Living under a political barrage
By HELEN O'NEILLAP Special Correspondent SUNBURY, Ohio (AP) - This is what it's like to be an Ohioan in the maddening final days of Campaign 2012: A cacophony of screeching voices spew attack ads from television and radio, hurling words like "FALSE! DECEIVING! DISHONEST!," disrupting

Gingrich raising cash, profile for Akin Senate bid

Gingrich raising cash, profile for Akin Senate bid
By DAVID A. LIEBAssociated Press LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) - Shunned by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin turned Tuesday to former presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich to help draw money and attention to his quest to oust Democratic Sen. Claire

Sandy prompts harrowing NYC hospital evacuation

Sandy prompts harrowing NYC hospital evacuation
By LEANNE ITALIE and MARILYNN MARCHIONEAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Evoking harrowing memories of Hurricane Katrina, 300 patients were evacuated floor by floor from a premier hospital that lost generator power at the height of superstorm Sandy. Rescuers and staff at New York University

Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake
By ALLEN G. BREED and TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - As superstorm Sandy marched slowly inland, millions along the East Coast awoke Tuesday without power or mass transit, with huge swaths of the nation's largest city unusually vacant and dark. New York was among the hardest hit,