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Supporters of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez celebrate at the Miraflores presidential palace. Chavez won re-election, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd / AP)

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Stateless, stranded on American Samoa

For many of us, no matter where we go, we‘ll always have a home and we’ll always be from somewhere. But what if that somewhere no longer existed?

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NPR

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Samoan PM hails improving relations with American neighbor

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Radio Australia

Tech for the body on road to cyborgs?

Speakers at a symposium on body-enhancement technology raised the idea that we may converge with our technology until a superhuman entity emerges.

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The Age

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez re-elected

Socialist President Hugo Chavez won re-election, quashing the opposition’s best bet at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.

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Reuters

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Venezuela election result set to upset global oil politics

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Mail & Guardian

Plane, bus, or car: US Venezuelans cast vote against Hugo Chávez

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Fox News Latino

Meningitis outbreak spreads in US as number of confirmed infections hits 91

The number of people who have contracted a rare and deadly form of meningitis from a contaminated steroid injection has almost doubled.

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Guardian

Economic recovery ‘on the ropes’

Economic data and confidence indicators have deteriorated across the leading developed and emerging economies, apart from the U.S., which is on the brink of the presidential election.

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CNN

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Global slowdown hurts developing countries

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NATION

California gas prices hit all-time high

The price of gasoline rose to an all-time high in California and is expected to continue climbing before leveling off with the price currently at $4.65 per gallon.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Beating gas prices: Time to buy a hybrid?

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FOX News

Below the poverty line: poverty in US

Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau released the latest official poverty figures, putting the number of poor people at 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population.

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Christian Science Monitor

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What is poverty?

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Forced insurance policies cripple struggling Minnesota homeowners

Force-placed insurance is routinely imposed on struggling homeowners, despite costing 10 times as much as typical homeowners insurance while offering less protection.

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Star Tribune

POLITICS

Obama touts donations as Romney doubts jobs in reset race

Mitt Romney worked to undercut a better-than-expected jobs report, and President Barack Obama touted his largest monthly fundraising haul as the candidates grappled for advantage in a tight race.

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BusinessWeek

Democrats take in $181 million

President Barack Obama and allied Democratic Party committees raised $181 million in September, the largest monthly total in his re-election effort.

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Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Social media poses a threat to the card making industry

Say it’s your birthday or you’ve just had a baby or got engaged. If you’re like many Americans, your friends are texting their congratulations, sending you an e-card or clicking “Like” on your Facebook wall.

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ABC News

Big-name profit warnings may mean a pullback is imminent

If the clouds of profit warnings from bellwethers ranging from FedEx to Hewlett-Packard lead to a downpour of lower profits, Wall Street may be bracing for a pullback as U.S. earnings season begins.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Birds still at risk from lead poisoning despite shotgun laws

Lead poisoning is still a major cause of death among swans, ducks and other waterfowl despite legislation aimed at restricting the use of toxic lead pellets by shotgun owners, a study has found.

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The Independent

Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years.

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National Geographic

Restore the California delta — to what?

In California, state officials are planning a multibillion-dollar environmental restoration of the inland delta near San Francisco Bay. But no one knows what the landscape used to look like.

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NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SpaceX rocket on 1st cargo flight to International Space Station

The SpaceX rocket, the first commercial flight to the International Space Station, has lifted off carrying an unmanned cargo capsule.

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CNN

Special section:

Space X to Space Station

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SPACE.com

Augmented reality apps draw interest

After augmented reality became over-hyped about two years ago, interest waned a bit, but recently the idea seems to have gathered traction again.

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TechHive

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly face off in blockbuster debate

The debate between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart at George Washington University was billed as “The Rumble In the Air-Conditioned Auditorium."

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Deaf British community minds its language

The first U.K.-wide survey into how British sign language is used by deaf people of different ages has found a seismic shift has taken place.

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Guardian

What happened to Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and D.B. Cooper?

Experts believe that it is a unique combination of fame and mystery that fuels people’s fascination with the cases of Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and D.B. Cooper.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Mark Anthony Rolo):

An Ojibwe view of Columbus Day

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Star Tribune

Column (Jim Strickland):

Let’s get rid of compulsory school days

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A study says swearing relieves pain

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Kansas City Star

Column (Bernard C “Jack” Young):

Teens need programs, not jail cells

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Sounding the alarm on the ‘fiscal cliff’

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Star Tribune

Diversified, rational policy needed to meet energy goals

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NewsOK

Column (Mike Norman):

President Obama must be sharper at next debates

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McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Glitch led to dream house

A wrong set of keys unintentionally led Philadelphian couple Greg and Mary Berzinsky to their beloved home.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Global activism is a game

Global Good Challenge, a new initiative to grab the Facebook generation’s attention, is an online contest whose goal is to promote the U.N.’s missions.

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CNN

Indiana woman donates kidney to a stranger in Pennsylvania

Bennett Steury, a healthy 30-something from Auburn, Ind., celebrated an earlier birthday by giving a kidney to a stranger in Pennsylvania.

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NECN.com

WORLD

Philippines, Muslim rebels agree to peace deal

One of the globe’s longer internal conflicts could finally end after the president of the Philippines announced a deal with a Muslim rebel group that has spent 40 years battling for independence.

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Guardian

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Key dates in Philippine Muslim conflict

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Gulf News

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Philippines and rebels reach peace deal

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Reuters

Navy SEALs serve as buffer between Afghans and Taliban

As NATO forces wind down their conventional troops, the Pentagon believes the most elite soldiers will need to remain beyond the scheduled withdrawal to prevent a rollback.

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USA TODAY

EDUCATION

University of Texas to argue it hasn’t reached ‘critical mass’ affirmative action

A more conservative Supreme Court revisits affirmative action for the first time since a landmark case nine years ago involving the University of Michigan.

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Michigan students sued over delinquent student loans

In early 2007, Adam Wolak combined two student loans — one for slightly more than $58,000 and one for a little bit less than $36,000 — into one federally backed loan.

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Detroit Free Press

Student loans, backed by government, crush many families

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NBCNews.com

HEALTH

Pot dispensaries clouding medical marijuana’s image

Medical marijuana started as a grass-roots movement among AIDS patients and still caters to medical patients, but increasingly it’s also turned into a party.

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Medical marijuana advocates hope lawsuit relaxes US drugs policy

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Guardian

Oceans’ acidity a threat to shellfish — and humans

As carbon dioxide continues to build up in the atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels, the seas absorb much of it. The full effects have yet to be felt.

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Los Angeles Times

What happened to the poster children of the drug OxyContin?

Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin in the late 1990s marked the beginning of the industry’s push of narcotic painkillers to treat long-term chronic pain.

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McClatchy Newspapers

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope Benedict XVI opens convention of bishops in wake of Vatileaks trial

Pope Benedict XVI opened a crucial meeting of bishops from around the world just 24 hours after his butler was given an 18 month prison sentence for stealing confidential papers from the Vatican.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Mormon church lowers age limit for its young missionaries

The Mormon church will lower its minimum age requirements for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women, the faith’s president announced.

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Arizona Republic

SPORTS

Falcons go 5-0, knock RG3 out in win over Redskins

After the Atlanta Falcons knocked Robert Griffin III out of the game, Matt Ryan kept throwing and throwing until he finally scraped up enough points to give his team its first 5-0 start in franchise history.

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ABC News

Reds lose ace and win 1st playoff game in 17 years

The Cincinnati Reds rode a patchwork pitching staff to their first postseason win in 17 years after losing their ace, no less.

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CBS News

Special section:

Reds vs. Giants playoff

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Research breakthrough could transform cancer treatment

U.S. researchers say they have discovered how to keep tumor cells alive in a lab, generating buzz about a potential breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment.

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The Daily Telegraph

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Indian men and women in traditional attire jump during a practice session of Garba, a traditional dance of Gujarat, ahead of Navratri festival in Ahmadabad, India. (Photo by Ajit Solanki / AP)

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