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Worker Khan Simom, of Boston, glues cushions to unfinished shoes during the assembly process at the New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc., factory in Boston. As baby boomers retire, the future of U. S. manufacturing jobs is on the line. (Photo by Steven Senne / File / AP)

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After Cuban missile crisis, US influence waning

Investment from emerging economies like China and Russia are diminishing Latin America’s reliance on the United States, making it more difficult for Washington to isolate regimes like Cuba.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Cuban missile crisis beliefs endure even 50 years later on

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Detroit Free Press

Coming out as a gay athlete

These days, we’re more likely to see professional athletes on products than protest lines. But in the 1960s, sports stars were often as famous for what they believed as for their home runs.

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NPR

Jobs in manufacturing remain unfilled

The shortage of replacements for millions of jobs soon to be vacated by baby boomers poses a greater threat to U.S. manufacturing than foreign production, according to executives and educators.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Manufacturing bouncing back, US companies reshore jobs

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Denver Post

US forces to help Jordan plan shield against Syria

Americans arrived in Jordan to help the kingdom develop techniques to protect civilians in case of a chemical attack from neighboring Syria.

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Gulf News

Live: Syria

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(Al Jazeera)

Live Blog

Halloween grows into an $8 billion national celebration

By the time the last trick-or-treater knocks on your door in search of candy, this is expected to be a record year for those celebrating the holiday.

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Quad City Business Journal

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Adult parties boost Halloween sales projections

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

NATION

Social Security benefits undermined by Medicare premium increase

Some of next year’s Social Security raise could be wiped out by higher Medicare premiums, which are deducted from Social Security payments.

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Star Tribune

US national park system is growing

President Obama was in Keene, Calif., to dedicate the César E. Chávez National Monument, as several states look to add National Park Service sites.

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USA TODAY

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National parks landscape changing as private land developed

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CBS News

POLITICS

Obama, Romney are nearly tied in the Electoral College

The race between President Obama and Mitt Romney is closer than ever, including the measure that will decide it: the Electoral College.

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USA TODAY

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Ohio in the swing (state) of things

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Sen. Portman: ‘Wouldn’t want to risk’ Romney losing Ohio

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(CNN)

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Firms, policymakers struggle amid US defense cuts

Military cuts are spurring major arms manufacturers to look for new markets, cost cuts, and mergers — and confronting policymakers with difficult political and strategic choices.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Farmers out thousands of dollars due to metal theft

In California, petty metal thefts are creating damages many times higher than the value of the metal crooks rip out to recycle.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Feds move closer to suing Google over search engine

According to reports, the feds are getting ready to pull the trigger on an antitrust lawsuit against Google for allegedly using its massive scale to squash competition and keep online advertising prices high.

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Wired

Bing vs. Google: search engine battle

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ENVIRONMENT

Food scarcity: the timebomb setting nation against nation

An Oxfam report calculated that the land sold or leased to richer countries and speculators in the last decade could have grown enough food to feed a billion people.

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Guardian

Olives grow again on Malta

With his Project for the Revival of the Indigenous Maltese Olive, Sam Cremona uses cuttings from trees that are more than 2,000 years old and grafts onto other trees to spread the species.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Amphibious vehicle to go on sale in US

Amphibious vehicles could soon be zooming out of James Bond’s garage — or pond — and into yours.

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BusinessWeek

Astronomers have discovered ‘diamond-rich super-Earth’

A diamond planet twice the size of the Earth, and moving so fast that a year there lasts less than 24 hours, has been found by astronomers.

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Scotsman

SPORTS

Derek Jeter fractures ankle

New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter will miss the rest of the playoffs after suffering a fractured left ankle while trying to make a diving play in the 12th inning of the team’s 6-4 loss to the Detroit Tigers.

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ESPN

Red River Rout: Sooners roll Longhorns

It was one of those days for Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl. Oklahoma took an emphatic 63-21 victory over the beleaguered Longhorns.

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Houston Chronicle

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Soaring temperatures for the US

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Malala’s next fight

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Nobel stem cell scientist’s moral achievement

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Obama doctrine: passivity where American leadership is needed

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Joe Biden shoots ... Joe Biden scores!

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Detroit Free Press

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Why Europe deserved the Peace Prize

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CNN

Joe Biden’s laugh-filled debate wasn’t so funny on national security

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Which party really cares about the poor?

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GOOD NEWS

Science festival inspiring young minds

Along with creating interest in scientific fields of study, the slew of activities being organized as part of the Abu Dhabi Science Festival 2012 is also working wonders to inspire young minds.

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Gulf News

Curbing malaria with cell phone data

Cell phone records may be a valuable source of data that, if used correctly, could help control and eliminate malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Medical News Today

How a triathlete runs past aging

Nancy Avitabile, the 64-year-old triathlete, keeps getting faster, sprinting as quickly and gracefully as she does past other runners. She has been competing in triathlons for 16 years.

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USA TODAY

WORLD

Taliban attack galvanizes Pakistan

On streets, on the airwaves and in the newspapers of a country numbed by years of bombings and assassinations, outrage against the Taliban is reaching a zenith.

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Star Tribune

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Afghanistan government criticizes Imran Khan’s defense of the Taliban

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Guardian

Pakistani girl shot by Taliban was named for a battlefield heroine

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(New York Times)

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The shocking truth about landmines

As casualties from landmines rise for the first time in years, campaigners say another Princess Diana figure is needed to revive international will to tackle a terrible legacy of war.

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The Independent

Harper ‘concerned’ with sexual violence in the Congo

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada is “particularly concerned” about violence against women being committed in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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CBC News

EDUCATION

1 child, 1 laptop and mixed results in impoverished Peru

Peru distributed more than 800,000 laptops to schoolchildren to end poverty with computers. But now there are a lot of questions about how successful Peru’s effort has been.

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NPR

Textbooks around the world

Along with religious texts, textbooks are among the first and, in some places, only books people encounter. The textbooks children learn from in school reveal and shape national attitudes.

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Economist

HEALTH

Supporting people with cancer throughout the year

Store shelves are packed with pink this time of year, as retailers hawk a plethora of pink-ribboned products claiming to “raise awareness” of breast cancer.

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USA TODAY

Texas scientists quit cancer program

At least seven scientists resigned in protest from Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming the agency is on a politically driven path that puts commercial interests before science.

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San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Churches seek to reclaim religiously unaffiliated Americans

The Pew report found that one out of every five Americans is now unaffiliated with any religion. Religious leaders have launched efforts to try to appeal to the “nones,” as Pew calls them.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Catholics called on to support religious freedom, anti-abortion amendments

Pray and keep the faith but also spread the word, a panel from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops told a Jacksonville audience.

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Florida Times-Union

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

‘Gray divorces’ increased

While the overall divorce rate is going down, the divorce rate among people 50 and over — “gray divorces” — has more than doubled over the past two decades.

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CBS News

Business lets customers sample wine-making from the ankles down

It’s festival time in New Jersey with wineries offering tours, tastings and, at a select few places, slippery, slimy stomps.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Charities get more donated homes

Nonprofits are getting more donated homes in the wake of the housing market collapse, and the trend is likely to grow given the ongoing foreclosure crisis.

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ABC News

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Sri Lankan youths play at dusk at the seafront in Mirissa, about 88 miles south of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena / AP)

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