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Voters wait in line outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland on the final day of early voting. About 1.6 million people have voted early in Ohio. (Photo by Mark Duncan / AP)

USS Enterprise completes final voyage

The world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ended its career at sea when it pulled into its home port for the final time, after participating in every major conflict since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

ABC News

USS Enterprise returns from final deployment

NBCNews.com

HSBC sets aside further $800 million for US money laundering fines

HSBC will set aside an extra $800 million to cover fines for alleged money laundering by its U.S. arm when the bank releases its third-quarter results.

Guardian

2 candidates, 1 race of lost dreams

When the race is done, the balloons have wilted and the confetti has been swept up, Campaign 2012 may be marked more by its failures than its triumphs.

CNN

Map:

Race for the Senate

The New Yorker

TV tricks of the election ‘situation room’

BBC

Special section:

Issues facing the next president

NPR

Post Sandy, manic Monday looms for many commuters

After Superstorm Sandy ravaged the New Jersey and New York coast lines, another challenge looms: commuters, students and motorists converging on transit systems not fully ready for them.

ABC News

N.Y. mulls sea walls to hold back future surges

The Age

Deadbeat parents cost taxpayers $53 billion in unpaid child support

Over $100 billion is owed in unpaid child support — nearly half of that to taxpayers supporting children on public assistance.

CNNMoney

NATION

US soldier faces criminal hearing in Afghanistan massacre

The U.S. soldier accused of carrying out one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is appearing in a military courtroom.

USA TODAY

Wife: Bales didn’t commit Afghan massacre

UPI

Prison factories are caught in private business debate

Almost 13,000 inmates working in federal lockups around the country for a few dollars a day make everything from military uniforms to electrical parts that are sold exclusively to federal agencies.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Will the New Black Panthers return?

The uber-controversial New Black Panther Party may be back for this election — but now with 100 percent less nightstick.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Million Puppet March draws about 1000 on National Mall

More than 1000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in support of public media at The Million Puppet March three days before the presidential election.

NY Daily News

BUSINESS

Siemens to take a further write-down on solar business

German engineering conglomerate Siemens will have to take additional gross writedowns of more than 250 million euros ($321.13 million) on the solar business that it is exiting, a German paper reported.

Reuters

Union workers strike at Raley’s supermarket chain

Union workers at Raley’s supermarket chain, which operates more than 100 stores in California and Nevada, went on strike after last-ditch efforts to reach a new contract failed.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Renault and Caterham to build affordable racecars by 2016

French automaker Renault and British specialist sports-car maker Caterham unveiled plans to develop affordable racers for introduction by 2016.

Reuters

You have (1) new diagnosis

Social media is rewiring our lives, but is it also rewiring our brains? A growing number of researchers want to find out.

Sydney Morning Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Egypt’s Coptic Christians choose pope

The Coptic Orthodox church has chosen Bishop Tawadros as the new pope to lead the Middle East’s biggest Christian community.

Al Jazeera

Bishop Tawadros new pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians community

BBC

Mormon faith may have helped, not hurt, Romney campaign

Concerns about Mitt Romney’s LDS religion barely surfaced in the general election and, in fact, his embrace of leadership roles in the faith in the final months of the campaign may have boosted his effort.

Salt Lake Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Cusack developing Rush Limbaugh film

Actor and outspoken liberal John Cusack is developing a movie about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Cusack’s production company said.

Seattle Times

Movie maker George Lucas plans future ‘personal films’

George Lucas is done with “Star Wars,” but not with filmmaking. The “Star Wars” creator says he still plans to make his “own little personal films.”

FOX News

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Bilal Qureshi):

Bollywood’s ‘King Of Romance’ took India to the Alps

(NPR)

Monkey See

Column (Juan Williams):

A Romney win would be a victory for shameless cynicism

The Hill

Blog (Katherine Goldstein):

Is Occupy Wall Street outperforming the Red Cross in hurricane relief?

Slate

Editorial:

An EPA crackdown on coal

Washington Examiner

Column (Denis Hayes):

When did politics become all about ‘me’?

Seattle Times

Column (Jill Michal):

Early education as the best crime deterrent

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Charles Krauthammer):

America’s social contract is at stake

Lawrence Journal-World

Column (Jim Jenkins):

A vote not wasted at all

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Amputee scales 103 floors with mind-controlled ‘bionic leg’

Zac Vawter scaled a skyscraper’s stairway heights thanks to what the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago calls the “world’s first neural-controlled bionic leg.”

CNN

New company creates freedom for the visually impaired researcher

Students who are visually impaired can face many hurdles throughout their schooling. Now, conducting scientific research doesn’t have to be an obstacle.

LiveScience

‘Good Deed’ warms the heart

Thanksgiving is but a few weeks away, and it’s a time when many families will be gathering together, sharing food, memories and gratitude. A recently published memoir fits these themes.

Auburnpub.com

WORLD

Extended hunger strike in Australian asylum camp in Nauru