Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal (AP)

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• Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal (AP)
• Gadhafi body stashed in shopping center freezer (AP)
• Cain tweaks 9-9-9 tax plan to allow exemptions (AP)
• AP-GfK Poll: 37 percent of public back protests (AP)
• AP sources: Bachmann staff in New Hampshire quits (AP)
• Sen. Rubio denies claims he embellished history (AP)
• Document: Cadaver dog 'hit' at missing baby's home (AP)
• Social Security raise welcomed in tough economy (AP)
• Ohio exotic-pet farm barely secured cages (AP)
• Wal-Mart cuts some health care coverage (AP)
• Gaddafi, in meat locker, still divides Libya (Reuters)
• U.S. to pull out of Iraq nearly nine years after war began (Reuters)
• GE growth meets forecasts, but margins a worry (Reuters)
• Groupon's scaled back IPO to raise up to $540 million (Reuters)
• EU/IMF approve next aid tranche for Greece: euro zone source (Reuters)
• Investors berate Murdoch, new hacking claims arise (Reuters)
• Merkel rebuffs Sarkozy on euro zone solution (Reuters)
• Analysis: Will Obama's foreign policy success help in 2012? (Reuters)
• Ohio animal tragedy: Why do people own exotic pets? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama's one big advantage going into 2012 election: fundraising (The Christian Science Monitor)

Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:07 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end.

Gadhafi body stashed in shopping center freezer (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:54 PM PDT AP - Moammar Gadhafi's blood-streaked body was stashed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center Friday as Libyans waited in line outside for a chance to see him and authorities tried to figure out where to bury the longtime dictator.

Cain tweaks 9-9-9 tax plan to allow exemptions (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain on Friday redefined his tax plan to exclude the poorest Americans and to allow some deductions, abandoning the zero-exemption feature of his "9-9-9" proposal that helped win headlines but would have meant a tax increase for 4 out of 5 Americans.

AP-GfK Poll: 37 percent of public back protests (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - More than one-third of the country supports the Wall Street protests, and even more — 58 percent — say they are furious about America's politics.

AP sources: Bachmann staff in New Hampshire quits (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:27 PM PDT AP - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is losing her New Hampshire staff. As many as five staffers formally left Bachmann's campaign this week, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said Friday. They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose internal workings of the campaign.

Sen. Rubio denies claims he embellished history (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:04 PM PDT AP - Florida's freshman U.S. senator and rising GOP star Marco Rubio is fighting back against allegations he embellished his family's history in saying his parents fled Cuba after Fidel Castro's communist revolution.

Document: Cadaver dog 'hit' at missing baby's home (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:21 PM PDT AP - An FBI cadaver dog reacted to the scent of a dead person inside the Kansas City home where a baby girl disappeared nearly three weeks ago, according to a police affidavit released Friday.

Social Security raise welcomed in tough economy (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:03 PM PDT AP - For some, the just-announced increase in Social Security checks amounts to an extra meal out, a little more cash for clothes or a new pair of shoes, some added comfort in retirement. For Elizabeth Davis, it's a crucial boost to the only thing keeping her afloat.

Ohio exotic-pet farm barely secured cages (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:38 PM PDT AP - Authorities found numerous problems with conditions at a wild animal owner's property over the years, including big cats kept in cages without locks, a black leopard in a basement, lion and bear cubs housed in the same pen and a lion running loose, according to documents released Friday.

Wal-Mart cuts some health care coverage (AP) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:29 PM PDT AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, is scaling back the eligibility of health care coverage offered to future part-timers and raising premiums for many of its full-time workers.

Gaddafi, in meat locker, still divides Libya (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:32 AM PDT Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.

U.S. to pull out of Iraq nearly nine years after war began (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:49 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday he would pull U.S. troops from Iraq this year, almost nine years after the U.S. invasion, after he failed to convince Iraq that several thousand troops should remain in part as a balance against neighboring Iran.

GE growth meets forecasts, but margins a worry (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 10:26 AM PDT Reuters - General Electric Co reported earnings that met Wall Street expectations, but its shares slipped 1.4 percent as investors worried about declining profit margins at its energy equipment division.

Groupon's scaled back IPO to raise up to $540 million (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 10:30 AM PDT Reuters - Groupon Inc plans to raise as much as $540 million in an initial public offering, less than previously planned, as the daily deals website grapples with a weak equities market, executive departures and questions about its accounting and business model.

EU/IMF approve next aid tranche for Greece: euro zone source (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 10:54 AM PDT Reuters - Euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund have approved the payment of the next tranche of financial support to Greece, a senior euro zone source told Reuters on Friday.

Investors berate Murdoch, new hacking claims arise (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:04 PM PDT Reuters - A defiant Rupert Murdoch stood his ground at News Corp's annual meeting on Friday, fending off angry shareholders who slammed the media company's poor corporate governance in the wake of a phone hacking scandal and called for him to give up the chairman role.

Merkel rebuffs Sarkozy on euro zone solution (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 11:51 AM PDT Reuters - France's push to use more European Central Bank money to fight the euro zone debt crisis ran into strong resistance from Germany and other EU partners on Friday, leaving Paris looking increasingly isolated before a crucial summit.

Analysis: Will Obama's foreign policy success help in 2012? (Reuters) Posted: 21 Oct 2011 01:03 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama delivered on another foreign policy promise on Friday with plans to pull the last U.S. troops from Iraq. But in a re-election campaign all about the weak U.S. economy, he may not get much credit.

Ohio animal tragedy: Why do people own exotic pets? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:40 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The slaughter of over 50 renegade animals let loose from a backyard zoo in Zanesville, Ohio, Wednesday is shedding light on the people who actively pursue owning lions, bears, tigers, baboons and other exotic pets and why they risk their lives to tend to animals many consider dangerous and unfit for private habitation.

Obama's one big advantage going into 2012 election: fundraising (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Oct 2011 03:22 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama faces an uphill battle for reelection, with unemployment projected to remain high at about 9 percent through 2012 and job approval ratings in the tank.

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