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Brazil's 'pop-star priest' gets mammoth new stage

Brazil's 'pop-star priest' gets mammoth new stage

Brazil's 'pop-star priest' gets mammoth new stage

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:56 PM PDT

Brazil's "pop-star priest" inaugurated a cavernous new sanctuary that he built for his campaign to stem the exodus of faithful from the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America's biggest nation.

Fight intensifies over NW coal exports

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:56 PM PDT

The progressive college town of Bellingham, Wash., is known for its stunning scenery, access to the outdoors and eclectic mix of aging hippies, students and other residents. But lately it's turned into a battleground in the debate over whether the Pacific Northwest should become the hub for exporting U.S. coal to Asia.

FIS rejects Vonn's request to race against men

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:48 PM PDT

Lindsey Vonn's request to compete in a men's World Cup downhill race has been rejected by the International Ski Federation.

Romney, Obama neck and neck in four swing states: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:37 PM PDT

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain neck and neck in four swing states that are likely to determine the winner of the White House race next week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Saturday. The Democratic incumbent and former Massachusetts governor are both making final dashes through the handful of states they hope to win to secure victory on Tuesday. In one of the biggest prizes of the election - Ohio - Obama has a very slight lead over Romney with 46 percent compared to 45 percent support among likely voters, the poll showed. ...

U.S. disaster relief in a race against cold snap

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:34 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fuel supplies headed toward disaster zones in the U.S. Northeast on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity ahead of a coming cold snap that threatened to add to the misery of coastal communities devastated by superstorm Sandy. The power restorations relit the skyline in lower Manhattan for the first time in nearly a week and allowed 80 percent of the New York City subway service to resume, but 2.5 million homes and businesses still lacked power, down from 3.5 million on Friday. ...

Israel's Peres welcomes "courageous" words from Abbas

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:26 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres hailed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a courageous partner for peace on Saturday after the Palestinian leader made clear his support for a two-state solution to the decades old conflict with Israel. In an interview with Israeli television broadcast this week, the Western-backed Abbas also hinted that Palestinians who, prior to the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state lived on lands that are now in Israel, do not have a right to return there, comments that sparked an outcry from his Islamist rivals. ...

Will Jersey shore ever be the same after Sandy?

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:21 PM PDT

It is one of the icons of America, the backdrop to a thousand stories — the place where Tony Soprano's nightmares unfolded, where Nucky Thompson built his "Boardwalk Empire", where Snooki and The Situation brought reality TV to the ocean's edge and where Springsteen conjured a world of love and loss and cars and carnival lights and a girl named, incongruously, Sandy.

Most NYC schools to open Monday despite challenges

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 12:02 PM PDT

Life is far from normal for 13-year-old Eliran Cohen a week after Superstorm Sandy flooded his family's Staten Island condo.

Power returning after Sandy but gas problems rise

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:53 AM PDT

More New Yorkers got power Saturday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy struck the region, but frustrations mounted over gasoline shortages as refueling sites turned into traffic jams of horn-honking confusion.

Dominican police arrest 3 in killing of ex-Yankee

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:49 AM PDT

Police in the Dominican Republic said they arrested three men suspected of killing former major league pitcher Pascual Perez during an attempted home robbery.

'What can I do?': New Yorkers seek ways to help

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:41 AM PDT

Normally on a Saturday morning, Erica Siegel, a 33-year-old real estate agent, would be working or taking a run. But this weekend found her packing rolls of toilet paper, boxes of garbage bags, and canned vegetables and soups to bring to a Queens park, where they would be sorted for delivery to storm victims.

State Farm flies planes towing phone number over NY, NJ

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:16 AM PDT

(Reuters) - State Farm, the largest U.S. home and auto insurer, said it would start flying two planes over areas affected by superstorm Sandy on Saturday, towing a banner with its claims number. The planes will fly from sunrise to sunset, with one covering the greater New York City area and the other the New Jersey coast. The insurer has already received nearly 76,000 claims for what is expected to be the second-worst natural disaster in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ...

Insight: Sandy shows hospitals unprepared when disaster hits home

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 11:08 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself. But on Monday night, as superstorm Sandy submerged parts of New York City, Bondy was one of 215 patients evacuated from New York University's Langone Medical Center after basement flooding from the East River cut off its electricity. ...

Suicide bombers attack restaurant in Somalia

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:54 AM PDT

A police official says a security guard died while fending off suicide bombers who were trying to storm into a popular Mogadishu restaurant.

At the end, Romney, Obama spar over voter revenge

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:41 AM PDT

Reaching for the finish line, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama embarked Saturday on the final 72-hour haul of their long, grinding quest for victory, swatting at one another over what should motivate Americans to vote, which candidate they can trust and offering dueling pictures of what the next four years should bring.

Pot town pushes back against industrial growers

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:37 AM PDT

Happily isolated on California's remote Humboldt County coast, Arcata has long made room in its heart for marijuana, whether grown illegally in the back woods by refugees of the Summer of Love, or legally in the back rooms of homes by medical pot patients.

Romney, Obama try to eke out a win in campaign's last days

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:36 AM PDT

NEWINGTON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama hopscotched across the country on Saturday in a final push to squeeze out victory from the handful of states that will decide Tuesday's presidential election. "Three more days! Three more days!" chanted a crowd of roughly 2,000 at an early-morning rally in New Hampshire, where Romney urged supporters to try to sway neighbors who have Obama signs in their yards to change their minds. ...

Syrian rebels attack air base to secure north-south corridor

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:33 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels attacked a military airport in the country's north on Saturday in a push to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from the capital Damascus, and secure a strategic north-south corridor. President Bashar al-Assad's forces appear over-stretched with fewer fighters on the ground and have sought to limit rebel advances with far superior firepower, increasingly from the air and especially in the Aleppo and Damascus areas. ...

Factbox: Paul Ryan, Republican vice presidential candidate

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:28 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Representative Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate in the 2012 election, is a "young gun" out of the Republican Party's more conservative wing. Here are key facts about Ryan. - Ryan, 42, a rising star among the fiscal conservatives who dominate the Republican Party, has served seven terms in the House of Representatives since first being elected in 1998 on a platform opposing tax hikes and espousing gun rights. ...

Factbox: Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:28 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is pursuing the White House for the second time. Here are key facts about him. - Romney, 65, espouses traditional Republican positions to cut taxes, reduce federal regulations, shrink government spending and bolster the U.S. military. He vows to create 12 million new jobs in his first term with a plan focused on domestic energy development, expanded free trade, improving education, reducing the deficit and championing small business. ...

Factbox: How the Electoral College works

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:28 AM PDT

(Reuters) - The Electoral College was established in the Constitution as a compromise between electing a president by a vote in Congress and by popular vote of citizens. Here are some facts about the Electoral College: * The Electoral College, which is not a place but a process, consists of 538 electors. To win the presidency, a candidate must win at least 270 electors. * The number of electors equals the number of lawmakers in Congress - 435 in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, plus three for the District of Columbia. ...

Factbox: Obama, Romney solutions to stimulating the economy

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:28 AM PDT

(Reuters) - The health of the U.S. economy has been central to the campaign for the White House, with both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney seeking to convince voters they have a plan to usher in faster growth and job creation. The economy has struggled to break above a 2 percent annual growth pace since the 2007-09 recession and unemployment remains uncomfortably high at 7.9 percent. About 23 million Americans are either unemployed, working only part-time although wanting full-time work, or want a job but have given up the search. ...

Kenya bull fight: Obama trounces Romney

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:23 AM PDT

If the U.S. presidential election were to be determined by a bull fight in Kenya then President Barack Obama would defeat Mitt Romney.

GOP pursues last chances to upend Senate Dems

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:18 AM PDT

Republicans are vigorously pursuing their last, best, chances for taking control of the Senate, with Pennsylvania topping their list. Democrats, meanwhile, remained cautiously optimistic that they'll retain a narrow majority after Tuesday's election.

NJ Phillips Bayway refinery still idle, assessing damages from Sandy

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:12 AM PDT

(Reuters) - Phillips 66's 238,000 barrel per day Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, remained idle on Saturday and the company gave no estimate on when the storm-stricken plant could resume crude oil processing. Electrical power was restored to Bayway earlier this week following Hurricane Sandy, but clean-up efforts and equipment damage assessments are still underway, the company said on its website. It was unclear how long repairs would take before the plant can restart. Bayway is the second-largest oil refinery in the region. ...

Misidentified 2010 plane crash victim reburied

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:06 AM PDT

A repeat burial was held on Saturday for Poland's last president-in-exile, whose body was misidentified and buried in the wrong grave following the 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed 96 people.

Life on the rope line: 10 minutes of Obama frenzy

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:03 AM PDT

Kiss by kiss, handshake by handshake, President Barack Obama glides across the perimeter of a small tennis stadium, stooping to embrace white-haired retirees wearing dark sunglasses and extending his arms to shake hands or touch the masses a few rows back.

Power returning after Sandy but weariness grows

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:01 AM PDT

More New Yorkers awoke Saturday to power being restored for the first time since Superstorm Sandy pummeled the region, but patience was wearing thin among those who have been without power for most of the week.

Life on the rope line: Lots of advice for Romney

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Mitt Romney calls it the "advice line."

Young immigrant, newly fearless, ponders future

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Angy Rivera glided through the airport as though she owned it, giddy with excitement at her brave new world.

Obama: Voters must be able to trust a president

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:53 AM PDT

President Barack Obama says voters need to be able to trust their president because they can't predict what challenges he'll face in office.

Better off 4 years later? A mixed bag of answers

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:36 AM PDT

It's a staple of every presidential election, a single question that puts the incumbent's record on trial and asks American voters to be the jurors.

Lonely quest for 3rd party presidential hopefuls

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:32 AM PDT

The lone Virgil Goode campaign sign on a stretch of Virginia road was far outnumbered by placards promoting Mitt Romney.

Both sides of Mali crisis in Burkina Faso talks

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:24 AM PDT

Opposing sides in Mali's crisis have arrived in Burkina Faso for talks with President Blaise Compaore, who is trying to mediate a solution to the conflict.

George Lucas' filmmaking rooted in rebellion

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:22 AM PDT

There's no mistaking the similarities. A childhood on a dusty farm, a love of fast vehicles, a rebel who battles an overpowering empire — George Lucas is the hero he created, Luke Skywalker.

Correction: Algeria-Terror Turnaround story

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:19 AM PDT

In a story Nov. 2 about Algeria's battle against al-Qaida fighters in the Kabylie region, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the last name of an analyst for the Eurasia Group. His name is Riccardo Fabiani, not Fabbiani.

Israel: Syria tanks enter Golan DMZ

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:17 AM PDT

Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights on Saturday, prompting Israel to complain to U.N. peacekeepers, a military spokesman said. The foray would be the first such violation in 40 years and hikes concerns that violence from Syria's civil war could heat up a long-quiet frontier.

ELECTION WATCH: Test, test and test

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:15 AM PDT

This is a test of election-related copy.

NHL labor talks resume after more than 2 weeks off

Posted: 03 Nov 2012 09:13 AM PDT

After more than two weeks apart and the hockey season hanging in the balance, the NHL and the players' association are returning to the bargaining table Saturday after more than two weeks off.
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