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PRESIDENTIAL RACE
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney confront each other on foreign policy Monday night in a third and final presidential debate, a must-win televised face-off heading into the final two weeks of the deadlocked campaign for the White House. By Steven R. Hurst.
AP Photos.
CONGRESS-STATE OF PLAY
WASHINGTON – The party that runs the Senate next year may be decided by how well President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney do in toss-up states like Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin, where ballots feature parallel Senate races about as tight as the presidential contest. By Alan Fram.
WISCONSIN MALL-SHOOTING
BROOKFIELD, Wisconsin – A man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife’s tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, police say. By Dinesh Ramde.
AP Photos, video.
MCGOVERN-THE COUNTERCULTURE
NEW YORK – Abbie Hoffman sobbed that fateful night at the downtown Manhattan apartment of fellow activist Jerry Rubin. So did Rubin and Allen Ginsberg. John Lennon was drunk, and out of control, shouting “Up the Revolution!” in mock celebration of a dream defeated. It was November 1972 and George McGovern had just been whipped in a landslide by Richard Nixon. By AP National Writer Hillel Italie.
AP Photos.
CUBA-FIDEL CASTRO
HAVANA – Former Venezuelan Vice-President Elias Jaua says that he met with aging revolutionary icon Fidel Castro for five hours and showed The Associated Press photos of the encounter, quashing persistent rumours that the former Cuban leader was on his deathbed or had suffered a massive stroke. By Andrea Rodriguez.
AP Photos.
URUGUAY-MUJICA’S COUNTRY
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress has legalized abortion and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana. By Michael Warren.
AP Photo.
GUATEMALA-PROTEST INVESTIGATION
GUATEMALA CITY – Chanting and waving signs in protest of high electricity prices, thousands of unarmed indigenous demonstrators blockaded a highway in western Guatemala, forcing a standoff with police. Two truckloads of soldiers arrived and gunfire erupted, killing eight protesters and wounding 34. What happened next after the Oct. 4 incident was virtually unprecedented in Guatemala: Authorities investigated the violence, and the alleged perpetrators were arrested. By Romina Ruiz-Goiriena.
HAITI-CLINTONS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The Haitian government is hosting Hillary and Bill Clinton, a delegation of foreign investors and a crowd of celebrities Monday to showcase the marquee project of the U.S. aid effort since the 2010 earthquake. By Trenton Daniel.
AP Photo.
BUSINESS:
LEAVING GOLDMAN SACHS
UNDATED – Greg Smith wrote the essay that echoed across Wall Street like a thunderclap. Smith was a vice-president at Goldman Sachs until March. He announced his departure from the investment bank with a blistering editorial in The New York Times, accusing Goldman of routinely deceiving clients and relentlessly pursuing profit at the expense of morality. By Christina Rexrode.
ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT:
MUSIC COUNTRY HALL OF FAME
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Garth Brooks promised he’d be emotional during his Country Music Hall of Fame induction. But the tears started before he made it all the way into the building. By Chris Talbott.
AP Photo.
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