Pat Dollard

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Election Day is already over for more than 3 million Americans, and a surprising number of them are Democrats. Republicans clearly are gaining ground in turning out early voters compared with their showing two years ago, but figures from the first batch of states that offer clues about 2010 early voting patterns [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military offensive in southern Afghanistan is chasing the Taliban out of their stronghold in Kandahar province, the Afghan president’s half brother said. “Most of them I believe left before the military operation started,” Ahmed Wali Karzai told The Associated Press late Wednesday. “They are running … I don’t know (where).” [...]

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) – Mexican soldiers battled gunmen in two cities across the border from Texas on Wednesday, prompting panicked parents to pull children from school and factories to warn workers to stay inside. Assailants in a third city threw a grenade at an army barracks. The U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo warned American [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA’s expanding operations in Pakistan have taken “a serious toll” on the Al-Qaeda network, the spy agency director, Leon Panetta, has told US media. But he said it remained unclear whether the effort had prevented a possible terror plot against European cities, the Los Angeles Times quoted him as saying Tuesday. [...]

Newsmax Outspoken talk-radio host Michael Savage warns that China is steadily wiping out the American industrial base and “burying” the United States by keeping the value of its currency artificially low. Savage, whose talk show is heard by over 9 million radio listeners each week, writes about the attack underway against the U.S. middle class [...]

Associated Press PRAXEDIS G. GUERRERO, Mexico – There’s a new police chief in this violent borderland where drug gangs have killed public officials and terrified many citizens into fleeing: a 20-year-old woman who hasn’t yet finished her criminology degree. Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in Wednesday to bring law and order to a township of [...]

Ap Science Writer – Wed Oct 20, 5:17 pm ET WASHINGTON – Astronomers believe they’ve found the oldest thing they’ve ever seen in the universe: It’s a galaxy far, far away from a time long, long ago. Hidden in a Hubble Space Telescope photo released earlier this year is a small smudge of light that [...]