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The Hill: GILBERT, W.Va. — Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Friday he’s confident Republicans will take back the majority in the Senate and expects West Virginia’s contest between Republican John Raese and Gov. Joe Manchin (D) to be the majority-maker for the GOP. “If someone had told me 20 years ago or even six months [...]

LEWISBERRY, Pa. (AP) – Police in central Pennsylvania say children going door-to-door to trick or treat discovered a man who had shot himself to death with a shotgun on his front stoop. The York Dispatch reported Friday that police were called Thursday evening after children found the 68-year-old man in the Conewago Valley Mobile Home [...]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) – Former President Bill Clinton on Friday denied reports — confirmed by his spokesman a day earlier — that he asked Democrat Kendrick Meek to drop out of the three-way Florida Senate race to clear the way for independent Gov. Charlie Crist. Meek says he’s not dropping out, and even [...]

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Fox News: With less than a week to go before Election Day, widespread dissatisfaction with the way things are going in the country combined with negative views of the economy and frustration with the government point to major trouble for the incumbent majority Democrats. In addition, a Fox News poll released Friday shows President Obama’s [...]

The Hill: The White House said that two suspicious packages discovered on cargo planes bound for the United States originated in Yemen. President Obama was notified of the suspicious packages on Thursday night. British officials discovered a toner cartridge that was rigged with wires and white powder, which tested negative for explosives. Other packages originating [...]

Fox News: A NASA official may have made a 35-million-mile slip of the tongue. The director of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California casually let slip mention of the 100-Year Starship recently, a new program funded by the super-secret government agency, DARPA. In a talk at San Francisco’s Long Conversation conference, Simon “Pete” Worden said [...]

RENO, Nev. (AP) -Walmart says a gunman holed up at one of its stores in Reno where three people were wounded is an employee at the site. Walmart spokesman Dan Fogleman also says the three victims are employees and are being treated at a hospital. He says he had no specifics about their condition but [...]

Fox News: Just in time for Halloween, there’s trouble brewing for a California beer distributor that has gotten into hot water with the nation’s wiccan community over an ale called Witch’s Wit — whose label depicts a woman being burned at the stake. Witch’s Wit is one of Port Brewing Company’s Lost Abbey beers, which [...]

USA Today: Hispanics are growing more divided about how they view illegal immigration, and native-born Hispanics aren’t as convinced of the contributions of illegal immigrants as they used to be, according to a study released Thursday. Hispanics are split when asked to assess the effect of illegal immigration on Hispanics living in the United States: [...]

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Clip Syndicate: Whistles, catcalls and lewd come-ons from strangers are all too familiar to New York City women, who say they are harassed multiple times a day as they walk down the street. Now lawmakers are examining whether to do something to discourage it.