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Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington —A Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” on Capitol Hill for the next two years, threatening policies Democrats have enacted to stabilize the economy, President Obama warned Wednesday. Speaking on Michael Baisden’s syndicated radio show, Obama also made a direct appeal to African Americans about the importance [...]

WTOP: BOWIE, Md. – About three dozen people have been treated for illness during a rally featuring President Obama at Bowie State University. Prince George’s County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady tells WTOP numerous ambulances have been sent to the rally after people started fainting and became dizzy. The problems could be related to [...]

Politico: NEW YORK — David Axelrod, arrived in Washington two years ago with President Obama and his promise of a new, less divisive, and more hopeful politics. But in a public conversation here Wednesday night, Axelrod and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel mused on what they described as a rising tide of fanaticism and intolerance in [...]

Sports Grid: Well, here’s (hopefully) the creepiest thing you’ll hear about another person doing today.

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Fox News: U.S. officials are concerned that parts of Pakistan’s intelligence agency are cooperating with terrorist groups fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Thursday. Spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said the Pakistan intelligence service as an organization does not support terrorism, but some elements within the Inter-Service Intelligence, or ISI, may be [...]

Brownsville Herald: UTB-TSC is mourning the death of an 18-year-old freshman who was shot and killed just outside Ciudad Mante in the southern part of Tamaulipas, allegedly by members of Mexican organized crime. University officials said Jonathon William Torres Cazares died on Sept. 30 while traveling to visit family. He is believed to be one [...]

New York Times: NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of MSNBC.com, are holding high-level talks about a name change, something that could be a risky endeavor for the third most popular news Web site in the United States. The two parents have determined that the brand of MSNBC.com, a strictly objective news Web site, is [...]

Politico: An orderly lame-duck compromise on expiring tax rates is starting to look a lot less likely as both parties dig in and refuse to negotiate ahead of elections. Behind the scenes, congressional leaders are mapping out different scenarios, including some high-risk options that could allow various tax rates to rise Jan. 1. Publicly, Democrats [...]

Washington Times: The Pakistani government’s decision to shut a key supply route for coalition convoys in Afghanistan also has cut off a source of income for Taliban militants and a trucking racket that reap big profits from a cross-border “protection.” A subsequent spike in attacks on NATO fuel tankers is seen by some analysts as [...]