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Portland Press Herald: PORTLAND — Portland police are looking for the person who threw a chemical bomb at the Occupy Maine encampment in Portland during the early morning hours today. Sgt. Glen McGary said police responded around 4 a.m. today to an explosion in Lincoln Park at Congress and Pearl streets. Though no one was [...]

NY Post: Filth-ridden Zuccotti Park is a breeding ground for bacterial infection loaded with potential health-code violations that pose a major risk to the public, an expert who inspected the area warned. “It’s like Walmart for rats,’’ Wayne Yon, an expert on city health regulations, said yesterday. “There’s a lack of sanitation, a lack of [...]

Telegraph: Libya’s liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law Libya’s interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws [...]

Pope Benedict XVI named three new saints for the Catholic Church during a Mass Sunday in St. Peter’s Square that was disrupted by a man who climbed out onto the upper colonnade of the square and burned a bible. (Oct. 23)

Politico: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says an agreement could have been reached to keep more American troops in Iraq into next year. Citing a trip he recently took to the country, McCain said on ABC’s “This Week”: “[The Iraqis] were ready to negotiate. The United States didn’t have a plan as to how many troops [...]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says too many in Alabama “are willing to turn their backs on our immigrant past.” Referring to Alabama’s recently enacted immigration law, Holder told the audience gathered at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church on Sunday that he “was not going to let that happen.”

The Hill: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday the United States will continue to have a presence in the Middle East despite plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year. Speaking on ABC’s This Week, Clinton said the U.S. military will not have bases in Iraq but that [...]

CNS News: In statements delivered Friday and Saturday, President Barack Obama said it was his drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq that allowed the U.S. to “refocus” on al Qaeda and get Osama bin Laden. However, according to a report published by the New York Times on May 3, crucial intelligence that allowed the U.S. [...]

BENGHAZI, Libya Oct 23 (Reuters) — Libya’s National Transitional Council leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil kneeled in prayer after taking the stand in a celebration of liberation on Sunday after 42 years of one-man rule by Muammar Gaddafi and promised to uphold Islamic law. “We as a Muslim nation have taken Islamic sharia as the source [...]