In this March 8, 2011, Muammar Qaddafi arrives at the Rixos hotel in the capital of Tripoli.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the capture of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi would be a significant development in Libya if it proves true, but she could not confirm a Reuters report saying rebels had captured and wounded him.

Clinton also said she did not expect his capture would end the fighting there in an interview in Afghanistan with CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson.

Isaura Garcia, at podium, cries in Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 2011, as she recounts her arrest under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secure Communities Program, which was created in 2008 and calls for police to submit suspects' fingerprints to DHS so they can be cross-checked with federal deportation orders.

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Support from Latino voters is key for President Obama as he seeks re-election. But immigration advocates say his policies may be working against him.

A new study shows that one of his deportation programs disproportionately impacts Latino households and has even led to the arrest of hundreds of U.S. citizens by immigration authorities.

"Latinos [are] waking up to the fact that President Obama and the Democrats are no better than Republicans on immigration," said Roberto Lovato, co-founder of the Latino advocacy group Presente.org, pointing to Mr. Obama's falling approval ratings among Latinos.

"In fact, they're worse right now because they're in power and deporting more people than President Bush did," Lovato told CBS News Political Hotsheet.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced yesterday that the agency made a record number of deportations in the twelve months through September -- nearly 400,000. ICE's aggressive deportation efforts are aided by Secure Communities, a controversial program that uses information from local police forces to enforce federal immigration laws.

A random sample of 375 Secure Communities deportation cases revealed five cases of United States citizens held by immigration agents for no clear reason, according to the study, conducted by researchers at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

A truck carrying a podium for President Obama to use on his bus tour was reportedly stolen in Virginia.

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A truck carrying audio equipment, podiums and other equipment for President Obama's three-day bus tour was stolen in Virginia.

The truck was reportedly stolen in Henrico County, near Richmond, Va.,and unnamed sources told NBC affiliate WWBT that it was carrying about $200,000 worth of sound equipment, several podiums and presidential seals.

A Pentagon spokesman confirmed to CBS News that the truck was stolen and has been recovered, adding that it is believed no classified material was on the truck.

The truck was reportedly recovered Monday afternoon in the parking lot of a Holiday Inn Express, and it's unclear whether anything was stolen, or whether the thieves were aware they were stealing the president's equipment.

"No classified or sensitive information was in the vehicle," an unnamed spokesperson from the Defense Information Systems Agency told WWBT. "We take incidents such as this very seriously and a formal investigation is continuing."

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President Obama on Monday hit the road to visit schools, a transportation hub, a military base and a firehouse over the course of three days -- all places that could benefit from his $447 billion American Jobs Act. The White House says the president's bus tour is strictly about promoting policy -- but the places Mr. Obama will visit this week happen to be carefully selected small towns in two states that will be critical to his re-election -- North Carolina and Virginia.

After Senate Republicans blocked Mr. Obama's jobs package with a filibuster last week, the president and Democrats vowed to hammer Republicans for blocking proposals that are popular with the public and force them to take votes on the individual elements of the plan.

At his first stop in Asheville, North Carolina on Monday, the crowd assembled at the Asheville Regional Airport didn't seem to distinguish much between the president's argument for his jobs package and the argument for his re-election. At one point, they began chanting, "Four more years!"

"I appreciate the 'four more years,' but right now I'm thinking about the next 13 months," Mr. Obama said in response. "Yes, we've got an election coming up... but a lot of folks can't wait" 14 months for the economy to turn around.

In Asheville, Mr. Obama made the case for renovating the airport -- exactly the type of project that would receive funding from his jobs package.

President Obama on Friday traveled to a Michigan auto factory to illustrate the fruits of his controversial decision to bail out the auto industry, and to tout the benefits to come from the recently-passed free trade deal with South Korea.

"This is a city where a great American industry is coming back to life and the industries of tomorrow are taking root," Mr. Obama said at the General Motors plant in Orion Township, where the new Chevrolet Sonic is produced. "These cars are a testimony to the American spirit."

Mr. Obama was joined by South Korean President President Lee Myung-bak, in a rare joint appearance of heads of state outside of Washington.

As the economy continues to stall, Mr. Obama will have to work hard to convince Midwestern voters that his agenda is working to their benefit. The unemployment rate in Michigan in August stood at 11.2 percent, above the national average of 9.1 percent. Still, the picture has improved since the president decided to restructure Chrysler and GM.

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Republicans managed to block President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill in the Senate earlier this week, but the president charged today that the GOP has yet to offer any better ideas for job creation.

During a White House news conference today, the president said that independent economists have said the American Jobs Act -- which is comprised of tax cuts and investments in areas like education and infrastructure, as well as state aid -- would create up to 1.9 million jobs.

"Frankly, we have not seen a lot of ideas come forward from Republicans that would indicate that same kind of commitment to job creation," the president said. "If they do, if Sen. [Mitch] McConnell or Speaker [John] Boehner say to me, 'We want to get infrastructure built in this country, we think putting construction workers back to work is important,' I'll be right there."

President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak take part in a joint news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.

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President Obama on Thursday vowed to impose the most significant sanctions to date on Iran for its alleged plot to have the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Washington assassinated, and  expressed confidence the world would join the U.S. effort to isolate the Iranian government.

The president, speaking alongside South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in a joint press conference, said that his administration had reached out to "all of our allies, the international community, we've laid the facts before them - and we believe that after people have analyzed them, there will not be a dispute that this in fact, what happened, this is not just a dangerous escalation - this is a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior by the Iranian government."

"This is just one example of a series of steps that they've taken to create violence and to behave in a way that you don't see other countries doing," he said. "We're going to continue to... apply the toughest sanctions and continue to mobilize the international community to make sure that Iran is further and further isolated and pays a price for this kind of behavior."

Believing the public is on their side, President Obama and Democrats in Congress plan to spend the next few weeks pressuring Republicans into passing their ideas for creating jobs -- or letting them pay the political price.

The Senate on Tuesday night blocked Mr. Obama's $447 billion "American Jobs Act," after two Democrats and every Republican supported a filibuster against the bill.

Since the entire package couldn't pass, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday he plans to introduce individual elements of the plan -- which have won bipartisan support in the past -- over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, Democrats are trying to convince voters that Republicans are to blame for the continued economic gloom.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz., talks about President Obama's job bill, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Senate Republicans blocked President Obama's $447 billion jobs package on Tuesday, putting the brakes on a bill Mr. Obama has been vigorously promoting over the past month.

By around 7 p.m., the vote tally was 50 to 48, giving Republicans more than the 40 votes needed to filibuster the bill. Voting was kept open for another few hours to allow one more senator -- Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire -- to get back to Washington to cast a vote in favor of the legislation. With Shaheen's vote, Mr. Obama can at least claim a symbolic victory with a simple majority voting in favor of his legislation.

The final vote tally was 50 to 49, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid switched his vote to "no" for technical reasons -- under Senate rules, casting his vote with the majority allows Reid to revive the bill at a later date if he wants.

Still, two Democrats -- Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana -- legitimately sided with Republicans.

"Trying to fix [the legislation] is going to be very difficult from my standpoint, because I don't think most want to see taxes raised to pay for new spending in Washington," Nelson said, CBS News Capitol Hill Producer John Nolen reports.

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As Republicans continue to decry the government loan program that sank $535 million into the failed solar company Solyndra, President Obama today defended the investments, saying he's not willing to "surrender" to China and other nations on new technologies.

"I'm not going to surrender to other countries' technological leads that could end up determining whether or not we're building a strong middle class in this country," President Obama said in a White House press conference.

"I'd heard there was a Republican member of Congress who's engaging in oversight on this. And despite the fact that all of them in the past have been supportive of this loan guarantee program, he concluded, 'You know what? We can't compete against China when it comes to solar energy,'" Mr. Obama said, alluding to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa. "Well, you know what? I don't buy that."