Guns flare in Lebanon as regional crisis deepens
BEIRUT - Lebanese troops and gunmen clashed across the country, killing four people, including a nine-year-old girl, and raising fears that the civil war in neighboring Syria could be ushering in a new era of sectarian bloodshed. Full Article | Video
Obama, Romney now tied in presidential race: Reuters/Ipsos poll
WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney has closed the gap with President Barack Obama and the two candidates are now tied in the November 6 presidential race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Monday.
Some in Congress eye fiscal cliff 'fallback'
WASHINGTON - An idea percolating in the Congress, aimed at helping avoid the "fiscal cliff," would scrap the steep spending cuts of $109 billion and replace them with more targeted savings of about $55 billion, according to aides familiar with the discussions. Full Article
China's leaders seek ambitious economic reform
BEIJING - China's top leaders have asked policy think tanks to draw up their most ambitious economic reform proposals in decades that could curb the power of state firms. Full Article
Cameron seeks answers as BBC crisis deepens
LONDON - Pressure on the BBC to address allegations its bosses covered up sexual abuse claims leveled at one of its former TV stars mounted after British Prime Minister David Cameron said the broadcaster had serious questions to answer. Full Article
Goldman book is not an expose: author
JOHANNESBURG - Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs vice president who publicly accused the bank of taking advantage of unsuspecting clients, said he never intended his book to be an expose of practices at the Wall Street firm. Full Article
Russia sends punk rockers to prison camps
MOSCOW - Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital. Full Article
Is Ohio's "secret" energy boom going bust?
NEW YORK - Over a year after Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon declared the Utica shale formation to be "the biggest thing to hit Ohio since the plow," investors and landowners are still in the dark over the country's most eagerly anticipated drilling campaign. Full Article
Armstrong stripped of Tour de France titles
GENEVA - Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life after the International Cycling Union ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's sanctions. Full Article | Related Story
Wealth Strategies: Target funds getting more popular
Oct. 22 - BlackRock's Chip Castille says retirement planning has become more difficult with economic, market and political uncertainty, and is seeing almost half of money flows going to target retirement funds.
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What should the U.S. be fighting for?
There will always be a gap between what candidates promise and what they deliver, especially with foreign policy. This year, the contradictions cut to the heart of debates over American power. Commentary
Use plutocracy to broaden our economic debate
The rise of the plutocrats is a challenge with no evidently effective response. But rather than depressing, that fact could be liberating. Leave the plutocrats to the playgrounds and the rest of society can attend to the construction of a viable future. Commentary
Owning a magazine versus a digital startup
Simon Dumenco has a question: would you rather own a magazine, or a digital startup? As a long-term investment, I’d be worried about owning a magazine, no matter how profitable it is today. But with short-term cashflow, it’s no contest. Commentary
The rich, the poor, and the presidency
Can a state's political allegiance be predicted by whether the rich and poor live near one another? Yes, and as income inequality increases, that's bad news for Republicans, not Democrats. Commentary
Europe doesn't need a "Disziplin union"
European leaders have nudged forward plans for a fiscal union with discipline as its leitmotif. But such a union is neither desirable nor necessary. It may not be politically feasible either. Commentary
Are we having the wrong marriage debate?
Same-sex marriage isn't the only marriage issue we face. The share of poor and middle-income American adults actually living in stable marriages has been hitting new lows. Commentary
The neocons' war against Obama
Mitt Romney has staffed his foreign policy team with neocons. He is now denouncing Obama as an abject failure, intent on appeasing the world’s dictators, and talking about a pre-emptive foreign policy agenda. Commentary
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Romney hasn't closed the deal yet
Mitt Romney needs to do a better job of convincing voters that he will be a competent commander-in-chief, say authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Video
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