Archive for October, 2012
Son of late Trudeau to run for Liberal leadership
By PHIL COUVRETTE MONTREAL – Hoping to turn around the fortunes of Canada’s once-dominant Liberal Party, the eldest son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced Tuesday evening he…
New blood turns Colorado to political battleground
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI DENVER – Not too long ago Colorado was political flyover country, known for skiing and football – and being a reliable vote for the Republican presidential candidate.…
Free coffins: political swag for Honduran poor
By ALBERTO ARCE TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – In some countries political campaigns give out bumper stickers and yard signs. In others, they offer free lunches and supermarket debit cards. In Honduras,…
Ann Romney’s new role: Defender in chief
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and KASIE HUNT LITTLETON, Colo. – Ann Romney has stepped out into a new role for the final stretch of the campaign: Character witness and defender in…
Ryan: Elect Romney, stop burying the middle class
By DAVID PITT BURLINGTON, Iowa – Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says the way to help the middle class recover from the past four years is to elect Mitt…
Record number of gays seeking seats in Congress
By DAVID CRARY NEW YORK – Of the four openly gay members of Congress, the two longest-serving stalwarts are vacating their seats. Instead of fretting, their activist admirers are excited…
Islamist-secular struggle over Egypt constitution
By MAGGIE MICHAEL CAIRO – Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt’s long-awaited new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring theocratic rule and severely…
Olympus deal a slow cure for Sony
By Hiroko Nakata, Japan Times, Tokyo Oct. 02-In the end, Sony Corp.’s alliance in the medical equipment business with scandal-tainted Olympus Corp. will help the loss-making electronics giant, it’s just…
Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally vote
By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI – It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and…
Official: Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY BEIRUT – A Hezbollah commander and several other fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant group have been killed in Syria, a senior Lebanese security official and…
