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Report: Democrats Planted New Jersey Tea Party Candidate

Oct 8, 2010 - 5:13 PM |AP

Mel Evans, AP

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (Oct. 8) -- A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted a tea party candidate...

Dow Closes Above 11,000 for the First Time Since May

Oct 8, 2010 - 4:43 PM |DailyFinance

Stocks rose Friday and the Dow closed above 11,000 for the first time since before the Flash Crash of early May. September's dismal jobs reports raised traders' expectations for another round of...

Police: 7 Arrested in Brutal Anti-Gay Attacks in NYC

Oct 8, 2010 - 4:31 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

NEW YORK (Oct. 8) -- Seven suspected members of a Bronx, N.Y., street gang have been arrested and charged with anti-gay hate crimes for sadistic sexual attacks on two 17-year-old boys, including one...

Abbott Withdraws Diet Pill Meridia in US, Canada

Oct 8, 2010 - 3:44 PM |AP

WASHINGTON (Oct. 8) -- Abbott Laboratories said Friday it will withdraw its diet pill Meridia in the U.S. and Canada, after coming under pressure from health regulators who say the drug increases the...

NC Woman Arrested After Body Is Found in Freezer

Oct 8, 2010 - 3:41 PM |AOL News

Wake County Sheriff's Office

(Oct. 8) -- The girlfriend of a missing North Carolina man has been charged with murder after police found the man's body stuffed in a freezer in their home. Investigators are trying to locate the...

Official: North Koreans Will Follow Kim Jong Un

Oct 8, 2010 - 3:38 PM |AP

TV / AFP / Getty Images

PYONGYANG, North Korea (Oct. 8) - A top official told APTN on Friday that North Koreans will be honored to follow the youngest son of Kim Jong Il as the third-generation leader of the communist...

National Security Adviser James Jones Resigns

Oct 8, 2010 - 3:09 PM |Politics Daily

SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

James Jones, President Obama's national security adviser who struggled to mediate between the White House and the Pentagon over Afghan war strategy, has resigned effective later this month. He will...

Kent State Recording: Shots Heard Before Guardsmen Fired

Oct 8, 2010 - 2:36 PM |AOL News

(Oct. 8) -- A noisy altercation and four pistol shots occurred moments before Ohio National Guardsmen shot at Vietnam War protesters at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, The Plain Dealer reports....

Obama's National Security Adviser Stepping Down

Oct 8, 2010 - 1:42 PM |AP

Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty Images

WASHINGTON (Oct. 8) -- In another White House shake up, President Barack Obama on Friday announced that his national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, was stepping down after helping to shape the...

Jailed Chinese Dissident Wins 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 8, 2010 - 12:54 PM |AOL News

Kyodo News, AP

(Oct. 8) -- Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, who is less than a year into an 11-year prison sentence for "subverting state power," won the Nobel Peace Prize today -- much to the chagrin of his...

Sanchez on CNN, Stewart Remarks: 'I Screwed Up'

Oct 8, 2010 - 12:13 PM |AOL News

ABCNEWS.com / GMA

(Oct. 8) -- Former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez said his comments about Jon Stewart were "wrong" and "offensive," and apologized for remarks many said were anti-Semitic. "I screwed up," Sanchez told...

Bank of America to Halt Foreclosures Nationwide

Oct 8, 2010 - 11:57 AM |DailyFinance

(Oct. 8) -- Bank of America (BAC) plans to halt foreclosure sales across the nation, as it reviews whether it handled its foreclosure documentation and procedures properly, the banking giant said...

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