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  • The former Massachusetts governor's current run for the White House hasn't included a big presence in the state. On Thursday, he returned for the first time since the summer, declaring, "I will be here again and again."
  • The host of the NPR-distributed show has drawn criticism for her role in an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Simeone was fired as host of Soundprint, a separate, independently produced documentary radio program.
  • The pitched political battle pitting public workers unions against Republican budget-cutters is in its final stages in Ohio. Voters will cast ballots on Nov. 8 that could repeal the law that severely limits collective bargaining in the Buckeye State.
  • The Franco-German relationship is so dramatic — so theatrical — it's best to tell it in song.
  • As the nation's student-loan debt climbs toward $1 trillion, many students face 20-year repayment plans. The average debt is $24,000, but some owe far more and say this burden influences life decisions, from buying a house to whether to have children.
  • Though dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, there are still thought to be a few species left over from those days. Plants called cycads, the so-called "living fossils," have remained mostly unchanged for 300 million years. But a new study suggests that glamorous title may not be deserved.
  • News of the Syrian uprising has come largely from activists who have taken great risks to get the story out. One of them went by the alias Alexander Page. But he recently fled to Egypt and and is now speaking out under his real name, Rami Jarrah.
  • One day after Moammar Gadhafi's death, Libya is celebrating. But questions persist over exactly how he died — and how to bury him. And the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals are tied in the World Series, 1-1.
  • As European leaders meet to decide on a plan to help struggling member nations, they might be helped by some two-century-old advice from America's first Treasury secretary. Alexander Hamilton insisted that paying off Revolutionary War debts would lead to economic greatness.
  • Unemployment rates across America didn't change much in September, says the Labor Department. But among the mostly small shifts that occurred, 25 states reported decreases in their unemployment rate. North Dakota and Nevada had the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, at 3.5 and 4.3 percent.
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