The State Department said Friday it has warned nearly 400 passport applicants of a security breach in its records system that may have left them open to identity theft.
Source:State Dept. warns of possible identity theft
Early voting has proven extraordinarily popular this year, setting records across the country as voters brave hours-long waits to cast their ballots in advance.
Source:Long lines, glitches greet early voters
Vigilance by fire officials and volunteers appears to have kept the number of arsons low in Detroit on Thursday, the night before Halloween, which had become notorious as “Devil’s Night” in years past.
Source:Vigilance deters pre-Halloween fires in Mich.
Car bombs rather than Obama, making it home rather than McCain dominate the talk among many U.S. soldiers in Iraq’s deadliest city during the final countdown to America’s presidential election.
Source:War, not voting, focus of soldiers in Iraq
International envoys converged on eastern Congo on Friday hoping to help end some of the worst violence the central African nation has seen in years
Source:War-weary Congo refugees trudge home
AFP - Suspected US missiles struck two deadly blows Friday killing 32 mainly Al-Qaeda operatives and injuring a key Taliban commander in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.
Source:At least 32 militants killed in Pakistan missile strikes: officials
(AFP)
Reuters - U.S. military jurors reached a verdict on Friday in the Guantanamo trial of Osama bin Laden’s accused media chief, who is accused of inciting murder and inspiring September 11 hijackers.
Source:Verdict reached but not read at Guantanamo
(Reuters)
AP - Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the “non-celebrated,” died Friday. He was 96.
Source:Pulitzer Prize-winning author Terkel dies at 96
(AP)
AP - A gunman who had been on the lam for a week held 11 fifth-graders hostage at a school Friday but was tackled outside a classroom without any harm to the children, police said.
Source:Gunman arrested after Maine students held hostage
(AP)
Reuters - Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Friday seized on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power in Ohio, a state critical to his hopes of clawing back Democrat Barack Obama’s lead going into Tuesday’s election.
Source:McCain, Obama battle into last weekend
(Reuters)
