8:10PM EST November 5. 2012 - NEW YORK -- The waiting is over. Election Day is finally here. The attention of investors around the globe now turns to the Super Bowl of politics: the U.S. presidential election. Who's going to win? What will it mean for my portfolio? Voter polls basically say it's a too-close-to-call race between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

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11:02PM EDT November 1. 2012 - WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Secret Service agent who was being investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week in Washington, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

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   1:56PM EST November 4. 2012 - NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is shutting down its reactors as its storied career comes to a close.The USS Enterprise finished its 25th and final deployment on Sunday when it returned to its home port in Norfolk, Va.

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 Up and down New Jersey's storied shore, the scene of summer fun for generations of Easterners is now a tangle of wet, splintered wood, seawater, sand and debris. It's a region that claims rocker Bruce Springsteen as a native son — and of more recent fame, Snooki and the cast of MTV's Jersey Shore.

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  6:55 AM EDT November 3. 2012 - Haven't we been here before? A hurricane devastates a major coastal city, and a debate over climate change comes in like the tide.Will the warnings about sea-level rise in the wake of Hurricane Sandy wash away like the concern seen after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005? Or has the tide finally  too high to ignore?

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Daniel Jarvis, a backbench MP for Barnsley and a former army officer, has criticised the government for low morale in the armed forces.

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9:25 PM EDT November 2. 2012 - NEW YORK — The New York City Marathon will not be run Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office announced late Friday afternoon. It's the first cancellation in the race's 42-year history.

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9:03PM EDT October 23. 2012 - A recent inspector general report, highlighted in USA Daily, has brought another call to disconnect Social Security numbers from Medicare identification cards because of the risk of identity theft and fraud.  "Seniors are urged not to carry their Social Security card to protect their number, but at the same time they need to carry their Medicare card at all times to get health care," said Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas. "This makes no sense."

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