BYE BYE VOTER SUPPRESSION

Maine voters restore Election Day registration

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The citizens of Maine on Tuesday repealed a recently passed law requiring voters to enroll at least two days before an election.

SPECIAL ELECTION

Robocall to Iowans: Ask Dem candidate about ‘homosexual sex acts’

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Citizens of Iowa Senate District 18 received a robocall on Monday night instructing them to call Democratic candidate Liz Mathis and ask what homosexual acts she approved of.

FIRST AMENDMENT

For ‘Occupy Fresno,’ county tops Constitution

A protester is confronted by a police officer at "Occupy Fresno" on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. Screenshot via YouTube.

For the third night in a row, protesters with “Occupy Fresno” were arrested for gathering in a public park, apparently in violation of a county ordinance that labeled them trespassers.

PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT

Mississippi rejects anti-abortion ballot initiative

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Mississippi voters on Tuesday rejected an amendment to the Mississippi Constitution that would have defined “a person” as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof."

ELECTION MONITORING GONE WRONG

Ohio poll worker bites voter on nose

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An election monitor bit an Ohio voter on the nose Tuesday after he got involved in a dispute about how close a campaign worker could get to the polling station, local media reported Tuesday.

CORPORATE SUPPORT

Ben and Jerry dish it out for ‘Occupy D.C.’

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The Washington offshoot of Occupy Wall Street indulged in some Cherry Garcia and words of encouragement Tuesday from the multi-millionaire founders of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream.

Science

AstraZeneca, Targacept drug fails depression test

LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental antidepressant fromAstraZeneca Plc and Targacept Inc failed to meet the goal of changing…

Australia passes controversial carbon pollution tax

Australia’s parliament approved a controversial pollution tax on Tuesday, after years of bitter debate over…

Tech News

White House vows to veto GOP bill to overturn net neutrality rules

WASHINGTON — The White House warned on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would veto a…

DOJ ready to take AT&T to court: Attorney General

WASHINGTON — US Department of Justice lawyers “are ready and eager to go to court”…

Media

De Niro could play fraudster Madoff in TV film

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood legend Robert De Niro is lined up to play shamed Wall…

Reporter wears grape costume to defend boy suspended for banana suit

Let it never be said again that journalism is a humorless business. Covering an odd…

World

Bin Laden successor making limited impact, say analysts

Four months after succeeding Osama bin Laden at the head of Al Qaeda, Ayman Al Zawahiri is spreading jihadist propaganda over the Internet but must…

Syrian death toll tops 3,500: UN rights office

More than 3,500 people have been killed in the Syrian regime’sbrutal crackdown on dissent, the UN human rights office said Tuesday, deploring the slaughter…

Botswana pushes to legalize prostitution

For 15 years Thato Serite has made her living as a prostitute alongBotswana’s busiest highway, hired by truckers plying the main route…

Heavy police presence for London student protest

LONDON — Police will deploy in large numbers for a march in London on Wednesday against changes to higher education…

U.S. News

Sen. Kerry: Iran not ‘truthful’ about nuclear drive

WASHINGTON — Senior US Senator John Kerry on Tuesday urged sustained pressure on Iran after…

Holder denounces anti-Muslim FBI training

WASHINGTON — US Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday told lawmakers that FBI counterterrorism training…

Perry: Reinstate military gay ban because ‘it worked very well’

If elected president, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) says he would reinstate the U.S. military’s…

Dept. of Labor: U.S. employers posted 3.4 million job openings in Sept.

U.S. employers posted help-wanted ads for 3.4 million jobs in Sept., the Department of Labor…

Eighty-seven-year-old woman shoots husband for alleged cheating

No matter what her age or physical state, Dorothy Desjardins is a lady you should…