Rick Perry Goes Birther: After Meeting With Trump, 'I Don't Know' If Obama's Birth Certificate Is Real  —  In April, in an effort to appease a vocal group of conspiracy theorists who believe President Obama was not born in the United States, Obama released his “long-form” birth certificate from Hawaii.

Europe is now leveraging for a catastrophe  —  It is time to prepare for the unthinkable: there is now a significant probability the euro will not survive in its current form.  This is not because I am predicting the failure by European leaders to agree a deal.  In fact, I believe they will.

Libya's liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law  —  Libya's interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country.  —  Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman …

Jobs Plan Stalled, Obama to Try New Economic Drive  —  WASHINGTON — With his jobs plan stymied in Congress by Republican opposition, President Obama on Monday will begin a series of executive-branch actions to confront housing, education and other economic problems over the coming months …

Cain would autograph life amendment  —  Herman Cain tried to clean up the running confusion over his position on abortion last night, but in the meantime opened questions about his grasp of the Constitution.  —  In an interview with David Brody last night, Cain said he'd sign …

Mitt Romney calls Obama Iraq withdrawal decision an ‘astonishing failure’  —  The 2012 Republican field largely slammed President Obama's decision, which the president announced Friday, to end the Iraq war and bring U.S. troops home by the end of 2011, suggesting that the move was a purely political one.

OccupyDayton Protester: ‘F*ck The Military, F*ck Your Flag, And F*ck The Police’  —  A citizen journalist was taking pictures of the destruction the “Occupy Dayton” protest caused to public property when he was approached by a group of demonstrators.  A protester became very hostile …

Former members' campaigns alive, well and spending money  —  The disgraced lawmakers might be gone, but their campaigns live on.  —  The handful of members of Congress who have resigned amid scandal in recent years have maintained active campaign accounts, federal records show …

Abdel-Jalil Promises a Role for Islam in a New Libya  —  BENGHAZI, Libya — The leader of the transitional government declared to thousands of revelers in a sunlit square here on Sunday that Libya's revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he vowed that the new government would be based on Islamic tenets.

Goldman Sachs Sends Its Regrets to This Awkward Dinner Invitation  —  Bank Withdraws From Fund-Raiser After ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Gets Place at Table  —  Earlier this month, hundreds of New Yorkers received an unusual dinner invitation from the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union.

Who Needs Stability?  —  Bankers in this country are not letting up on their campaign to undercut the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is supposed to curb risky behavior and lessen the chances of another meltdown.  They are also eagerly joining their overseas brethren in a similarly fierce campaign …

Louisiana's Jindal Wins Second Term as Governor in Open Primary  —  Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) — Bobby Jindal, a Republican who championed stronger ethics laws in his first term as Louisiana governor, won re-election against nine other candidates in an open primary, according to the Associated Press.

Tunisia voters go to polls in historic free election  —  Voting has begun in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.  —  Voters will elect a 217-seat assembly that will draft a new constitution and appoint an interim government.