Cain details gesture that led to sex accusation  —  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for the first time has offered a detailed recollection of what led an employee of the National Restaurant Association to lodge a sexual harassment charge against him when he was CEO of the organization.

Occupy ‘ball’ street  —  It's the Autumn of Love!  —  Occupy Wall Street protesters are flocking to nearby health clinics for STD and HIV testing after getting their freak on in '60s-style hookups with crusty strangers, sources told The Post yesterday.  —  “Last week was free love,” …

Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money  —  Updated  —  Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine …

Europe Markets Drop on News of Greek Referendum  —  ATHENS — European markets slid dramatically on Tuesday after Prime Minister George A. Papandreou stunned the continent's leaders with a surprise announcement late Monday that his government would hold a referendum on a new aid package for Greece.

Smoking-Gun Document Ties Policy To Housing Crisis  —  President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a “broad-based frustration” among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis.

Virginia County GOP Emails Picture Of Obama With Bullet Hole In His Head  —  Yesterday was Halloween, a day for children to take candy and (apparently) for the Loudon County, Virginia GOP to take a shot at President Obama.  As the blog Too Conservative reported, the Loudon Republican committee sent out a …

Supercommittee panelists would take hit if they fail to get debt deal  —  Three weeks out with no deal in sight, the risk of failure is mounting for members of the congressional supercommittee on deficit reduction.  —  While President Obama, House and Senate leaders and politically vulnerable members …

The Wrong Inequality  —  We live in a polarizing society, so perhaps it's inevitable that our experience of inequality should be polarized, too.  —  In the first place, there is what you might call Blue Inequality.  This is the kind experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston …

Israel and the Apartheid Slander  —  THE Palestinian Authority's request for full United Nations membership has put hope for any two-state solution under increasing pressure.  The need for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater.

Chick-Fil-A Donated Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009  —  Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A became embroiled in a controversy surrounding its donations to anti-gay groups.  Though Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy denied having an “agenda against anyone,” an Equality Matters investigation discovered …

Bullet train project nearly triples in cost — $98.5 billion — from earlier projections  —  Faster than a speeding bullet train, the cost of the state's massive high-speed rail project has zoomed to nearly $100 billion — triple the estimate given to voters and more than enough to run the entire state government for a year.

The conservative case for Mitt Romney  —  It has been Mitt Romney's successful strategy to keep a low profile, emerging periodically for fluent debate performances, while the conservative meteors streak and fade.  Every week that an untested rival surges, dominates the news and then stumbles …

The Charts You Must See, Now, About GOP Tax Plans  —  On the off chance that you have not yet seen the post by the Atlantic's Derek Thompson about the impact on different income groups of the Rick Perry tax plan, plus Herman Cain's 9-9-9 proposal, please go see it now.

Carrying Water for Obama, Hilda Solis Picks a Fight with the Tea Party  —  With the team behind President Barack Obama targeting the Sunshine State in their bid for a second term in 2012, the White House sent U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to speak to the Florida Democratic Convention on Saturday.

The moment man was publicly beheaded in a Saudi Arabian car park for being a ‘sorcerer’  —  Shocking footage has surfaced of a Sudanese man being publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for being a ‘sorcerer’.  —  Crouched on his knees and blindfolded, Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki …

Factory sector contracts at fastest pace in 2 years  —  (Reuters) - The manufacturing sector contracted at its fastest pace in more than two years in October as new orders plummeted, adding to signs that the country is teetering on the brink of recession, a survey showed on Tuesday.

Romney to give policy address Friday  —  (CNN) - Mitt Romney will deliver a policy address Friday at an Americans for Prosperity summit in Washington, according to the group and the Republican presidential candidate's campaign.  —  The conservative group is partially funded by billionaires Charles …