New Woman Accusing Herman Cain Of Sexual Harassment Hires Gloria Allred  —  A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse attorney Gloria Allred Monday afternoon in New York City, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

DECLINE AND FALL  —  Sometime in the future, when a twenty-first-century Gibbon searches for a moment to use as a starting point for a chronicle of American decline, he or she might want to alight on the late-October and early-November days of 2011.  Not that there is much to be gained …

Here Comes the Sun  —  For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it.  Moore's Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months …

Trumka heads to Ohio before referendum vote  —  AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will be in Ohio Monday for labor's final push before a key statewide vote on collective bargaining rights.  —  The head of the nation's largest labor federation is expected at several events throughout the state …

Bill Clinton's back, with a plan to help the economy  —  A few dozen ideas, in fact, about ways large and small to get unemployed Americans back to work — from granting property tax breaks for investments that create jobs to painting every flat tar roof in U.S. cities white for the energy savings.

The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being  —  The Old Prosper Relative to the Young  —  Older adults have made dramatic gains relative to younger adults in their economic well being during the past quarter century, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from two key U.S. Census sources.

IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability  —  Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran's government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles …

Romney just dramatically raised the stakes vs. Obama  —  The Day of Reckoning is here, or will be in 2013.  The next president and Congress will need to make huge decisions about taxes and spending.  And those actions will help determine whether America's economic future will be one of a) …

Head and Body Lice Outbreak Announced at #Occupy Portland Squatters Camp (Video)  —  Can we join?... Please, please, please!  —  A lice outbreak was announced at the #Occupy Portland squatters camp this weekend.  —  Head AND Body lice.  —  Hat Tip South Texian

On electoral map, Obama still has routes to victory in 2012, despite low ratings  —  There's no question that President Obama faces one of the most challenging political environments in modern memory as he prepares to try to win a second term next November.  —  But with one year …

A Hidden Toll as States Shift to Contract Workers  —  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Like many states and local governments struggling to cut costs, Michigan hopes to replace some government employees with contract workers who will do the same job for less.  —  Ginny Townsend, 41 …

The Next Fight Over Jobs  —  The way the job market is going, it will never be robust enough to bring down the unemployment rate, now at 9 percent, or 13.9 million people.  Monthly job growth has slowed to an average of just 90,000 new jobs a month over the past six months …

Supreme Court to hear GPS surveillance case  —  It sounds a bit like Big Brother: Police can place a GPS device on your car to follow all of your movements, for any length of time.  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear arguments about whether investigators need to get a warrant before doing so.