Poll shows Obama with 15-point lead in NH  —  Granite State Poll shows Obama leading Romney among independents  —  With about a month to go before the election, President Barack Obama has widened his lead over Republican Mitt Romney in the latest poll.  —  The WMUR Granite State Poll shows …

Disgusting... Obama Supporters Begin Phone Call Campaign Attacking Mitt Romney's Mormon Faith  —  Disgusting.  —  Obama supporters are making calls attacking Mitt Romney's Mormon faith and deceiving Christian voters on Barack Obama's pro-abortion record.  —  Barack Obama is the most anti …

In debate, Scott Brown veers away from GOP  —  Republican Scott Brown has seemingly calculated the only way he will be able to serve a second Senate term in Massachusetts is if he successfully leaves his party in the dust.  —  In his second high-stakes debate with Democrat Elizabeth Warren …

GOP's October surprise?  —  Source reveals “Jimmy Carter Strategy” to make Obama seem weak on defense in campaign's final month  —  According to a highly reliable source, as Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama prepare for the first presidential debate Wednesday night …

Brittany: “A face of one of the 47%”  —  Hello!  My name is Brittany and I live in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.  I am 25 years old (but I will be 26 on October 3rd!).  I am a registered Democrat and I have been voting since I was 18.  I am one of the 47% of Americans who fall under Mitt Romney's definition …

Paul Ryan: Cut taxes first, balance budget later  —  A number of folks are having fun with Paul Ryan's Sunday interview on Fox News, in which he declined to explain how the Romney/Ryan tax cuts will be paid for: “I don't have the time, it would take me too long to go through all the math.”

Romney Losing Donors to GOP House, Senate Candidates  —  The Romney campaign is experiencing what some officials believe could be the beginning of a mass exodus of big money donors diverting their cash away from the Republican presidential hopeful and toward Republican candidates for the House …

Cantor's rival gets harsh in sole face-off  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) endured a barrage of personal attacks in his general election debate against Democratic challenger Wayne Powell Monday night.  —  Throughout the hourlong debate, hosted by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce …

Leaders at Work on Plan to Avert Mandatory Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach agreement on a comprehensive deficit reduction deal rather than a short-term solution.

Speaker Boehner uses Rove-like strategy to hold House majority  —  Speaker John Boehner has implemented a Karl Rove-like campaign strategy aimed at helping Republicans in blue and red states that are not considered competitive in the 2012 presidential contest.

Former Pakistani legislator offers second bounty on anti-Islam film maker  —  Ikramullah Shahid, a former Pakistani legislator, has offered a $200,000 (£123,800) bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims around the world.

Scandalous: White House Tells Contractors to Break Federal Law and Not Inform Workers They Will Be Laid Off; Further Tells Them The Administration Will Pay Their Fines For Breaking the Law  —  Due to Obama's failure to lead and craft a solution to the debt crisis, the Department of Defense is slated for massive cuts.

EXCLUSIVE: New information casts doubt on Romney's account of his 1981 arrest  —  A police log report, published in the Natick Sun newspaper in 1981 and obtained by Blue Mass Group, calls into question a portion of Mitt Romney's account of his arrest in 1981.

Gridlock as China begins its ‘Golden Week’ holidays  —  A decision to grant free road travel meant hundreds of thousands of Chinese drivers spent the first day of the mid-autumn festival in gridlock.  —  People stand next to their cars during a traffic jam in Shenzhen city, Guangdong province

Obama's claim that the Bush tax cuts led to the economic crisis  —  “Now Governor Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, and fewer regulations on Wall Street, all of us will prosper.  In other words, he'd double down on the same trickle-down policies that led to the crisis in the first place.”

At least 40 hurt in Amtrak derailment south of Hanford  —  HANFORD — At least 40 people were hurt Monday afternoon when a big rig and an Amtrak passenger train collided south of Hanford.  —  The collision happened about 12:20 p.m. on the BNSF Railway freight tracks at Kansas Avenue, between 10th and 10 1/2 Avenue.

U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan reach 2,000  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The killing of an American serviceman in an exchange of fire with allied Afghan soldiers pushed U.S. military deaths in the war to 2,000, a cold reminder of the perils that remain after an 11-year conflict that now garners little public interest at home.

Court won't hear appeal over TSA scanners  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear a Florida man's attempt to challenge the use of full-body scanners at airports.  —  The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by Jonathan Corbett, who wanted to challenge …

The polls show a race that is still up for grabs  —  In the Washington Post-ABC News poll and the Battleground Poll, both of which show a race within the margin of error nationally and with President Obama under 50 percent, Mitt Romney supporters will find confirmation that the contest's dynamics …

Bachmann Warns Obama May be Aiding the Rise of Global Sharia Law  —  We know that when Michele Bachmann speaks, even fact-checkers can't fully cover all of her dubious and debunked claims in just a single article.  Now that Bachmann is completely engrossed in promoting her latest conspiracy theory focusing …

How Obama's green energy policies are bad for the poor … President Obama has made so-called “green energy” policies a key part of his economic agenda, but as a new book argues, they actually disproportionately hurt the poor by boosting the cost of energy.  —  Last week, Examiner columnist …

BREAKING: Blockader Locks to Underground Capsule to Protect a Family Farm  —  UPDATE: 8:00PM - Excellent Coverage From KLTV Channel 7 - Tyler  —  KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas |  UPDATE: 6:00PM - Read Alejandro's Story of How His Passion For Environmental Justice Motivates Him