Jobs Growth Rises 114,000 as Rate Slides to 7.8 Percent  —  Job growth remained tame in September, with the economy creating just 114,000 net new positions though the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent, the first time it has been below 8 percent in 43 months.

Romney says he was ‘completely wrong’ on ‘47 percent’ comment  —  GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday night he was “completely wrong” when he made comments about the 47 percent of Americans who do not pay taxes at a secretly recorded fundraiser in May.

Email Shows State Department Rejecting Request of Security Team at US Embassy in Libya  —  (Image Credit: Ibrahim Alaguri/AP Photo)  —  ABC News has obtained an internal State Department email from May 3, 2012, indicating that the State Department denied a request from the security team …

Top Obama Fundraiser To Release Bin Laden Film 2 Days Before Election  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A film dramatizing the death of Osama bin Laden is set to debut next month on the National Geographic Channel, two days before the presidential election.  —  “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden …

Former college hoops star endorses Romney in new ad  —  Former National Basketball Association player Greg Anthony is featured in a new ad for the Romney campaign, in which he explains why he voted for President Obama in 2008 but is switching to the GOP candidate in 2012.

Was Obama rattled by developing donor scandal story? … President Obama reelection campaign, rattled by his Wednesday night debate performance, could be in for even worse news.  According to knowlegable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story.

NAACP Official: Obama Campaign Staffer Threatened Me  —  CHICAGO (CBS) — The President of the South Suburban Branch of the NAACP alleges a director of the re-election campaign of Barack Obama has threatened and intimidated him because he doesn't support the president.

Former GE CEO Jack Welch Says White House Manipulates Jobs Data  —  History Says No  —  Former General Electric Co. (GE) Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch accused the Obama administration on Twitter of manipulating today's employment data for political advantage.

Iran on the Verge of Hyperinflation  —  Sanctions wreak havoc on the rial  —  In fact, on the verge might not be the right way to put it; in the middle of might be more accurate.  Steve Hanke estimates that inflation is running at 70% a month.  This is, as Alex Tabarrok points out, nowhere near a record.

Federal Judge Approves Scaled-Down Florida Voter Purge  —  TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a challenge to Florida's recent voter purge efforts, clearing the way for the removal of about 200 suspected non-U.S. citizens from state voter rolls before the November 6 presidential election.

For Some, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Goes Too Glam  —  Critics call her “almost unrecognizable” in a Vogue profile.  So what?  —  Wasserman Schultz in Derek Lam in the October 2012 Vogue profile.  —  Source: Marcus Mam / via: seemanagement.com

The Parent Loan Trap  —  More than a decade after Aurora Almendral first set foot on her dream college campus, she and her mother still shoulder the cost of that choice.  —  Ms. Almendral had been accepted to New York University in 1998, but even after adding up scholarships, grants …

Obama's Missing Piece: A Second-Term Agenda  —  After his lackluster debate performance, President Obama needs to better articulate his second-term agenda.  —  DENVER—President Obama didn't have many good moments in this week's first presidential debate.  But it was telling that the few came …

Unemployment Rate Plummets to 4.3%—For Government Workers  —  (CNSNews.com) - The best news anywhere in the U.S. economy over the past three months has been in the government sector, where unemployment has dropped dramatically from 5.7 percent in July to 5.1 percent in August to 4.3 percent in September …

Noonan: Romney Deflates the President  —  The first debate was a surprise.  Now the challenger has to prepare for more surprises.  —  Out on a limb, where the breeze is best:  —  The impact of the first debate is going to be bigger than we know.  It's going to affect thinking more than we know …

Biden: ‘Yes, We Do’ Want to Raise Taxes By a Trillion Dollars  —  Vice President Joe Biden, speaking earlier today in Iowa said, “Yes, we do” want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars:  —  “On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we're gonna ask - yes …