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Man loses testicle in dog attack

A Toronto man suffered serious injuries to the face, neck and groin in an attack by his girlfriend’s dog. According to CTV Online, police, paramedics and Toronto animal control responded to the scene...

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Watch live: Obama and Clinton rally in Ohio

President Obama holds a campaign rally in Lima, Ohio. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Nov. 2. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Museum to open balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot

The motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee where US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 is being opened to the public, a spokeswoman said Friday. It is the first...

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Washington Post Co. offsets newspaper losses with Kaplan earnings to swing...

The Washington Post Co. said Friday it swung to a profit of $93.8 million for the third quarter from a loss a year earlier, despite ongoing woes at its flagship daily newspaper. The profit, which...

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Huffington Post launches weekend TED talks section

News website Huffington Post on Friday launched a weekend section devoted to diving deeply into mind-bending ideas shared in “talks” at prestigious TED conferences. TED Weekends is to become a...

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Cuba accuses U.S. of training dissidents over the Internet

Cuba accused the United States Friday of supplying opponents of the government with the technological means to access the Internet as part of an effort to “subvert the constitutional order.” The...

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Swiss environmentalists submit bill aimed at halting immigration

A group of Swiss environmentalists on Friday submitted a bill to the government aimed at reining in immigration in the name of curbing population growth and protecting the environment. The Ecology and...

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Watch live: Biden in Superior, Wisconsin

Vice President Joe Biden campaigns in Superior, Wisconsin. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Nov. 2. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Watch live: Paul Ryan in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Paul Ryan holds a campaign event in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Watch live, broadcast by NBC News on Nov. 2. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Conservative ‘historian’ claims Benghazi an inside job designed to help ban...

Conservative author and self-declared historian David Barton told his radio audience on Friday that President Barack Obama purposefully allowed an attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi so that he can...

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Former Obama drug policy adviser predicts weed war if states legalize

The Obama administration will not just sit by and watch as up to three states attempt to implement laws legalizing marijuana, one of the president’s former senior drug policy advisers predicted...

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New York officials warn of new Sandy crisis as temperatures plummet

Authorities in the north-east United States are warning of a new crisis facing the region as cold weather heads towards tens of thousands of people who still have no power or heat and are living in...

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Pope butler’s ‘accomplice’ goes on trial

A Vatican computer technician will go on trial Monday on charges of helping the pope’s former butler steal papers, in a case that could expose other whistle-blowers within the secretive Holy See....

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Activists spend millions on new ads slamming Romney’s climate change denial

Two new election ads have attacked Mitt Romney for making jokes about sea-level rise, as campaigners move to tap concern about climate change after Sandy. In the final days before the vote, two groups...

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Apple paid less than 2 percent tax on overseas profits last year

Apple paid less than 2% tax on profit made outside the United States last year. The iPhone and iPad maker paid $713m (£445m) in overseas corporation tax on foreign profits of $36.87bn (£23bn) in the...

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Foreign investors dip toes back into eurozone

Reassured by ECB anti-crisis moves, major international investors have begun dipping their toes back into the eurozone, even though they don’t believe the crisis is over. “The worst-case scenarios of...

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Report: NYC Mayor Bloomberg spending millions as ‘counterweight’ to NRA

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions in political advertisements as part of an effort to become a “counterweight” to the National Rifle Association, the National Journal reported...

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Reid, McConnell dodge questions, refuse to look at one another during ’60...

How bad is the partisan divide in the U.S. Senate? Bad enough that the leaders of the two parties wouldn’t answer questions or even so much as look at one another during their first-ever interview...

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Obama and Romney fans wage Twitter war

As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made a final dash Sunday for the coveted US presidency less than 48 hours ahead of election day, their supporters took to Twitter to wage a strident online war of...

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Romney in Iowa: Obama victory is ‘possible’

Speaking to voters in Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wavered somewhat from his prior, supremely confident public statements, reportedly describing a victory...

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