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We also have stories from Venezuela about rising prices and from China about the travails of Olympic gold medalist Sun Yang.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act gives workplace protections to workers and applicants who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The bill would apply to any private employer with more than 15 workers, and includes an exemption for religious groups. It faces strong opposition in the House.

Alan Krueger, the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, says he will step down to return to Princeton to resume his post as a professor of economics. Krueger, who has served as CEA chairman for the past two years, will return to Princeton in time for the beginning of the fall term.

Even the admission of a self-described conservative Republican IRS manager that he was at the heart of the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups hasn't disrupted the partisan head-butting. Indeed, it may have intensified it.

Sources tell the newspaper that the CIA alerts Pakistan in advance about "broad areas" that may be targeted. The other government's silence in response is interpreted as an effective OK, according to those officials.

The Israeli prime minister, speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, said Iran's nuclear program was "in the last 20 yards." He also denied he was taking sides in the U.S. presidential election.

RealtyTrac, a foreclosure tracking firm, says the foreclosure filings dropped significantly in September. But the report shows they have gone up in states that hadn't had problems until now.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has suggested a connection between al-Qaida in North Africa and the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. She did not give any further details on what role the al-Qaida affiliate may have played in the attack

Each month, producing the closely watched jobs numbers transforms a quiet federal statistics office into a high-security operation.

Seth Collins says his brother Aaron's request that the family give a waiter or waitress an "awesome" tip has touched people around the world.