Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012:
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That companies are hiring steadily but cautiously. And unemployment remains high.
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Obama is eager to hold ground in key battlegrounds, and Romney is pushing to expand the contest to other states, most notably Pennsylvania.
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Staten Island, an isolated pocket of the city, is perhaps the area most devastated by the monster storm that has left more than 90 dead.
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Big Apple residents grapple with traffic, bus lines and shortages, prompting one to exclaim “I’m tired of it, big-time.”
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At 6:30 a.m., the space shuttle’s trek at Cape Canaveral, Fla., won’t replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns that Endeavour encountered last month in Los Angeles, but its mastermind is sweating bullets nonetheless.
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The U.S. agency found that the Korean automakers inflated the gas mileage on most of their models by one to six miles per gallon.
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Scientists confirm the 5.5-ton tusker can reproduce the Korean words for “hello,” “sit down,” “no,” “lie down” and “good.”
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From Mexico to Haiti to Guatemala, the festivities to honor loved ones vary from pouring moonshine to voodoo to a wild horse race.
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Blake Shelton, “The Voice” star, wins entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards.
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Norv Turner is off the hot seat, at least for 10 days, as reeling San Diego snapped a long touchdown drought en route to a 31-13 victory over the staggering Kansas City Chiefs.
