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Bronny James is improving after suffering cardiac arrest Monday and his parents, LeBron and Savannah, are “relieved,”... [T]he couple is “optimistic,” although more tests will be done in an attempt to determine the cause of the cardiac arrest. Bronny, 18, is an incoming freshman at USC and suffered cardiac arrest Monday morning while practicing at the school’s Galen Center.

Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the European Commission said on Thursday.

According to a report from ESPN, the “vast majority” of Big Ten presidents are in favor of postponing the season while hoping to play in the spring. Yahoo! Sports’ Pete Thamel reported Big Ten presidents and chancellors are scheduled to meet Sunday night.

20) "Trump’s mention of Ohr’s wife appears gratuitous. Her role in the matter, as yet, appears minimal." She worked for the main player in this drama, Fusion. And Fact Checker has zero ability to make that claim, since we still don't know her role. Bizarre.

Far be it from us to throw shade on your home sweet home, but the data does not lie. The Quality of Life category in our annual America's Top States for Business study ranks all 50 states on overall livability based on metrics, including crime rate, attractions, air quality, health and health care and legal protections against discrimination. Quality of Life is worth a possible 300 out of 2,500 total points in the study, based on the Top States methodology and sources. Journey with us now through this year's Top States hall of shame — the 10 bottom states for...

Tuesday’s second debate between U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan and state House Speaker Thom Tillis picked up right where the candidates left off when they met last month, but with far more vigorous and direct criticism of each other.

Mark it down on your calendars: Yesterday — Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 — may go down in the annals of history as the day political polling died. It was the most ridiculous polling day among many preposterous polling days in the course of this long campaign.

The conventional complaint is that the process was ugly. Big deal. You want beauty? Go to a museum. Democratic politics was never meant to be an exercise in aesthetics.

Beginning at 4:10 Charlie Rose: Lay out as you see it the consequences of a default. Lawrence Summers: Post-Lehman event on steroids. Meaning … the buck will be broken in money market funds. Americans will rush to get cash and put it under their mattresses. Major corporations will be unable to borrow. The stock market will crash. And quite likely the basic mechanisms of payments that keep the economy going will break down. We will not forget the immediate aftermath. And we will live with a long tail that will make us poorer and less proud as a country and...

'A financial crisis is surely going to happen as big or bigger than the one we had in 2008 if we continue to behave the way we're behaving," says Stanley Druckenmiller, the legendary investor and onetime fund manager for George Soros. Is this another warning from Wall Street that Congress must immediately raise the federal debt limit to prevent the end of civilization?

In fact, terrorists have not pulled off another attack on the scale of 9/11 anywhere in the world. A 2007 study by Canada's Simon Fraser University found the global death toll from terrorist attacks has substantially decreased since 2001. While al-Qaeda plots do sometimes succeed--like the double-agent operation that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month--they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent.

For the second time in six months, a promi nent researcher has put New York City's public charter schools under a microscope and found that, overall, they're outperforming the city's traditional public schools.

In Wednesday night’s debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.” Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we.

""Wikileaks" explained in an earlier email that it was making public the information on Coleman's donors, including their credit card numbers, because of the "Coleman campaign's effort to impugn the election processes in the State of Minnesota." As a result of Wikileak's mass email of a spread sheet containing credit card information for thousands of Coleman donors, the Coleman campaign sent an email to its supporters today suggesting that they cancel their credit cards."

"... to win over Senate Democrats, Mr. Bush both phased in the tax rate reductions and settled for politically popular but economically feckless tax rebate checks." "...Mr. Bush's spending record is less admirable, especially during his first term. He indulged the majority Republicans on Capitol Hill, refusing to veto overspending ..."

Apparently, the New Yorker does not allow links to its site; so my attempt to post an article by David Sedaris entitled "Undecided" was blocked. So instead I will tell of a reading that Sedaris did for a packed Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI last week. There he read this very same text, except that he explained that he had lobbied the NY very hard to use the term "human sh*t" rather than "platter of sh*t" when referring to John McCain. Apparently, that was just a bit toooo much for the NYorker editors. Otherwise, it was the identical text....

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"This seems to be the season to bash Bush. At any rate, Noonan's weekly Wall Street Journal column takes up the subject of airport security and takes the occasion to bash Bush. The column is titled "The view from Gate 14." Noonan gives voice to the common frustration with post-9/11 airport security:"

THE NATIONAL Journal magazine recently ranked Barack Obama as the most liberal senator in 2007 … Is he a liberal at heart who tacks occasionally to the center or more of a centrist capable of suppressing leftist instincts when political circumstances demand?... It's telling, at this relatively late stage in the nominating process, that the answers are not clear -- at least not to us. … where is Mr. Obama most comfortable himself? Where would he strive to take the country? … Perhaps, but one could read the record and arrive at a different conclusion. Mr. Obama not only declined...

"There was some revealing information in the three-year forecast published by the Federal Reserve this week. It looks like Ben Bernanke & Co. are dissing high oil and gold prices and the sagging dollar as influences on future inflation. Instead they basically see 2 percent inflation — both headline and core — in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The Fed also sees Goldilocks-type economic growth — not too hot, not too cold — for the next three years."