National

• Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight

• Gay rights marchers in DC: 'We won't back down'

• Man held in 1968 hijacking faces NYC arraignment

• Police piece together clues from tragic bus crash

• Key senator says Afghanistan mission in jeopardy 

• Recall information

International

• Pakistan official: 41 killed in market bombing

• Extra coffins needed in storm-hit Philippine area

• Clinton addresses Northern Ireland Assembly

• China court sentences 6 to death in Xinjiang riots

• As economy grows, so do China's garbage woes

• Turkey bars Israel from military drill

Politics & Government

• Insurers mount attack against health reform

• Analysis: Vitriol, invective at the speed of light

ODD & Extraordinary

• Intoxicated 21-year-old takes ambulance in Kansas

• Free honeymoons in Malaysia to rescue marriages

• Madoff mask a natural for Halloween

• Maine couple wins wife-carrying championship

• Hungary pageant for surgically enhanced beauties

• Suspect in his 70s robs bank in San Diego

• NC man in jail a week due to mistaken identity

Entertainment, Entertainers, Media & Arts

• Fans check in for 'Couples Retreat' with $35.3M

• Filmmaker Nichols graduates to AFI lifetime honor

• Sigourney Weaver still committed to gorilla rescue

• Springsteen plays last show at Giants Stadium

• 'Mad Men' star fights planned NY sanitation garage

• Stars in singing tribute on Lowery's 88th birthday

Science, Technology & Environment

• Phase 1 of PCB removal on Hudson wrapping up

• Russian spacecraft with circus tycoon lands safely

• Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money

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