PHILADELPHIA – When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda , he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts. Read full article > >

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Romney visits inner-city charter school in Philadelphia in outreach to black voters

Attacks by President Obama’s campaign against Mitt Romney’s work in private equity have strained the relationship between Democrats and the financial industry.

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Political Memo: Bain Strategy Against Romney May Have Pitfalls for Obama

Pakistani officials said an American strike on suspected militants in the northwest killed 10 people, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff over NATO supply routes.

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U.S. Drone Strike Kills 10 in Pakistan, Officials Say

Lawyers for three men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks seek testimony from US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush.

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9/11 trio seek Obama testimony

People who take calcium supplements could be increasing their risk of having a heart attack, according to researchers in Germany.

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Calcium pills pose ‘heart risk’

Calling it a “national education emergency,” Mitt Romney said Wednesday that poor and disabled children should be allowed to escape failing public schools by using federal dollars to pay for private schools, online schools and other alternative settings. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney promotes school vouchers in attack on Obama’s education policy

As the presidential campaign veers off onto the Bain Capital ramp, the predictable arguments ensue: Is the turn simply a political attack meant to distract from bad economic news? (So says Mitt Romney). Or is it an important, valid argument at the heart of the contest? (So says President Barack Obama.)

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Borger: Obama’s attacks backfiring?

A woman found battered with a rolling pin at her Hampshire home was killed in a prolonged attack involving elements of torture, a coroner says.

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Rolling pin killing ‘unlawful’

A serial rapist is given a lifelong restriction order for attacking women across Scotland over a 15-year period.

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Lifelong order for serial rapist

The assault rate on tribal lands is higher than the national average, and reservation residents who report being attacked often confront gaps in medical and legal help.

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Native Americans Struggle With High Rate of Rape

A key Senate panel voted Tuesday to extend a contested 2008 provision of foreign intelligence surveillance law that is set to expire at year’s end. The vote is the first step toward what the Obama administration hopes will be a speedy renewal of an expanded authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the U.S. e-mails and phone calls of overseas targets in an effort to prevent international terrorist attacks on the country. Read full article > >

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Senate panel votes to extend government’s broader surveillance authority

PRESIDENT OBAMA isn’t backing down from his campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital. Actually, “attack” may be too weak a description for a video that likens Bain to “ a vampire ” and depicts Mr. Romney as a plutocrat who callously destroyed hundreds of steel jobs for his own enrichment. Several prominent members of Mr. Obama’s own party thought the commercial was a bit over the top. (Not to mention highly derivative of previous ones financed by backers of Mr. Romney’s Republican primary rivals.) Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: President Obama wants it both ways on private equity

Kevin Pietersen praises England’s bowling attack after a West Indies fightback gave his side an unexpected fright in the first Test at Lord’s.

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Pietersen praises England bowlers

President Obama defended his campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney ’s record as a private-equity executive at Bain Capital, telling reporters Monday that Romney’s history is fair game. The president’s remarks came in the face of criticism, some from within his own party, that the attacks were inappropriate. Read full article > >

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President Obama defends his attacks on Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital

The UN condemns as “heinous” a suicide attack in Yemen that killed more than 90 soldiers, which al-Qaeda said it carried out.

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UN condemns Yemen suicide bombing