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Lexington Herald-Leader
| 7 months ago
It wasn't until super storm Sandy slammed into the coastal regions of the northern U.S. that I noticed my breathing has been quite shallow for weeks. I've learned I can inhale only a limited amount of toxins before they negatively affect my soul, and...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Romney ultimately changed his mind and anointed Rep. Paul Ryan, the rising young Republican budget guru, as his vice presidential candidate. Romney was initially drawn to Gov. Christie's famous combativeness, something that would make him an asset on...
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Tahoe Daily Tribune
| 7 months ago
I disagree with Linda Norton's letter claiming that Mitt Romney is the responsible choice for president. I don't know how she can say she trusts Romney when there is no way to know what he really stands for. He has contradicted himself on nearly...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 7 months ago
Mercury News Editorial The most compelling case for Barack Obama's re-election was made this past week, not by him or by any campaign strategy but by a storm named Sandy. We've seen the heartbreaking images of grieving mothers and destroyed homes, as...
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Telegraph India
| 7 months ago
Bloomberg backs President over latter's handling of storm aftermath K.P. Washington, Nov. 2: Hurricane Sandy has brought a political windfall for Barack Obama with storm-battered New York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsing the US President for...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 7 months ago
Font Resize National editor's pick of the top news stories in the nation and world at this hour: Four days before the election, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney began making their closing arguments to voters, offering predictably different...
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The Hindu
| 7 months ago
Climate change, almost entirely absent in the presidential debates,' made an appearance in the last lap of the campaign. Mitt Romney in Kettering, Ohio When a natural calamity strikes during the intensely media-scrutinised American presidential...
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Truthdig
| 7 months ago
When Hurricane Sandy destroyed swaths of the Northeast, darkened our largest city and plunged a huge section of the nation into crisis, the anti-government ideology of the tea party Republicansand its panderers like Mitt Romneywas exposed as pretense...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
Insurers pay out, but they recoup the money by boosting insurance premiums, and if their shares fall heavily on a disaster event they can be bought, Citigroup says. QBE, which fell 1.6 per cent this week in a fairly flat market, is one to consider,...
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The Independent
| 7 months ago
Air New Zealand have unveiled their latest flight safety video for passengers, however unlike most v.....The robust Governor of New Jersey has been touring his state and surveying the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy. The former federal...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
President Obama has been criticized for handling the Libya attacks and lauded for responding to Hurricane Sandy...Blown away by Hurricane Sandy: News of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But the coverage is returning as Sandy's floodwaters...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, portions of his city still underwater, has endorsed President Obama for reelection, citing the 44th president's initiatives to counter climate change and saying that Mitt Romney has reversed course on stands he took...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
The U.S. presidential race remained effectively tied on Thursday, with President Barack Obama backed by 47 percent of likely voters and challenger Mitt Romney supported by 46 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll. The race has been stable...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 7 months ago
AP New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term, citing the importance of his record on climate change, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating blow dealt to the New York area by storm Sandy.
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Bloomberg endorsed President Obama for reelection Thursday as a president who would take the lead on addressing climate change. Writing in a Bloomberg View essay published Thursday afternoon, Bloomberg said the hurricane that just battered the East...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
The Democrat took a helicopter tour of the damage in New Jersey with Governor Chris Christie, a high-profile Romney supporter who has nevertheless praised Obama lavishly in the last two days for expediting federal storm relief. With Christie at his...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
13 Washington: Showing to the world the rare images of two bitter political rivals joining hands in times of national crisis, US President Barack Obama toured the storm-ravaged areas of New Jersey, along with its Governor Chris Christie.
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National Public Radio
| 7 months ago
Though Superstorm Sandy destroyed much in its path, it did apparently build at least one bridge, that of bipartisanship between President Obama and New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie. Christie, a strong ally of Mitt Romney, the GOP...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama (2nd L) and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (L) talk with survivors of Hurricane Sandy in a community center while touring damaged areas in Brigantine, New Jersey, October 31, 2012. (Photo: Reuters) President Barack Obama...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
From the air, in and around Atlantic City, Mr Obama saw whole streets underwater, beachfront homes swamped by flooding, and piers partially blown away. He also saw the still-burning remnants of about eight homes set on fire during the storm, the...
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The Hill
| 7 months ago
Obama and Christie met in Atlantic City and took an hourlong helicopter flight over the New Jersey shore, where homes were flattened and flooded this week by Hurricane Sandy. They then visited a community center in Brigantine, a small town just north...
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Arizona Republic
| 7 months ago
Here's an image few expected to see less than a week before Election Day: President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie standing side-by-side in a show of unity. Obama is in New Jersey touring damage from superstorm Sandy with Christie.
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
It would have seemed inconceivable even a week ago that President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would find common cause. But there they were Wednesday afternoon, thrown together by Hurricane Sandy , touring the storm-beaten Garden State...
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War In Context
| 7 months ago
Christie, who was the keynote speaker at the Republican convention and has been one of Mitt Romney's top campaign surrogates, will survey the post-Sandy wreckage in New Jersey with the president today. This comes after Christie went out of his way to...
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The New York Observer
| 7 months ago
The storm that rocked the Eastern seaboard was a monumental event by any measurement. The death toll in New York City alone was 26 at last count , and dozens more dead along the coast, as wind, water, fire and often, falling trees, claimed lives.
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Chris Christie addresses a gathering Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in North Wildwood, N.J., as he lays out preparation plans for Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) The morning after Sandy struck the East Coast, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was not...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama and Republican Governor Chris Christie put aside partisan differences on Wednesday to visit storm-swamped parts of New Jersey together and oversee relief efforts after the devastation of the storm Sandy. Obama and Christie...
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Inquirer.net
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is joining with one of his top Republican critics Wednesday to visit victims of superstorm Sandy, giving Americans a high-profile display of presidential leadership while leaving rival Mitt...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Mitt Romney sidestepped a controversy over whether he plans to shut down the federal emergency response agency at an election rally in Florida where he is struggling to hold onto a once commanding lead in the opinion polls.
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Gawker
| 7 months ago
We're all fools if we think that Hurricane Sandy will be the one moment of human struggle to remain unblemished by political opportunism. The peerless horror of September 11 was given all of a few weeks before it became a cudgel with which to beat...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 7 months ago
Obama's attention to preparing for the massive storm that swamped America's East coast and the way he has led the federal emergency response may change the dynamics of the presidential race a week before the country heads to the polls. Obama will...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
The former Massachusetts governor must show respect for the superstorm's casualties all along the Eastern Seaboard. But Romney can ill afford to waste a minute of campaign time, with the contest virtually deadlocked in several key states and the...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Washington New Jersey governor Chris Christie has taken a very public role in the storm clean-up. Photograph: Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images The aftermath of superstorm Sandy has produced one of the strangest political pairings of the year, bringing...
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Newsbusters
| 7 months ago
Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Wednesday touted Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity for Barack Obama to show "presidential leadership." During the same segment, Karl repeated liberal talking points , using the storm against Mitt Romney...The...
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USA Today
| 7 months ago
President Obama dropped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday, en route to his storm inspection tour in New Jersey. "Overnight, the President continued to receive updates from his team on the ongoing recovery efforts, including...
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Democracy Now
| 7 months ago
Million Without Power After Sandy; Outages Could Last for Days More than eight million people remain without power across the mid-Atlantic United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Millions of homes and businesses have gone dark since Sandy...
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GMA News
| 7 months ago
Obama made another such declaration for Connecticut Tuesday evening. "This is extraordinary in that generally we do more thorough assessments and it often times will take longer," Fugate told reporters. Millions of people were left reeling after...
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
New Yorkers struggled to restore power and clear debris Wednesday after superstorm Sandy carved a path of destruction from the Caribbean to Canada that left at least 110 people dead. The massive cyclone that drove hurricane-force winds and deadly...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential nominee had some trouble being heard. The day after Sandy clawed her way across the Northeast -- leaving fires, flooding, downed trees, thousands homeless, millions without power and 40 dead -- both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 7 months ago
Millions of people awoke to scenes of destruction wrought by Sandy after the powerful storm smashed into the eastern United States, destroying buildings, flooding streets, and cutting power to parts of the nation's most densely populated regions.
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DAWN
| 7 months ago
The tiny beachfront neighborhood told to evacuate before Sandy hit New York burned down as it was inundated by floodwaters, transforming a quaint corner of the Rockaways into a smoke-filled debris field. The misery of superstorm Sandy's devastation...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
The northeastern United States battled epic flood waters and lengthy power outages on Tuesday after the massive storm Sandy pummeled the coast with a record storm surge, high winds and heavy rains that killed at least 45 people and caused billion of...
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Sky News
| 7 months ago
President Barack Obama is due to visit New Jersey to survey some of the widespread devastation caused by superstorm Sandy in eastern US and Canada...The President is fighting a close race with Republican rival Mitt Romney and the White House has been...
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The New York Times
| 7 months ago
When President Obama dropped in to give a pep talk to workers at the American Red Cross here on Tuesday afternoon, it seemed like a standard ritual for a leader confronting a natural disaster. But in the final week of a presidential campaign that has...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
A"Vote Early" sign in displayed as former President Bill Clinton speaks at a President Barack Obama campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in Youngstown, Ohio The Associated Press video video U.S...While Hurricane Sandy has forced a timeout from...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
Mitt Romney is running hard today, but not after voters. He has suspended campaigning for the time being, out of respect for the millions struggling with the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Sandy...Absolutely," replied Romney. "Every time you have...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 7 months ago
Hearst Washington Bureau On the day after Hurricane Sandy smashed into the mid-Atlantic states, the presidential campaign was on hold...Though official campaign efforts for both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were on hold because of the disaster that...
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The independent
| 7 months ago
Suggested Topics The United States' East Coast yesterday began a massive clean-up and recovery effort likely to last for weeks after Hurricane Sandy brought a nightmare mix of wind and rain, floods and fire, blackouts and transport paralysis. The...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Washington and in Kettering, Ohio Barack Obama at the Red Cross headquarters. Photograph: Chris Kleponis/Getty Images/Pool Barack Obama scrapped plans to campaign on Wednesday the third day in a row as he and his rival Mitt Romney sought to navigate...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
Jim Mone/AP Like the huge crane dangling precipitously above Columbus Circle in a New York City, the 2012 election has been left hanging by Hurricane Sandy, bringing the presidential campaign to a halt and silencing the chorus of polls and forecasts...
