Cain's recollection of charges grows stronger
"I am not trying to hide anything I am trying to put it all out there for people to see," Cain said Tuesday in an interview with HLN, formerly known as Headline News.
On Fox News Monday night, the businessman told host Greta Van Susteren he could not even remember the name of one of the women who worked in the Washington office of the National Restaurant Association, which Cain led for more than two years in the late 1990s.
"But I do remember the formal allegations she made in terms of sexual harassment," Cain said, again denying he did anything inappropriate.
"I have never sexually harassed anybody in my life. And this formal charge was made. And then once it was made, I recused myself and turned it over to my general counsel and one of the other executives that worked for me," Cain said, continuing his insistence that the charges were bogus.
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Romney leads in early states
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
/ APIn a poll of the only places that really matter, the early Republican primary states where voters actually choose the nominee, Mitt Romney is the clear front-runner. But former pizza boss Herman Cain is running a close second despite not spending a lot of time in any of the first four states where voters head to the polls early next year.
In a CNN/TIme/Orc poll released Wednesday, Romney garnered 40 percent support in New Hampshire, where voters head to the polls in early January, more than three times the support of Cain, who once ran Godfather's Pizza.
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CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
More than four out of five Americans have made changes to their spending habits in the past year as the economy has continued to flounder, the latest CBS News/New York Times poll showed, even though almost seven of 10 said they would characterize their own financial situation as good.
About 83 percent of Americans in the poll released Wednesday said they have made cutbacks in their day-to-day spending, including about 39 percent who have said they have cut some items they consider to be "necessities." Another 44 percent cut back on "luxury" items.
The telephone poll was conducted Oct 19-25 among 1,704 adults, including 445 who were out of work and looking for a job. The margin of error among the subset of unemployed is plus or minus five percentage points.
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Gingrich: Is Romney-Perry feud real or staged?
Former House Speaker and White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said Wednesday he is not sure if the public feuding between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is real or staged by their campaign consultants.
The two men have had some very public spats over immigration and other issues that has become more personal than typically happens in presidential campaigns.
Last week, Perry accused Romney of being "number one" on the list of magnets that attract workers to enter the United States illegally because in 2006 he hired a landscaping company that relied heavily on Guatemalan gardeners who were not authorized to work in the U.S.
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Poll: Herman Cain leads GOP field
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain campaigns outside of Kinnick stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, Oct. 22, 2011.
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CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
Businessman Herman Cain is now atop the field of Republican White House hopefuls, squeaking past former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
Cain garnered 25 percent support of Republican primary voters in the poll released on Tuesday, compared to Romney's 21 percent.
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Will Obama's mortgage refinance plan help you?
President Obama on Monday announced new measures to help borrowers refinance their existing mortgages to new loans with lower interest rates and cheaper monthly payments.
The plan is an expansion of an existing program to help borrowers who are not behind on their payments but cannot refinance because they do not enough equity in their home. Or they might be underwater--which means they owe more than their home is worth.
"Right now, some underwater homeowners have no choice but to refinance with their original lender - which some lenders refuse to do," Obama said in prepared remarks.
"These changes will encourage other lenders to compete for their business by offering better terms and rates, and eligible homeowners to shop around for the best ones," he added.
But how many homeowners will it really help? And will it be enough to jumpstart the still struggling housing market?
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Is Rick Perry a birther?
Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Perry, center left, walks to a truck Saturday Oct. 22, 2011, before a hunting trip near Merrill, Iowa.
/ AP Photo/Dave WeaverTexas Gov. Rick Perry said he is not sure President Obama was born in the United States, but it should not matter because he was elected president and the issue is a distraction.
Perry was asked if he is convinced Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, as his birth certificate released earlier this year says.
"I have no reason to think otherwise," Perry said in an interview with Parade Magazine published Sunday.
The interviewer pointed out that is not a definitive yes, and Perry said he can not know for certain.
"I don't have a definitive answer, because he's never seen my birth certificate," Perry said, without explaining why he referenced his own birth certificate when he was asked about Mr. Obama's.
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Iraq: By the numbers
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Trevor Hall, 28, walks through the village of Bani Hashem, Iraq in this August 2011 file photo.
/ AP Photo/Rebecca SantanaPresident Obama announced on Friday that the United States would bring all troops home from Iraq by the end of the year, keeping his 2008 campaign promise to end the nearly nine-year war.
Asked if it was worth it, Antony Blinken, national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, told reporters "history is going to have to judge."
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Steve Jobs "infuriated" by Obama's excuses
Apple CEO Steve Jobs and President Obama
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Steve Jobs told President Obama that he was "headed for a one-term presidency" if he did not adopt more business friendly policies, according to a biography of the legendary Apple CEO to be released Monday. He even offered his assistance to avoid that outcome.
Jobs met the president in in the fall of 2010 and later offered to help make political advertisements for his re-election campaign. The book, based on interviews with Jobs, says the Apple CEO hoped the ads would do for Mr. Obama what the famous "morning in America" ads did for Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide re-election victory over Walter Mondale.
"I think political advertising is terrible. I'd love to get Lee Clow out of retirement, and we can come up with great commercial for him," Jobs told Walter Isaacson, author the forthcoming biography "Steve Jobs." Clow is the ad executive partially responsible for Apple's famous 1984 advertisement launching the Macintosh.
Isaacson's book is being published by Simon & Schuster Inc, which is owned by CBS Corporation, the parent company of CBS News and CBSNews.com. CBSNews.com obtained a copy of the book. Isaacson will appear on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday to promote it.
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Clinton on Qaddafi: "We came, we saw, he died"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits down for six consecutive television interviews in Kabul, Afghanistan October 20, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed.
"We came, we saw, he died," she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi's death by an aide in between formal interviews.
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Obama: U.S. will stand with Libya post-Qaddafi
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President Barack Obama hailed the death of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as a victory for the Libyan people Thursday, though he cautioned the North African nation faces difficult days ahead.
"This is a momentous day in the history of Libya," Mr. Obama said in remarks in the White House Rose Garden.
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White House confident Qaddafi is dead
Al Jazeera shows the deposed Libyan leader, Muammar Qaddafi, bloodied and wounded but still alive.
Aides to President Obama are confident deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has been killed, a White House official told CBS News.
Mr. Obama is expected to address reporters at the White House at 2:00 p.m. ET to discuss Qaddafi's apparent death.
Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Qaddafi was killed in fighting around his hometown Thursday.
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Clinton: Qaddafi capture would be significant
In this March 8, 2011, Muammar Qaddafi arrives at the Rixos hotel in the capital of Tripoli.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the capture of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi would be a significant development in Libya if it proves true, but she could not confirm a Reuters report saying rebels had captured and wounded him.
Clinton also said she did not expect his capture would end the fighting there in an interview in Afghanistan with CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson.
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Obama presses Congress to help out-of-work vets
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meets troops during a stop at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, in Hampton, Va, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Obama is on a three-day bus tour promoting the American Jobs Act.
/ Susan WalshPresident Obama rounded out the third and final day of his bus tour in Virginia urging passage of a piece of his $447 billion jobs plan that aims to help out-of-work veterans find a job.
"Even though so many companies who are here today have committed to hiring our nation's heroes, we want to make it even easier for the businesses that haven't made that commitment yet," Mr. Obama said in remarks to U.S. forces at the Join Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia.
"We're saying to those veterans who fought for us, now we are fighting for you -- for more jobs, for more security, for the opportunity to keep your families strong, the chance to keep America competitive economically in the 21st century," he added.
The president has spent the past three days in North Carolina and Virginia, two states that will be key for him to win in his re-election bid.
The unemployment rate for men between the ages of 18 and 44 who served on active duty in the past decade - and have since returned to the workforce - was 13.4 percent in September, according to the Labor Department. That compares to a 10.1 percent unemployment rate for men in the same age bracket who did not serve.
The overall unemployment rate was 9.1 percent in September, reflecting about 14 million unemployed workers. The pool of veterans is relatively small compared to the overall workforce. Even if all 183,000 of those unemployed veterans found a job, the overall unemployment rate would not change, the department said.
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GOP debate in Vegas: Winners and losers
Chris Carlson
Winners:
Barack Obama: Near the end of the debate, Newt Gingrich stated that "maximizing bickering is probably not the road to the White House." It's a good point: The debate was awash in interruptions, accusations and petty point scoring that made all involved look less than presidential. The Obama reelection team must have been thrilled to see the debate devolve into the sort of nastiness that leaves no one involved entirely untarnished. And they surely didn't mind that the candidates are starting to turn as much of their firepower on each other as they are the president.
Mitt Romney: Despite predictions that Tuesday's debate would be a largely Herman Cain-centric affair, Romney was the dominant presence in the evening's event - and he didn't pull his punches. The candidate who has been criticized as the Republican answer to John Kerry showed plenty of personality (some might even say too much) when beating back attacks from his fellow candidates. Whether schooling Newt Gingrich on his support for the individual health care mandate, hammering Herman Cain for details on his 9-9-9 plan, or going head-to-head with Rick Perry over immigration, Romney may have helped put to rest concerns that he's not willing to take the gloves off.
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