BitGou: Morning Digest: Obama hits campaign trail as storm cleanup gathers pace

2012年11月1日星期四

Morning Digest: Obama hits campaign trail as storm cleanup gathers pace

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11/1/2012

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

Obama hits campaign trail as storm cleanup gathers pace

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast's worst storm in generations, while emergency teams struggled to reach the worst hit areas and restore power to millions..

China proposes new initiatives for Syria ceasefire

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it had proposed a new initiative to head off an escalation of violence in Syria, including a phased, region-by-region ceasefire and the establishment of a transitional governing body..

Stock index futures point to slightly lower start

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Thursday..

George Clooney is distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney's only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War American president to the Oscar-winning actor's family tree..

IOC to investigate Armstrong's Olympic bronze medal

BERLIN (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee will launch an investigation into Lance Armstrong's 2000 Olympics bronze medal after the American was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in the biggest doping scandal to hit the sport..

In hurricane, Twitter proves a lifeline despite pranksters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy pounded the U.S. Atlantic coast on Monday night, knocking out electricity and Internet connections, millions of residents turned to Twitter as a part-newswire, part-911 hotline that hummed through the night even as some websites failed and swathes of Manhattan fell dark..

NASA rover finds Mars' soil similar to Hawaii's

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - In the first inventory of minerals on another planet, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity found soil that bears a striking resemblance to weathered, volcanic sand in Hawaii, scientists said on Tuesday..

Ghosts said to mingle with guests at haunted Arizona hotel

DOUGLAS, Arizona (Reuters) - Manager Robin Brekhus was skeptical about her Arizona hotel's supernatural history until the day she went to the basement in search of candles during a power outage and glimpsed a figure in a long duster coat and cowboy hat in the beam of her flashlight..