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With just two weeks until Election Day, Democrats are pulling out all the stops in hopes of overcoming an anti-incumbent wave that appears to highly favor Republicans. Republicans are poised to capture the House and celebrate big gains in the Senate and governors’ mansions when voters express their discontent with the economy in the Nov. [...] - homelabcomua

LOVEBIRDS Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are reportedly planning to move into a $5,000-a-month love nest. According to Britain’s Heat magazine, the rumored couple and Twilight costars will share a pad in New Orleans while they shoot Breaking Dawn. “Rob and Kristen had a chance to stay apart… but they turned it down and asked [...] - homelabcomua

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Talk about burying the hatchet. When former President Bill Clinton turned out to rally for California Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown on Friday night, the former rivals hugged and made up. Really, they embraced. The two have a bitter political history dating to 1992, when they ran against each other [...] - homelabcomua

With a few tweaks and an interface change, Google has placed location and location-based search front-and-center in its search engine. The big change, announced earlier today on Google’s Blog, is that Google (Google) has moved the user location setting to the left-hand panel of the search engine results page. This feature automatically detects your current [...] - homelabcomua

Americans are thinking a lot about jobs this fall as they try to decide which members of Congress should keep or lose theirs. Unemployment is expected to get worse before it gets better. And as the government’s controversial stimulus program winds down, Washington shows little sign of mounting another rescue. Nearly 1 in 10 Americans [...] - homelabcomua

WASHINGTON – A new ranking of the nation’s 400 biggest charities shows donations dropped by 11 percent overall last year as the Great Recession ended – the worst decline in 20 years since the Chronicle of Philanthropy began keeping a tally. The Philanthropy 400 report to be released Monday shows such familiar names as the [...] - homelabcomua

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The United States racked up a $1.29 trillion deficit in fiscal year 2010, the federal government said Friday. While that is historically high, it’s not as high as the $1.42 trillion registered for 2009, which was the largest on record as a percentage of the economy since 1945. In real dollar [...] - homelabcomua

Audi is looking at an unusual engine for an E-REV. It is testing prototypes of its A1 subcompact with an electric drivetrain and a Wankel rotary range extender. “We will start a pilot project at the end of the year,” Michael Dick, head of research and development, told us. “The first prototype car is running [...] - homelabcomua

You may not have guessed it on your own – we probably wouldn’t have, either – but Australia ranks as the fifth largest market worldwide for Mercedes-Benz. And yet all the exciting show cars are almost invariably unveiled at auto shows in the United States or Europe. You couldn’t blame the Aussies for feeling neglected, [...] - homelabcomua