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WORLD BRIEFING Romney, Obama crisscross battleground Ohio WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Republican pres- idential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he understands the struggles of working fam- ilies and has the know- how to fix them as he sought to counteract fall- out from a secret video that President Barack Obama won't let him live down. With polls showing the president ahead in key swing states that will decide the race, the White House expressed confi- dence. ''As time progress- es, you know, the field is looking like it's narrow- ing for them,'' campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One as Obama headed for his own rallies in Ohio. ''And so in that sense we'd rather be us than them.'' Obama was stopping at two college campuses in the hunt for the state's 18 electoral votes, while Romney was here for a second straight day on a bus emblazoned with, ''More Jobs, More Take- Home Pay.'' Losing the state would dramatically narrow Romney's path to the 270 Electoral College votes it takes to win the White House — and no Republican has ever lost Ohio and won the presi- dency. working-class men was far from subtle. He cam- paigned at a factory that makes commercial spring wire, touring the noisy plant floor in goggles and rolled-up shirt sleeves alongside television's king of macho, Discovery Channel's ''Dirty Jobs'' host Mike Rowe. The pair spoke later from a stage set with hard hat-wearing workers, giant coils of steel wire, open metal cross beams and yellow caution signs in the back- ground. Romney's pitch for Obama's presidency has been especially hard on male blue-collar workers. But secretly recorded video of Romney telling donors he doesn't need to worry about the 47 per- cent of Americans who don't pay income taxes and ''believe that they are victims'' has distracted from his argument that blue-collar men should throw Obama out over his fiscal record. The economy during war end UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi, making his debut on the global stage at the United Nations, said Wednesday that he will not rest until the civil war in Syria is brought to an end. Morsi: Won't rest until Syrian civil tion.'' for the world body should be certifying the rights of the Palestinian people. ''The fruits of dignity and freedom must not remain far from the Pales- tinian people,'' he said, adding that it was ''shameful'' that U.N. res- olutions are not enforced. He decried Israel's con- tinued building of settle- ments on territory that the Palestinians claim for a future state in the West Bank. He said the first issue suicide bombs BEIRUT (AP) — Syri- an rebels struck deep in the fortress-like inner sanctum of President Bashar Assad's rule Wednesday in Damascus, detonating two car bombs that engulfed the army headquarters in flames. The suicide bombings and subsequent gun bat- tles in the Syrian capital killed at least five people, including a reporter for Iranian TV. The carefully orchestrated attacks high- lighted the regime's grow- ing vulnerability, even as the 18-month battle to bring down Assad is locked in a stalemate. International diploma- Syrian rebels strike center of regime power with cy has failed to stop the bloodshed. Making his debut on the global stage at the United Nations, Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi said he will not rest until Syria's civil war is brought to an end. He called it the ''tragedy of the age'' and one that ''we all must end.'' ''Islamic Quartet'' of regional powers to seek an end to the violence, but he has not offered a spe- cific plan of action. Morsi has launched an UK court issues interim find, just how expendable is expertise? injunction to prevent radical cleric LONDON (AP) — A British court issued an interim injunction Wednes- day blocking the extradi- tion of a radical cleric to the United States on terror charges, granting a court hearing for an appeal. Mustafa Kamal Mustafa — who is better known as Abu Hamza al-Masri — challenged his extradition on charges that include helping set up a terrorist training camp in rural Ore- gon. The appeal marked yet another legal twist in a case that has wound its way through the courts for eight years. extradition of Khaled Al-Fawwaz, a second terror suspect, has also mounted a legal chal- lenge before Britain's High Court. He called the fighting there, which opposition groups say has killed at least 30,000 people, the ''tragedy of the age'' and one that ''we all must end.'' And he invited all nations to join an effort to stop the bloodshed that began about 18 months ago when opposition fig- ures rose up against Pres- ident Bashar Assad's regime. key figure in the once- banned Muslim Brother- hood, opened his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly by celebrating himself as Egypt's first democratically elected leader who was swept into office after what he called a ''great, peaceful revolu- Morsi, an Islamist and Britain's Home Office immediately challenged the appeals. Judicial authorities said in a statement that a hear- ing would be held Tuesday to consider the two men's applications. Sonn Macmillan Walker, a Lon- don law firm representing al-Masri, declined to pro- vide details ''given the sen- sitive nature of this matter.'' NFL ref woes the latest labor dispute to showcase the issue AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — If good help is hard to In a year of strife between worker and man- ager, NFL referees found themselves with a bar- gaining chip that Chicago teachers, striking bulldoz- er builders and locked-out sugar makers lacked: a staggering blunder by overmatched replace- ments, resulting in a worst-case, told-ya-so fiasco laid bare for mil- lions to watch in disbelief on national television. On Wednesday, the NFL and the referees' union appeared on the brink of ending a three- month stalemate, two days after the Green Bay Packers lost a game they would have won if not for a less adept crew of replacement officials. The whole mess — and pretty much everyone involved agrees it is pre- cisely that — puts the spotlight on a nebulous notion that is often over- looked when it works as it's supposed to: the ques- tion of expertise. Workers leverage theirs by going on strike, while lockouts are a bet by management that they can make do without it. It's an impasse that usual- ly plays out on picket lines and private bargain- ing tables, and the fight has trended in recent years toward manage- ment. of Investigation said the remains of 9-year-old Chloie Leverette and 7- year-old Gage Daniel were not found and the agency issued an endan- gered child alert for them on Wednesday afternoon. Investigators said neigh- bors last saw the children missing NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two children ini- tially believed to have perished in a Tennessee farmhouse fire along with their step-grandparents are now considered miss- ing and perhaps in danger, investigators said on Wednesday. The Tennessee Bureau Investigators: Children believed dead in Tenn fire now considered Sunday evening, hours before a fire destroyed the home in Bedford County about 40 miles southeast of Nashville. TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said the dis- trict attorney asked the agency to investigate the fatal fire and the where- abouts of the children. She said there is no evi- dence yet that the children were not in the house, but investigators are speaking with family members, friends and people at the children's school. ''Under an abundance of caution we decided to issue an endangered child alert for the two children if they are not in fact found in the fire,'' Helm said. shal's Office said in a statement that it has con- cluded ''that there are no remains of the two chil- dren in the structure. The children's location at this time is unknown.'' treatments It's a medical night- mare: a 24-year-old man endures 350 surgeries since childhood to remove growths that keep coming back in his throat and have spread to his lungs, threatening his life. Now doctors have found a way to help him by way of a scientific coup that holds promise for millions of cancer patients. Bizarre case involving man with many tumors could lead to customized cancer first use in a patient of a new discovery: how to keep ordinary and cancer- ous cells alive indefinitely in the lab. The State Fire Mar- against many different types of cancer, researchers think it could offer a cheap, simple way to personalize treatment without having to analyze each patient's genes. ''We see a lot of poten- tial for it,'' said one study leader, Dr. Richard Schlegel, pathology chief at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington. ''Almost everyone could do it easily.'' 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at 84 after yearlong battle with bladder cancer — For many Americans, particularly those on the older — OK, squarer — side of the generation gap, Andy Williams was part of the soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s, with easy-listening hits like ''Moon River,'' the ''Love Story'' theme and ''The Most Wonderful Time of the Year'' from his beloved Christmas TV specials. BRANSON, Mo. (AP) Thursday, September 27, 2012 – Daily News 1D ley, with the Sinatra-like swing number ''Canadian Sunset.'' For a time, he was pushed into such Presley imitations as ''Lips of Wine'' and the No. 1 smash ''Butterfly.'' Myspace tries another revamp with the help of Justin ''Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away.'' Timberlake NEW YORK (AP) — Those are the opening lines of a song that accompanies a ''New Myspace'' promotional video. The once-mighty social network is trying to stage yet another come- back with the help of Justin Timberlake. The new site, for which people can request an invitation, looks a bit like an enter- tainment-focused version of Pinterest, with a dash of Twitter and Facebook thrown in. But Myspace has tried redesigns before, to no avail. Will it work this time? ''If you break my heart a second time, I might never be the same,'' con- tinues the song, ''Heart- beat,'' by the group JJAMZ. From the sound if it, Myspace wants to win the hearts and minds of tech- savvy hipsters. Founded in 2003 and initially a fast-rising star, Myspace attracted mostly teenagers and twentysomethings, offering them a place to express themselves online. It peaked in 2008 with some 76 million U.S. visitors in October. The site lost its footing as the fun of customizing profile pages began to bore its users and the site's heavy use of banner advertise- ments slowed the speed at which pages loaded. At the same time, people were already migrating to Facebook, which counted users 35 and older among its fastest-growing demo- graphic. Casino refunds, offered for Packers- Seahawks bettors The bizarre case is the The singer known for his wholesome, middle- America appeal was the antithesis of the counter- culture that produced rock and roll. ''The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there,'' Williams once recalled. ''Well, I was there all right, but my memory of them is blurred — not by any drugs I took but by the relentless pace of the schedule I set myself.'' The entertainer, who The discovery allows doctors to grow ''mini tumors'' from each patient's cancer in a lab dish, then test various drugs or combinations on them to see which works best. It takes only a few cells from a biopsy and less than two weeks to do, with materials and meth- ods common in most hos- pitals. Although the approach needs much more testing died Tuesday night at his Branson home following a yearlong battle with bladder cancer, had a plaintive tenor, boyish features and clean-cut demeanor that helped him outlast many of the decade's rock stars and fellow crooners such as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. He remained on the charts into the 1970s and continued to perform into his 80s. Williams became a major star in 1956, the same year as Elvis Pres- A Las Vegas casino took an unusual step Wednes- day and offered refunds to gamblers who lost money when the Seattle Sea- hawks beat the Green Bay Packers on a controversial touchdown at the end of Monday night's game. Derek Stevens, owner The D Las Vegas, seized on the attention being paid to the much-derided decision by replacement officials handling the NFL game and became the only casino in Las Vegas to offer refunds. ''I know exactly how it LAS VEGAS (AP) — would feel if I was laying the number and I saw what happened,'' Stevens said. He declared himself ''disgusted'' with the rul- ing and said he just couldn't accept the out- come. The Seahawks won 14-12 after a Packers defender and Seahawks receiver fought for the ball on a final ''Hail Mary'' pass play. Offi- cials missed an offensive pass interference call and then decided there had been simultaneous catch by the two players. Under NFL rules, that gave Seattle the touchdown and the win. Nevada gambling reg- ulators said Stevens could make refunds if he want- ed.