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6A Daily News – Friday, October 5, 2012 Obama accuses Romney of running from too, Wisconsin, Obama's destination for a mid-day rally. Nevada, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and North Carolina are the others. Buoyed by a powerful debate showing, Mitt Romney said Thursday he offers ''prosperity that comes through freedom'' to a country struggling to shed a weak economy. President Barack Obama accused the former Mass- achusetts governor of run- ning from his own record in pursuit of political power. own record DENVER (AP) — new attack ads in the bat- tleground states in a race with little more than a month to run, Obama sug- gesting Romney couldn't be trusted with the presi- dency, and the Republican accusing the president of backing a large tax increase on the middle class. Both men unleashed Among them, the nine states account for 110 electoral votes out of the 270 needed to win the White House, more than enough to tip the cam- paign to one man or the other. 'adjustments' MADISON, Wis. (AP) — His performance panned, President Barack Obama is changing his debate strategy against Republican Mitt Romney, aides conceding the presi- dent must find a crisper way to sell his agenda and counter his opponent without getting lost in the weeds. Obama concedes need for Not even Democrats disputed that Romney was likely to benefit political- ly from the debate Wednesday night in which he aggressively challenged Obama's stewardship of the econo- my and said his own plans would help pull the coun- try out of a slow-growth rut. Still, there was no immediate indication that the race would expand beyond the nine battle- ground states where the rivals and their running mates spend nearly all of their campaign time and advertising dollars. Debate host Colorado is one of them, and Vir- ginia, where Romney headed for an evening speech, is another. So, new message with less than five weeks to go: Romney is a liar. The heart of Obama's expressed in softer terms from the president than from his aides — to drive Obama's advertising and messaging for days. Wednesday night's debate showed Obama was rusty, rambling and cautious, but his aides insist he emerged with a real open- ing to target Romney's assertions. ''Gov. Romney may dance around his posi- tions, but if you want to be president, you owe the American people the truth,'' Obama declared in his first post-debate appearance, a Thursday rally in Denver. He dis- Expect that theme — WORLD BRIEFING played an energy that was conspicuously absent in the debate. The new line of argu- ment is based on the Obama campaign's con- tention that Romney, while sharp and com- manding on the debate stage, delivered a series of statements that don't stand up to factual scruti- ny. They singled out Romney's positions on tax cuts, education and outsourcing as misleading to the middle class. Turkey inside Syria AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Turkey sanc- tioned further military action against Syria on Thursday and bombarded targets across the border with artillery for a second day, raising the stakes in a conflict that increasingly is bleeding outside Syrian territory. authorizes military operations moved to calm tensions, Turkey's parliament over- whelmingly approved a bill allowing the military to conduct cross-border operations into Syria — making clear that Ankara has military options that do not involve its Western or Arab allies. It was the most dramat- ic escalation in tensions between the countries, which were close allies before the revolt against Syrian President Bashar Assad began in March 2011. Over the past 18 months, however, Turkey has become one of the strongest critics of the Syrian regime, accusing it of savagery and mas- sacres against the opposi- tion. Although both sides The rebels who are try- ing to bring down Assad have used Turkey as their base, enraging a regime that accuses foreign coun- tries of fomenting the unrest inside Syria. The spark for the latest hostility was a mortar shell fired from Syria that slammed into a house in the Turkish border village of Akcakale on Wednes- day, killing two women and three children. Patrol agent PHOENIX (AP) — Federal police have arrested two men who may be connected with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent just north of the Mexico- Arizona border, a Mexi- can law enforcement offi- cial said Thursday. The official, who Mexico holds 2 who in shooting of US Border spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said it was unclear if there was strong evidence link- ing the men to the shoot- ing of Agent Nicholas Ivie. Ivie and two other agents were fired upon Tuesday in a rugged hilly area about five miles (eight kilometers) north of the border near Bisbee, Ariz., as they responded to an alarm that was trig- gered on one of the sen- sors that the government has installed along the border. was shot in the ankle and buttocks and released from the hospital after undergoing surgery. The third agent wasn't injured. Brenda Nath, an FBI The wounded agent spokeswoman in Arizona, and Border Patrol offi- cials in Arizona declined to comment on the deten- tion of the two men in Mexico. The Cochise County Sheriff's Office, which is also investigat- ing the shooting, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. outbreak NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials ramped up warnings Thursday about a Massa- chusetts specialty phar- macy linked to a widening outbreak of a rare kind of meningitis, urging doctors and hospitals not to use any products from the company. 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The states, including some of the nation's largest, stand to lose mil- lions of dollars in govern- ment grants for law enforcement, but some have concluded that honor- ing the law would be far more expensive than sim- ply living without the money. ''The requirements would have been a huge expense,'' said Doris Smith, who oversees grant programs at the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. Lawmak- ers weren't willing to spend that much, even though the state will lose $226,000. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, named after a boy kid- napped from a Florida mall and killed in 1981, was supposed to create a uni- form system for registering and tracking sex offenders that would link all 50 states, plus U.S. territories and tribal lands. When President George W. Bush signed it into law, many states quickly realized they would have to overhaul their sex offender registra- tion systems to comply. 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