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WORLD BRIEFING Biden says rival's policies are Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday compared his rival's policies to a gun pointed at Americans, and the GOP nominee's son said he's tempted to ''take a swing'' at President Barack Obama as emo- tions run high in the closely fought White House race. like a gun NEW YORK (AP) — delivered with a smile, but their sharpness is a reflection of just how tight the race is 19 days out. Democrats are pushing the accusation that Mitt Romney is being dishonest, with Obama's refrain since Tuesday's debate that the GOP nominee is offering ''a sketchy deal.'' ''I don't think they were just sketchy,'' Biden said at a rally in Las Vegas. ''I think they were Etch-a-Sketchy.'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warmed up the crowd in Nevada by saying Rom- ney is ''giving used car salesmen a bad name.'' Reid then introduced Biden as a man ''who has shown us his tax returns'' — a contrast to Romney's refusal to release more than the past two years. His red- meat offering whipped the partisan crowd into whoops and applause as Biden took the stage. Biden accused GOP vice presidential nomi- nee Paul Ryan of shar- ing a cynical vision of Americans with Rom- ney. The barbs are being Airstrikes in northern Syria kill at ian warplanes hammered a strategic city captured by rebels, leaving behind scenes of carnage cap- tured Thursday on ama- teur videos that showed a man holding up two child-sized legs not con- nected to a body and another carrying a dis- membered arm. Activists said least 43 BEIRUT (AP) — Syr- US sees potential Afghan The city of Maaret al- Numan, located strategi- cally on a major north- south highway connect- ing Aleppo and Damas- cus, was captured by rebels last week and there has been heavy fighting around it ever since. Rebel brigades from the surrounding area have poured in to defend the town. Online videos have shown them firing mortars at regime troops, and they claimed to have shot down a gov- ernment helicopter on Wednesday. Since it was captured a week ago, the city in northern Idlib province and its surroundings have been the focus of one of the heaviest air bombardments since President Bashar Assad's military first unleashed its air force against rebels over the summer. Local activists in the city say warplanes are continuously overhead, and entire villages are largely deserted and pep- pered with destroyed homes. airstrikes over the past two days on opposition targets across Syria's north have killed at least 43 people. uprisings AB BAND, Afghanistan (AP) — Fed up with the Taliban closing their schools and committing other acts of oppression, men in a village about 100 miles south of Kabul took up arms late last spring and chased out the insurgents with no help from the Afghan government or U.S. military. network of anti-Taliban Friday, October 19, 2012 – Daily News 7A tain of documents prosecu- tors turned over in the seven-plus months between his arrest in November and the June trial. 3.4 percent of US adults are gay, lesbian, bisexual or new Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The findings, released transgender NEW YORK (AP) — A Small-scale revolts in recent months like the one in Kunsaf, mostly along a stretch of desert south of the Afghan capital, indicate bits of a grass-roots, do-it-your- self anti-insurgency that the U.S. hopes Afghan authori- ties can transform into a wider movement. Perhaps it can undercut the Taliban in areas they still dominate after 11 years of war with the United States and NATO allies. The effort in Ghazni Province looks like a long shot. The villagers don't readily embrace any outside authority, be it the Taliban, the U.S. or the Afghan gov- ernment. Thursday, were based on interviews with more than 121,000 people. Gallup said it is the largest study ever aimed at calculating the nation's LGBT popula- tion. Charlton, the senior Ameri- can adviser to the Afghan military in provinces along the southern approaches to Kabul. American officials nonetheless are quietly nur- turing the trend, hoping it might become a game changer, or at least a new roadblock for the Taliban. At the same time, they are adamant that if anyone can convince the villagers to side with the Afghan gov- ernment, it's the Afghans — not the Americans. ''If we went out there and talked to them we would taint these groups and it would backfire,'' said Army Brig. Gen. John Hurry! Reservations are filling FAST! Perhaps the best bundled business promotion package in the North State! TV Select Magazine 2013 ADVERTISING PRESENTATION CALLS START Monday, October 22 Sales Appointments available MON 10/22 – FRI 11/2 Appointment Reservations Recommended! The North Valley's only LOCAL TV Listings publication. •7,000 weekly print distribution with the Saturday Daily News • TV Select appears as pages of every Saturday online digital edition on www.redbluffdailynews.com • Now! 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Sandusky's lawyers filed the appeal at the courthouse in Bellefonte where he was Sandusky asks judge to overturn sex sentenced two weeks ago to 30 to 60 years in prison after being convicted of abusing 10 boys, some on Penn State's campus in State Col- lege. They say there wasn't enough evidence to support convictions. A spokesman for the The report's lead author, demographer Gary Gates of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, said he hoped the findings would help puncture some stereo- types about gays and les- bians while illustrating the diversity of their communi- ty. attorney general's office said the Sandusky filing was under review. Sandusky remains in the county jail, awaiting a trans- fer to a state prison to serve time for 45 criminal counts. Eight young men testified against him in June, describing a range of abuse they said included fondling and oral and anal sex when they were boys. 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