(ST LOUIS, AP) — Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin was repeatedly arrested during anti-abortion protests in the 1980s, including at least once when police had to carry him away, a… Read more »

By JOCELYN NOVECK (NEW YORK, AP) — Big Bird, binders and … bayonets! Well, at last we know the three Twitter memes of the debate season — and they all… Read more »

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — Vicky Hartzler rode an anti-incumbent wave into Washington two years ago with a decisive defeat of iconic Rep. Ike Skelton. The 52-year-old… Read more »

By JIM SALTER (FESTUS, Mo., AP) — An aide to GOP Senate hopeful Todd Akin used profanity to refer to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, extending Akin’s weekend characterization of McCaskill… Read more »

By JASON KEYSER CHICAGO (AP) — In a modest milestone for President Barack Obama’s high-speed rail vision, test runs will start zooming along a small section of the Amtrak line… Read more »

By COLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS (NEW YORK, AP) — A Bangladeshi man snared in an FBI terror sting considered targeting President Barack Obama and the New York City Stock… Read more »

By CALVIN WOODWARD EDITOR’S NOTE: An occasional look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don’t tell the full story (WASHINGTON, AP) — In the rough-and-tumble of… Read more »

The Associated Press A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans: Abortion: Abortion and birth control are divisive issues in politics, and they’ve… Read more »

By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Though sometimes overshadowed by the U.S. economy, plenty of foreign policy problems remain for the president and Congress to address. Democratic… Read more »

By NANCY BENAC and PHILIP ELLIOTT (DANVILLE, Ky., AP) — In a spirited debate that laid out stark choices, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the… Read more »