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Monday, November 11, 2013

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11/11/2013

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

U.S. VP Biden congratulates wrong man in Boston mayor's race

BOSTON (Reuters) - As he watched the returns in Boston's most competitive mayoral race in two decades on Tuesday night, Marty Walsh's cell phone rang.

Dark Knight Rises: Batman jailed for theft and drug abuse

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singaporean man with an unusual superhero-like name turned out to be a villain who consumed drugs and stole from his brother.

China criticizes 'kill everyone' remark on U.S. talk show

BEIJING (Reuters) - China sharply criticized an American talk-show host on Monday for a remark made by a child on his program which has set off protests by Chinese-Americans in the United States.

New Hampshire man takes vanity plate debate to states top court

BOSTON (Reuters) - A New Hampshire man who last year changed his name to "human" has gone to the state's top court to defend his right to a vanity plate that insults police: COPSLIE.

Wal-Mart website glitch gave shoppers super bargains, temporarily

(Reuters) - Shoppers looking for a bargain got some big ones, if only temporarily, at Walmart.com Wednesday morning.

New Mexico man sues over repeated anal probes by police

SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - A New Mexico man has filed a lawsuit claiming police subjected him to repeated anal probes and enemas after a routine traffic stop because they suspected he was hiding drugs.

Home where Oswald slept night before Kennedy assassination now museum

DALLAS (Reuters) - The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of the shooting later in November.

Grab the vacuum: Ladybugs overwhelm parts of U.S. Southeast

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Millions of ladybugs are invading homes and businesses in parts of the U.S. eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast this fall, causing headaches for residents who are fighting the invasion with vacuum cleaners that suck up the insects.

Giant tooth identifies extinct monster platypus in Australia

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thanks to a large ancient tooth, an Australian university student has filled in an evolutionary gap with a giant carnivorous platypus that became extinct at least 5 million years ago.

GM executive defends company on Facebook, then closes account

DETROIT (Reuters) - A top General Motors executive deactivated his Facebook account on Monday after he responded to a website that wrote dismissively about the company's shrinking U.S. auto market share.