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Stormy October surprise scrambles tight race for the White House
• LAND O'LAKES, Fla. (AP) -- Scrambling to avoid the superstorm that threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of Americans up and down the East Coast, Republican Mitt Romney is returning to battleground Ohio to fight for momentum nine days before the election.
• The GOP presidential candidate had planned to campaign Sunday in Virginia, but will instead join running mate Paul Ryan in the Buckeye State. The weather also forced President Barack Obama to shift his campaign schedule.
• The storm presents both sides with a most unlikely October surprise as polls show an extraordinarily tight race. Hurricane Sandy had each campaign discarding carefully mapped-out itineraries as they worked to maximize voter turnout while avoiding any suggestion they were putting politics ahead of public safety.
• On Saturday, Romney spoke of bipartisanship before early voters in Florida, while Obama worked to nail down tiny New Hampshire's four electoral votes.
• The former Massachusetts governor, who presented himself as a staunch conservative during the Republican primaries but has been striking a more moderate tone as he courts women and independent voters in the campaign's home stretch, campaigned across Florida. He promised to "build bridges" with Democrats.
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New museum in Warsaw to celebrate centuries of Jewish life in Poland
• WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw's former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to those who fought and died in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis.
• Yet despite reminders of Jewish suffering all around, the modern building will soon open as a key remembrance site of a mostly upbeat Jewish story, becoming home to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a major new museum dedicated to the 1,000 years of Jewish existence in Polish lands.
• "It is a museum of life," said Sigmund Rolat, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and American benefactor who has helped bring the museum to life. "We are showing 1,000 years of a magnificent history."
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