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places such as the hidden spots of the Grand Canyon.
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• 8. WHY OBAMA WANTS WALL STREET TO ALTER PAY INCENTIVES
• The President says financial regulation overhaul doesn't provide enough means to hold risk takers accountable.
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• 9. WHAT NORTH KOREANS FIND IN "GONE WITH THE WIND"
• The American cultural touchstone has something for everyone in this totalitarian bastion: tortured love, civil war, ruin and starvation.
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• 10. HOW THE WORLD SERIES FOES MATCH UP
• It's the power-packed Tigers against the never-say-die Giants.
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AP News in Brief
Displaying late-campaign urgency, Obama sets out on busiest day yet; Romney also picks up pace
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Locked in a stubbornly tight race, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are demonstrating the urgency of the campaign's final stretch, with the incumbent alone set to cover 5,300 miles in the busiest single day of his re-election bid. Both men claimed a growing edge even as voters showed little give.
• From Colorado to Iowa to ever-important Ohio, bigger crowds and late October scenery offered the feel of a campaign starting to finally crackle. Obama centered on a closing theme that voters simply cannot trust Romney, while the challenger warned of the bleak times that four more Obama years would bring.
• At the majestic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado late Tuesday, Romney said Obama's promise of more of the same is "why he's slipping and it's why we're gaining."
• He cast the race as moving his way during a rally of up to 10,000 at the amphitheater, a stunning setting cut into mountain rocks outside Denver. Blue lights and the Romney "R'' logo lit the rocks rising on either side of the venue, and the crowd wore colored T-shirts that, viewed from afar, formed the Colorado state flag.
• Romney wasn't staying in Colorado long. With just two weeks left and all three of their debates behind them, the candidates turned to travel -- a lot of it.
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