Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Big News

• Northeast Power Outages Fall below 2 Million
• Why the U.S. Has a Worse Youth Employment Problem Than Europe
• Roundup of vote irregularities – Washington Post blog
• Apple 3 million iPad mini tablets sold during opening weekend
• Gas prices big fall sharpest drop in almost 4 years
• Hulu finally lands licensing deal for CBS TV shows
• New Jersey To Let Displaced Voters Use Electronic Voting… If They Give Up Secrecy Return A Hardcopy

General News

• Osbourne has double mastectomy
• Hearing for U.S. soldier accused of Afghan rampage set to begin
• New Orleans linemen square Katrina debt with Sandy aid
• Idaho scientist seeks to launch aerial Bigfoot search with blimp
• US soldier in court over massacre
• Georgetown receives $20 million environment gift

International

• Why the Palestinian president shocked his people over right of return
• Twenty two killed in India rains
• New Zealand mine disaster methane warnings ignored
• Acid attack girl looked at boy
• Vatican computer expert goes on trial
• Palestinian dies near Gaza fence
• Can the American Dream be reversed in India
• Smartphone app inquiry launched
• Syrian rebels bomb Damascus kill 50 soldiers 11 others – Jerusalem Post
• Nigerian armys Mali mission stalls amid doubts it can fight
• Russias new web-blocking agency begins its work
• Skype launches prepaid cards in UK Available in over 1400 stores credit starts from £10
• European Commission clears 2GHz bands for LTE use by 2014 claims 4G pipes wider than the US

Politics

• In Virginia Its Tradition Versus Change
• Florida Republicans impinging on right to vote say Democrats
• Bill Clinton Presses On in Campaign for Barack Obama
• In Virginia a mix of energy and exhaustion
• Middle class faces quick impact from fiscal cliff in form of alternative minimum tax
• Nov. 4 Did Hurricane Sandy Blow Romney Off Course
• State and National Polls Come Into Better Alignment
• Comedians contribute last-minute pro-Obama ads
• Economy slowing crawling back four years after 2008 election
• Nate Silver and PECOTA
• Obama and Romney make final campaign push ahead of election day – US politics live
• Obama Romney campaigns brace for battle after Tuesdays vote
• Tomorrow Americans vote for a president but social media has already picked a winner infographic
• Granderson Vote for Obama
• Americas voting system a disgrace

Health

• Controversy surrounds fringe treatment
• Kids take up fight for real food
• First flu cases of season reported
• Heart problems are expensive
• Math Problems Can Be Physically Painful

Science/Space

• N.J. earthquake rumbles but leaves no injuries
• First Oil Tanker Transits Key Waterway after Sandy
• Rocket Man Land-Speed Racer Pushes 1000 Mph Barrier [Slide Show]
• Former Climate Scientist Turns Pickle-Maker
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day Gorgeous Aurora Over Oregon
• Messier 77 Hubble Space Telescope
• NGC 1929 in N44 A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble
• Twenty-year-old drug best yet for multiple sclerosis
• 5 Odd Effects of Sandys Power Outage
• Fetal Testosterone May Program Boys Behavior

Financial

• Hyundai and Kia dip on fuel error
• Toyota ups annual profit forecast
• Netflix uses poison pill to prevent hostile takeover – I would hope that Netflix would do this. I don’t trust Icahn at all. Look at Yahoo.
• After Stepping Down as Sybase CEO Last Week John Chen Joins Silver Lake as Senior Adviser Today
• Apple paid 2% in taxes on $36.8B of foreign revenue for fiscal 2012 – WTF? Something seems amiss in this scenario.
• Craigslist losing revenue from housing ads as competition heats up

Historical

• When wild beasts roamed the UK
• Election season Remembering the strange election of 1876
• The Rolling Stones before they were legends
• Nov. 5 1992 Oldest Beer Ever

Gaming

• Wii U demo kiosks available at US retailers
• Grand Theft Auto 5 now available for pre-order at popular retailers

Gadgets

• Apple 3 million iPad mini tablets sold during opening weekend
• Available disk space on the Surface
• Acer to Microsoft Hardware is our game stick to software
• USB Toaster Hub and Drives
• Weeks after Lightning connector debut Belkin unveils first third-party accessories

Law

• DMCA Censorship Revenge Porn Site Owner Tries To Censor Criticism With Bogus Takedown Notice

Patents

• Federal judge in Wisconsin dismisses Apple vs. Motorola patent case

Technology

• AMD unveils Opteron 6300 hopes to put servers in a Piledriver

Internet

• Facebook Influence Shows Up In Instagrams Brand New Web-based User Profiles
• Russias new web-blocking agency begins its work
• HomeAway Enables Rentals to Be Placed Online With Credit Cards
• Kim Dotcom now a bandwidth mogul wants to build undersea broadband pipe to Los Angeles
• Hulu finally lands licensing deal for CBS TV shows
• Instagram finally begins rolling out slick web profiles

Mobile

• Nokia Lumia 920 First impressions.
• Google Microsoft express extreme interest in unused U.K. wireless spectrum
• Verizons closing down app store shuttering apps on millions of devices

Software/Apps

• What do normal people think of new Windows 8 PCs
• OS X Snow Leopard shows signs of becoming Apples XP
• Siri can buy your movie tickets in iOS 6.1
• HP doubles down on Linux
• Google Voice Search vs. Siri
• William Shatner – theres an app for him
• XBMC 12 Frodo enters development beta releases expected mid-November
• Facebook 5.1 Released with Improved Messaging Photo Sharing

Developer

• Baker guilty but mentally ill in slaying of girlfriends mom
• Treehouse launches jQuery courses for pieces of flair

London/Britain

• London to deploy 14000 iPad-controlled smart street lights over the next four years
• VIDEO Parents arrested over acid attack on girl
• Ladies first XX Game Jam hits UK
• Children with no state in UK
• Living wage of £7.45 backed – That’s only $11.91 an hour, by today’s exchange rates, that’s not really ‘livable’ in my opinion.
• David Cameron arrives in Gulf on arms trade trip
• Irish republican Colin Duffy freed after questioning over prison officer murder
• Boris Johnson announces rise in London living wage
• Religious opposition to organ law
• Scrapping tolls may boost economy
• Man guilty of colonels murder
• PC dies after shooting in station
• Savile removed from honour list
• Arrest after fan monkey gesture
• Glasgow police officer killed in shooting incident at station
• Tory child sex abuse ring claim Cameron races to control scandal
• In 2009 Engineers Detailed Storm Surge Threat to New York City
• Airport marks 25th anniversary
• Holiday Snap in the Dordogne
• Petrol station stab victim named
• VIDEO Cooper Police poll troubling
• London Living Wage Rises To £8.55 An Hour
• Star Trek Look-a-likes on the Tube

Odd

• New York man crushed by giant crucifix has leg amputated

Funny

• Theres Such Thing as
• This Changes EVERYTHING
• Good Guy Walmart Shopper
• November 05 2012
• Poll Watching
• Lesson #1566 – A Brief Respite
• Flying Sockets
• Come on Down to South Park and Meet Some Friends of Mine
• Cool Sex = Never Meeting Their Parents
• Jumping Over Truck FAIL
• What Size are Those T-Cups
• You Came to the Wrong Neighborhood
• You Came to the Wrong Neighborhood
• I Hate Holidays
• And Now Beer Pong Has Been Remade
• Photo

Chicagoland

• Man critically wounded in Northwest Side shooting
• Cops Man arrested with loaded handgun in luggage at OHare
• Metra train strikes man in Evanston
• Chicago city library board VP profits from library construction
• Harvey man sought in fatal Beloit shooting
• Recent parolee charged with kidnapping child running down cop
• More Illinoisans voted early this election

Total Number of stories: 142

Look for more stories tomorrow.