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His comment comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler was "dumb" and "extreme," the singer says. But he says he was trying to make a point.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to an Israeli scientist who discovered quasicrystals. In Greece, protests resume over austerity measures. And the Texas Rangers move on to the American League championship series.

Since George Lindell's dramatic description of his car accident, he's become an Internet star. But he's still having a tough time, The Arizona Republic reports.

Even now, weeks after the suspect cantaloupes were recalled, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that there may be more reports of illness to come. The incubation period for listeriosis varies, but it can take as long as two months for symptoms to develop.

If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear a case involving the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas, affirmative action could re-enter the national spotlight just as the presidential campaign is heating up.

Democrats are surely relieved to have held onto the W. Virginia governorship, with Tuesday's special election victory by acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin over Republican Bill Maloney. But it was a narrow 50 percent to 47 percent win that could portend trouble when Tomblin once again stands for election in 14 months.

Civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth has died, according to reports. He was 89. In the 1950s, his activism resulted in beatings and attempts on his life in Birmingham,, where he established the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in 1956.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's poll number may be sagging, but his campaign is flush with cash. Perry's campaign says it raised more than $17 million in the third quarter.Perry entered the Republican presidential primary race in mid August with just 49 days left before the quarterly filing deadline. But in that short time he's shot to the top of the money race.

Shuttlesworth led the battle against segregation in Birmingham, Ala. — a battle that focused the national spotlight on the violent resistance to equal rights in the South and forced change. He died Wednesday at 89.

Private bankers who serve some of the world's richest families are seeing clients pile money into "catastrophe portfolios" and real estate, seeking defensive positions that might help them weather a far-reaching economic storm that has roiled stock markets worldwide.