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The gods lived at Mount Olympus, but the gamblers live at a casino on Mount Parnitha, and, lately, Greek leaders have been praying to strike it big here.

The Greek government owns an unusual half-stake in this mountaintop casino, the second-largest in the country, and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has vowed that selling it — along with dozens of other properties, buildings and companies across the country — will be a top priority in last-ditch efforts to save the Greek economy.

I can describe Mitt Romney's tax-policy promises in two words: mathematically impossible.

Those aren't my words. They're the words of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which has conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date of Romney's tax plan and which bent over backward to make his promises add up. They're perhaps the two most important words that have been written during this U.S. presidential campaign.

MARFA, Tex. — Not long after Katherine Losse left her Silicon Valley career and moved to this West Texas town for its artsy vibe and crisp desert air, she decided to make friends the old-fashioned way, in person. So she went to her Facebook page and, with a series of keystrokes, shut it off.

Devra Davis, a long-ignored evangelist on the health dangers of cellphones, finally feels like she's been heard.

As soon as next week, Congress is expected to say that a year-long investigation by the Government Accountability Office has found the Federal Communications Commission's cellphone-safety regulations are woefully out of date. Congress may also urge the agency, whose radiation-limit rules are 15 years old, to take a fresh look at how children in particular may be affected by radio waves.

- Wealthy Chinese sometimes hire body doubles to serve out their prison sentences.

- It's so hot in Oklahoma that the squirrels are melting (well, kind of).

- Louie CK says sorry a lot.

- Doctors accuse the Komen Foundation of overselling mammography's benefits.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Mitt Romney on Friday forcefully rejected Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's claim that there were several years in which the presumptive GOP presidential nominee did not pay taxes.

As 'fiscal cliff' looms, debate over layoffs grows

The federal spending cuts scheduled for 2013 may trigger tens of thousands of dismissal notices for government contractors — and they could start going out days before the presidential election.

These days, politics means always having to say you're sorry.

At least that's how it seems in an election year when petty insults, immature taunts and vicious attacks are distributed with reckless abandon, then taken back almost as quickly.

The jobs figures released Friday present a complicated snapshot of a slow economic recovery: Hiring is up — but so is the unemployment rate.

Within an hour of the data's release, both presidential campaigns had plucked out the piece of the news most favorable to them, and crafted simple, and similar, messages based on the complex report. Basically, they said this: "See? We were right."