Wednesday night's presidential debate in which Mitt Romney shellacked Barack Obama attracted the biggest audience since the debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan seven days before the 1980 election.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Contrary to conventional wisdom that debates are rarely, if ever, game-changers, the first presidential debate was a demolition derby.

There is a scriptural adage that says we should avoid all appearance of evil.

There is a bittersweet feeling around the Kennedy Space Center and across the Space Coast as the space shuttle Atlantis is made ready to be rolled out for public display.

Hundreds of technicians and support crew who have spent decades preparing each orbiter for flight will also be mothballed in two upcoming rounds of layoffs in early December and just after the new year.

Its just the latest of the 8,000 shuttle workers laid off from Floridas KSC after the NASA shuttle program was ended and the gap widens before the Space Launch System advances.

At a remote spot about 90 miles east of Yemen's capital, the radical cleric was getting into a car. Suddenly, it and al-Awlaki disappeared in a fireball.