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Hospital company HCA Holdings released preliminary third-quarter results Tuesday that came in slightly below Wall Street's expectations. The company also said that it plans to declare a special cash dividend of $2.50 per share in the fourth quarter.

The pressure is on President Barack Obama to deliver a Goldilocks performance in the second debate: Not too cool, as he was in his first, listless encounter with Mitt Romney. And not too hot, as some critics styled Vice President Joe Biden in his faceoff with Paul Ryan.

Sixty-four percent of voters in America say complicated government rules and regulations are posing major barriers to job creation and want Congress to focus on the issue, according to a new nationwide survey conducted by the Common Good by Clarus Research Group, a nonpartisan survey firm based in Washington, D.C.

Health care is weighing heavily on the minds of voters, as its considered to be the second most important issue in the presidential election, topped only by the economy.

West Virginia University is getting more than $476,000 in federal funding for a mental and behavioral health training program.

The every-four-years ritual of a national "town hall" style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television. Moderator Carole Simpson was so nervous about turning over the microphone to regular folks and their questions that she spent days mapping out the presidential candidates and their issues on "a zillion...