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For the first time since April 1983 the unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent, which translates into 16 million people without jobs.

The Labor Department announced today that the jobless rate has risen from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent. There was a net loss of 190,000 jobs in October, more than economists expected.

President Obama gave his condolences to those at Fort Hood in the wake of the shootings yesterday – but he came under critique for spending several minutes on national television giving a “shout-out” to a Congressional Medal of Honor winner at the conference he was attending and then name-dropping others before finally commenting on the tragedy. It seemed an awkward transition from light-hearted to serious – see what you think.

The Nov. 21 issue of WORLD Magazine is available this morning online. Here are some highlights:

COVER STORY All-American adoption story: All-American Michael Oher went from the streets as a 15-year-old son of a crack addict to potential NFL Rookie of the Year on the love and dedication of an adoptive family that wouldn’t let him fail.

ELECTION ’09 Turnabout: Decisive Republican gains in off-year elections spell work for Democrats to win back ‘change’ voters.

MOVIE REVIEW Horror on screen: WORLD’s Sam Thielman says low-budget Paranormal Activity will leave viewers terrified.

NICK EICHER Needed: WORLD Movers: In a time of journalistic retreat, a plan to grow WORLD’s influence.

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On this day in 1962: The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa’s apartheid policies.

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Protesters staged a rally on Capitol Hill this afternoon to express their displeasure with the proposed House healthcare bill. WORLD Washington Bureau chief Edward Lee Pitts reports:

[T]he afternoon largely belonged to the citizen brigade that covered the Capitol grounds in protest.

“What a crowd. No wonder I couldn’t get a room,” joked actor and healthcare reform opponent Jon Voight.

The day had a patriotic flair: Kids decked out in colonial-era outfits stood beside parents wearing patriotic hats with tea bags dangling from the brims. Scores of American flags flapped in the light wind of an unseasonably bright, warm day. Numerous protestors also hoisted the historic “Don’t Tread on Me” flag.

These competed with hundreds of signs and repeated chants, as citizens from across the country seemed determined to spook Democrats just a week after Halloween: “Public Healthcare is Public Enemy No. 1,” read one sign. “Nancy We’re Barack,” read another.

“You see this building here, you own this building,” shouted conservative commentator Mark Levin, referring to the Capitol. “But the people who run that building today reject limited government. Now they have their sights set on the mother of all entitlements.”

“Vote them out,” responded the crowd, referring to the 2010 elections. Clearly still in a celebratory mood after this week’s Republican victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, the protestors held aloft signs predicting a worse fate for Democrats next November.

Read Lee’s report in its entirety here.

Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in shootings this afternoon at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. One of the shooters was killed and two others have been apprehended. All three were soldiers.

UPDATE: There was only one suspected gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, and he is still alive. There are now 13 dead.

The Gazette (Colorado Springs) reports that Ted Haggard is starting a new church.

Ted Haggard, who started New Life Church in his Colorado Springs basement and built it into a megachurch with thousands of worshippers, said Wednesday that he is starting a church at his home.

“We wanted to do something in our house to connect with friends,” said Haggard, whose ties to New Life ended in scandal three years ago with the revelation that he’d been involved with a male prostitute in Denver.

Haggard will hold his first gathering, open to the public, at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at his house at 1865 Old Ranch Road. He referred to it as a “prayer meeting” but said it would also be correct to call it a church.

We must admit that it is all too easy to lob verbal grenades or “Scripture bombs” at people who have lived in sin and have experienced public moral failure. Furthermore, the atoning work of Christ on the cross is not insufficient to deal with the specific sins Mr. Haggard has admitted to.

But returning to pastoral ministry is a different matter altogether.

1 Timothy 3:1-7 (ESV) says: “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.”

The Honduran Congress has joined several other Latin American countries in banning the morning-after pill. According to Catholic News Agency, the law passed earlier this year has now taken effect. Carlos Polo, Latin American director of the Population Research Institute, told CNA,

In Latin America, where abortion is illegal, the only option left for the promoters of this pill was to misinform the people by denying the so-called ‘third effect.’  Now we see that pressure and misinformation can last a while but in the end, deceit fails on its own. We will certainly see the morning-after pill eradicated from Latin America, thus freeing ourselves from an inoperative and costly method that has grave adverse effects for women.

Abortion is illegal in Honduras, and advocates for the bill noted that the pill can cause abortions by preventing the embryo’s implantation.

On the heels of our discussion of whether the Nov. 3 elections were a referendum on Sarah Palin, chew this over: The former Alaska governor has not yet endorsed the more conservative candidate, Marco Rubio, in the Florida primary for governor.

Palin’s spokeswoman Meg Stapleton said it was “too early” for Palin to endorse either Charlie Crist (who is considered more moderate) or Rubio.