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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson walks from the podium as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke approaches to speak during a press conference at the Treasury Department in Washington. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

McCain debuts comeback speech

John McCain unveiled a feisty new stump speech in which he portrayed himself as a scrappy fighter on the comeback trail against an opponent who’s already “measuring the drapes” in the Oval Office.

Politico

McCain tones down while ramping up to election day

ABC News

The candidates

MSNBC

Obama touts foreclosure moratorium

Barack Obama proposed immediate steps to heal the nation's economy: a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs.

USA Today

Obama: forclosure moratirium, tax breaks for job-creating businesses

MSNBC

Banks urged to deploy capital to spur economy

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged banks receiving $250 billion in government capital injections to use the funds to spur economic growth.

Bloomberg

Treasury will take ownership stake in 9 troubled US banks

McClatchy

World markets steady

CBS News

Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line

European governments put up $2.3 trillion in guarantees and emergency measures to save the banking system in their most unified response to the financial crisis.

MSNBC

Is the US fighting force big enough?

American's armed forces are growing bigger to reduce the strains from seven years of war, but it may need to be bigger in an era of "persistent conflict," analysts argue.

Christian Science Monitor

Winds blowtorch effect whips Calif.'s San Fernando Valley wildfires

Three major wildfires charred more than 13,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in suburban Los Angeles and northern San Diego County.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Next meltdown: credit-card debt

Rising rates are accelerating credit-card defaults. Soured debt could further undermine the financial system.

BusinessWeek

Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument

An Ohio death row inmate was executed after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be executed.

CNN

POLITICS

Miami volunteer booted over lie about Obama's religion

A volunteer with Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's campaign was dismissed after warning a Miami voter not to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama because "He's a Muslim.''

McClatchy

House GOP objects to spending in $150 billion stimulus package

House Republicans objected to new spending measures that congressional Democrats are considering as they draft a $150 billion economic stimulus package.

CNN

Ralph Nader on his run for president

Independent candidate Ralph Nader in his third run for the presidency, offers his explanation — and the solution — for the economic crisis.

NPR

The first woman to run for president, in 1872

NPR

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Krugman wins Nobel for economics

American academic and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel economics prize for his analysis of trade patterns and economic activities.

BBC

Oliver Stone's take on the president: 'W.'

Directed by protean Hollywood muckraker Oliver Stone and starring Josh Brolin as a blithering George W. Bush, "W." is not just a critique, it's a critique of a sitting president.

Newsday

HEALTH

Why some kids are bullied from the start

Study finds early aggression, harsh parenting, economic status combine to make a victim.

HealthDay

Pediatricians vote to double vitamin D requirement for children

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new vitamin D guidelines for infants, children and adolescents when medical conditions are attributable to low vitamin D levels.

ABC News

New vitamin D levels for kids

YouTube

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Free wireless band passes FCC tests

Mobile devices using a new U.S. radio band with free wireless service would not cause significant interference with cell phones using a nearby band, the FCC ruled.

PC World

Scientific policy challenges piling up for the next president

The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation says both McCain and Obama's platforms "incorporate substantially more focus on innovation and technology than their predecessors' platforms in 2004."

Scientific American

EDUCATION

School district wins $2 million prize for improving urban education

Texas' Brownsville Independent School District won the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education, awarded to the most improved urban school district.

MarketWatch

Helping kids break stereotypes

When Maggie Doben's first-graders find a wheelchair in their room, she meets their curiosity with questions: Who might need to use this? Would they be able to get around the classroom?

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Senior with Down syndrome crowned high school homecoming queen

While most homecoming queens are either the head cheerleader or student class president, it's not so at one Texas high school where this year's queen was born with Down syndrome 18 years ago.

ABC News

Free house, if you'll haul it off

Is the credit crunch keeping you from getting a home loan? Well, here's a little beauty you can have for free.

HappyNews.com

Brad Pitt's first 'Make It Right' homes are now completed

Some three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, 68-year-old grandmother Gloria Guy was on hand to give the actor a big hug.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Credit crisis driving global cooperation

As governments of the industrialized world struggle with the global credit crisis, they may be relearning an old lesson: There is more strength in standing together than in struggling alone.

Christian Science Monitor

Bombers kill 13 in Mosul, Baghdad

Suicide car bombers struck twice in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven others in Baghdad.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Dow bounces back with biggest point jump ever

Stocks rallied with the Dow up 936 points as investors bet that the worst of the credit crisis is over following a series of global initiatives over the last few days.

CNNMoney

US not always averse to nationalization, despite its free-market image

The United States has a culture that celebrates laissez-faire capitalism as the economic ideal, but the practice is sometimes different.

International Herald Tribune

Venture capital firms recoil from crisis, but not for long

Venture firms are alarmed over what this downturn might mean for their portfolio companies. Plenty of entrepreneurs are going to be shut out of any sort of financing for the foreseeable future.

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

Browns take apart Giants, 35-14

On a nationally televised stage, the New York Giants got embarrassed by the Cleveland Browns, 35-14, snapping their eight-game winning streak and their run of 12 straight wins away from home.

NY Daily News

Big Brown injures foot, career over

From his overpowering victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness to his spectacular flop in the Belmont as he bid for a Triple Crown, Big Brown and his entourage simply didn't do subtle.

CBS SportsLine

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

A young woman leads Turkey to examine modernity and devotion

At 16, Havva Yilmaz did something none of her friends had: put on an Islamic head scarf. This was a rebellion in Turkey, which built its modern identity on secularism.

International Herald Tribune

Hindu threat to Christians in India

India, the world's most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is haunted by a stark assault on one of its fundamental freedoms.

International Herald Tribune

Thousands of Christians flee Mosul

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Planning America's first podcar city

"It's time we design cities for the human, not for the automobile."

CBS News

New surges in wave and tidal power

The fledgling ocean energy industry is awash in ideas for making electricity from moving water, but it is still reaching for a toehold in the commercial world.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

A girl places wicks in earthen lamps being made for the upcoming Diwali, the annual Hindu festival of lights, in Ahmadabad, India. (Photo by Ajit Solanki / AP)

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