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A home has roof damage from high winds brought by Tropical Storm Fay in Wellington, Florida. (Photo by Jon Way / AP)

Obama and veep choice to campaign Saturday

Barack Obama's newly minted running mate will join the Democratic hopeful onstage Saturday at a rally in Chicago, where Obama launched his White House bid.

MSNBC

Campaign stops add to VP speculation

CNN

Biden the clear frontrunner for Veep

MSNBC

Rice signs missile defense deal

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted Russia to warn of an attack against the former satellite.

ABC News

Russia angry over US missile shield

Al Jazeera

Fay strengthens, may hit Florida again

Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and once again threatening to become a hurricane.

CBS News

'Boomerang' Fay to hit Florida 3rd time

CNN

Russia hits back at NATO criticism

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused NATO of adopting a policy against his country by supporting Georgia. NATO declared it can no longer be business as usual with Russia.

ABC News

Russian troops leave Georgia town

BBC

California fines hospitals for shoddy patient care

Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths.

CBS News

Sarkozy resolute on Afghanistan despite death of 10 French soldiers

The French president sees Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, as a matter of global security and NATO responsibility.

Christian Science Monitor

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Russian soldiers in armored vehicles, are seen in the outskirts of Gori, northwest of the capital Tbilisi, in Georgia. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / AP)	Matthias Steiner of Germany celebrates after winning gold in the men's +105 kg weightlifting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)	Arava, a disabled tortoise, onto which keepers have fitted a custom skateboard to her shell that helps her move around. (Photo by Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP)

NATION

American credibility on trial

Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?

Salon.com

Fuel crisis cuts down on carnival fun

Traveling carnivals are facing a wild ride as rising diesel costs contribute to shorter tour routes and limits on the number of rides.

USA Today

POLITICS

Libertarian Bob Barr goes his own way

“The government has taken away our liberty in the name of fighting terrorism," said Bob Barr, Libertarian candidate for president.

CNN

Voting machine doubts linger

Doubts raised about ATM-style electronic touch-screen machines have prompted half a dozen states to turn them off and turn back to paper ballots.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Stocks open higher after HP report

Stocks are up modestly after an upbeat profit report from Hewlett-Packard offered investors some reassurance about the economy.

Forbes

Chinese pipemaker to expand in Houston

WSP Holdings, a steel pipe manufacturer whose pipes drill China's largest natural gas field, will not open planned plants in Canada and the Middle East, but will expand in Houston and China.

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Looking for energy, Google goes to hell

Google announced it would try to help spur companies to reach underground to produce clean electricity. It is investing a total of $10 million in geothermal energy.

Forbes

Google's enhanced geothermal systems

Sciencehack

Seattle smog levels climb to violate US Clean Air Act

For the first time since the 1990s, Seattle violated the Clean Air Act when a city smog monitor surpassed the official limit.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

Groups call for a ban on corporal punishment in school

Two groups want federal and state lawmakers to ban corporal punishment, saying it disproportionately targets minority students and creates a "violent and degrading school environment."

USA Today

Special section:

Map of corporal punishment in schools

CNN

Making an arguement for misspelling

A professor at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire, England, sees so many misspellings in papers that he says we'd be better off doing away with certain spelling rules altogether.

TIME

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Olympic rabbi runs a spiritual marathon to host Beijing Games synagogue

Rabbi Shimon Freundlich could earn a gold medal considering the tribulations he faced before he was allowed to operate a synagogue within the Olympic village.

Haaretz

Beatification set for parents of St. Therese in autumn

The Vatican has announced plans to beatify the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, Louis Martin and Zelie Marie Guerin Martin, on Oct. 19.

Catholic World News

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Pakistan without Musharraf

International Herald Tribune

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Why is this presidential campaign ignoring the home front?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Peace comes to the Democratic Party — for now

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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What is to be done?

Weekly Standard

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How Democrats can take back the South

Salon.com

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Sending the US to war is not the president's call

Christian Science Monitor

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Musharraf's departure creates pivotal moment in terror war

Real Clear Politics

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Dixie is gone with the wind

Salon.com

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The Clintons get a starring role at DNC

Real Clear Politics

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GOOD NEWS

Chinese go to extremes over games

Liu Xianghui cycled more than 800 miles to Beijing towing his 98-year-old grandmother in a pedicab to fulfil her dream of attending the Olympics.

Fark.com

More Chinese are going green

While Olympic visitors get a firsthand glimpse this month at China's pollution problems, a homegrown movement is racing to ward off what many here predict could be epic environmental meltdown.

McClatchy Newspapers

WORLD

Alleged Nazi 'can be extradited'

An Australian court ruled that an 86-year-old man can be extradited to Hungary for alleged war crimes in Hungary during WWII.

BBC

Suicide attack at Algerian police academy kills 43