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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., writes notes as Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., watches during a town hall-style presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Scott Olson / AP)

McCain and Obama debate taxes and financial crisis

Reaching out to an anxious nation, John McCain and Barack Obama vied in a spirited debate over who'd be the better steward of an economy in crisis.

McClatchy Newspapers

Fact check: McCain, Obama charges and countercharges

ABC News

Reining in government spending

MSNBC

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Voters share thoughts on the debate

CNN

Bush urges joint crisis response

A common response must be "well thought-out," President George W. Bush said as he called for co-ordinated action by leading industrialized countries to tackle the worldwide credit crunch.

BBC

Bush: Americans will get through economic crisis

YouTube

US Fed leads internationally coordinated interest rate cut to boost global ecomomy

To stop a global market meltdown, the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates the same time as several international banks.

ABC News

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Financial timeline

USA Today

The cut heard round the world

CNNMoney

Guantanamo release angers Bush

A U.S. judge has ordered the release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees from detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a rebuke to the Bush administration.

Al Jazeera

Gates asks allies for help in Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged southeastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where their forces are more urgently needed.

Baltimore Sun

After bailout, execs lounged at resort

Less than a week after the federal government bailed out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort.

CBS News

NATION

Dow drops 500 points in turbulent trading

Wall Street has had another day of heavy losses as investors' worries about the financial sector wiped out early enthusiasm.

CBS News

On the Fed's move

Financial Times

Retirement plans lost $2 trillion

Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated.

TIME

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Foreclosures hit rural America, but quietly

NPR

Scientists question effectiveness of terrorist-hunting techniques

The federal government uses "data mining" and "behavior detection" to find terrorists, which a consortium of scientists called scientifically dubious with "enormous potential" for abuse.

CNN

POLITICS

Stevens jurors hear wiretap tape of scheme to hide free work

"We need to make that disappear from (the plumber's) records," Persons says in a conversation captured by an FBI wiretap. "Tell him Ted's paying for everything. I mean, that's the safest thing, Bill."

USA Today

Poor NRCC has to pick and choose

The National Republican Congressional Committee will focus its limited resources on just a handful of GOP-held seats, if its first ad buys are any indication.

The Hill

SPORTS

Sizing chance Titans, Giants go unbeaten

Five weeks of the NFL's regular season are in the books and we're down to just two undefeated teams: the 5-0 Titans in the AFC and the 4-0 Giants in the NFC.

Sports Illustrated

Posey brings success to Hornets

The most important Hornet this year may be the guy they got in the offseason who already knows what it's like to win a championship — James Posey. He was the Hornets' entire offseason shopping list.

ESPN

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Sexuality fades as election issue

A record number of openly gay, lesbian and bisexual candidates are seeking office in the 2008 election.

Baltimore Sun

Report: Tobacco companies paid Hollywood stars to promote smoking

A new report claims to have smoked out secret contracts between Big Tobacco and old-time Hollywood, where movie stars received big bucks to endorse cigarettes.

NY Daily News

The secret Marilyn files

Marilyn Monroe, the world's most famous movie star, died of a prescription drug overdose at age 36. The rumors and confusion about what happened before and after her death have never gone away.

Vanity Fair

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Study suggests Zen meditation can ease modern stress-induced maladies

Zen Buddhist meditation may help treat depression, attention deficit disorder and anxiety, among other maladies, according to a recent scientific study.

Religion News Service

Pope says credit crunch proves that money is 'nothing'

Pope Benedict XVI, reflecting on crashing stock markets and capitalism, concluded that "money vanishes, it is nothing" and "the only solid reality is the word of God."

Bloomberg

Supreme Court lets death sentence stand despite Bible-reading jury foreman

A Texas death row inmate has lost his bid for a new sentencing hearing after complaining about the Bible-reading jury foreman at his capital murder trial.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

How sick is too sick to go to work?

What’s a good enough reason to call in sick? Here’s some advice on how to tell when your symptoms warrant staying at home — or rolling out of bed.

WebMD

Cold, cough medicines for children get added warnings

Makers of over-the-counter cold and cough drugs added warnings against use in children younger than 4 years after doctors and government advisers said the medicines are risky and may not work.

Bloomberg

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Joan Walsh):

This town hall didn't help John McCain

Salon.com

Column (Richard Clarke):

Why bin Laden might affect the election

U.S. News & World Report

Column (John Dickerson):

The winner: 'That one'

Slate

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The Palin problem

Newsweek

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Bear facts about John McCain

Salon.com

Column (Andrew Ward):

Obama’s burden: race and the election

Financial Times

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First, foreclose on market fears

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Jay Cost):

McCain and the financial crisis

Real Clear Politics

Column (Russell Mittermeier):

Climate focus 'good news for species'

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

$1.1 Million grant supports flood victims

The U.S. Fund for UNICEF announced a $1.1 million grant to support emergency relief efforts to the 125,000 people affected by the unprecedented floods in India's Northern Bihar region.

PNN

Amputees avoid begging with bikes

One group of "mine survivors," as the United Nations calls them, has come up with another way to feed its families. It operates a bicycle messenger service in Kabul.

NPR

In Israel, a first attempt at high school integration of Jews and Arabs

Fourteen students in Israel are taking part in an educational experiment that aims to teach Jewish and Arab high-schoolers together for the first time.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Thai troops clash with protesters, 2 dead

Thailand's military put troops on Bangkok streets to keep order after a day of battles between police and anti-government protesters.

Reuters

Hijacked tanks for South Sudan

New evidence suggests that the Ukrainian ship being held by pirates off Somalia is carrying weapons and tanks destined for South Sudan.

BBC

China reluctant to reveal milk figures

China insisted it was being open about the impact of milk tainted with the toxic chemical melamine, but declined to make public the latest data on how many children had fallen ill.

Google News

BUSINESS

Ensuring junior's mild ride

Ford Motors unveiled a new safety technology that enables parents to curtail unhealthy road habits in teenage drivers.

Monsters and Critics

China finally sets allowable melamine levels for milk products

China adopted its first rules governing allowable levels of melamine, the chemical responsible for the tainted milk scandal, as it tries to assuage countries that are banning its imports.

Associated Press

Homeowners get some relief from Countrywide Financial

Countrywide Financial will provide Florida homeowners up to $1 billion in mortgage relief under a settlement reached with the state's attorney general over alleged abusive lending practices.

Miami Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Starbucks 'wastes 23 million liters of water each day'

The bizarre policy, which is aimed at preventing germs developing in the taps in its 10,000 stores worldwide, has outraged environmental groups.

Telegraph.co.uk

Half of mammals 'in decline' says extinction Red List

Half the world's mammals are declining in population and more than a third probably face extinction, said an update of the "Red List," the most respected inventory of global biodiversity.

Yahoo! News

Parachute Spider, New Shrew on 2008 ''Red List''

National Geographic

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A no-paper newspaper

When scientists inside the MIT Media Lab began toying with "electronic paper" more than a decade ago, much of their enthusiasm focused on a single invention: a portable, paperless newspaper.

Newsweek

Nobel prize for subatomic breakthrough

Three researchers from the United States and Japan will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for their contributions to work that helps explain why the universe exists.

National Geographic

Pocket-size fuel cells on the horizon

"Batteries are holding back the portable revolution," says the CEO of a firm that's developing a pocket-size fuel cell.

Newsweek

EDUCATION

Schools try to make lunches healthier despite the higher cost

Poor dietary habits contribute to childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes, asthma and high cholesterol. Schools across the country are responding by adding healthier alternatives.

USA Today

Utah charter schools far outshine public education meeting US standards

Utah's charter schools performed far better than their traditional public school counterparts in meeting progress goals for the federal No Child Left Behind program.

Salt Lake Tribune

Florida schools struggle to get more children active

Florida elementary schools statewide are under the gun to offer 150 minutes of physical education a week — in blocks of no less than 30 minutes.

Miami Herald

Photo of the Day

An Orthodox Jewish boy stands next to palm fronds that make the roof with stars visible to sukka, a temporary hut for week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem. (Photo by Bernat Armangue / AP)

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