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Yonn Dierwechter, foreground, Bernie Bates, right, and John Johnston wait for their chance to vote in Tacoma, Wash. (Photo by Drew Perine / AP)

America votes, but first it must wait in long lines

Across the country voters are turning out in what could be historic numbers, some spending hours waiting to vote.

ABC News

Starbucks, Ben & Jerry's, Krispy Kreme offer voters goodies

Business Journal

Voters face lines, machine glitches

CBS News

In Minnesota, big guns make final pleas

The tight Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken saw Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton exhorting supporters.

Star Tribune

NBC: Obama takes Pa.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opened a big lead in the Electoral College in the presidential election as NBC News projected that he had won Pennsylvania.

MSNBC

McCain wins Ky., S.C.; Obama takes Vermont

MSNBC

Race boils down to battlegrounds

ABC News

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Electoral map

CNN

Democrats snag Va. Senate seat, seek more gains

Democratic former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner breezed to victory in his bid for the Senate and fueled expectations that Democrats would solidify their now-thin leadership grip.

Google News

Democrat takes Senate seat in North Carolina

Reuters

Blacks, youth among those new to polls

Barack Obama was the overwhelming choice of the one in 10 voters who went to the polls for their first time - a racially diverse group of mostly twenty-somethings, half of whom call themselves Democrats.

Associated Press

POLITICS

Obama, McCain keep busy with rallies on Election Day

Democrat Barack Obama appeared close to victory in his bid to become the first black U.S. president, while Republican John McCain hoped for an upset as Americans cast their votes.

CBS News

Blog:

Obama's Grant Park party line grows

TIME

Waiting for results? Here's some nuts and bolts

MSNBC

Barack Obama wins in earliest vote in tiny N.H. town

Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where a tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.

Philadelphia Inquirer

MORE POLITICS

Obama’s appeal a worry for some Dems seeking Congress

Down-ballot Democrats have expressed worries they could be left behind on Election Day, despite Obama’s extraordinary appeal to new voters and the enthusiasm of his supporters.

The Hill

The Senate races: 60 is the magic number

NPR

How bad a night for the GOP? The 7 deadly indicators

Here are the key races that will determine whether the Republicans simply suffer an expected setback tonight or something far worse.

TIME

MORE ELECTION COVERAGE

'A lot at stake' on California ballots from same-sex marriage to bullet trains

From same-sex marriage and abortion to the pleas for taxpayers to open their wallets for police, hospitals and trains, voters make important decisions on statewide ballots.

San Francisco Chronicle

Could this election end in the courts?

Heavy voter turnout swamped polling places around the country, including those in several battleground states, but the problems were not as bad as some had feared.

ABC News

Christmas for political junkies

Politico

Special section:

Potential problems at the polls

CNN

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Disney looks to popular brands during holiday shopping season

Disney is betting that toys inspired by hit franchises like "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical" or linked to the Internet will drive parents to its brands during the crucial holiday season.

Reuters

Can retailers get consumers into the Christmas spirit?

TIME

Late-night roundup: election eve humor

'Twas the night before the presidential election and all through the house was the sound of late-night TV hosts getting in their last-minute digs.

USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Yahoo has little remaining upside in Google deal, say analysts

A revised search deal with Google is likely to limit the upside for Yahoo and could push the troubled Web portal back to considering a merger with Microsoft, analysts said.

CNNMoney

E-voting's biggest test

As the U.S. heads into a historic and contentious presidential election, concerns over electronic voting technology could be about to stir up controversy over the legitimacy of some results.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Palin twists remarks on coal by Obama, supporters say

The McCain campaign is selectively quoting from a 10-month-old interview to allege that Sen. Obama plans to "bankrupt the coal industry" with his plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental News Network

How clean coal could power the future

As the U.S. election season draws to a close, one of the biggest environmental issues has been "clean coal." Both candidates for president have come out in support of it.

LiveScience

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Supreme Court to consider non-traditional city monuments

When a city permits a Ten Commandments monument in a public park, must it then permit other monuments with a different point of view? Or does it have the right to pick and choose?

Religion News Service

The universal quest for happiness: Papal reflections on All Saints, All Souls

Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the "panorama of holiness" among Christ's faithful followers, during a midday audience on the feast of All Saints.

Catholic World News

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Amid turmoil, corporate giving steady

Requests for help from top U.S. corporate charities has risen sharply, but spending by some of America's largest foundations is likely to be flat as companies weather the financial crisis.

Reuters

'Good bugs' to fight 'bad bugs'

Unlike antibiotics, these self-help products don't kill germs, but they supposedly confer health benefits, the way vitamins and certain minerals do.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

Supreme Court hears TV profanity case

The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the FCC should ban "fleeting expletives" - celebrities' one-time uses of profanity on live TV when children are likely to be watching.

NPR

Missing Stevens juror returns, says she lied about death of her father

A juror who vanished during Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial told the judge that she lied about her father dying and flew to California to see horse races.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

Afghan officials aided in Taliban attack killing 9 US soldiers

An internal military review found a local Afghan police chief and another district leader helped Taliban militants stage an attack that killed nine U.S. soldiers.

International Herald Tribune

Taiwan and China envoys sign historic trade pact

Taiwan and China set aside decades of hostilities and agreed to drastically expand flights and allow shipping links across the Taiwan Strait, which has long threatened to become a war zone.

HappyNews.com

BUSINESS

Oil rises more than $6 as stock markets advance, dollar drops

Crude oil rose more than $6 a barrel as global stock indexes advanced and the dollar dropped against the euro, increasing the appeal of commodities.

Bloomberg

Wall Street's election day rally

CNNMoney

Factory orders fall 3 times more than expected in September

Factory orders dropped by more than three times as much as analysts expected in September as the U.S. manufacturing sector continues to suffer from the economic downturn.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Obama, McCain agreed on what to change in sports

Barack Obama told ESPN's Monday Night Football it's time for college football to pick a champion with a playoff system while John McCain would put an end to performance-enhancing substances.

Google News

Transcript: Senators McCain and Obama interviewed on ESPN’s Monday Night Football

CQ Politics

Agent: Greg Maddux set to retire

Future Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux is leaning toward retirement, according to a published report.

Sporting News

EDUCATION

Fla. board keeps Klan leader's name at high school

A Florida school board voted to keep the name of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader at a majority black high school.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Report assesses K-12 online learning

Online learning is growing rapidly, but growth requires policy changes to increase educational choices while ensuring high quality and improved student achievement.

E-schoolnews

HEALTH

Women's hands harbor more bugs

Women have a greater range of different types of bacteria on the palms of their hands than men, research suggests.

BBC

Life after an autism diagnosis

There is no scientifically proven cause or cure for autism, and although numerous treatments are available, no road map is given to indicate what option is best for each child.

ABC News

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