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Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich, left, talks with Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn, outside of the Republican conference on the financial market turmoil on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Revamped economic bailout picks up eight votes in House

At least eight members of the House of Representatives said they had switched positions and would now support the proposed $700 billion bailout of the nation's financial system.

CNN

US superpower status is shaken

BBC

Against the Wall Street rescue bill

MSNBC

Wells Fargo swoops in with offer for Wachovia; FDIC backs Citigroup bid

Citigroup demanded that Wachovia call off a proposed deal with Wells Fargo, saying it has an exclusive deal to buy Wachovia’s banking operations.

MSNBC

Biden, Palin attack and counterattack; record 70 million tune in to debate

During the first and only vice presidential debate, Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin came out swinging, citing differences over economic issues and energy policy.

CNN

Biden, Palin avoid expected pitfalls in face off

The Hill

Live video: The Vice-Presidential Debate

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

Fact check: context of key debate claim

USA Today

US jobs report underlines economic decline

The U.S. government came out with more bad economic news: The job market began to deteriorate even before the financial crisis reached a more serious stage.

International Herald Tribune

Bailout hope fails to boost world markets

CBS News

At least 24 killed in mosque attacks

Bombs and gunfire ripped through the end of Ramadan, killing at least 24 worshipers and Iraqi soldiers near two Shiite mosques in a worrisome reminder that the drop in violence can change in an instant.

Baltimore Sun

Schwarzenegger asked Paulson for $7 billion loan, Treasury says

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson asking for an emergency federal loan for his state of as much as $7 billion, a Treasury spokeswoman said.

Bloomberg

NATION

Judge rejects mistrial in Stevens case

The judge in Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial rejected the defense's request for a mistrial, despite finding that prosecutors broke rules.

MSNBC

Friends pay tribute to Steve Fossett after remains found in plane wreckage

Search teams from the National Transportation Safety Board at the crash site in the mountains of eastern California announced they had found enough human remains for DNA testing.

Telegraph.co.uk

Fossett wreckage found

YouTube

POLITICS

Alaska judge refuses to halt troopergate probe of Palin

An Anchorage judge refused to halt the legislature's investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin and denied the state attorney general's attempt to throw out legislative subpoenas.

McClatchy

Campaign trajectory remains unchanged

John McCain has become the candidate of change, while Barack Obama would be happy with more of the same – at least when it comes to the last month of the presidential campaign.

Politico

McCain struggles to explain his support for bailout bill

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who insists he would veto any pork barrel bills to come across his desk, is struggling to explain his vote for the bailout plan that contained pet projects.

Las Vegas Sun

Blog:

Seeing blue: McCain pulls plug on Mich.

ABC News

SPORTS

Rays whisk away White Sox in victorious playoffs debut

After 10 seasons as baseball's doormat, Tampa Bay took the division with the best home record in the majors. And there were no October jitters as the young Rays kept winning at Tropicana Field 6-4.

USA Today

Dodgers more dangerous than a curse

No cursed goats, black cats or fans interfering with foul balls. Nothing more mysterious to blame Wednesday night’s 7-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on than sloppy pitching and a lack of timely hitting.

MSNBC

HEALTH

Mentally ill benefit from bailout bill

People with mental illness would get better health insurance coverage as part of a giant financial bailout passed by the Senate, but the legislation's fate remains uncertain.

CBS News

Colonial clue to the rise of HIV

New colonial cities in sub-Saharan Africa early in the 20th century may have sparked the spread of HIV. Experts analyzed the earliest samples of the virus in 1959.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

California ports clean up polluting trucks

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the busiest U.S. cargo complex, launched a landmark clean-air program banning some 2,000 older trucks blamed for half the diesel haulers' pollution.

Reuters

Global warming to spur potato famine in the Andes?

Here in the Andean highlands scientists attribute warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns to global climate change, seriously affecting the health of tuber, or root crops such as the potato.

National Geographic

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

No free pass for Palin, some Seattle evangelicals say

Interviews with more than a dozen evangelicals in the Seattle area showed that support for Palin ranged from unquestioning to uncertain.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Bill Maher takes on religion for laughs

Bill Maher has taken his crusade against religion to the big screen. For his new film, "Religulous," the talk show host traveled the world and found plenty to mock.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Strippers, armadillos and legends inspire Ig Nobel winners

Deborah Anderson heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years. So she and her colleagues decided to put the drink to the test. In the lab, that is.

Google News

Oh, my! When worlds really collide

Astronomers suggest that two planets similar to Earth collided and were destroyed, explaiingn the leftover ring of debris with a million times more dust around our sun.

LiveScience

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GOOD NEWS

Plumber survives being buried alive

A plumber buried while working on a sewage line in Philadelphia was critically injured, but survived after being dug out with a backhoe and shovels.

Philadelphia Inquirer

US military hospital healing more Iraqis

The U.S. military's main combat hospital in Iraq has increasingly switched to helping Iraqis, saving the lives of those who come in with devastating injuries.

CBS News

WORLD

Gordon Brown bringing Peter Mandelson back to British Cabinet

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain reshuffled his cabinet, stunning many political analysts by rehabilitating his onetime nemesis, Peter Mandelson.

International Herald Tribune

In conflicted Pakistan, ‘a fight to the death’ for its new president