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A home burns as waves from Hurricane Ike crash the shoreline in Galveston, Texas. The flood blocked firefighters from coming to help. (Photo by David J. Phillip / AP)

2Will Palin's bubble bulge or bust?

If I were a pollster wanting to deliver good news to a Republican client, this would be the week I’d want to put the poll in the field.

MSNBC

Sarah Palin defends abortion stance, explains 'Bridge to Nowhere' support

ABC News

Russians finally start pullback

Russian troops have begun withdrawing from the Georgian port of Poti on the country's Black Sea coast, reports say.

BBC

Russians 'leaving Georgian port'

BBC

Ike wears itself out beating up on Texas

Ferocious wind and floodwaters from Hurricane Ike severed power to 1.8 million customers in the Houston area as the Category 2 storm made landfall on Galveston Island.

CNN

Why do people ignore evacuations?

Newsweek

Chertoff: Ike could flood 100,000 homes

USA Today

Tough new TV ads from McCain, Obama point to each other's weak points

The presidential candidates who promised a respectful debate got negative in TV spots.

WJLA

The truth and lies in the ad wars

CBS News

A transsexual vs. the Government

Ex-Special Forces Col. David Schroer was up for a desk job with the U.S. government. But when revealed that he would soon be Diane, he was rejected. Was it sex discrimination?

TIME

NATION

15 die as passenger and freight trains crash head on near Los Angeles

As many as 15 people have been killed and 100 injured in Chatsworth, Calif. A Metrolink train collided head on with a Union Pacific freight train.

Contra Costa Times

Can America invent its way back?

Economists and business leaders across the political spectrum are coming to an agreement: Innovation is the best — and maybe the only — way the U.S. can get out of its economic hole.

BusinessWeek

Court overturns Virginia spam law

The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a state antispam law and the 2004 conviction of longtime spammer Jeremy Jaynes, saying the law is an overly broad prohibition on anonymous free speech.

PC World

POLITICS

Obama plans sharper tone as party frets

Barack Obama will intensify his assault against John McCain, with new television advertisements and more forceful direct attacks as he confronts a reinvigorated Republican ticket.

MSNBC

Obama ad: McCain 'out of touch'

CNN

McCain taps lobbyist for transition

A prominent Washington lobbyist who has worked for every Republican President since Richard Nixon has been tapped by the McCain campaign to study preparation for the presidential transition.

Time

McCain ad: Obama 'disrespectful'

CNN

SPORTS

Coach Don Haskins, who broke racial barriers, dies at age 78

Haskins, the Hall of Fame coach who helped break color barriers in college sports in 1966 when he used five black starters to win a national basketball title for Texas Western, has died at 78 years old.

USA Today

Spoilers may hold keys to October

Every year, some team out of contention is going to make life a lot more difficult for one in it. The spoilsports aren't doing it out of some sort of spiteful September rage.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Facebook for the kindergarten set

It would be easy to assume that the first month of Cameron Chase's life followed the monotonous cycle of eat-sleep-poop. But anyone who has read his oft-updated profile on Totspot knows better.

International Herald Tribune

Sun-gathering satellites beam down power for an energy-hungry Earth

Space-based solar power satellites in Earth's orbit would harvest plentiful solar energy in orbit — then transmit that energy down to terra firma and the power grids.

LiveScience

HEALTH

Smartest food, the new medicine

The "smart-food revolution" has to do with the growing body of research showing that everyday produce can function medically to prevent, treat and even cure diseases.

Psychology Today

Zen meditation really does clear the mind

The seemingly nonsensical Zen practice of "thinking about not thinking" helps free the mind of distractions, new brain scans reveal.

LiveScience

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Ramadan tests first-timer's willpower

It is the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and throughout the world, Muslims will fast, as well as abstain from drinking, smoking and sex during daylight hours.

NPR

Pope begins visit to France

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Paris for a four-day visit to a country facing a freefall in the number of churchgoers despite its deep Christian heritage.

Google News

Priest accused of dealing coke from the back of the church

A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Asia's Georgian cold

Weekly Standard

Column:

The two faces of John McCain

Salon.com

Column:

Yes, even professors fall for Facebook

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

Sarah Palin Zamboni clears the ice on working mothers

Boston Globe

Column:

McCain's claims skirt facts, test voters

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Paul Starobin):

Honor vs. empathy

National Journal

Column (David Harsanyi):

There are no victims in this race

Real Clear Politics

Column:

Preventing 9/11 from happening again

U.S. News & World Report

Blog (Ta-Nehisi Coates):

Palin revealing interview

Atlantic Online

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GOOD NEWS

Oyster lunch yields 26 pearls for Lebanese couple

Lebanese restaurant owner Raymond Salha and his wife were having oysters for lunch when she made a stunning discovery — a cluster of 26 pearls inside an oyster on her plate.

Google News

A West Bank ruin, reborn as a beacon for peace based on relationships

Instead of a shaky negotiated peace treaty imposed from the top down, relationships lock the two sides together from the bottom up.

International Herald Tribune

More claim Native American heritage

A new generation of Americans is identifying itself as Native American, a group now growing faster than the U.S. population.

USA Today

WORLD

Robert Mugabe to keep top job under power-sharing deal

President Mugabe will keep his job and head the cabinet under a power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe, but the opposition outnumbers his party among senior ministers, an opposition senator said.

Reuters

Channel Tunnel disruption goes on

Thousands of passengers hoping to travel through the Britain-to-France Channel Tunnel face further disruption after a fire on a freight train.

BBC

Raw video: English Channel fire stalls traffic

YouTube

BUSINESS

WaMu may sell deposits to stay afloat

Washington Mutual Inc., facing $19 billion in bad home loans and a 34 percent stock drop, may sell part of its 2,300-branch network to raise capital.

Bloomberg

Troubled Lehman Bros. looking for buyer

A day after Lehman Brothers sought to assure Wall Street that it could survive on its own, the beleaguered investment bank, urged on by U.S. government officials, put itself up for sale.

International Herald Tribune

Ladenburg: Lehman may be sold to Bank of America,

Bloomberg

US retail sales fall unexpectedly

Retail sales stores fell for the second month in a row as the boost from tax rebates slipped away and a sharp decline in energy prices failed to encourage consumers to spend.

Financial Times

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Metallica releases 'Death Magnetic'

Metallica officially launched their new album 'Death Magnetic' at a special concert in Germany.

Gigwise

'The Twist' tops billboard hot 100 era

Of all No. 1 songs in the 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Chubby Checker's ''The Twist'' is the most popular single.

HappyNews.com

EDUCATION

Performance-pay plans divide teachers

Two major urban school districts are working on new teacher contracts that could help decide the future of performance pay, which some consider the "flavor of the month" in education reform.

NPR

University training for Jedi Knights

Queen's University Belfast offers a course in Star Wars Jedi Knight psychology to teach communication and personal development.

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Nitrogen emerges as the latest climate-change threat

Scientists are raising alarms about yet another threat to Earth's climate and human well-being. This time it's nitrogen, a common element essential to all life.

McClatchy Newspapers

Chicago company launches tree-free paper program

Cutting down on the use of paper is easy enough, but in spite of all your efforts you’ll never become 100 percent paperless. That’s where tree-free paper comes in.

Environmental News Network

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