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US stocks drop, erasing early gains, as banks slump on Libor

U.S. stocks slid for a seventh day, the longest losing streak since 1996, as higher lending rates sent a gauge of financial shares to its lowest level in almost 12 years.

Bloomberg

Morgan's Flanagan says Libor's rise not cause for panic

Bloomberg

The Somali pirates: tanks but no tanks

The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian ship with 33 battle tanks aboard have lowered their ransom demand and say they are eager to negotiate, raising hope of resolving the two-week standoff soon.

TIME

States' mass removal of voter rolls appears illegal

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.

MSNBC

Voter registration boom favors Obama

Google News

Voter intimidation in Philadelphia

NPR

Report: US faces 'downward spiral' as Taliban gains strength in Afghanistan

A draft report by U.S. intelligence agencies says the situation in Afghanistan is in a "downward spiral" as Taliban fighters threaten stability in the region.

NPR

US may consider Taliban talks

CBS News

Inside account of US government eavesdropping on Americans

Despite assurances by President Bush and American intelligence officials, the government has eavesedropped on hundreds of U.S. citizens overseas as they called friends and family back home.

ABC News

NATION

Teen abandoned under safe-haven law back with family

An Iowa teenager who was abandoned at an Omaha hospital under Nebraska's safe-haven law is back home, officials said.

CNN

Illinois sheriff: no more foreclosure evictions on my watch

Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which had been on track to reach a record number of evictions due to mortgage foreclosures.

CNN

The flip side of foreclosures: Affordable homes

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama buys prime time 30-minute ad 6 days before election day

Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said he is planning a half-hour prime-time ad on network TV on Oct. 29 to promote his presidential bid.

USA Today

Democrats aim for 60 Senate seats

MSNBC

McCain team deployed to Alaska to defend Gov. Palin

The Alaska Legislature's "Troopergate" report is due out soon, and national political players have already descended on the state to stave off any possible claims.

NPR

NRA endorses McCain

The National Rifle Association is endorsing Republican presidential nominee John McCain despite differences with the Arizona senator on gun-show rules.

Philadelphia Inquirer

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

French novelist Le Clézio wins Nobel literature prize

The 2008 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a half-British French novelist and philosopher. He lives in America championing the "lost" wisdom of non-Western cultures.

London Independent

Special section:

Excerpts from Le Clézio's work

International Herald Tribune

Paris Hilton gets (fake) presidential advice – from Martin Sheen

Paris Hilton, in her latest FunnyorDie video clip, confers with "one of the greatest fake presidents," Martin Sheen, who played President Bartlet on The West Wing, as she herself runs for "fake president."

People

Paris Hilton gets presidential with Martin Sheen

Funny or Die

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Circadian clock may be critical for learning, researchers say

The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness, may be doing much more than that, according to researchers.

Science Daily

Big Bang or big bounce: new theory on the universe's birth

Our universe may have started not with a big bang but with a big bounce — an implosion that triggered an explosion, all driven by exotic quantum-gravitational effects.

Scientific American

HEALTH

General Mills pulling MSG from its line of Progresso soups

General Mills has announced that it is removing added monosodium glutamate, or MSG, from all 80 of its Progresso soups.

Consumer Affairs

Never to part: devoted couples share life and death

Studies around the world have shown that the rate of mortality spikes among bereaved spouses soon after their beloved has died.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

UT reverses punishment of students for political sign

Two University of Texas students who were told they would be barred from registering next semester for hanging a political poster on their dormitory window, appear to have won their battle against the university.

Houston Chronicle

Students are no longer surpassing parents’ educational achievement

The American tradition of generational upward mobility is at a standstill, and for some minority groups the younger generation is obtaining postsecondary education at lower levels than older adults.

Diverse

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

As the economy sags, Obama soars

Economist

Column (George Will):

McCain in a bear market

Real Clear Politics

Column (Michael Barone):

The race isn't necessarily over

U.S. News & World Report

Blog (Ross Douthat):

Ayers, McCain and the Dow

Atlantic Online

Column (Froma Harrop):

McCain economics still Bush league

Real Clear Politics

Column (Garrison Keillor):

One bomb after another

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Can we be pals with the terrorist Taliban?

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Is a global recession on the way?

Economist

Editorial:

Look who's denouncing lobbyists

International Herald Tribune

Column:

Why Ayers case is risky for McCain-Palin

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Heavy metal-eating 'superworms' unearthed in UK

Newly evolved "superworms" that feast on toxic waste could help cleanse polluted industrial land, a new study says.

National Geographic

Scientists win Nobel for jellyfish protein

Three U.S.-based scientists won a Nobel Prize for turning a glowing green protein from jellyfish into a revolutionary way to watch the tiniest details of life within cells and living creatures.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

In Georgia invasion, Russian military saw its army's shortcomings

Decades of neglect, outdated technology and an ineffective conscript system have reduced the capabilities of the Russian Army over the years.

Christian Science Monitor

US military leader sees Afghan situation worsening next year