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Iraqi stock traders mark up the sales board at the Iraq Stock Exchange in Baghdad. The Iraq stock exchange is enjoying a boom, while the rest of the world is near a financial meltdown. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

Post ‘troopergate,’ Palin still popular in Alaska, just not as much

A bipartisan panel of state legislators released a 263-page investigative report that concluded Palin had abused her power by summoning the authority of her office to pursue a personal grudge.

Christian Science Monitor

Palin: probe cleared me of any wrongdoing

CBS News

Hindu threat to Christians in India

India, the world's most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is haunted by a stark assault on one of its fundamental freedoms.

International Herald Tribune

Thousands of Christians flee Mosul

CBS News

European leaders hatch aid plan for banks in crisis

European leaders, rushing to craft a credible response before fearful world markets reopen, pledged to pump public money into banks battered by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

Reuters

Soros backs plan to buy equity in banks

ABC News

Grim economic reality faces next president

San Francisco Chronicle

Special section:

The crisis: a timeline

CNNMoney

FBI undercover wise guy recalls how he fooled the mob

Jack Garcia comes out from undercover for the first time and tells how he infiltrated the most feared crime family in America by delivering an acting performance.

CBS News

Explaining mob school

CBS News

Top general: NATO not losing Afghan war

The top NATO general in Afghanistan rejected the idea that NATO is losing the Afghanistan war to an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency.

ABC News

NATION

Millions of new voters registering nationwide as state deadlines close

Keen interest in the presidential election and old-fashioned grassroots organizing is translating into a surge in voter registration across the country, including large numbers of first-time voters.

San Francisco Chronicle

Evacuees return after PA chemical spill, investigation begins

A recommendation to evacuate 2,500 people in four Butler County communities due to an accidental toxic chemical release from the Indspec Chemical Corp. plant in Petrolia was lifted.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Wildfire burns 750 acres north of LA

Firefighters gained ground on a wildfire that forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people in a rugged area 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

San Jose Mercury News

Fires roar through California

MSNBC

POLITICS

Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument

An Ohio death row inmate was executed after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be executed.

CNN

Republicans splinter over tactics

After a turbulent week, Republican leaders said that they were worried the Republican nominee for president would lose the race unless he brought stability to his candidacy and settled on a clear message.

International Herald Tribune

Hispanics turn cold shoulder to McCain

Politico

Negative ads: The good, the bad and the ugly

CBS News

Clintons campaign for Obama

Bill and Hillary Clinton took the stage at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, launching an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race.

ABC News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Oliver Stone's take on the president: 'W.'

Directed by protean Hollywood muckraker Oliver Stone and starring Josh Brolin as a blithering George W. Bush, "W." is not just a critique, it's a critique of a sitting president.

Newsday

Blogging like the world depended on it

Josh Levy, Change.org's managing editor, envisions the revamped site as a new hub for its 120,000 members, a one-stop shop for the latest news on a given topic and tools for taking action.

Newsweek

Beastie Boys announce swing state tour

The Beastie Boys announced their “Get Out and Vote” tour. In an e-mail blast, the activist rappers said, “This election is too important to stay at home."

Rolling Stone

HEALTH

Nature's fix for flawless skin

The latest crop of skin rejuvenators comes straight from mother nature: five potent botanicals that firm, smooth, and tone.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Exploding pumpkins: Gourd, what a mess

Each year, thousands of pumpkin growers compete to grow the biggest pumpkin the world has ever seen.

NPR

People pressure: Is immigration an environmental issue?

Why are some environmental groups jumping on the immigration issue? What does immigration have to do with the environment?

Christian Science Monitor

Is ‘clean coal’ just an ad slogan?

ABC News

Using the Internet's history to develop clean energy's future

A study of the Internet’s long development since 1946, arguably when modern computing began, offers valuable lessons that can help keep energy innovations on course for years.

Scientific American

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GOOD NEWS

Brad Pitt's first 'Make It Right' homes are now completed

Some three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, 68-year-old grandmother Gloria Guy was on hand to give the actor a big hug.

Huffington Post

WORLD

North Korea to resume disabling nuclear plant after removal from terror list

North Korea welcomed its removal from Washington's list of terrorism sponsors and confirmed that it would resume disabling its main nuclear weapons complex and allow international inspections.

International Herald Tribune