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Republican VP candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is greeted by her daughter, Piper, after arriving for a welcome home rally in Fairbanks, Alaska. At left is Willow holding baby Trig and at right is Sarah's husband Todd. (Photo by Eric Risberg / AP)

Report: Alaska paid for Palin family travel

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

ABC News

RNC spends thousands on dresses, make-up for Palin & family

NY Daily News

Angry letters, powder sent to banks

The FBI and the Postal Inspection Service are investigating more than 30 angry letters containing a white powdery substance recently sent to banks.

CNN

Early voting boosts Dems

Democrats are voting early in greater numbers than their Republican counterparts in several closely contested states, reversing a pattern that favored the GOP in past elections.

USA Today

India launches first moon mission

India's first unmanned moon mission has successfully blasted off in a bid to put the country's space program in the same league as neighbors Japan and China.

Al Jazeera

India's moon mission

BBC

FAA considers crackdown on American Eagle for flying overloaded planes

American Eagle is in danger of being kicked out of a key safety program by the Federal Aviation Administration because the commuter airline repeatedly flew overloaded, potentially unsafe planes.

ABC News

US air raid kills Afghan soldiers

Nine Afghan soldiers have been killed and three others wounded in an air raid by U.S.-led forces in eastern Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

Seeing the enemy in Afghanistan

MSNBC

NATION

Sen. Ted Stevens covered up gift-taking, prosecutor says

Sen. Ted Stevens took numerous gifts and tried to avoid publicly disclosing them, a prosecutor said. The Alaska Republican's lawyer declared him an "innocent man."

Reuters

San Francisco votes on proposition decriminalizing prostitution

In this live-and-let-live town, medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores. After election day, prostitutes could walk the streets without fear of arrest.

ABC News

Economic downturn hits police

The growing financial crisis is a double whammy for police in many U.S. cities: They face budget cuts as they brace for an expected surge in thefts and robberies.

Khaleej Times

POLITICS

Senators remain committed to bipartisan energy bill in next Congress

Members of the Senate’s so-called “Gang of 20” say their bipartisan energy plan is not dead and are predicting it will be taken up early in the next Congress.

The Hill

Rep. says 'Liberals hate real Americans'

Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C., has conceded that he did say that "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God," even though he initially denied it.

Politico

'Rednecks for Obama' defy conventional wisdom

San Francisco Chronicle

Murtha: Western Pa. is 'redneck'

ABC News

Glimmer of Obama's character, pausing campaign to visit ailing grandmother

Sen. Barack Obama has made the very personal decision to leave the campaign trail for two days to visit his ailing 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii.

ABC News

Obama leaves campaign trail

Reuters

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

An attempt to win a pumpkin competition

The Swensons and their neighbors (it takes a community to raise a 375-pound gourd) enter "Daisy" in the Fryeburg Fair in Maine. Does she win?

Christian Science Monitor

Lehman's demise rocks Main Street

The natural gas that cooks the food at Disneyland's Main Street USA was one of the many things that Wall Street bought and sold with borrowed money.

USA Today

Marx book popular amid credit crunch

Karl Marx is back in fashion, says one German publisher, who attributes his new popularity to the economic crisis.

BBC

EDUCATION

Teachers in Arkansas to need state nod

Arkansas officials voted to require all eighth grade teachers to get a state credential to teach Algebra 1.

Education Week

Teachers take test scores to the bank

A small but growing number of school districts are experimenting with teacher pay packages that front-load higher salaries and offer bonuses if student test scores improve or if teachers work in hard-to-staff schools.

USA Today

HEALTH

Health care plans: Obama vs. McCain compared and contrasted

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee John McCain have dramatically divergent visions of how to reshape the health insurance system.

USA Today

US suicide rate is on rise

After falling for more than a decade, the U.S. suicide rate has climbed steadily since 1999, driven by an alarming increase among middle-aged adults, researchers said.

Baltimore Sun

E-Cards notify sex partners about STDs

Four years after the launch of inSPOT.org, which allows people with sexually transmitted diseases to notify sexual partners via email, nearly 50,000 e-cards have been sent.

WebMD

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (John Aloysius Farrell):

Sarah Palin's un-real America

U.S. News & World Report

Blog:

Boys in skirts

Slate

Editorial:

Questions about the candidates' health

International Herald Tribune

Column:

The Obama I (don't) know

Forbes

Column:

Those who want Joe Lieberman to remain a Democrat

Salon.com

Column:

Bob the banker speaks out

Salon.com

Editorial:

Republican socialism

Baltimore Sun

Column (H.D. Greenway):

The Bush team's grand illusion

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Dems could run Congress after election

Economist

Column (E.J. Dionne):

What are Catholic voters' priorities?

Real Clear Politics

Site edited by: Zahra Jaferi, Joe Gold, Chris Yu, Brian Levine, Tom Moran, Jasmine Jernberg, Walt Chiu, Eric Connolly, Danaila Adriana, Carlos Wall and Beverly Stiles.

GOOD NEWS

Billionaire doctor pledges $50 million for pet contraception

A billionaire doctor has come up with what could arguably be the most unusual philanthropic prize of all, the Michelson Prize, named after inventor Gary Michelson. The cause: pet contraception.

Wall Street Journal

Military hospital opens for dogs wounded in war

A $15 million veterinary hospital for four-legged military personnel opened at Lackland Air Force Base, offering a facility that gives advanced medical treatment for combat-wounded dogs.

CNN

WORLD

Woman in Congo: 'They wanted to destroy my body and spirit'

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of women and girls have been systematically raped during a 10-year war that some say has cost more lives than any other war since World War II.

CNN

US warning on Iraq deal failure

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned of "dramatic consequences" if Washington and Baghdad do not agree on a security deal on U.S. forces in Iraq.

BBC

Blog:

US-Iraq deal stalled again

The Nation

BUSINESS

Fears drag down European markets

European stock markets showed heavy losses in trading as fears of a global recession continued to rattle investors' confidence globally.

BBC

China's economy cools

Christian Science Monitor

Higher loan losses hit US regional banks

Higher loan losses weighed on quarterly results at a clutch of U.S. regional banks amid continued consumer weakness and turbulence in financial markets.

Financial Times

SPORTS

AC Milan, Galaxy talk over Beckham loan

Under the proposed deal, the Galaxy midfielder and former England captain would join the Serie A club and play there until the end of the season.

ESPN

World Series preview

The Rays were the better team in the toughest division of the better league. They defeated two division winners in the playoffs to get here. They have more talent, 1 through 25, than the Phillies.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

US identity theft convictions increase 26 percent, feds say

Federal identity theft convictions increased 26 percent in 2007, says a Bush administration identity theft task force report.

Wired

Offshore wind may power the future

New Jersey announced the state would help fund an initiative to build a 350-megawatt wind farm 16 miles offshore, housing the nation's first deep-water turbines.

Scientific American

ENVIRONMENT

Bison return to Iowa's native prairie

The Nature Conservancy in Iowa will welcome a small herd of 30 bison to Broken Kettle Grassland Preserve in the globally rare Loess Hills, the largest contiguous native prairie in the state.

Environment News Service

California is due for disaster

When the next big earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay Area, it will be a catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina proportions.

Wired

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

How Darwinism and faith can coexist

Drawing on years of study in preparation for ordination as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala uses evolution to help answer a central paradox of Christianity.

Scientific American

Va. pharmacy follows faith, no birth control sales

A new drug store at a Virginia strip mall is putting its faith in an unconventional business plan: no candy, no sodas and no birth control.

Forbes

Secular voters feel abandoned, ignored by candidates

A survey shows that more Americans feel "uncomfortable when politicians talk about how religious they are." Is it possible the Democrats' fervent attempts to court religious voters could backfire?

Religion News Service

Photo of the Day

A member of a guard of honor contingent checks the alignment of his colleagues before a welcome ceremony for Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (Photo by Ng Han Guan / AP)

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