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A Los Angeles firefighter uses a hose to douse hot spots along Sepulveda Boulevard in the Sepulveda Pass near the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. (Photo by Mike Meadows / AP)

Fire burns near Los Angeles' Getty Center

A wildfire burned through grass and brush a few miles from the Getty Center museum, forcing the closure of the nearby San Diego Freeway for several hours before dawn, authorities said.

MSNBC

The Republican party after Bush

Regardless of what happens to John McCain on Nov. 4, there's going to be a new GOP come Nov. 5. The unknown at this point is which way the party goes.

NPR

India and Pakistan open historic Kashmir trade route

Trucks piled high with apples, nuts and honey symbolized the slow-moving peace process between India and Pakistan when an old trade route across Kashmir reopened after 60 years.

Christian Science Monitor

Greenspan: 'Credit tsunami' to have severe impact

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that the current global financial crisis is a "once in a century credit tsunami" that policymakers did not anticipate.

San Francisco Chronicle

Ominous harbinger: more new jobless claims

CBS News

Goldman Sachs may slash 3,200 jobs as turmoil worsens

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the only firm among Wall Street's five biggest to remain profitable through the credit crisis, will shed about 3,200 workers as the revenue outlook worsens.

Bloomberg

Struggling to keep up as crisis raced on

International Herald Tribune

Early voting suggests record turnout

Officials in early voting states are reporting record turnout with Election Day still two weeks away. The numbers indicate a record percentage of voters could participate in the election.

CNN

Wall Street opens to volatile session

U.S. stocks were mixed after another erratic session as investors considered whether upbeat corporate earnings showed the global economic slowdown not as grim as anticipated.

Financial Times

Japan leads Asian shares' plunge

BBC

NATION

Boat sinks off Alaska, 4 survivors found

The U.S. Coast Guard recovered four survivors from a fishing vessel that went down about 100 miles west of Adak in the Aleutian Archipelago, Alaska.

Anchorage Daily News

Debating 'drill, baby, drill' at 1969 spill

Since 1969, when oil spilled off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., the U.S. government banned new offshore rigs. Now that the ban is lifted, some attitudes are changing.

NPR

POLITICS

McCain: Enemies won't test me

John McCain says Obama's foreign policy positions could encourage America's enemies to test it during the early days of an Obama administration.

CNN

Gov. Palin: Negotiating with dictators would be 'naive'

MSNBC

Battle of the 'robo-calls'

In response to John McCain's aggressive telephone campaign against Barack Obama on character issues, the Obama campaign denounced the calls and then launched its own automated "robo-calls."

USA Today

Ex-ACORN worker: 'I paid the price' for voter registration fraud

CNN

Republicans reportedly spend $150,000 on Palin clothing and grooming

The Republican National Committee paid more than $150,000 for clothing and accessories that apparently went to Governor Sarah Palin and her family.

International Herald Tribune

Palin double standard?

CNN

Blog:

Republicans disgusted by RNC spending on Palin

Atlantic Online

ENVIRONMENT

Drought resistance is the goal, but methods differ

To satisfy the world's growing demand for food, scientists are trying to pull off a genetic trick that nature itself has had trouble accomplishing in evolution.

International Herald Tribune

HEALTH

Drug may reverse MS brain damage

A drug developed to treat leukemia may be a powerful new weapon against multiple sclerosis. It appears to stop progression of the disease in patients with early stage active relapsing-remitting MS.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Economic hard times could spell good times for Hollywood

When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash.

NPR

From the streets to the libraries

Public libraries from Queens to York County in central Pennsylvania are embracing urban fiction as an exciting, if sometimes controversial, way to draw new people into reading rooms.

International Herald Tribune

Miss Teen Louisiana arrested with pot

Miss Teen Louisiana lost her crown 11 days early after being arrested on charges of leaving a restaurant without paying and carrying marijuana.

ABC News

EDUCATION

School superintendent: Obama, McCain different views; both good for schools

Recovery School District (of New Orleans) Superintendent Paul Vallas says schools would be the winners if Congress adopts parts of both Barack Obama's and John McCain's education platforms.

Times Picayune

Schools, libraries see hundreds of requests to ban books

Every year, public libraries and schools across the country collectively field hundreds of requests from parents, public officials and activists pressing for the removal of books they deem inappropriate.

USA Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column:

Bale out

Grist

Column:

How to rig an election

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

It's raining political mud all over Ohio

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Column (Michael Crowley):

How many polls does an election need?

New Republic

Blog (Leslie Savan):

We're all John the candidate

The Nation

Editorial (Anne Applebaum):

Who'll watch Pakistan in economic crisis?

Newsweek

Editorial:

States move to erect barriers to voting

USA Today

Column:

Get the process right

USA Today

Column:

Young voters, get mad

Newsweek

Column (Joshua Green):

Sarah Palin’s personal shopper

Atlantic Online

Column (Ann Gildroy):

How to finish the job in Iraq

USA Today

Column (Linton Week):

Did Obama kill public campaign finance?

NPR

Column (Geoff Colvin):

Why talent is overrated

Fortune

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GOOD NEWS

Charities urge next president to expand giving incentives

As charities grapple with the economic crisis, their executives want the next president to promote giving and strengthen the nonprofit work force.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

World steps in with $4.5 billion for war-ravaged Georgia

International donors pledged $4.5 billion to help Georgia to recover from its conflict with Russia, far exceeding expectations.

Times Online

WORLD

Bush invites world leaders to Washington for economic summit

The meeting could eventually lead to a far-reaching overhaul of the rules governing global financial markets.

International Herald Tribune

World leaders to meet on economy in Washington