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Treasury to hire asset management firms to start rescue

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is hiring up to 10 asset-management companies to join the lawyers and bankers he is recruiting to kickstart the government's new $700 billion bank-rescue program.

Bloomberg

SEC gets power to suspend the mark-to-market accounting rule

USA Today

US stocks drop as recession concern outweighs bailout passage

Bloomberg

Bush lauds passage of bailout bill

ABC News

Sarkozy leads summit to response to European crisis

Plagued by fears for the stability of the banking system, European leaders met for a summit French President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes will limit the damage caused by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

Epoch Times

US, India to sign nuclear energy accord

The U.S. and India will sign the civil nuclear energy agreement, conceived in 2005, once President George W. Bush gives his approval to the bill that's just been approved by Congress.

Bloomberg

McCain plans fiercer strategy against Obama

John McCain's campaign is readying an assault on Barack Obama's character, believing that the conversation must shift back to questions about the Democrat's judgment and personal associations.

MSNBC

Senior Russian peacekeeper among dead in S. Ossetia blast

A senior Russian peacekeeping officer was among seven soldiers killed in an explosion in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russian media reported.

Reuters

7 killed in South Ossetia blast

Xinhua

After war, Russia's influence expands

Christian Science Monitor

Diary survives 37-mile fall to earth

It belonged to Israel's first astronaut, victim of the Columbia shuttle disaster and it's going on display in Jerusalem.

CBS News

NATION

Arnold to Hank: Can you spare $7 billion?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said that California may need up to $7 billion from the federal government just to maintain everyday operations in an e-mail to Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson.

ABC News

In Texas, a search for Hurricane Ike's victims continues

Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Ike pummeled the Texas coast, more than 400 people are still listed as missing, according to local officials.

NPR

POLITICS

Obama, McCain clash over job losses

Barack Obama pointed to the worst monthly job loss in years to show Republican polices "are killing jobs in America every single day." John McCain retorted Obama's tax and spending plans won't solve the problem.

CBS News

Will bailout crimp Democrats' plans?

MSNBC

McCain TV ad "Tax Cutter"

You Tube

Obama TV ad on health care

BarackObama.com

Palin rebounds in VP debate – too late?

The Sarah Palin who showed up to debate Joseph Biden was charming and well-prepared. But her performance probably won’t do much for a weakened McCain campaign.

Christian Science Monitor

Palin-Biden debate sets TV ratings record

Reuters

Palin tax returns for 2006, 2007 released

USA Today

Biden speaks at son's deployment

It was a very public goodbye for Joe Biden as the Delaware senator addressed the deployment ceremony of his son's National Guard unit as they prepared to leave for a tour of duty in Iraq.

CNN

Biden sends son, Delaware troops off for Iraq

YouTube

HEALTH

Virus hunters track HIV to 100 years back

A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the history of HIV, suggesting the virus that causes AIDS has been infecting people for at least 100 years.

Monsters and Critics

Anthrax preparedness in US to involve mail carriers and letters

The U.S. government announced measures to boost the nation's preparedness against a potential outdoor anthrax attack using letters or mail carriers.

Medical News Today

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change may be sparking new and bigger 'dead zones'

Scientists are discovering that climate change—and not just fertilizer from farm use—may be spurring the emergence of barren underwater landscapes in coastal waters.

Scientific American

More bad news about plastics

Plastics are all over us — filling the Pacific Ocean and lingering in the blood of ordinary people. We are still learning the potential dangers of these compounds, which have become so ubiquitous on earth.

Here in the Andean highlands scientists attribute warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns to global climate change, seriously affecting the health of tuber, or root crops such as the potato.

National Geographic

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Vatican to stop using the Eucharistic Prayers for Children

The Vatican plans to remove the Eucharistic Prayers for Children from the authorized prayers of the Roman Missal.

Catholic World News

Catholic Charities cutting ties with gay-adoption service

The office of Catholic Charities of the San Francisco archdiocese has chosen to end its agreement with an adoption agency that placed children with same-sex couples.

Catholic Digest

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Yahoo, Google forced to put deal on hold for DOJ investigation

The advertising deal between Yahoo and Google had to be put on hold until the Justice Department completes the investigation regarding an allegedly antitrust aspect of the deal.

eFluxMedia

Think you're multitasking? Think again

New research shows that we humans aren't as good as we think we are at doing several things at once.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Will the bail-out work?

Economist

Editorial:

Time to get the lights back on

Financial Times

Column (Bob Beckel):

Sarah Palin: a bridge too far

Real Clear Politics

Column (Stephen Groff):

Fund the fight against global poverty

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Michael Crowley):

Palin saves herself; now McCain faces reality

New Republic

Column:

Anger vs. steadiness in the crisis

TIME

Column (Eleanor Clift):

Palin reignites the culture war

Newsweek

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

The death of GOP electoral tactics on the war

Salon.com

Blog (Christopher Beam):

The Palin strategy

Slate

Column:

No K.O., no gaffes, no fluster, no change

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Picasso painting heads for NYC auction

Picasso's ''Harlequin'' is going on the auction block. The 1909 work was owned for about 60 years by surrealist painter Enrico Donati.

HappyNews.com

New research to probe human mind

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced 12 grants for fiscal year 2008, to 54 investigators. What researchers learn from the brain may open many new paths of discovery.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

US won't put diplomats in Iran

The Bush administration has shelved plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, in part over fears it could affect the U.S. presidential race or be interpreted as political meddling.

Yahoo! News

Pakistan: 12 dead in suspected US strike