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From left, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart testify before the Senate Banking Committee. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Morgan Stanley, Goldman search for deposits

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the two largest remaining independent U.S. securities firms, may add to the $81 billion of financial services deals unveiled as they morph into banks.

Bloomberg

Steve Forbes: The move had to be made

Forbes

Stocks edge up as officials testify in Congress about on bailout plan

Wall Street opened higher as investors hoped to glean more details about the government's $700 billion bailout plan, whose uncertain structure had kept Wall Street on edge.

International Herald Tribune

Congress urged to act soon on bailout

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called on Congress to give him wide authority to rescue the nation's financial system.

International Herald Tribune

$700 billion bailout runs into resistance

International Herald Tribune

Special section:

In depth: global financial crisis

Financial Times

Bailout seeks broad new powers for treasury chief

NPR

Pakistan army says 60 suspected militants killed

Security forces backed by helicopter gunships and artillery killed more than 60 insurgents in northwest Pakistan in offensives aimed at denying Al-Qaida and Taliban militants safe havens.

ABC News

Without clear borders problems persist in Pakistan

Times Online

Marriott 'escape' report denied

BBC

New poll finds Obama leading in four battleground states

Hunger for change is helping Barack Obama hold a small lead in four battleground states, a new poll indicates.

McClatchy

NATION

Truckers and Citizens United group convoys on Capitol over fuel prices

Truckers and Citizens United, a nationwide organization, is planning a massive convoy around Capitol Hill to ask Congress and the President to back energy legislation that would make gas prices more affordable.

The Trucker

Detainees' rights subverted at Guantanamo, their lawyers said

A federal judge asks for formal statements from two guards accused of threatening a detainee who tried to contact his lawyer.

Christian Science Monitor

Galveston still danger zone, but slated to soon reopen

Businesses were beginning to reopen, cell phone service was improving and power was coming back, but leaders warned that Galveston remains dangerous.

MSNBC

POLITICS

McCain and Obama question Bush administration's $700 billion bailout

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain raised doubts about the Bush administration's $700 billion bailout.

MSNBC

Palin bones up on diplomacy with UN visit

Sarah Palin has thrown herself into a 36-hour crash course in foreign diplomacy as she makes a highly publicized visit to United Nations headquarters in New York.

Guardian

Palin lawyer meets with investigator in probe

San Francisco Chronicle

First Dude' blends personal and public

MSNBC

McCain honed his debating style both in and out of politics

Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, heads into the first debate with a track record as a scrappy combatant with the instincts of a fighter pilot.

MSNBC

Blog:

McCain aide blows gasket, rips New York Times

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Indians keep Red Sox from clinching playoff berth

For one night, at least, Jensen Lewis didn't have to watch the Red Sox celebrate again.

Sporting News

Yankee Stadium thieves arrested

New York City police say they arrested more than a dozen people for stealing pieces of Yankee Stadium during the 85-year-old ballpark's final game.

Sports Illustrated

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Spielbergs donate $100,000 to gay marriage fight

Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have donated $100,000 to the campaign to defeat a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in California.

Variety

Illusionist David Blaine risks eyesight in latest stunt

Losing eyesight is possibly on the line for illusionist David Blaine, who will hang upside down for 60 hours over New York City's Central Park.

Monsters and Critics

Thriller 'Lakeview Terrace' dominates at box office

Moviegoers welcomed Samuel L. Jackson to the neighborhood, lifting his thriller "Lakeview Terrace" to the top spot at the weekend box office with $15.6 million in sales, according to estimates.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

EPA won't limit drinking water pollutant

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there is no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled water supplies around the U.S.

ABC News

US labs probe abrupt climate change

Scientists from six national laboratories have been assigned to a new project that will undertake to define possible mechanisms of abrupt climate change.

Environment News Service

Burying CO2 could pay for itself by 2030

Trapping and burying carbon dioxide from power plants could become viable without public funding by 2030.

Environmental News Network

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Archbishop: We are not party bosses

As the U.S. political campaign and the religion-infused debate over abortion heats up, one Catholic leader has issued a ringing rejection of an attempt to blend politics with "the truth of scripture."

National Catholic Reporter

Marks of faith

More young Jews are displaying their identity with tattoos, despite traditional Jewish law and ties to the Holocaust.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column:

Be ticked off - but get over it

CNNMoney

Column:

Financial bailout vs. the Patriot Act

International Herald Tribune

Column (Braun Mincher):

We teach math, why not Money 101?

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Ross Douthat):

Palin and her (conservative) critics

Atlantic Online

Column:

Time for a GOP panic?

Spectator

Column:

An open letter to undecided voters

Salon.com

Editorial:

Candidates fight it out in Pennsylvania

Newsweek

Column:

Why we need more subprime loans

Newsweek

Column:

Resistance is futile

Forbes

Editorial:

The push to 'otherize' Obama

International Herald Tribune

Column:

America's 10 healthiest places to retire

U.S. News & World Report

Blog:

Bank bailout also a warning

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

RPT-Qiagen test may stop cervical cancer in rural women

A new rapid test for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, has proven to be 90 percent accurate in a trial involving women in rural villages in eastern China.

Reuters

Clean-coal debut in Germany

It used to be called stinky town, because the pollution from burning dirty coal was so appalling. But now, if a new pilot plant works, Spremberg could become the birthplace of a clean-coal revolution.

ABC News

WORLD

Student kills several people in Finnish school shooting

A student shot and killed several people at a vocational school in western Finland before shooting himself, local authorities said.

Reuters

Livni picked to form next Israeli coalition