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A stock broker reacts at a brokerage in Mumbai, India. Indian stocks slid sharply amid concerns the U.S. financial crisis will deepen as foreign investors continued to pull money out of Indian equities. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade / AP)

Palin gets ready for eagerly awaited debate with Biden

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin flew to Sedona, Ariz., where she will spend the next two days at Sen. John McCain's ranch preparing for the vice presidential debate.

Washington Post

McCain, Palin answer critics

CBS News

Biden logs many miles for Democratic ticket

NPR

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Biden vs. Palin: What's at stake?

MSNBC

'Shoot-out' aboard hijacked ship

Somali pirates on board a hijacked ship are reported to have been involved in a shoot-out over what to do with the vessel's cargo of tanks and weapons.

BBC

As contagion spreads, moods abruptly shift

Stock markets around the world cascaded lower, European regulators announced the rescue of four major banks, and U.S. and foreign officials pledged to make hundreds of billions of dollars available.

MSNBC

Bailout vote underscores America's leadership crisis

McClatchy

Bush urges Congress to take action

CNNMoney

Crushing failure for lobbyists

The Hill

US foods required to get COOL: country-of-origin labeling

No more wondering where your hamburger came from or where your lettuce and tomatoes were grown. Starting this week, lots more foods have labels disclosing their country of origin.

CNN

Nursing home reports finds 90 percent cited for violations

For-profit facilities had a higher percentage of violations than other nursing homes, the inspector general for the Health and Human Services Department said in the report.

Bloomberg

NATION

Investigator named in US attorney firings

Attorney General Michael Mukasey named a special prosecutor to investigate possible crimes arising from the Bush administration's firing of nine U.S. attorneys.

Bloomberg

Immigration raids bring more than 1,100 arrests in California's largest sweep

Billing a series of raids as the largest sweep of its kind in California, federal immigration authorities announced more than 1,100 arrests throughout the state.

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

With bailout plan, a first glimpse at candidates' management styles

Aides and political allies to both candidates agreed that perhaps no episode thus far in the campaign better demonstrated how Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama would approach problems as president.

International Herald Tribune

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On the state of the race

Real Clear Politics

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Obama: 'stay calm' on bailout failure; McCain camp blames Obama

ABC News

The McCain effect

John McCain says his campaign "suspension" was meant to help the country. Critics say it was meant to help his campaign. It now seems that he's failed by either standard.

Newsweek

SPORTS

Doctors: Jaguars tackle Collier is paralyzed from shooting, leg amputated

Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Richard Collier, shot while sitting in a car outside an apartment complex, is paralyzed below the waist and his left leg was amputated, his doctor said.

Sports Illustrated

'The Boss' to play Super Bowl halftime

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at the 2009 Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa, Fla., the NFL and NBC announced.

Sporting News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Pope Benedict's memories of John Paul I

During his midday audience, Pope Benedict XVI invoked the memory of Pope John Paul I, whose sudden death came on the same date in 1978.

Catholic World News

X Factor fills vacuum left by God in schools, says head of school

British schools are increasingly "embarrassed" to talk about God, leaving a moral vacuum which has been filled by celebrity culture and the X Factor, a leading independent school head said.

Guardian

EDUCATION

Power to fire teachers crucial for better learning environment

Sarah Hayes, principal of the KEY Academy, realized that two new teachers were not working out. In a traditional school, the teachers' classes would have suffered. Not any more.

Education Week

Business schools expect boom as economy sags

Due in large part to volatile markets, business schools have been hectic lately, a climate that could create one of the most competitive admissions cycles in history.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic Sea ice retreat in August the fastest on record, NASA photos show

Although the melt season did not break the record for ice loss, NASA data show that for four weeks in August 2008, sea ice melted faster than ever before.

Environmental News Network

Related photos

MSNBC

Stronger environmental laws needed to help Chesapeake Bay

If the Chesapeake Bay were a hospital patient, it would need major surgery, not just a tweak to the medicine it's been getting. After 25 years of cleanup efforts, the bay is barely holding its own.

Baltimore Sun

Columns And Op-Ed

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Depression unlikely, but recession could be painful

Baltimore Sun

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Palin: McCain campaign's end-run strategy around media

San Francisco Chronicle

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McCain, Palin, Letterman and SNL - what a week in Republican politics

Christian Science Monitor

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McCain at dead end as House rejects bailout plan

Newsweek

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A shock from the House

Economist

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This Jewish and Muslim holy season

International Herald Tribune

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We gotta rescue Wall Street

USA Today

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Old people Facebook disasters

Salon.com

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Paul Newman: the bluest eyes

Slate

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The bankruptcy of modern economics

Newsweek

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The evolution of the American dream

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Artistic stroke fights city's blight

Melding commerce and creativity, artist Chazz Miller, founder of Public Art Workz in Detroit, uses larger-than-life art to draw investments into some of the city's most blighted blocks.

Detroit Free Press

Kidnapped Egypt tourists freed

All 19 hostages who were abducted in a remote border area of Egypt have been freed and are in good health, state-run Egyptian television said.

Al Jazeera

WORLD

Scores die in India temple crush

At least 100 devotees die in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian city of Jodhpur.

BBC

A rare hurricane hits Canada