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Analysis: Debate Centers On The Economy

Jerry Seib -- Wall Street Journal

Video WSJ's Executive Washington Editor Jerry Seib watched the debate and saw a quite difference from the first one held just 11 days ago. While Obama focused on the economy, McCain focused on Obama ...


U.S. Markets Plunge Despite Hint Of Rate Cut

Edmund L. Andrews And Michael M. Grynbaum -- New York Times

Stocks rose at the session's opening but soon began to fall, and the selling intensified during the afternoon, even after Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, all but pledged to cut interest rates by the end of the month. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 508 points, or 5.1 percent, extending a slide of months that has erased a third of its value in a year ...


Opinion: How To Unfreeze Bank Lending

Robert C. Pozen -- Wall Street Journal

Healthy banks and money market funds are wary after the rapid demise of AIG, Lehman and Wachovia. Therefore, the Federal Reserve should guarantee most of the short-term borrowing of well-capitalized banks for a small fee. Such a guarantee for interbank lending would be consistent with the widening government support of banks in Western Europe ...


Congress Grills Former AIG Chiefs

Liam Pleven And Susanne Craig -- Wall Street Journal

The focus of Tuesday's hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform differed in a key respect from the grilling on Monday of Richard Fuld Jr., chief executive of now-fallen Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.. That company wasn't bailed out, while AIG received an $85 billion lifeline from the government -- $61 billion of which it has already tapped ...


The War For Wachovia

Wall Street Journal

Citi (market capitalization: $82 billion after Tuesday's rout) has sued Wachovia and Wells for $60 billion for breach of contract and tortious interference for breaking up the FDIC-brokered marriage between Citi and Wachovia last week. Wachovia, meanwhile, has sued in federal court to stop Citi from stopping Wells Fargo ...


Citigroup To Slash Its Wholesale Mortgage Business

John Letzing -- MarketWatch

Citigroup Inc. has become the latest large bank to back away from the crumbling mortgage industry, slashing the number of outside mortgage brokers it does business with and cutting 500 related jobs ...


Warren Buffett's Celebrity-Style Endorsements Of GE & Goldman Aren't Helping The Stocks ... Yet

Alex Crippen -- CNBC

In the Berkshire/GE news release, paragraph three, he says, "GE is the symbol of American business to the world. I have been a friend and admirer of GE and its leaders for decades. They have strong global brands and businesses with which I am quite familiar. I am confident that GE will continue to be successful in the years to come." ...


Euro Revives On Central Bank Liquidity Plan

Agence France-Presse

Dealers said news the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and peers in Japan, Britain, Canada and Switzerland had agreed a timetable through to year-end for injecting funds into the strained money markets had helped steady sentiment by giving players some degree of certainty ...


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Volunteer Fire Department Uses New Technology To Save Home From Perishing

Wall Street Journal

"The fire in the attic was extremely hot and crackling," said Randy Davis, a veteran firefighter with 34 years' experience in fire service. Firefighter Davis admitted that there is always some doubt about using new products, but after seeing the FIT-5 in action, he's a believer. The FIT-5 (Fire Interruption Technology) saved the homeowner from a tremendous amount of damage to the home. ...


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Bernanke Signals Possible Rate Cut

Reuters

Video In a dramatic shift, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke signaled a readiness to lower U.S. interest rates in an effort to support an economy battered by financial crisis ...


Attorney Says Client Guilty Of Yacht Killings

KNBC-TV

Video Opening statements are set for Tuesday in the Santa Ana trial of a man accused of tying a couple to an anchor and dumping them alive into the sea ...


Boyfriend Of Woman Stuck To Toilet Wins Lottery

Associated Press

Video A Kansas man who pleaded guilty to mistreatment after his girlfriend became physically stuck to the toilet, has won $20,000 in the state lottery for the second time this year ...


Judge Orders 17 Gitmo Detainees Freed Into U.S.

Hope Yen -- Associated Press

The Bush administration announced plans to ask an appeals court to block the order, calling it a threat to national security and contrary to federal laws. "Today's ruling presents serious national security and separation of powers concerns and raises unprecedented legal issues," Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said ...


Gay Couples Rush To The Altar In California Ahead Of November Vote

JESSE Mckinley -- New York Times

Kate Kendell, the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said the surge was due in part to the looming vote on Proposition 8, which would amend the state Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. ...


Local Gas Prices By Zip Code

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Former Officials Say Iran Helped On Al-Qaida

Barry Schweid -- Associated Press

James F. Dobbins, the Bush administration's chief negotiator on Afghanistan in late 2001, said that Iran was "comprehensively helpful" in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack in working to overthrow the Taliban and collaborating with the United States in installing the Karzai government in Kabul ...


U.S. Military: Tense Encounters With Iran Occur Almost Daily In Strait Of Hormuz

FOX News

The U.S. is walking a tightrope in dealing with Iran at a time that there are no relations and no hotline between the two governments that could defuse any sort of crisis. Officials said that this kind of diplomacy, right now, is being left up to U.S. sailors. ...


Iran Withdraws Claim On U.S. Plane

Alan Cowell -- New York Times

An Iranian news agency said Tuesday that a United States warplane had been forced to land in Iran, but the United States military denied the claim, and Tehran quickly withdrew it ...


Plane Crashed In Nepal's Everest Region; 18 Killed

BBC News (UK)

Only one Nepalese passenger survived as the Yeti Airlines plane crashed during landing at Tenzing-Hillary airport in the eastern town of Lukla, officials said ...


Animal Activists 'Waged Global Campaign Of Hoax Bombs And Pedophile Lies From A Cottage'

Tom Kelly -- Daily Mail (UK)

Heather Nicholson, Daniel Wadham and Trevor Holmes allegedly used hoax parcel bombs, threatening phone calls and attacks on workers' homes to try to force companies to cut links with animal testing firm Huntingdon Life Sciences. They drew up spreadsheets with details of their targets and attacks, and a progress report outlining successes and failures. ...


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Fido Awards: Fred Willard

Madison Michele -- TV Guide
Video Now that the Emmys are over, it's time to honor a different type of star; fabulous four-legged friends. Famed funnyman Fred Willard talks about his latest gig, hosting the World Wide Fido Awards! ...


Review of Heroes 3.04 - "I am Become Death"

Jon Lachonis -- UGO Entertainment
After "One of us, One of Them" produced a second week that brought many despondent Heroes fans back to their feet, and shut down a lot of naysayers, "I am Become Death" is a welcome and reassuring sign that the upward trajectory of the show is sustainable ...


Netflix Sponsors Its Own Clockwork Orange

Robert MacMillan -- Reuters
Remember that scene in the movie "A Clockwork Orange" when they force open Malcolm McDowell's eyes and make him watch and watch and watch the screen some more? That's got to be what it's like for the remaining two of the eight original contestants in the Movie-Watching World Championship ...


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White Sox Fans Look On Bright Side Of Season

Dana Kozlov -- WBBM-TV
Video White Sox fans gave the team a standing ovation after a 2-6 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays that knocked the team out of the playoffs. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports on the optimisim in The Cell Monday night ...


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Waitress Places Order: 'Freeze, Or I'm Going To Shoot'

Tom Brennan -- Tampa Tribune
Video AND TEXT. "It was the coolest thing I ever saw," Karen Raga said. "It was just like an action movie. She was like Indiana Jones or any other character you could name. She's definitely my hero." ...


'Stowln' Car Pinched

TVNZ (NZ)
A Christchurch man who bought a personalised car licence plate STOWLN for a laugh, had the smile wiped from his face when his car was pinched from outside his house. ...


Don't Drink & Trike: Man, 58, Arrested On Tricycle DUI

KTVL-TV
A Lakeside-area man was arrested Friday afternoon by Oregon State Police after he was cautioned and then later spotted riding an adult-sized tricycle under the influence of alcohol on a local street. ...


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Kingston Trio Founder Nick Reynolds Dies At 75

Blanca Gonzalez -- San Diego Union-Tribune
Longtime friend and music journalist Bill Bush of Florida was collaborating with Mr. Reynolds on a book about the Kingston Trio. "They changed everything about popular music," Bush said. "Part of their charm and appeal was the accessibility of their music. ... They were role models; they looked like the boy next door." ...


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McCain Ad: "Hypo"

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Obama Ad: "Health Care Should Be A Right"

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Debate Ends On Introspective Note

Reuters

Video After fielding questions on the economy, health care and foreign policy, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain closed their second debate on an introspective note ...


Undecideds And Experts: McCain-Obama Debate No Game-Changer

Ted Roelofs -- Grand Rapids Press

"I think the high point for McCain would be his experience. But I didn't think the debate did a whole lot of game-changing. "I didn't think there was any home run or memorable moment for either candidate," said Drew Willard, 27, an undecided voter ...


McCain Urges Buying Mortgages; Obama Touts Regulation

Kristin Jensen and Catherine Dodge

"I would order the secretary of Treasury to immediately buy up the bad home-loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes,'' John McCain said tonight during their second debate, a town hall-style forum at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. ...


McCain And Obama Debate Taxes And Financial Crisis

Steven Thomma -- McClatchy Newspapers

"Americans are angry, they're upset, and they're a little fearful," McCain said at the outset of a pressure-packed debate. ""It's our job to fix the problem. Now, I have a plan to fix this problem."
   "You need somebody in Washington working for you," Obama told voters huddled in a town-hall meeting and millions more watching at home ...


Transcript Of Second McCain, Obama Debate

CNN

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama debated in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday night. NBC's Tom Brokaw moderated the debate. This is a transcript of that debate. ...


Squabbling While Rome Burns

Gideon Rachman -- Financial Times (UK)

On the substance, I think the only new thing that we learned was McCain's proposal that the US government step in and buy all bad home loans and renegotiate them on more favourable conditions. This is such a large proposal with such mind-boggling implications that I find it difficult to get my head around it, at this early hour of the morning. But a couple of questions strike me, initially. First, how is this compatible with his proposal to freeze government spending? Second, what if the value of somebody's house has fallen - which would be true for almost all homeowners in the US - but their mortgage is not ruinous enough to qualify for this government programme? Wouldn't somebody like that be fairly irritated to see the government riding to the rescue of neighbours - who had made particularly reckless financial decisions? ...


When Did Obama Know About Ayers Terrorist Background?

Lynn Sweet -- Chicago Sun-Times

Since the McCain campaign has resurfaced the matter of Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers--the former terrorist now Chicago education professor---there are some matters I am curious about ...


Presidential Hopefuls Like Buffett For Treasury Secretary

Jeremy Pelofsky -- Reuters

While White House hopefuls Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama wasted no time trading barbs in their second presidential debate, they agreed on the one man they would like to see running their Treasury Department to help pull the U.S. economy out of a tailspin: investment guru Warren Buffett ...


Schwarzenegger To Candidates: Get Back To Issues

Juliet Williams -- Associated Press

"Look at what the presidential campaign has reduced down to: They now are accusing each other of things that have nothing to do with the economy, that have nothing to do with health care, that have nothing to do with the environment, that have nothing to do with, you know, how we deal with foreign countries," Schwarzenegger said. ...


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Clinton Factor

Hillary Clinton Has Raised $8M For Obama

Fredreka Schouten -- USA Today
"I am using every tool that I have to help Democrats win," Clinton told USA TODAY. She was between fundraising events in Texas and California that brought in another $1.5 million for Obama and congressional candidates on Friday and Saturday. ...


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Fran Healy Defends Music Downloads

Press Association

The Travis frontman - who attended the Q Music Awards at London's Grosvenor Hotel - said just by searching for his music to download for free, fans are doing him a favour. ...


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Angelina Jolie On Working With Clint Eastwood

MTV News

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Oliver Stone George W Bush Biopic Rushed To Cinemas Before US Election

Telegraph (UK)

"I couldn't make a movie with hate or malice. There is none in this movie. I see the guy as more like John Wayne, which is to say I don't like his politics but he's endearing in a strange, goofy, awkward way, and he did capture the imagination of the country," Stone said. ...


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Medical Breakthrough: Invisible Hearing Aid

KGET-TV
Video Lyric, the first and only extended wear hearing aid that is 100 percent invisible and can be worn 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for up to 4 months, provides many advantages over traditional hearing aids through its breakthrough technology, design and placement ...


Provision In Bailout Bill Seeks Mental Health Parity From Employers

Jason Roberson --The Dallas Morning News
If Congress passes the current version of a bill backers say is needed to safeguard the economy, along with it will come a call for employer health plans to let patients continue scheduling $150 psychiatric visits until they're deemed healthy. But some fear employers will respond to the added cost by ending their mental health coverage ...


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Three Physicists Share Nobel Prize

Dennis Overbye -- New York Times

An American and two Japanese physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature ...


Future Of Flagship Mars Mission Up In The Air

Alicia Chang -- Associated Press

Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the project has been plagued by development problems and ballooning costs that caught headquarters' attention. McCuistion told a gathering of Mars scientists last month that NASA was keeping a close eye on the project's progress and costs and participating in weekly reviews with JPL ...


Endeavour Astronauts Practice With Sensor Arm

Space Fellowship

The crew of STS-126 is rehearsing maneuvers with the long boom they will use to examine the heat shield of space shuttle Endeavour in orbit. The shuttle's robotic arm is used to move sensors on the boom around all areas of the heat shield to look for signs of damage from launch ...


Asteroid Near-Miss Prompts Calls For Astronomy Funding

ABC News (AU)

Astronomers have calling for more funding to watch southern skies, after an asteroid took sky-gazers by surprise and entered the earth's atmosphere over Africa yesterday ...


Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads To Long-Distance Quantum Communication

Lisa Zyga -- PhysOrg

Physicists are currently working to improve the storage times of quantum memory devices. Recently, a team of scientists from the University of Heidelberg in Germany, the University of Science and Technology of China in Heifei, China, and the Atominstitute der Österreichischen Universitäten in Vienna, Austria, has demonstrated a new way to extend the storage time of quantum memory devices. For the first time, the scientists successfully used an optical trap to confine a group of atoms, in which the quantum state is stored. The scientists predict that the method could greatly exceed previous storage times that are on the order of microseconds ...


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Anti-Obama Book Author Thrown Out Of Kenya

Associated Press

Video The American author of a controversial book, "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate," accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya ...


Dying Of The Light

Garrison Keillor -- New York Times

"Nothing to Be Frightened Of" By Julian Barnes (244 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.)
   "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him," the book begins. Julian Barnes, an atheist turned agnostic, has decided at the age of 62 to address his fear of death - why should an agnostic fear death who has no faith in an afterlife? How can you be frightened of Nothing? On this simple question Barnes has hung an elegant memoir and meditation, a deep seismic tremor of a book that keeps rumbling and grumbling in the mind for weeks thereafter ...


Attractions And Dangers Of Nostalgia

Hayden Carruth -- Powells.com

In many respects Annie Dillard's book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)," is so ingratiating that even readers who find themselves in fundamental disagreement with it may take pleasure from it, a good deal of pleasure. Of course confirmed city-dwellers, who want no more of nature than a Sunday stroll in the park, will find it a bore. But to armchair naturalists everywhere, and certainly to those who live in the country and seek a good part of their sense of reality in the natural world, her book offers much that is delightful, percipient, and informative. ...


An Atkinson Mystery Is Always Good News

Mary Ann Gwinn -- Seattle Times

A review of "When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel" (Hardcover: 400 pages; Publisher: Little, Brown and Company) ...


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Conspiracy Theories Blossom In Tumultuous Times

Tom Spears -- Canwest News Service
Last week's collapse of Washington Mutual spread its own conspiracy theory: That the U.S. government made the huge bank go bust in order to persuade people a massive financial bailout is needed ...


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Wine Country's Spookiest Spots

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Ever feel a shiver down your spine at the Sebastiani Theatre or feel a rush of air while walking the halls of the Hotel La Rose? Does Santa Rosa's Rural Cemetery give you the creeps? If not, maybe you just aren't paying close enough attention to the ghostly activity that some say surrounds Wine Country ...


Steve Fossett Revelation: Remote Viewer Ed Dames Named Sierra Mountains Crash Site Months Ago

Patricia Phillips -- New York Examiner

Dames said several months ago that Fossett was dead, and that searchers wouldn't find him in Nevada--his departure point on the recreational flight that led to his death--because he crashed in California. Dames also said that Fossett had gone down in the rugged Sierrra Mountains. ...


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UFOs Exist And Have Been Here Since 1947, According To A British Expert

Chris Irvine -- Telegraph (UK)

"Us Brits really have beaten the Americans at their own game and it is really great that we have done that. It really is revolutionary for the UFO world." ...


UFO Close Encounter Between Burns Lake And Houston, British Columbia

Brian Vike -- American Chronicle

Audio AND TEXT. Looking down the highway and up into the sky they noticed a light which appeared to look rather odd. In the seconds as they watched, the light grew closer to them and grew in size and brightness until it was hovering just over highway 16 and in front of their vehicle. Lawrence had already slowed the vehicle down due to watching the light coming so quickly in their direction. Both men sat stunned, not to mention being frightened at what they were seeing and weren't about to make a dash in the vehicle and try to drive underneath the craft. The fellows had no idea of what may happen to them ...


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