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Brian Devall, right, 16, and his friend Andrew David, 17, paddle a kayak through flooded streets to check on Devall's house after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, in Galveston, Texas. (Photo by Matt Slocum / AP)

Lehman to file for bankruptcy

Lehman Brothers said it would file Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings after a plan to rescue the 158-year-old New York investment bank failed.

CBS News

Fed moves to deal with financial crisis

USA Today

Obama sets money-raising record

Sen. Barack Obama raised more money in August than any presidential candidate has ever recorded in a one-month period, collecting $66 million and drawing 500,000 first-time donors to his candidacy.

International Herald Tribune

Rescuers comb wreckage for hurricane survivors

State officials have mounted the largest rescue operation in Texas history, taking nearly 2,000 people by boat and helicopter out of flood-ravaged towns on the Texas coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

International Herald Tribune

Couple grabbed staircase, floated off

CNN

Houston after Ike

Houston Chronicle

Galveston 'uninhabitable'

MSNBC

Zimbabwe leaders sign unity deal

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, has signed a power-sharing deal with his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai, in a bid to end the political turmoil triggered by his controversial re-election.

Al Jazeera

Cell phone records sought in train crash

Federal investigators say they will seek cell phone records of two teenagers and a train engineer as they probe whether text messages factored into a fiery commuter train crash that killed 25 in California.

Baltimore Sun

NATION

Once again, a bridge

Outsiders watching the drama of Minnesota's Interstate 35W bridge being rebuilt at breathtaking speed may have missed the scenes on a more human scale on and around the emerging structure.

Star Tribune

The year of the bridge

Star Tribune

Chertoff: Aviation still vulnerable

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says that the al-Qaida terrorist network continues to focus on the aviation system as a target.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Lower oil prices unlikely to stop calls for offshore drilling

A drop in oil prices has taken pressure off Democrats with weeks left before the election, although not enough to slow calls for expanding offshore drilling.

The Hill

US pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals

The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to re-arm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify ties with one-time Russian allies.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

First Cubs no-hitter in 36 years

Carlos Zambrano pitched the first no-hitter for the Chicago Cubs in 36 years, returning from a recent bout of rotator cuff soreness to shut down the Houston Astros 5-0 in a game relocated because of Hurricane Ike.

MSNBC

USC pulls away, Georgia slips in Associated Press top 25

The Trojans' resounding 35-3 victory against Ohio State on Saturday night made USC an overwhelming No. 1 in the media poll.

ESPN

Biffle ends 33-race winless streak with Chase-opening victory at Loudon

Greg Biffle snapped a 33-race winless streak with a late surge past Jimmie Johnson in the opening race of the Chase for the Championship.

ESPN

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

George Takei marries longtime partner Brad Altman

George Takei, 71, and longtime partner, Brad Altman, 54, have agreed to live long and prosper together. They were married in a multicultural ceremony that featured a Buddhist priest and a bagpipe procession.

Baltimore Sun

TV rides the red-blue divide

In another coalescence of politics and pop culture, the presidential campaign has started to mirror TV's growing cultural divide, as contentious debate over Palin is cast.

Variety

ENVIRONMENT

Experts fear increased tiger conflicts

Environmental changes and shrinking land in the Sundarbans could lead to more tiger-human conflicts, with disastrous results for both.

Detroit Free Press

Neighbor charged in deaths of 32 bison

Keep your bison off my property or risk having them hunted, software executive Jeff Hawn warned his neighbor outside this old Colorado mining town.

CNN

MTV ad attacks 'greenwash' firms

MTV is launching a global marketing push to tackle climate change that includes a TV ad attacking businesses guilty of "greenwash" - deliberately misleading consumers about their eco-credentials.

Guardian

HEALTH

Stanford 'microbe hunter' Stanley Falkow wins Lasker Award

For his lifetime of pioneering work in microbiology and immunology, Falkow received the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science.

San Jose Mercury News

FDA: Don’t use Chinese infant formula

The FDA is warning parents and caregivers not to feed infant formula made in China to infants because of possible contamination with melamine, a chemical linked to tainted animal feed last year.

WebMD

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Anna Quindlen):

The GOP finds feminism

Newsweek

Editorial:

America's broken infrastructure

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Grilling Palin

Real Clear Politics

Column:

Brady's knee injury gives Bill Belichick the chance to prove his genius

Slate

Blog:

Alaskans protest Palin in numbers

Salon.com

Column:

Who gets a government bailout?

Slate

Column:

How video games blind us with science

Wired

Column (Thomas Madden):

Don’t know much about history

National Review

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

Why John McCain should put Sarah Palin on the Supreme Court

Slate

Editorial:

The Palin factor in the 'culture wars'

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

To infinity and beyond: A sparkling survival story

Walter Marino shouted to his 12-year-old son, Christopher, as he drifted farther away in the Atlantic Ocean. "To infinity," the father yelled. "And beyond," Christopher replied.

CNN

Just rescues: holdouts in high water

Houston Chronicle

NBA teaches African girls the right moves on – and off – the court

This year, for the first time, the NBA is reaching out to young African women players, at a time when the women's game here is only just now finding its place.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

As peace talks sputter, Israelis and Palestinians eye Plan B

Forming a single binational state is among the alternatives being raised to the two-state solution.

Christian Science Monitor

Indonesia stampede leaves 21 dead

At least 21 people have been killed and several others injured in a stampede in Indonesia. The crush happened as people waited for cash handouts, tradition during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

BBC

Talks aim to end Bolivian crisis

Bolivia's government has begun talks with a key opposition leader after days of clashes between supporters and opponents of President Evo Morales.

BBC

Chavez expels US ambassador

BBC

BUSINESS

The business of football

The National Football League is the strongest sport in the world. The reason: No other league has so successfully exploited new stadiums as the NFL during the past decade.

Forbes

Bank of America said to buy Merrill for $44 billion

Bank of America Corp. agreed to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. in a deal that values the 94-year-old firm at about $44 billion after its shares plummeted in the past week.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

The ABCs of home schooling

For a growing number of students, a classroom is the one place they're not likely to be, because when it comes to education there's no place like home.

ABC News

States hiring foreign teachers

Schools across the United States are plucking from an abundance of skilled international teachers. Critics call it shortsighted; educators say it meets the needs of students and qualified candidates.

USA Today

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Stonehenge partiers came from afar, cattle teeth show

Prehistoric cattle remains support a theory that the megalithic monument near Salisbury, in southern England, drew ancient peoples from distant regions to celebrate important feast ceremonies.

National Geographic

Integrated circuit is 50 years old

Texas Instruments commemorated the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit with the opening of Kilby Labs, honoring Jack Kilby, the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the seminal electronic device.

CNET News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

A religious-right revival

If the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican veep candidate means anything, it's that conservative Christians are still numerous and powerful.

Newsweek

Pope to celebrate mass in Lourdes

Pope Benedict XVI has joined pilgrims in the southern French town of Lourdes, one of the most revered Roman Catholic shrines, on a visit to the country.

BBC

Pope holds Mass in Lourdes

BBC

Dalai Lama cancels trip for more rest

The Dalai Lama has canceled a planned trip to Europe in October after doctors advised the Tibetan spiritual leader to rest more while he recovers from exhaustion.

USA Today

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