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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gestures during a rally at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pa. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)

McCain debuts comeback speech

John McCain unveiled a feisty new stump speech in which he portrayed himself as a scrappy fighter on the comeback trail against an opponent who’s already “measuring the drapes” in the Oval Office.

Politico

The candidates

MSNBC

Bank of Japan unlimited dollars

The Bank of Japan will remove lending limits as it joins European bankers in lowering borrowing costs in the money market and opening worldwide credit.

Bloomberg

Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line

MSNBC

Banks urged to deploy capital to spur economy

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged banks receiving $250 billion in government capital injections to use the funds to spur economic growth.

Bloomberg

Crisis overturns free-market ideology

Christian Science Monitor

US will take ownership stake in 9 banks

McClatchy

World markets steady

CBS News

Winds blowtorch effect whips Calif.'s San Fernando Valley wildfires

Three major wildfires charred more than 13,000 acres, destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in suburban Los Angeles and northern San Diego County.

San Francisco Chronicle

Firefighters face wild fires

YouTube

Obama touts foreclosure moratorium

Barack Obama proposed immediate steps to heal the nation's economy: a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs.

USA Today

NATION

Is the US fighting force big enough?

American's armed forces are growing bigger to reduce the strains from seven years of war, but it may need to be bigger in an era of "persistent conflict," analysts argue.

Christian Science Monitor

Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument

An Ohio death row inmate was executed after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be executed.

CNN

Next meltdown: credit-card debt

Rising rates are accelerating credit-card defaults. Soured debt could further undermine the financial system.

BusinessWeek

POLITICS

Miami volunteer booted over lie about Obama's religion

A volunteer with Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's campaign was dismissed after warning a Miami voter not to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama because "He's a Muslim.''

McClatchy

Ralph Nader on his run for president

Independent candidate Ralph Nader in his third run for the presidency, offers his explanation — and the solution — for the economic crisis.

NPR

The first woman to run for president, in 1872

NPR

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Krugman wins Nobel for economics

American academic and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman won the Nobel economics prize for his analysis of trade patterns and economic activities.

BBC

Oliver Stone's take on the president: 'W.'

Directed by protean Hollywood muckraker Oliver Stone and starring Josh Brolin as a blithering George W. Bush, "W." is not just a critique, it's a critique of a sitting president.

Newsday

HEALTH

Why some kids are bullied from the start

Study finds early aggression, harsh parenting, economic status combine to make a victim.

HealthDay

Pediatricians vote to double vitamin D requirement for children

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new vitamin D guidelines for infants, children and adolescents when medical conditions are attributable to low vitamin D levels.

ABC News

New vitamin D levels for kids

YouTube

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Apple reduces MacBook price to $999 to woo shoppers

Apple Inc. plans to offer its first Macintosh notebook priced at less than $1,000 to attract budget-conscious consumers stung by the global economic crisis.

Bloomberg

Free wireless band passes FCC tests

Mobile devices using a new U.S. radio band with free wireless service would not cause significant interference with cell phones using a nearby band, the FCC ruled.

PC World

EDUCATION

School district wins $2 million prize for improving urban education

Texas' Brownsville Independent School District won the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education, awarded to the most improved urban school district.

MarketWatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Angela Kays-Burden):

Post-Palin, a pro-life feminist's dilemma

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Timely about-face on economic woe

USA Today

Column (Gideon Rachman):

The crisis is redefining our leaders

Financial Times

Column (Irwill Kellner):

Don't break out the bubbly just yet

MarketWatch

Column (Louis Woodhill):

The shocking cost of the housing boom

Real Clear Markets

Column (Mark Penn):

What's 'in' is now 'out'

Politico

Column:

Worst case scenario

Weekly Standard

Editorial:

Lead nation to immigration consensus

Des Moines Register

Column:

Campaign '08: That's a wrap

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column:

I want baby-sitting wages!

EducationNews.org

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GOOD NEWS

Senior with Down syndrome crowned high school homecoming queen

While most homecoming queens are either the head cheerleader or student class president, it's not so at one Texas high school where this year's queen was born with Down syndrome 18 years ago.

ABC News

Free house, if you'll haul it off

Is the credit crunch keeping you from getting a home loan? Well, here's a little beauty you can have for free.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

Credit crisis driving global cooperation

As governments of the industrialized world struggle with the global credit crisis, they may be relearning an old lesson: There is more strength in standing together than in struggling alone.

Christian Science Monitor

Bombers kill 13 in Mosul, Baghdad

Suicide car bombers struck twice in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven others in Baghdad.

CBS News

BUSINESS

US stocks fall as earnings concern overshadows bank plan

U.S. stocks fell a day after the market's biggest rally since the 1930s as a worsening outlook for earnings forced investors to look beyond a $2 trillion global push to rescue banks.

Bloomberg

US not always averse to nationalization, despite its free-market image

The United States has a culture that celebrates laissez-faire capitalism as the economic ideal, but the practice is sometimes different.

International Herald Tribune

SPORTS

Browns take apart Giants, 35-14

On a nationally televised stage, the New York Giants got embarrassed by the Cleveland Browns, 35-14, snapping their eight-game winning streak and their run of 12 straight wins away from home.

NY Daily News

Big Brown injures foot, career over

From his overpowering victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness to his spectacular flop in the Belmont as he bid for a Triple Crown, Big Brown and his entourage simply didn't do subtle.

CBS SportsLine

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

A young woman leads Turkey to examine modernity and devotion

At 16, Havva Yilmaz did something none of her friends had: put on an Islamic head scarf. This was a rebellion in Turkey, which built its modern identity on secularism.

International Herald Tribune

Hindu threat to Christians in India

India, the world's most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is haunted by a stark assault on one of its fundamental freedoms.

International Herald Tribune

Thousands of Christians flee Mosul

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Eco-consciousness can help win wars

Being sensitive to environmental concerns can win hearts and minds of populace, but the Army's record is spotty so far.

Christian Science Monitor

Planning America's first podcar city

"It's time we design cities for the human, not for the automobile."

CBS News

Photo of the Day

An oil portrait of Francis Bacon, painted by Lucien Freud, is seen on display at Christie's auction rooms in London. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP)

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