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OPEC cuts oil supply in face of lower demand trying to bring prices back up

The OPEC cartel ordered a cut in oil production of at least 1.5 million barrels a day to take effect Nov. 1, according to Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi.

International Herald Tribune

Fed cracking down on housing scams

The U.S. Federal Reserve is working with other regulators to crack down on scams to take advantage of distressed homeowners by mimicking mailings sent out by mortgage industry alliance Hope Now.

Reuters

Greenspan denies blame for crisis, admits 'flaw'

YouTube

Bill Clinton: 'We blew it' on global food

Today's global food crisis shows "we all blew it, including me when I was president," by treating crops as commodities instead of as a vital right of the world's poor, Bill Clinton told the United Nations.

CBS News

West is in talks on credit to aid poorer nations

International Herald Tribune

Wall Street futures drop 550 points over global fears

Wall Street heads for another precipitous drop on fears of a global recession stirred panic among investors, sending world financial markets into a tailspin.

CBS News

Japan leads Asian shares' plunge

BBC

Wall Street workers losing jobs, but hang on to their hope

More than 760,000 people have lost their jobs so far this year, and 47 states this week reported that their unemployment rates were higher than last year.

ABC News

Ominous harbinger: more new jobless claims

CBS News

The bad news about your job

Newsweek

US hands over control of once violent 12th Iraqi province

The United States relinquished control of a southern province that includes Sunni areas once known as the "triangle of death," handing security responsibility to the Iraqi government.

MSNBC

New polls paint bleak battleground map for McCain campaign

A series of new polls found a bleak outlook for John McCain, even in traditionally Republican states, and a potential landslide victory for Democrat Barack Obama.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

New York council amends law, allows Bloomberg to run

The New York City Council approved a charter revision to permit Mayor Michael Bloomberg and 35 of its 51 members to run for a third four-year term.

Bloomberg

Losers in heated City Council term limits vote say 'the fix was in'

New York Daily News

Crews battle two fires near Los Angeles

Crews are dealing with a wildfire burning outside Los Angeles at the base of a soaring mountain, a day after snuffing out a blaze that erupted near the city's world-famous Getty museum.

MSNBC

Wildfires burn near Getty Center

YouTube

FEMA blames residents for trailer toxins

The Federal Emergency Management Agency questioned findings of high formaldehyde levels in agency-issued trailers and said the lifestyles of the flood victims may be to blame.

CBS News

POLITICS

Pets get political

The Humane Society's Legislative Fund announced its support of Barack Obama, marking its first endorsement of a presidential candidate.

San Francisco Chronicle

Spending rose in Palin's administrations

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin calls herself a fiscal conservative who wants to "rein in government spending." But Palin didn't cut the size of government as mayor of Wasilla, and she hasn't done so as governor.

USA Today

Palin double standard?

CNN

The rush is on to vote early

Barack Obama has been urging his supporters to vote early, and so far it seems to be paying off. Some polling data indicates he has up to a 20 percent lead over Sen. John McCain from early votes.

Christian Science Monitor

Snags amid early voting in Florida

Reuters

HEALTH

Health insurance costs outpace wages

Workers' health insurance premiums went up more than five times faster than wages since 2000, adding to an increasingly tight squeeze on family budgets.

WebMD

US doctors often prescribe placebos

About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments — usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their condition.

MSNBC

New diagnostic criteria proposed for polycystic kidney disease

The current diagnostic criteria for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease miss many cases of the milder form and need revision, say investigators supporting a new set of criteria.

MedPage Today

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Hollywood woos Bollywood for bigger hits

The entertainment and media industry in emerging markets such as China, India and Russia is forecast to grow at more than double the pace in developed markets, with India growing at the fastest pace.

Reuters

Poll results: Politics = entertainment!

A new survey found that Americans age 18-34 spend 34 percent of their TV time watching election-related programming, and half of all Americans said they are watching fewer prime time shows as a result.

Entertainment Weekly

'The Daily Show': Pop culture's new comic go-to?

ABC News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Memories selectively, safely erased

A new study describes a method to rapidly and specifically erase a selected set of memories from the mouse brain in a controlled and inducible manner.

Science Daily

Gov. Schwartzenegger opens new California solar power plant

Turning a long line of mirrors to catch the sunshine, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fired up Caliornia's first solar thermal power plant in nearly 20 years.

Environment News Service

EDUCATION

US cities' math scores split compared to rest of the world

Fourth- and eighth-grade students in six U.S. cities hold their own against international competitors from Singapore, Japan, England and elsewhere.

USA Today

Kids less likely to graduate than parents

Your child is less likely to graduate from high school than you were, and most states are doing little to hold schools accountable, according to a study by a children's advocacy group.

USA Today

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GOOD NEWS

Justin Timberlake raises $1 million for children's charity

Justin Timberlake has raised $1 million for a children's charity with the help of famous friends the Jonas Brothers, 50 Cent, Rihanna and Leona Lewis.

San Francisco Chronicle

Colombia radio host connects 'kidnapped voices' with families

For 14 years, Herbin Hoyos has hosted "Kidnapped Voices," a radio program for relatives of Colombian kidnap victims to broadcast messages to their loved ones.

New York Daily News

WORLD

Bush plans to establish US diplomatic post in Iran 29 years after hostage crisis

The Bush administration will announce after the election that it intends to establish the first U.S. diplomatic presence in Iran since the 1979-81 hostage crisis.

McClatchy Newspapers

Latin America girded for financial crisis