AP - For an audition to be second fiddle, Thursday’s debate between often ill-informed newcomer Sarah Palin and often gaffe-prone veteran Joe Biden offers unusually large pitfalls and promise.
Reuters - In what is being billed as the first time they’ve ever played at the same concert, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel have signed on for a benefit for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on October 16 at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
AP - A Christian university in Oregon said Tuesday it has punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama from a tree on campus.
Reuters - Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain will return to Washington on Wednesday to take part in the Senate’s vote on a $700 billion financial rescue package, aides to both senators said.
AP - White House rivals John McCain and Barack Obama combined televised attack ads with statesmanlike appeals for bipartisanship on Tuesday as they vied for political gain in the shadow of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain by 50 percent to 46 percent among likely voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, down from a 9-point edge a week earlier.
AP - In the state that may again determine the presidency, voters started casting ballots Tuesday as Barack Obama struggles to thwart a John McCain victory in Ohio four years after it tipped the election to President Bush.
Reuters - Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel will perform together at a concert in New York City next month to raise money for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
AFP - Open warfare erupted in the White House race Tuesday over the costly failure by US lawmakers to approve an economic rescue bill, even as both candidates appealed for cooler heads to prevail.
Bloomberg - Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — Republican John McCain and Democrat
Barack Obama today called on Congress to keep working on a
financial-markets rescue plan and urged the government to raise
the limit on federal deposit insurance as a short-term step to
restore consumer confidence.