AP - Presidential campaigns aggressively competed for dollars up to the last minute of the third quarter, eager to build their bank accounts for an expensive stretch of media advertising and voter outreach.

Reuters - The European Union must agree a legal basis for dealing with Kosovo, which appears headed for a de facto independence without a United Nations agreement on its future, Western experts on the Balkans said on Monday.

AP - The Federal Communications Commission leaks confidential information to some companies and trade groups with business before the agency while leaving consumer advocates and the public in the dark, congressional investigators have found.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on public attention over President Bush's veto of child health insurance legislation to launch a new ad Thursday that casts her as the candidate best able to provide universal health care.

Reuters - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved a free trade deal with Peru that contains groundbreaking labor and environmental provisions demanded by Democrats after they captured Congress last year.

AP - Turkish and American officials have been pressing lawmakers to reject a measure next week that would declare the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

AP - Sen. Larry Craig will be inducted into the Idaho Hall of Fame next week, despite his well-publicized arrest and guilty plea in an airport sex sting, officials said.

AP - Here's a list of some blogs authored by federal authorities:

AP - Settling an eight-year legal battle, a major power generator has agreed to spend $4.6 billion to reduce chemical emissions blamed for spreading acid rain across the Northeast, The Associated Press has learned.

AP - Fred Thompson remembered his lines in his first stage performance.

AP - For Hillary Rodham Clinton to win Iowa, she'll have to get past the men challenging her for the Democratic presidential nomination and the state's tradition of turning a cold shoulder to female candidates.

Bloomberg - Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain wants to give Americans tax credits to help make health insurance more affordable.

Reuters - Georgian security forces who fired on separatist fighters during a clash last month in the breakaway province of Abkhazia should be punished, Russia's United Nations envoy said on Thursday.

AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday renewed his call for a presidential line-item veto and criticized rival Rudy Giuliani for his part in a lawsuit that led the Supreme Court to deem the veto unconstitutional.

AP - Military-ruled Myanmar is a pariah state to many because of its dismal human rights record, slapped with an arms embargo by the U.S. and European Union. But to some of the world's other top weapons dealers, Myanmar is just another customer.

AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is appealing to the fiscal conservatism of New Hampshire voters in a new ad that starts running Tuesday.

AFP - Television footage of planes crashing into the World Trade Center on 9/11, the funeral of Princess Diana and the landing on the moon have been voted Britain's most memorable TV moments of the past 50 years, according to a poll published Tuesday.

Bloomberg - Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- After Democrat Joe Sestak captured a suburban Philadelphia House seat from a Republican who had held it for two decades, he never stopped trolling for donations. Now, with a $1.4 million bankroll, he's considered a good bet to retain the seat in 2008.

AFP - Gordon Brown rejected increasingly vocal calls for a British referendum on the EU's new treaty Thursday, saying Europe must move on from its 'inward-looking' institutional wrangling.

AP - Rudy Giuliani told religious conservatives Saturday they should neither fear him nor expect he would moderate his positions for political advantage.

AP - Let the jockeying begin!

CQPolitics.com - It’s not quite in the same league as the K Street Project, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s bid to populate the Washington lobbying industry more or less exclusively with Republican-affiliated shops. But almost a year into the 110th Congress’ Democratic majority, some of the most prominent new firms on K Street are of a distinctly bluish hue, especially compared with their recent predecessors in the GOP’s heyday.

AP - Stepping into a polling booth and pulling a lever or pushing a button is too easy for Iowans.

AFP - The United Nations envoy on Myanmar said Tuesday he was 'encouraged' by Indian pledges to support efforts to resolve the crisis in its military-ruled neighbour.

AP - WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather was a no-show Wednesday at a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after questions were raised about the boxer's previous legal troubles.

Reuters - Congolese authorities handed over a commander from Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC) on Thursday, U.N. officials said.

AP - Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.

AP - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney offered a verbal tour of 'Hillary's House of Horrors' on Saturday, conjuring images of Halloween spook houses to underscore his criticisms of Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AP - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton for talking about what she would do on the diplomatic front between her possible election and inauguration.

AP - Democrat John Edwards is trying to turn the Democratic presidential race into a referendum on honesty and integrity, areas where polling has shown that voters are divided about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AP - In the City of Brotherly Love, there wasn't much for a sister.