AP - Several car booster seats do a poor job of positioning children to fit in their seat belts, according to a review by the insurance industry and researchers.

AP - John Thomas has lots of reasons to support John McCain for president. Like McCain, Thomas is a former Navy officer. They're about the same age, and Thomas considers himself a political independent with a conservative bent.

AP - Even before she reached the podium, the first words out of Sarah Palin's mouth set the tone for her debate night: 'Hey, can I call ya Joe?'

Politico - Since presidential aspirants began disclosing their tax returns, no candidate has released filings quite like those that Sarah Palin made public Friday afternoon.

AFP - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday Moscow wanted to work with the European Union and the United States to stop piracy, as talks to release a Ukrainian ship off Somalia made progress.

AFP - Russian forces Sunday removed their first checkpoint from Georgia near the rebel region of South Ossetia, an EU monitoring mission and the Georgian government said.

AP - John McCain's campaign is criticizing Barack Obama for his ties to a former radical who engaged in violent acts four decades ago, but McCain himself was closely connected to a private group that supplied aid to rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua during the Iran-Contra affair.

AP - Republican John McCain expressed incredulity in the presidential debate Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama would tip off the enemy by saying publicly that he'd attack al-Qaida in Pakistan under certain conditions. 'Remarkable,' McCain said during the presidential debate, meaning remarkably irresponsible.

Politico - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an overnight change in the homeowner bailout he proposed at Tuesday’s presidential debate, making it more generous to financial institutions and more costly for taxpayers.

AP - Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has called one of his oldest friends, Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, as his first defense witness at his corruption trial.

AP - Jailed political fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

AFP - A war of words with racial undertones marked the White House race Sunday after civil rights icon John Lewis accused Republican John McCain of sowing 'hatred' against Barack Obama.

AP - Jack Marshall says he's voting for Barack Obama this year. That's ominous news for John McCain.

Politico - The Democrat who replaced disgraced Florida Rep. Mark Foley — running on a pledge to restore dignity to the office — now faces a jaw-dropping election-year sex scandal of his own. 

AP - A suburban Cleveland mayor has won a special congressional primary for the chance to serve the final two months of Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones' term.

AP - The biggest news about the third and final presidential debate: It was a debate!

Politico - When the going gets tough, the tough go to dinners.

AP - Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on high-income workers to ease Social Security's looming cash crunch. John McCain favors voluntary private accounts for younger workers, saying they can't count on the same government benefits as today's retirees.

AFP - Republicans always feared a pounding in this year's congressional elections, but the shockwaves of the Wall Street crisis may inflict a bloodbath on President George W. Bush's demoralized party.

Bloomberg - Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Minnesota has seen this movie.

AP - Democrat Barack Obama is bringing several GOP-leaning states he's aiming to win together in one place.

Politico - The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

CQPolitics.com - House Democrats, a Los Angeles Superior Court official and Columbia University are among the entities Republican lawmakers have described as 'anti-American,' 'anti-American power' or 'anti-American military' on the House floor in the current Congress.

AP - A Paris criminal court convicted nine people on Thursday including a French-Algerian former prison inmate who admitted establishing an Islamic group that called for armed jihad in France.

Politico - Democratic officials tell Politico that they plan to file a Federal Election Commission complaint on Monday accusing the McCain campaign of being “a serial violator” of campaign finance laws.

Politico - Democrats are circulating a poll showing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) losing ground in his own state, an ominous sign for his beleaguered campaign as state after state turns blues.

AFP - 'Historic' might be the most overused word of the White House race, yet the spellbinding plot twists of 2008 have undeniably made this campaign one for the ages.

AP - Barack Obama says there's no red America or blue America, just one big united country. But not when it comes to getting elected.

AFP - With Democrat Barack Obama favored to win the White House race in California, the state's biggest election day battle is shaping up to be a referendum seeking to ban gay marriage.

AP - After weeks of being out-advertised by Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate John McCain and the Republican Party are nearly matching the Democratic nominee ad for ad in key battleground markets.

AFP - US ties with Southeast Asia could see significant expansion if Senator Barack Obama wins the White House race, as his advisors favor his participation in a key East Asian summit and the expansion of US alliances in the region.