Daily Digest
More anxiety on Wall St.: Stocks dive,
oil soars
NEW YORK (AP) – Elation in the financial mar-
kets over the 700 billion bank bailout plan evaporated
Monday and was replaced by all-too-familiar anxiety,
pummeling stocks and sending oil prices to their biggest
one-day gain. Worries that the rescue package would
cost too much, drive up inflation, swell the already-
bloated deficit and hurt the ailing economy also led
global investors to flee the U.S. dollar....
Bush seeks to assure leaders about
bailout plan
NEW YORK (AP) – President Bush sought to as-
sure anxious world leaders on Monday that the United
States is taking ”bold, aggressive, decisive action” to
rescue the crisis-ridden economy with a 700 billion bailout
package. ”The whole world is watching to see if we can
act quickly,” Bush said, prodding lawmakers in Wash-
ington to approve his plan....
FBI searches apartment in Palin
hacking case
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI searched the res-
idence of the son of a Democratic state lawmaker in
Tennessee over the weekend looking for evidence link-
ing the young man to the hacking of Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail ac-
count, two law enforcement officials told The Associ-
ated Press on Monday....
Biden says ad that mocked McCain was
’terrible’
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama’s running
mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican pres-
idential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-
of-date computer illiterate was ”terrible” and would not
have been done had he known about it....
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Brazilian woman finds fame as McCain’s
old flame
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) – A former model
and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after
being identified as John McCain’s lover 51 years ago.
Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman
the Republican presidential candidate fondly described
- though never named - in his 1999 book ”Faith of My
Fathers.”...
Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor
gets 15 to life
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A woman whose dogs
viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hall-
way of their apartment building seven years ago was
sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison....
Resetting immune system in bid to beat
scleroderma
WASHINGTON (AP) – First Bari Martz’s fingers
turned blue. Then she started gasping for breath, and
her joints stiffened so that she couldn’t even open her
hands. Doctors diagnosed scleroderma, part of an in-
sidious family of diseases where the immune system at-
tacks a patient’s own body, sometimes enough to kill....
Robert Wagner reveals love affair with
Stanwyck
NEW YORK (AP) – Robert Wagner’s marriage to
Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with
Barbara Stanwyck was a secret - until now. In his
new memoir ”Pieces of My Heart,” Wagner writes of
his four-year romance with the star of such classics as
”Stella Dallas” and ”Double Indemnity.”...
Construction workers complain about
nude skater
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland Police took
a waterfront Lady Godiva down a notch this week.
Barely. They were getting calls about a nude skater
whizzing past tourists and rush-hour commuters....
Carmona, Sheffield, 2 others suspended
for brawl
DETROIT (AP) – Cleveland pitcher Fausto Car-
mona was suspended six games and Detroit slugger
Gary Sheffield was penalized four games Monday for
their brawl last week....
McCain agrees to attend debate in
Mississippi (AP)
AP - Republican John McCain agreed to attend
the first presidential debate Friday night even though
Congress doesn039;t have a bailout deal, reversing an
earlier decision to delay the event until Washington had
taken action to address the crisis.
McCain,Obama finally head for key
debate clash (AFP)
AFP - After two days of high drama, Republican
White House hopeful John McCain finally headed Fri-
day to join Democrat Barack Obama for the first of
three key debates in the US elections.
White House debate is on (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican John McCain ended the sus-
pense and said he will attend the first of three debates
with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, setting up a
showdown that could help decide a tight White House
race.
Palin giving back tainted money from
gov. campaign (AP)
AP - Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by Republican pres-
idential nominee John McCain as a reformer when he
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picked her to be his running mate, says she will do-
nate to charity more than 36;1,000 in campaign con-
tributions from two Alaska politicians implicated in a
federal corruption probe.
US-POLITICS Summary (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican John McCain ended the sus-
pense and said he will attend the first of three debates
with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, setting up a
showdown that could help decide a tight White House
race. McCain had vowed to skip the debate if nego-
tiations were not completed on a 36;700 billion rescue
of the U.S. financial industry but his campaign said in
a statement that enough progress had been made to
participate in the 9 p.m. EDT debate.
McCain Says He Will Attend Debate;
Obama on His Way (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg - Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) – Republican
John McCain said he will participate in tonight39;s
presidential debate, as the host of the event and of-
ficials in Mississippi said they were ready to go ahead
without him.
With McCain in fold, White House
debate is on (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican John McCain ended the sus-
pense and said he will attend the first of three debates
with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, setting up a
showdown that could help decide a tight White House
race.
Today on the presidential campaign
trail (AP)
AP - First presidential debate is on as McCain agrees
to participate ... Biden meets Georgian president with-
out reporters during opening photo opportunity ... David
Letterman commiserates with Paris Hilton over Mc-
Cain 039;disses039; ... Palin says she will donate money
from those implicated in federal corruption probe
FACTBOX: Scenarios for
McCain/Obama debate (Reuters)
 Reuters - Republican John McCain and Democrat
Barack Obama meet on Friday in the first of three pres-
idential debates that could play a big role in deciding
a tight White House race.
McCain to attend Friday debate with
Obama (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain will take part in a debate with Democrat Barack
Obama Friday after determining significant progress
has been made on a Wall Street bailout, his campaign
said.
Most US voters want first presidential
debate to go ahead (AFP)
AFP - Three-quarters of US voters want the first de-
bate between Republican presidential candidate John
McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama to go
ahead Friday, even though McCain has asked for a de-
lay, a poll showed.
McCain to attend presidential debate:
campaign (AFP)
AFP - Republican White House hopeful John Mc-
Cain will attend the first presidential debate of the US
elections as planned, one of his advisors said Friday.
McCain to Congress as debate deadline
looms (AFP)
AFP - John McCain rushed to Congress first thing
Friday for more talks on the finance crisis, as a deadline
loomed for him to decide whether to go to a presidential
debate with Democrat Barack Obama in Mississippi.
Angry White House meeting roils
bailout talks (Reuters)
Reuters - Negotiations in Congress toward a massive
bailout for Wall Street fell into disarray on Thursday
night after a contentious White House meeting, with
lawmakers later offering conflicting reports about the
position of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
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Gambler McCain seeks redemption in
finance crisis (AFP)
AFP - John McCain is going all-in on the biggest
bet of a political career marked by instinctive gambles,
seeking new life for his White House bid in the political
convulsions set off by the finance crisis.
Online tool estimates taxes under
McCain, Obama (AP)
AP - Voters whose bottom line is taxes can use a
new online tool to calculate what their own bottom line
would be with the IRS under a Barack Obama or John
McCain administration.
Palin039;s parents: Retirees, part-time
rat killers (AP)
AP - More than six years before Sarah Palin visited
ground zero as the Republican vice presidential nomi-
nee, her parents were there as part of the response to
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 151; trapping rats.
Bailout pressure mounts, roils world
markets (Reuters)
Reuters - Pressure mounted on U.S. lawmakers to
agree on a 36;700 billion financial rescue plan after the
collapse of talks in acrimony and the biggest bank clo-
sure in U.S. history roiled global markets.
Dems, some in GOP question
McCain039;s intervention (AP)
AP - Sen. John McCain039;s self-portrait as a bold
leader willing to set politics aside to save an endangered
financial bailout plan took a pounding Thursday from
top Democrats and even some fellow Republicans.
U.S. bailout in chaos, government seizes
WaMu (Reuters)
Reuters - Talks on a 36;700 billion rescue for the
U.S. financial system fell into chaos on Thursday amid
accusations Republican presidential candidate John Mc-
Cain scuppered the deal, and U.S. authorities closed
Washington Mutual and sold its assets in America39;s
biggest ever bank failure.