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Battered Wall Street gives to Obama, McCain - September 17, 2008

Some of John McCain's and Barack Obama's biggest fundraisers are executives from the stricken financial services industry, which will need all the help it can get from whoever wins the White House.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26760673/

Biden says economic woes awoke McCain - September 17, 2008

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday it took a financial crisis on Wall Street for Republican candidate John McCain to realize the U.S. economy is in trouble. "Where was he a week ago, a month ago" Biden asked as he campaigned in suburban Toledo at the beginning of a two-day bus tour.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26760458/

McCain races to stay abreast of economic crisis - September 17, 2008

The Republican candidate says the $85 billion government bailout of the world's biggest insurance company will protect millions of Americans from further financial hardship.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26754552/

Katie Couric to interview Sarah Palin - September 17, 2008

CBS anchor Katie Couric will spend two days on the road with the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as well as presidential hopeful John McCain, the network said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26757045/

NYT: Abortion dividing Catholic votes - September 17, 2008

A struggle on how Catholics should apply their beliefs in politics is reaching swing cities like Scranton, Pa.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26750675/

McCain turns to embracing regulation - September 17, 2008

A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries. Now the GOP nominee is scrambling to recast himself as a champion of regulation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26749280/

House approves offshore drilling - September 17, 2008

The House voted late Tuesday to open waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling but only 50 or more miles out to sea and only if a state agrees.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26748248/

Senate OKs deal on tax-relief package - September 17, 2008

Senate leaders said Tuesday that they had broken a months-long impasse over a tax break package that would bring billions of dollars in relief to individual and business taxpayers, developers of clean energy resources and people threatened by the alternative minimum tax.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26746657/

Newsweek: McCain lawyer tries to end Palin probe - September 16, 2008

A former top Justice Department prosecutor now working for John McCain's presidential campaign has been helping to direct an aggressive legal strategy aimed at shutting down a pre-election ethics investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/159260