Bush to announce expanded bank bailout details

AP - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration plans to spend an initial $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout buying stock in private banks, greatly expanding protections for the U.S. financial system out of deep concern for the faltering economy, industry and government officials said Monday night. President Bush planned to announce the details Tuesday morning.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) addresses a rally at the Schwartz Center on the campus of Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina. McCain confessed Monday his White House odds looked daunting as rival Barack Obama built a commanding poll lead, but insisted he was the experienced hand that a nation in crisis requires.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

McCain: Lewis' remarks on campaign tone are unfair

AP - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - John McCain said Monday that it was unfair for Rep. John Lewis to compare the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign to the atmosphere a segregationist fostered in the 1960s.

Traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind driven brush fire in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,000-acre wildfire, forcing the closure of a major freeway during rush hour and burning mobile homes and industrial buildings. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

Wildfires force frantic evacuations near LA; 2 die

AP - 1 hour, 33 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuations on smoke- and traffic-choked highways, destroying homes and causing at least two deaths.

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