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Fire burns 750 acres northeast of Los Angeles (AP) -

Firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department battle a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Ron Haralson says the blaze has charred up to 750 acres in the rugged area of Little Tujunga Canyon, about 20 miles north of downtown. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - Firefighters backed by water-dumping helicopters and planes gained ground Sunday on a wildfire that destroyed two homes and forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people in a rugged area 20 miles north of downtown.


McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you know what' (AP) -

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pauses as he leaves his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va. Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Republican John McCain vowed Sunday to "whip" Democratic rival Barack Obama's "you-know-what" when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate.


Biden decries 'ugly inferences' against Obama (AP) -

Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, his wife Jill Biden, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, right,  wave to the crowd during a campaign rally in Scranton, Pa. Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Jimmy May)AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday accused the McCain campaign of trying to distract Americans from their economic woes by launching "unbecoming personal attacks" at Barack Obama.


Gov't eyes plan to take ownership stakes in banks (AP) -

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks at a news conference after the G7 Ministerial meeting in Washington October 10, 2008. The world's rich nations vowed on Friday to take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit markets and ensure banks can raise money but they offered no collective course of action to avert a deep global recession. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)AP - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on measures to make direct purchases of bank stock to help unlock lending.


Bombers strike in Mosul and Baghdad, killing 13 (AP) -

An Iraqi old man walk behind the wreckage of a car after a car bomb explosion in the predominantly Shiite Bayaa district, southwestern Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008.  The bomb exploded Sunday in a commercial street of Baghdad killing seven people and wounding nine others, police said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad.


World Bank to protect vulnerable countries (AP) -

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, stands after a briefing for reporters at IMF headquarters on efforts to heal the economy, in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. He is joined by World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick, left, and Mexico's Secretary of Finance Augustin Carstens, center.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The World Bank agreed Sunday to help developing countries strengthen their economies, bolster their financial systems and protect the poor against the financial turmoil in international markets.


T.I. has dual No. 1s but claims underdog status (AP) -

Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at the Diesel xXx party Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Gary He)AP - Although T.I. owns both the No. 1 album and single in the country, the platinum-selling rapper says he still feels like the underdog.


Fact Check: Camps highlight foes' old associates (AP) -

In this  April 6, 1999 file photo,  former Lincoln Savings & Loan chief Charles Keating Jr. smiles during a news conference at the Los Angeles Federal Courthouse.  (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)AP - Scraping for any advantage in the presidential campaign's waning days, John McCain and Barack Obama are introducing voters to a new cast of characters.