As the Supreme Court opens its new term, the justices have more business and consumer cases on their schedule. Key cases revolve around packaging rules, state lawsuits and protecting dolphins in California.

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The security forces, organized through local churches, are manning checkpoints in Iraq and working with police. The mystery of where their funding comes from seems to center on a media-shy and reclusive political figure.

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Barack Obama's Democratic presidential campaign is threatening to alter the electoral map that decides the White House. Virginia has been a traditionally red state, but Obama has been working hard to make it a blue state. Other states that could swing Obam'as way include Florida, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Iowa.

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Barack Obama is seeking votes where Democratic Presidential candidates normally don't. Obama is trying hard for votes in the Appalachian Mountains, which spread across battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Steve Inskeep traveled to Southwest Virginia to find out how the presidential hopeful is doing in that part of the state.

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The 2008 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine goes to two French scientists for discovering the virus that causes AIDS. A German researcher shares the prize for discovering the viruses that cause cervical cancer.

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Palin's latest punch accuses Obama of "palling around with terrorists," while a new ad from his campaign calls McCain "erratic in crisis."

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Despite being number one in the National League and winning 93 games in the regular season, the Chicago Cubs' World Series hopes have been dashed once more.

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Capt. Michael Joseph Medders of Avon Lake, Ohio, was a standout football player in high school, known for toughness on the field and kindness towards his teammates.

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The Noble Network of Charter Schools takes poor and immigrant students who are often two to four years behind grade level. Through an intensive learning environment, nearly all the students graduate and some go on to the country's top colleges.

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A New York judge on Saturday blocked Wells Fargo & Co.'s attempt to purchase Wachovia Corp. The judge scheduled a meeting between representatives from Citigroup and Wachovia for Oct. 10.

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The competition for Iraqi oil is gaining momentum. Later this month, Iraq will host more than three dozen major oil companies. All of them hope to bid and win the account for handling Iraq's massive oil reserves.

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Stephen Green, head of research at Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai, speaks with host Liane Hansen about how the global financial crisis has hit China. China has close to $1.3 trillion invested in U.S. debt with up to $500 billion in agency securities.

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Pamela Prah, a reporter for Stateline.org, speaks with host Liane Hansen about how the Wall Street meltdown and Congress' bailout plan is affecting the states. Some states are considering slashing their budgets and making other cutbacks.

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European Union heads of government held a summit in Paris to discuss their own plans for how to bail out their threatened banks. Unlike the U.S. plan, they plan to deal with bank failures on a case-by-case basis.

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Former football star and movie actor O.J. Simpson could spend the rest of his life in jail after being convicted in Las Vegas on Friday of 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery. The verdict came 13 years to the day after Simpson was found not guilty of killing his ex-wife and a friend of hers.

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European heads of government are gathering in Paris for an economic summit to discuss ways to deal with their own teetering banks. France has proposed an agreement for a $500 billion bailout fund, but Germany and others are opposed.

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People who live and work on North Main Street in Oshkosh, Wis., talk about the $700 billion financial rescue package just signed into law.

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On the campaign trail, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are both taking some credit for helping to pass the $700 billion financial rescue package. But the two men part company on what else is needed to revive the ailing economy.

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Hundreds of thousands of families have been forced out of their homes, leaving banks to take over those properties and salvage them for what they're worth. That means extra business for contractors that specialize in "preserving" the homes so banks can resell them.

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Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin didn't report thousands of dollars in state travel reimbursements that she collected while living at home last year, according to her tax return for 2007.

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