NEW YORK (AP) Investors are nervously awaiting the start of a new trading week. Wall Street is coming off its worst week ever but stock futures indicate there could be a sharp rebound for the major indexes.

Washington (AP) Top Democrats in Congress are backing a Bush administration proposal to give certain banks a direct infusion of federal cash. The proposal would, in effect, partially nationalize the banking system. And Joint Economic Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer says it's "gaining steam."


ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (AP) sarah palin appears to be going along with a McCain campaign decision to tone down character attacks on Barack Obama. She focused on the economy today at a town rally in Ohio. But she said whereas she loves small towns because of their good, hardworking American families, Obama doesn't understand them.

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) Hillary CLinton says if Barack Obama and Joe Biden carry Pennsylvania in November "there's no way they can lose the White House." She and Bill Clinton campaigned with Biden today in Scranton. One tracking poll gives Obama a double-digit lead in the Keystone State.

NEW YORK (AP) Here's a guy who really likes to eat. Joey Chestnut won the Coney Island hot-dog eating contest last year.

Today he picked up the world pizza eating crown in New York's Times Square. The 24-year-old Californian scarfed down 45 slices in 10 minutes.

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