AP - The federal judge overseeing Ted Stevens'corruption trial says he saw a lawyer making signals from the crowd to the lead witness against the Alaska senator.

AP - Tuesday night's presidential debate offers Republican John McCain one of his last best chances to stop Democrat Barack Obama's recent surge in the race and turn it in his favor.

AP - Nearly two decades later, John McCain is still haunted by his role in the Keating Five scandal.

Reuters - The United Nations called on Tuesday for tougher regulation of financial markets to deal with the"crisis of a century"and warned that the global policy response risked creating a prolonged deflationary downturn.