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Volkswagen Baja Race: Paris to Ensenada: Volkswagen and its Touareg 2 head to Mexico for the Baja 500. ›07:00 16 Oct, Tue
The best learning holidays for kids: From golf lessons to falconry lessons and sailing and songwriting, the lowdown on the best vacations that teach tots, teens, and youngsters in between. ›03:27
Will cheap gas bring return of gas-guzzling?: Prices at the pump are dropping fast, and gas could fall below $3 a gallon in a matter of weeks, if not sooner. Does that mean Americans will return to their gas-guzzling ways? ›21:16 10 Oct, Fri
Brownstein: The risk of McCain's health plan: Barack Obama is not exaggerating when he says that John McCain is offering a "radical" new vision of how Americans can safeguard their health. ›20:35 10 Oct, Fri
Obama plans half-hour TV ad: Already advertising at record levels, Barack Obama has scheduled a half-hour commercial for prime time on Oct. 29, six days before Election Day. ›00:28 10 Oct, Fri
Eagles' Westbrook ruled out for Sunday game: All-Pro running back Brian Westbrook will miss his second game in three weeks when the Philadelphia Eagles visit San Francisco on Sunday.Westbrook broke two ribs in the Eagles' 23-17 loss to Washington last Sunday, though he kept playing and finished the game. He sat out a 24-20 loss at Chicago on Sept. 28 because of an ankle injury.Two-time Pro Bowl guard Shawn Andrews (back) and wide receiver Reggie Brown (groin) also won't play. ›20:45 10 Oct, Fri
Analysis: The end of American capitalism?: The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism. ›09:38 10 Oct, Fri
Preview: 2008 Toyota Land Cruiser: Toyota's iconic machine gets more grunt, a smoother ride and sweeter duds. ›07:00 18 Oct, Thu
Authorities: Man skipped jury duty to drink: Curtis Lemons was supposed to report for jury duty in a drunk driving case. Instead, according to authorities, the 50-year-old Cape Girardeau man skipped the jury duty so he could drink himself. ›22:52 7 Oct, Tue
'Bra Bandit' strikes again in Florida: The Lee County Sheriff's Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria's Secret store. ›01:43 7 Oct, Tue
Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling': Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' word "sterling" at the senator's corruption trial. ›19:47 10 Oct, Fri
McCain, Obama offer ideas to aid economy: John McCain and Barack Obama outlined modest steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on Friday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook issues in their race. ›21:44 10 Oct, Fri
2007 Tokyo Motor Show: Top 10 Production Cars: Editors' ten favorite production vehicles at the biennial show. ›07:00 29 Oct, Mon
Red Sox blank Rays in Game 1 of ALCS: Dice-K took a no-hitter into the 7th, but lost it. That was about the only thing that went wrong for the Red Sox in Game 1. ›04:53
by Lawrence Ulrich: MSN Autos columnist Lawrence Ulrich talks turkey about the 10 worst cars of recent memory. ›07:00 31 Oct, Wed
Ethics report: Palin abused authority: Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. ›05:18
N.Y. mixup: 'Barack Osama' on ballot: Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama." ›21:57 10 Oct, Fri
After Shepard, no federal hate crime law: Matthew Shepard's mother still mourns lost opportunities to battle hate crimes and promote a greater tolerance of gays in the 10 years since her 21-year-old son was beaten, tied to a wooden fence and left for dead in a frigid Wyoming pasture. ›20:57 10 Oct, Fri
Getting elderly drivers off the road poses challenges: As drivers get older, their driving skills decline. But getting the elderly off the road whether they're aging parents or ourselves is no easy task. Harriet Baskas has some well-mannered advice. ›15:36 9 Oct, Thu
Reports: GM, Chrysler hold merger talks: General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM, according to published reports late Friday. ›05:06
Golden Gate may get anti-suicide net: A stainless steel net may soon hang underneath the Golden Gate Bridge to stop people from attempting suicide by jumping off. ›22:27 10 Oct, Fri
Man gets death sentence in taped sex killing: A suburban Kansas City man who videotaped the death of a woman he suffocated during sex has been sentenced to death. ›22:15 10 Oct, Fri
Bush: We can solve this crisis and we will: President George W. Bush said Friday that the U.S. government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. ›15:12 10 Oct, Fri
Greenspan pegs housing recovery to early 2009: Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. housing market will begin to recover in the first half of 2009, according to an article he wrote for Emerging Markets magazine published on Friday. ›17:06 10 Oct, Fri
