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- PUBLIC EYE'S WEEK IN REVIEW
The Hef will be all right
The Hef's trio has been downgraded to a duet. Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison, one of E!'s “The Girls Next Door,” are no longer dating, or whatever it is you call what they were doing. Hefner said he's been “down in the dumps” about the split.
- Sign of hope and anxiety in Iraq: Schools are back in session
BAGHDAD – On the first day of school, 10-year-old Basma Osama looked uneasy standing in formation under a stifling morning sun. She and dozens of schoolmates listened to a teacher's pep talk – probably a necessary one, given the barren and garbage-strewn playground.
- This day in history
- Most e-mailed U-T stories
- North Korea to be taken off terror list
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration announced yesterday that it was removing North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, in a bid to salvage a fragile nuclear deal that seemed on the verge of collapse.
 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
McCain changes tactics, returns to civil discourse
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Republican John McCain, the clock ticking down on a chance to narrow Democrat Barack Obama's lead in polls, turned away yesterday from visceral attacks on his rival to pivot back toward policy differences.
- GEORGE CONDON | A CAPITAL VIEW
Geography gives hint to winner of election
If you want to know the state of a presidential contest, don't listen to what the candidates say. And don't look at the polls. Look instead at where the candidates go.
- High court asked to review W.Va. justice system cases
WASHINGTON – The justice system in West Virginia is broken and the U.S. Supreme Court should take steps to fix it, according to a pile of briefs in three cases awaiting the court's attention.
- GM first spoke to Ford about merger
DETROIT – Before General Motors began exploring a possible merger with Chrysler – talks that first came to light Friday – GM proposed a similar deal with its other cross-town rival, Ford Motor Co., two people with knowledge of the talks said yesterday.
- Wrongful convictions review points to faulty prosecution
DALLAS – Faulty eyewitness testimony that helped secure wrongful convictions in Dallas County, which leads the nation in DNA exonerations, sent the innocent to prison as police and prosecutors ignored safeguards and built cases with flimsy corroboration, according to a newspaper investigation.
- Lame-duck Congress may get big task
WASHINGTON – After consulting with Sen. Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said yesterday.
- Conn. same-sex marriage foes see ballot question as way to block it
HARTFORD, Conn. – Now that the Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have the right to wed, opponents of gay marriage are pinning their hopes on an infrequent ballot question in a long-shot bid to block the unions.
- NATION UPDATE
Evangelist Graham back home after fall
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Evangelist Billy Graham was released from a hospital yesterday, sore and bruised but not seriously injured, after he tripped and fell over one of his dogs at his North Carolina home, hospital officials said.
- Five family members die in N.Y. fire; boy survives
NEW YORK – Five members of a family, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze yesterday that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door, fire officials said.
- Norbert bashes south Baja California
PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico – Hurricane Norbert swept across Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula yesterday, tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded homes.
- Peace Corps' hasty pullout from Bolivia upsets ex-volunteers
It took Ellen Arnstein the better part of two years to win the trust of the people of Camargo, a farming town of 5,000 in southeastern Bolivia.
- 3 killed in suspected U.S. missile attack in Pakistan, officials say
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people late yesterday in a town near the Afghan border, the latest in a series of attacks in a region where top al-Qaeda leaders are believed to be living, two intelligence officials said.
- THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ
Attacks force Christian families to leave Mosul
BAGHDAD – Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said yesterday.
- Nations turn on charm to win U.N. seat
UNITED NATIONS – “Icelandic Pancakes Folded With Jam of Mixed Berries and Whipped Cream,” read the stylish calligraphy on a white card atop the dessert buffet in the U.N. Delegates Dining Room.
- Tanker hijacked off Somali coast; standoff on another ship heats up
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Armed pirates hijacked a massive tanker as world powers yesterday headed toward the Somali coast to end a two-week standoff aboard a ship laden with tanks and weapons, officials said.
- Mugabe move may put Zimbabwe's powering-sharing deal at risk
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – In a step that could jeopardize a painstakingly negotiated power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has declared that his party will retain ministries that control the military and the police, state media reported yesterday. The crucial Finance Ministry remained in dispute.
- WORLD UPDATE
Officials offer reward in slaying of 11 at bar
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Officials yesterday offered a reward of 500,000 pesos, or $37,300, for the capture of gunmen who killed 11 people in a northern city bar.
- More than 100 militants are killed in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – More than 100 militants have been killed in separate battles in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.
- Italian woman in right-to-die case worsens
ROME – The condition of an Italian woman at the center of a right-to-die case worsened after she suffered a massive hemorrhage, doctors said yesterday.
- The week in Mexico
President Felipe Calderón said Mexico has enough foreign reserves to face the global financial crisis.
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