Penn State coach Paterno retiring at end of season (AP)

Penn State coach Paterno retiring at end of season (AP)
Dow sinks 3 percent as Europe uncertainty deepens (AP)
Republicans debating in jobs-starved Michigan (AP)
Options for Iran oil sanctions face economic risks (AP)
Obama donor discussed solar loan with White House (AP)
Powerful storm batters Alaska's western coast (AP)
AP Exclusive: Cain accuser complained in next job (AP)
Russians desperately try to save Mars moon probe (AP)
94-year-old Zsa Zsa Gabor rushed to hospital again (AP)
'Family Circus' creator Bil Keane dies at 89 (AP)
Italy at breaking point, Merkel calls for "new Europe" (Reuters)
Italy's worried president steps in to calm markets (Reuters)
Greek party deal on new crisis premier collapses (Reuters)
Wall St selloff as Italy fans crisis worries (Reuters)
GM outlook disappoints, shares tumble (Reuters)
French, Germans explore idea of smaller euro zone (Reuters)
Obama to talk economy, currency with China's Hu (Reuters)
West seeks new Iran sanctions over nuclear report (Reuters)
Health care in court: Obama leading 3-1, but it ainâ€™t over 'til itâ€™s over (The Christian Science Monitor)
Herman Cain: Accuser is someone 'I didn't recognize' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:58 PM PST

AP - Joe Paterno, the Penn State football coach who preached success with honor for half a century but whose legend was shattered by a child sex abuse scandal, said Wednesday he will retire at the end of this season.

Dow sinks 3 percent as Europe uncertainty deepens (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:35 PM PST

AP - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped more than 350 points Wednesday after Italy's borrowing costs soared and talks collapsed in Greece on forming a new government.

Republicans debating in jobs-starved Michigan (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:25 PM PST

AP - Together for the first time in three weeks, Republican presidential candidates assembled in ailing Michigan for a debate on how they would fix the economy. Also sure to come up Wednesday night: the past week's allegations of sexual impropriety that have rocked Herman Cain's campaign.

Options for Iran oil sanctions face economic risks (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:07 PM PST

AP - With Iran angrily defiant about a U.N. report accusing it of developing nuclear weapons, Western powers and allies faced complicated questions Wednesday on how to further tighten pressure on the oil giant without shaking the fragile world economy.

Obama donor discussed solar loan with White House (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:28 PM PST

AP - Emails released by a House committee appear to show that a major donor to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign discussed with White House officials a federal loan to a failed California solar company. That's despite repeated assurances by Obama administration officials that the donor, George Kaiser, didn't discuss the loan with the White House.

Powerful storm batters Alaska's western coast (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:11 PM PST

AP - One of the most powerful storms to hit western Alaska in nearly 40 years battered coastal communities Wednesday with snow and hurricane-force winds, forcing some residents to seek higher ground as it knocked out power and ripped up roofs.

AP Exclusive: Cain accuser complained in next job (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:26 PM PST

AP - Three years after Karen Kraushaar settled her sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain and quit the trade association where they worked, she filed another complaint at her new job. She argued that supervisors there unfairly denied her request to work from home after a car accident and accused one of them of circulating a sexually oriented email, The Associated Press has learned.

Russians desperately try to save Mars moon probe (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:06 PM PST

AP - A Russian space probe became stuck in orbit Wednesday after an equipment failure, raising fears it could come crashing down and spill tons of highly toxic fuel on Earth unless engineers can steer it back to its flight path.

94-year-old Zsa Zsa Gabor rushed to hospital again (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:26 PM PST

AP - Zsa Zsa Gabor has been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after another health scare. Publicist John Blanchette says the 94-year-old actress was taken by ambulance to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Wednesday after her feeding tube became loose. Blanchette says Gabor's husband Frederic von Anhalt noticed bleeding in her stomach where the tube came unattached

'Family Circus' creator Bil Keane dies at 89 (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:14 PM PST

AP - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the American public needed the consistency.

Italy at breaking point, Merkel calls for "new Europe" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:21 AM PST

Reuters - Italian borrowing costs reached breaking point Wednesday after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's insistence on elections instead of an interim government opened the way to prolonged instability and delays to long-promised economic reforms.

Italy's worried president steps in to calm markets (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PST

Reuters - Italy's president stepped in to try to calm markets on Wednesday after the country's borrowing costs raced to catastrophic levels, saying urgent action would be taken to end a political crisis.

Greek party deal on new crisis premier collapses (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:18 PM PST

Reuters - A deal on forming a Greek national unity government collapsed on Wednesday as the country headed toward an economic abyss, hours after outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou said he was handing over to a coalition that does not exist.

Wall St selloff as Italy fans crisis worries (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 11:56 AM PST

Reuters - Stocks tumbled 3 percent on Wednesday, erasing gains for the week so far, as a spike in Italian bond yields fanned worries about contagion in the European debt crisis.

GM outlook disappoints, shares tumble (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:37 PM PST

Reuters - General Motors Co posted a lower third-quarter profit on losses in Europe and offered a disappointing outlook that raised doubts about the speed of its turnaround two years after emerging from bankruptcy.

French, Germans explore idea of smaller euro zone (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 12:46 PM PST

Reuters - German and French officials have discussed plans for a radical overhaul of the European Union that would involve establishing a more integrated and potentially smaller euro zone, EU sources say.

Obama to talk economy, currency with China's Hu (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 10:12 AM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama will raise his concerns about China's yuan currency with Chinese leader Hu Jintao at this weekend's APEC summit in Hawaii, the White House said on Wednesday.

West seeks new Iran sanctions over nuclear report (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 11:16 AM PST

Reuters - Western leaders called on Wednesday for expanded sanctions against Iran over a U.N. watchdog report that it has worked to design atom bombs, but veto-wielder Russia indicated it would block new measures at the U.N. Security Council.

Health care in court: Obama leading 3-1, but it ainâ€™t over 'til itâ€™s over (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 06:15 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The score in the legal battle over President Obamaâ€™s health-care reform law is now 3 to 1.

Herman Cain: Accuser is someone 'I didn't recognize' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 05:15 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, in a press conference Tuesday, categorically denied all the charges of sexual harassment that have emerged in the past week.