Saturday News

• What the bailout means for taxpayers, banks, businesses

  What's in the bailout bill for you? For struggling homeowners, very little.

• Obama, McCain focus on economy

  After a two-week detour through bailout-land, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain returned to familiar economic encampments on Friday: bickering over taxes and the middle class and calling each other job-killers.

• Biden sends off son, Guard troops to Iraq

  Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden told his son and other Delaware National Guard troops on Friday that his heart was "full of love and pride" as they prepared to leave for an assignment in Iraq.

• Algeria: Death toll rises to 33 in flood

  Hundreds of troops, engineers and social workers have converged on the desert town of Ghardaia to help with relief operations after a flash flood there killed 33, Algeria's Interior Ministry said Friday.

• Israeli general warns Hezbollah of harsh response

  Israel will use "disproportionate force" if Hezbollah guerrillas attack Israel, a senior military commander said in published comments Friday, adding that any village used to fire missiles against the Jewish state will be destroyed.

• Somalia: Insurgents reject aid

  Help for hundreds of thousands of Somalis is in jeopardy, two Western aid groups said Friday after Islamic insurgents forced one to suspend some operations and threatened the other.

• Venezuela: Chavez' critic sent to court

  A former Venezuelan defense minister who is a prominent critic of President Hugo Chavez has been detained by military intelligence agents.

• Canada's leader blasts U.S. on credit crisis

  As Canada faces an economic slowdown, the country's prime minister said Friday that Canadians don't need a parliament that acts like the U.S. Congress and panics like the U.S. Treasury Department.

• 7 Russians killed by car bomb

  A car bomb in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on Friday killed seven Russian peacekeepers and wounded three others, raising tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory.

• U.S. envoy's trip unsuccessful

  A senior U.S. envoy's trip to North Korea did not stop the communist nation from restoring its nuclear facilities, the State Department said Friday.

• Iraq council gives boost to provincial elections

  Iraq's presidential council on Friday ratified a law that paves the way for the first provincial elections in four years, officials said.

• Corrections and clarifications, October 03, 2008

  A dining review for Red Ginger Asian Bistro in Coral Springs on Page 48 of Friday's Showtime section omitted the star rating. The reviewer rated the restaurant with three stars.

• Corrections and clarifications, October 03, 2008

  A dining review for Red Ginger Asian Bistro in Coral Springs on Page 46 of Friday's Showtime section omitted the star rating. The reviewer rated the restaurant with three stars.

• Bailout delivered, signed

  With the economy on the brink of meltdown and elections looming, a reluctant House of Representatives abruptly reversed course and approved a historic $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday. President Bush swiftly signed it.

• Lenders must wait at least a month for relief

  Signed and sealed, the $700 billion bailout now must be delivered. The government is rushing to develop a plan for spending the money.

• On this date: Oct. 4

  1535: The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Switzerland.

• Happy birthday: Oct. 4

  Anne Rice, author, 67

• TV today: Oct.4

  Their name isn't Earl, but the Trailer Park Boys have blazed a similar, and even longer-lasting, trail of low-rent living during seven seasons. The Canadian comedy hit came back with a feature film named, cleverly, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (1 a.m., Comedy Central). This sidesplitting cinematic return to Sunnyvale Trailer Park catches up on a trio of thirtysomething lifelong pals as they bungle such capers as an ATM heist, the harvest of sidewalk parking meters and a hockey game in the local prison yard. And it's on late enough to give you something to watch after you stagger home from the bar.

• Review: 'An American Carol'

  One hundred and sixty-five years after Charles Dickens called for civic reform, compassion, humanity and charity to be watchwords in human life with A Christmas Carol, Hollywood's most rabid conservatives have rallied to make An American Carol, a PG-13 comedy that equates dissent with "treason," that presents Bill O'Reilly as a model of political restraint and offers us Kelsey Grammer as the ghost of Gen. George S. Patton.

• Weather may offer clues to Fossett crash

  . Safety officials investigating the death of millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett are trying to determine if weather played a role the day his plane crashed into a mountain in eastern California more than a year ago.

• Georgia: Jewish soldier claims beating

  Army officials at Fort Benning are investigating the claims of a Jewish soldier in basic training who says he was beaten days after complaining of religious discrimination.

• Louisiana: Judge's ruling blames FEMA

  A federal judge says the government isn't immune from lawsuits claiming many Gulf Coast hurricane victims were exposed to potentially dangerous fumes while living in trailers it provided.

• Pennsylvania: Tenants were allegedly taped

  A suburban Philadelphia landlord secretly videotaped 34 female tenants over two decades after hiding cameras in their apartments, authorities said Friday.

• Connecticut: Sailor in terror case appeals

  A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorist supporters sought a new trial Friday, saying prosecutors lacked evidence and inflamed the jury.

• U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen switches vote to pass 'bailout bill'

  Miami Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen joined many others in the House on Friday who switched their votes to help pass a bill to prop up financial institutions and help homeowners get loans.

• Rescue plan aids certain businesses, taxpayers

  Millions of taxpayers, thousands of businesses, and groups as diverse as solar power developers and natural disaster victims will see tax relief with the House vote Friday to approve and send to the president a $700 billion financial rescue plan.