AP - Liberal and Democrat vs. conservative and Republican. Taller, younger and black vs. shorter, older and white.

AP - California Republican leaders say they have a lot to feel good about these days.

AP - Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by Republican presidential nominee John McCain as a reformer when he picked her to be his running mate, says she will donate to charity more than $1,000 in campaign contributions from two Alaska politicians implicated in a federal corruption probe.

Reuters - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday a plan to rescue U.S. financial institutions "has to happen," but final agreement is up to conservative Republicans who revolted against the plan being negotiated between Congress and the Treasury Department.

AP - President Bush told Congress Friday it must "rise to the occasion" and pass legislation bailing out the struggling financial system, and new bargaining was arranged at the Capitol despite heavy bickering, especially within the Republican caucus.

AFP - Republican members of the House of Representatives Friday put forward their own economic rescue package in a revolt against the government's 700-billion-dollar bailout deal.