Reuters - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Friday complained that presidential election politics are hurting negotiations over a $700 billion Wall Street bailout, but vowed that Congress will act quickly.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday expressed confidence to French President Nicolas Sarkozy that a rescue package for the U.S. financial system would be reached, the White House said.

AP - Russia's navy dispatched a warship to Somalia's coast, officials said Friday, a day after pirates there carried out their boldest attack yet — the capture of a Ukrainian vessel manned with Russian and Ukranian crew and loaded with 33 tanks and ammunition bound for Kenya.

AP - It was the curse of Corvallis all over again for the Trojans. Top-ranked Southern California visited Oregon State on Thursday night and lost 27-21. It was the second straight upset victory for the Beavers at home against the Trojans.

AP - Bob Dylan's new album shall be released one week early as a free online stream on National Public Radio's Web site. NPR Music will stream the entire two-CD, "Tell Tale Signs," beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT Tuesday. It will be available for listening until Oct. 7, when the album is officially released by Columbia Records.

AP - The list of products caught in China's tainted milk scandal grew Friday to include baby cereal in Hong Kong and snack foods in Japan, while Taiwan reported three children and a mother with kidney stones in the island's first cases possibly linked to the crisis.

AP - An out-of-work widower who abandoned nine of his children at a hospital under Nebraska's new safe haven law said he was overwhelmed without his wife and just "fell apart." "I hope they know I love them," Gary Staton told KETV. "I hope their future is better without me around them."

AP - Pakistan warned U.S. troops not to intrude on its territory on Friday, a day after the two anti-terror allies traded fire along the volatile border with Afghanistan.

AP - As the debate over a $700 billion bank bailout rages on in Washington, one of the nation's largest banks — Washington Mutual Inc. — has collapsed under the weight of its enormous bad bets on the mortgage market.

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.

AP - Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the event until Washington had taken action to address the crisis.

AFP - US leaders braced for a new day of drama Friday over an enormous financial rescue plan after White House campaign politics intruded into round-the-clock deliberations in Congress.