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The U.S. House has rejected a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. The rejection is a blow for the Bush administration and for congressional negotiators who backed the deal. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down more than 770 points on the news.

The Newsweek journalist writes that the NYPD has become one of the world's best intelligence-gathering operations; his book Securing the City explores New York City's creation of an elite counter-terror force.

We get the latest from arts reporter John Horn in Los Angeles.

Kaing Guek Eav, the former Khmer Rouge interrogator known as Duch, was brought to court in Cambodia for a pretrial hearing. It is the first public session of the U.N.-backed tribunal probing the regime's reign of terror in the 1970s. Duch, 66, is charged with crimes against humanity.

"Once I had a love and it was a gas. Soon turned out had a heart of glass."

The economy grew really quickly this summer. At least, that's the government's best guess for now. But it's tough to know exactly.

Van Harris and his wife, Shirley, grew up a block away from each other in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. In this 2012 conversation they remember how they first met in the 1930s.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated about the players that stand out going into the U.S. Open tennis tournament, which starts this weekend.

The Washington Capitals star made history with a power play goal from the left faceoff circle — as Gretzky, who last set the record more than 25 years ago, looked on.

The Canadian government has expelled six diplomats in response to alleged criminal activities by Indian government agents. Canadian officials link the agents to homicides and acts of violence.