Exclusive: NSA helps banks battle hackers (Reuters)

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• Exclusive: NSA helps banks battle hackers (Reuters)
• Iraq war vet critically injured in Oakland protests (Reuters)
• Obama tells students of plans to ease loan burden (Reuters)
• The De Facto Religious Test in Presidential Politics (Time.com)
• The Rangers' Best Move: How Texas Remembers Shannon Stone (Time.com)
• Madoff's wife says couple attempted suicide: report (Reuters)
• Official convicted in West Virginia mine disaster (AP)
• Feds not helping Alabama enforce immigration law (AP)
• AP source: Gov't to levy hefty fine in toy case (AP)
• 'Evil' inmate who killed SD guard: I'd kill again (AP)
• Missing baby's brothers to be interviewed again (AP)
• Latest developments in the global Occupy protests (AP)
• Not your fault! Hormones linked to weight regain (AP)
• Oakland police action unnerves some protesters (AP)
• Study: Rich get a lot richer, outpace middle class (AP)
• Former top Wall Streeter denies insider trading (AP)
• House tax writer: Exempt many offshore profits (AP)
• Report: Industry decides food ingredient safety (AP)
• Squirmy toddler? There's an app for that (AP)
• Supercommittee GOP, Democrats swap offers (AP)

Exclusive: NSA helps banks battle hackers (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:09 PM PDT Reuters - The National Security Agency, a secretive arm of the U.S. military, has begun providing Wall Street banks with intelligence on foreign hackers, a sign of growing fears of financial sabotage.

Iraq war vet critically injured in Oakland protests (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:32 PM PDT Reuters - An Iraq war veteran was listed in critical condition on Wednesday from injuries he sustained at economic protests on the streets of Oakland, triggering calls for renewed Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the country.

Obama tells students of plans to ease loan burden (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to take steps to ease the burden of student loans, potentially helping cash-strapped college graduates in a tough U.S. economy.

The De Facto Religious Test in Presidential Politics (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT Time.com - Since 2000, more than two-thirds of Americans have told Pew pollsters that they want the President to be a person of faith, which effectively imposes a test of religious belief for candidates

The Rangers' Best Move: How Texas Remembers Shannon Stone (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:40 AM PDT Time.com - This summer, Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers tossed a ball into the stands. Shannon Stone, a Rangers fan sitting with his son, died trying to catch it. How a team and family have helped each other grieve

Madoff's wife says couple attempted suicide: report (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:05 PM PDT Reuters - The wife of financial swindler Bernard Madoff said in an interview to be aired on Sunday that the couple attempted suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve 2008 after his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed.

Official convicted in West Virginia mine disaster (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:37 PM PDT AP - The only person prosecuted so far in the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in decades was convicted Wednesday of lying to investigators probing the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.

Feds not helping Alabama enforce immigration law (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - The government hasn't offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that the Obama administration is challenging in court, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.

AP source: Gov't to levy hefty fine in toy case (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:57 PM PDT AP - A toy company that sold popular arts-and-crafts beads that sickened about a dozen children has agreed to pay the federal government a $1.3 million fine.

'Evil' inmate who killed SD guard: I'd kill again (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:51 PM PDT AP - A South Dakota inmate who acknowledged killing a state penitentiary guard in a failed escape attempt asked a judge on Wednesday to sentence him to death, saying his one regret is that he did not kill another officer and that he will kill again.

Missing baby's brothers to be interviewed again (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:51 PM PDT AP - Kansas City police plan to re-interview the two older brothers of a missing Kansas City baby Friday as part of the investigation into her disappearance three weeks ago.

Latest developments in the global Occupy protests (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:26 PM PDT AP - Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests taking place in cities across the world:

Not your fault! Hormones linked to weight regain (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:10 PM PDT AP - Any dieter knows that it's hard to keep off weight you've lost. Now a study finds that even a year after dieters shed a good chunk of weight quickly, their hormones were still insisting, "Eat! Eat! Eat!"

Oakland police action unnerves some protesters (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 06:33 PM PDT AP - The display of police force in Oakland, Calif., and Atlanta has unnerved some anti-Wall Street protesters. While demonstrators in other cities have built a working relationship with police and city leaders, they wondered on Wednesday how long the good spirit would last and whether they could be next.

Study: Rich get a lot richer, outpace middle class (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:32 PM PDT AP - The richest 1 percent of Americans have been getting far richer over the last three decades while the middle class and poor have seen their after-tax household income only crawl up in comparison, according to a government study.

Former top Wall Streeter denies insider trading (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 05:38 PM PDT AP - A former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of acting as "the illegal eyes and ears in the boardroom" for a friend, a billionaire hedge fund founder sentenced this month to 11 years in prison in the biggest insider trading case in history.

House tax writer: Exempt many offshore profits (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:28 PM PDT AP - The House's top tax writer proposed Wednesday exempting from taxes 95 percent of the profits that American companies earn overseas.

Report: Industry decides food ingredient safety (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:14 PM PDT AP - Thousands of ingredients that go into food have been classified as safe by private industry alone, without any government oversight, according to a new report published Wednesday.

Squirmy toddler? There's an app for that (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:43 PM PDT AP - There's a new routine these days whenever Amber Mullaney goes out to eat at a restaurant. While waiting to be seated, she asks her husband to get the phone ready to hand over to their 2-year-old daughter, Tatum.

Supercommittee GOP, Democrats swap offers (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 04:53 PM PDT AP - Republicans on Congress' deficit-reduction supercommittee outlined a plan Wednesday that includes spending cuts but none of the increases in tax revenue sought by Democrats, completing an initial exchange of offers that left the two sides far apart despite weeks of secret talks.

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