Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni called on Sunday for parliamentary elections instead of more negotiations with right-wing parties to form a new government.
Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are spending time in states once solid for the Republican Party, a sign of Mr. McCain?s dire position in the final week.
AP - Republican John McCain declared "I'm going to win it," dismissing polls showing him behind with little more than a week to go in the presidential race. A confident Democrat Barack Obama drew a jaw-dropping 100,000 people to a single rally and rolled out a new TV ad asserting his rival is "running out of time."
AP - U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression."
AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike on the house of a Taliban commander near the Afghan border killed up to 20 people on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
More than 50,000 registered Georgia voters have been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people are having their citizenship questioned and the burden is on them to prove eligibility to vote. Experts say lists of people with mismatches are often systematically cut, or "purged," from voter rolls.
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson and her family are offering a $100,000 reward for the safe return of her nephew. The 7-year-old has been missing since Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death in their home Friday. Flowers and teddy bears piled up Sunday outside the Chicago, Illinois, crime scene.