Bloomberg - Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican candidate for a vacant New York congressional seat suspended her campaign after her lead in polls evaporated and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin endorsed a rival in the three-way race.

AP - It sounds like another New Jersey joke. Except it's not funny if you actually live here.

AP - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the economic recovery "could be a little choppy" and it's going to take a while.

AP - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families.

AP - At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.

The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy President Obama.

The White House said Friday that the $787 billion stimulus package had created or saved about one million jobs so far, a number that is hard to verify because of the guesswork in determining whether businesses had retained workers due to the stimulus who would otherwise have been laid off.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds is urging campaign workers to spend the next three days persuading their friends and neighbors to go to the polls Tuesday.

AP - President Barack Obama on Saturday tempered excitement about a growing economy with a sober outlook that more people will lose their jobs. He called that a heartbreaking reality and cautioned that even a burst of upbeat news "does not mean there won't be difficult days ahead."

AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanistan will not affect the legitimacy of that runoff.