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Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs (AP)
AP - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.
Health Care 101: A consumer primer on Obama's bill (AP)
AP - It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies.
No Child Left Behind overhaul: five key things that would change (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - On Saturday, the Obama administration released its blueprint for overhauling the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. US lawmakers are to consider the blueprint â and make their own revisions â as part of a reauthorization process for the education law.
'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA (AP)
AP - Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died.
NASA finds shrimp dinner on ice beneath Antarctica (AP)
AP - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Gov't says it cannot explain runaway Toyota (AP)
AP - The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego freeway and acknowledged it may not be able to solve the mystery of what happened to the hybrid.
AP Exclusive: Pentagon gun was from Tenn. police (AP)
AP - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
Edwards mistress: Still in love, living 'truth' (AP)
AP - The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live "a life of truth" and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger his downfall from the pinnacle of U.S. politics.
Rain floods Northeast roadways, knocks out power (AP)
AP - A torrential rainstorm that brought heavy winds to the Northeast, downing trees, flooding roadways and knocking out power, continued to pour rain on New England on Monday.
Official: Pentagon probing alleged spy operation (AP)
AP - A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a U.S. official said Monday.
US wants Israel to cancel Jerusalem building plan (AP)
AP - The U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years, American and Israeli officials said Monday.
David Beckham arrives in Finland for surgery (AP)
AP - David Beckham checked into a hospital Monday for surgery on his torn left Achilles' tendon, hoping for a "swift and full recovery" from an injury that will keep him out of the World Cup.
Obama seeks to reassure seniors on health care (AP)
AP - With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it would make preventive care cost-free and close a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage.
Gay seniors come out late, start second lifetime (AP)
AP - On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he'd buried his wife of 45 years, he'd felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, outcast. He wondered if he was going crazy; he contemplated suicide.
US lawmakers attack China ahead of Nov. elections (AP)
AP - China is once again the country Congress loves to hate.
Gangs blamed for killing 3 with US consulate tie (AP)
AP - U.S. and Mexican federal officials said Monday they were probing why a suspected drug gang ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man.
UN Agency: Tiger on verge of extinction (AP)
AP - The world has "failed miserably" at protecting tigers in the wild, bringing an animal that is a symbol for many cultures and religions to "the verge of extinction," a top official with the United Nations wildlife agency said Monday.
Moody's warning on US, UK ratings lifts dollar (AP)
AP - The dollar got a lift Monday morning after a leading credit ratings agency warned that the U.S. and the U.K. could see a downgrade of their top AAA credit rating.
US census forms arrive in the mail: What to expect (AP)
AP - Let the count begin.
Outrage in Georgia over fake Russian invasion report (AFP)
AFP - Outraged Georgians on Sunday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was dead.

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