AP - Obama's fist bump. Palin's lipstick. McCain's plumber. Clinton's tears.

AP - A Vermont musician who lost her arm because of a botched drug injection is squaring off against a drug maker and the Bush administration in one of the most closely watched business cases of the Supreme Court's term.

Politico - It was the dog that didn’t bark — or at least did little more than whimper.

AP - Facts have taken a beating in Campaign '08.

Politico - COLUMBUS, Ohio—Barack Obama’s Ohio campaign manager has neither shaved his face in a month nor has he shown up to the office without his Columbus Clippers baseball hat.

AP - Republican John McCain is urging Florida voters to help him win the state and the presidential election.

AP - What's at stake in Tuesday's election:

Politico - COLUMBUS, Ohio—Barack Obama’s Ohio campaign manager has neither shaved his face in a month nor has he shown up to the office without his Columbus Clippers baseball hat.

AP - People with friends and relatives abroad need to start thinking about those Christmas cards and gifts.

AP - A woman convicted for her role in a smuggling conspiracy that ended with the deaths of 10 Chinese immigrants has lost a Supreme Court appeal.

AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a boisterous crowd in a Democratic suburb of Cleveland Monday that 'victory is coming.'

AP - First, the easy ones: The 1936 election, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt beat Alf Landon 523 to 8 in the electoral vote and 61 percent to 37 percent in the popular vote, was definitely a landslide.

AP - It's a nightmare scenario for Democrats — their nominee Barack Obama winning the popular vote while Republican John McCain ekes out an Electoral College victory.

Politico - When Republican Sen. Pete Domenici decided to step down from his New Mexico Senate seat this year, he set in motion a game of musical chairs that will likely lead to a major political transformation in the state he has represented for the past 36 years.

AP - Every presidential election is for the history books. This one is for the ages.

AP - The daughter of Sen. Dick Durbin has died from complications related to a congenital heart condition.

AP - A juror who vanished during Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial told the judge Monday she lied about her father dying and flew to California to see horse races.

AP - The Bush administration and a drug maker urged the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a multimillion dollar verdict to a Vermont musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection to relieve nausea.

Reuters - Two European ministers promised help Saturday to desperate refugees who have fled fighting in east Congo, but played down the idea of the European Union sending troops there to protect civilians.

AP - Barack Obama looks and acts like a guy who expects to win.

AP - It's no coincidence President Bush has been out of the public's eye in recent days — that's the way the Republican Party wants it.

Politico - Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Monday that the United States will “lose a lot of stature throughout the world” if Barack Obama is elected president.

AP - It's a nightmare scenario for Democrats — their nominee Barack Obama winning the popular vote while Republican John McCain ekes out an Electoral College victory.

AP - Rhode Island officials are asking the Supreme Court to rule that federal law prevents the U.S. government from taking land into trust for American Indian tribes recognized after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.

AP - Hundreds of people marched through Belarus' capital on Sunday to remember the victims of Stalinist purges and call for an end to repression in a country that still has many of the trappings of the former Soviet Union.

Politico - Among the California voters suffused with hope at the prospect of the election of Barack Obama is one Ward Connerly.

AP - A juror who vanished during Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' corruption trial told the judge Monday she lied about her father dying and flew to California to see horse races.

AP - Barack Obama is getting a really big head.

AP - John McCain often tells campaign audiences he doesn't hide from history. He surely didn't on Monday, undertaking an energetic march across seven battleground states on the last day of a long presidential contest the opinion polls all said he was trailing.

AP - A report detailing whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power by firing her public safety commissioner will be released on the eve of the election.

AP - Democrat Barack Obama tells ESPN's 'Monday Night Football' it's time for college football to pick a champion with a playoff system while Republican John McCain wants to put an end to performance-enhancing substances.

AFP - The Supreme Court on Monday began studying whether an individual can sue a pharmaceutical company over drug labels that fail to properly warn of dangerous side effects -- a potentially costly precedent for the industry.

AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi joined Belarus' authoritarian president in lamenting U.S. dominance of world affairs Monday during a tour aimed at securing new weapons and energy deals in the former Soviet Union.

AP - Barack Obama called the last day of his presidential race 'bittersweet.' He carried himself with the confidence of a candidate who sensed victory after an intense, two-year campaign and learned that the woman who helped raise him wouldn't get to see the outcome.

Politico - WASILLA, Alaska – The town of Wasilla, which bristled under the glare of intense media scrutiny in the weeks after John McCain tapped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, seems to be buzzing in anticipation of Election Day.

Politico - In what may have been their last pitch to many voters hours before the polls open, John McCain and Barack Obama talked sports during a halftime interview on Monday Night Football.

AP - Sarah Palin is in excellent health with no known health issues that would interfere with her ability to perform the duties of vice president if she and Republican John McCain are elected Tuesday, her family doctor says.