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WASHINGTON - Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Tuesday that the financial crisis has not only darkened the country's current economic performance but also could prolong the pain.

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Federal agents say they have detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants in a raid on a South Carolina chicken processing plant.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land after it entered its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan after it was determined the entry was accidental.

Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama and John McCain will take their long-distance name-calling to a more intimate, and perhaps awkward, setting tonight: a close-quarters, town-hall debate.

A new TIME/CNN poll shows John McCain still struggling in states won by George W. Bush in 2004

A NASA probe has begun beaming back stunning new images from its successful second flyby of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun.

WASHINGTON - Executives at American International Group Inc. hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released Tuesday by a congressional panel examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate.

WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered the Bush administration Tuesday to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States, rebuking the government in a landmark decision that could set the stage for the release of dozens other prisoners in Cuba.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Aw, check it out. It's B. Spears looking hot and normal. Even her weave looks good.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Leading in the polls, Barack Obama hopes to cement his standing while John McCain is trying to turn his fortunes around in their second presidential debate — with economic turmoil bordering on chaos suddenly serving as the backdrop.

WASHINGTON - Children under 4 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold remedies, drug companies said Tuesday in a concession to pediatricians who doubt the drugs do much good and worry about risks.

NEW YORK - An attorney for David Duchovny says the actor has checked out of a rehabilitation facility for treatment of sex addiction.

KATMANDU, Nepal - Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.

LONDON - A rare Islamic crystal jug that was mistaken earlier this year for a cheap French claret pitcher has sold at auction for almost $5.6 million.

10/03/2008 - DEAR MARGO: My husband and I have been married for a year and together for four.

NEW YORK - Wall Street sank further Tuesday, extending its heavy losses as enthusiasm over Federal Reserve efforts to inject confidence into credit markets gave way to concerns about financial companies' balance sheets. Trading remained fractious, with the Dow Jones industrial average losing nearly 400 points and all the major indexes falling well over 3 percent.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Listen up, ladies: Although they were spotted hanging out, Gerard Butler is not dating Jennifer Aniston.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday signaled a readiness to lower U.S. interest rates in a dramatic shift to support an economy battered by a financial crisis of "historic dimension."

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a gene mutation linked to the most common cause of blindness in the developed world, holding out the prospect of better treatments and perhaps eventually a cure.

When Politico’s Ryan Grim approached Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) after the evening of the Senate bailout vote, the reporter didn’t even get his question out.

LONDON - Individual European governments issued a flurry of deposit guarantees to shore up their banks but fell short of any coordinated action Monday to deal with the crisis sweeping financial markets, even as stock markets crashed and the euro sank to its lowest level for over a year.

10/02/2008 - DEAR MARGO: I am a 40-year-old man who has been in and out of therapy since seventh grade.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co is likely to get about 75 percent to 80 percent of Wachovia Corp's deposits, while Citigroup is likely to get closer to 20 percent to 25 percent of the deposits, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.

With just two debates left before the Nov. 4 election, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama go into their Tuesday night face-off in Nashville, Tenn., with high expectations for their performances.