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St. Louis forced a Game 7 in the World Series. After Thursday's big rally, stock markets are dipping as investors take profits. And the flooding in Thailand continues.

British kings and queens will no longer be banned from marrying Roman Catholics — though the rule barring a Catholic from becoming king or queen will remain.

The president campaign has "relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid," The New York Times reports.

The E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 4,300 people in May and June had epidemiologists scrambling to find the contaminated vegetables that caused it. What made it difficult, they say in a new paper, is that people had trouble remembering what exactly was in the salads they ate. In this case, the culprit turned out to be fenugreek seeds, but it was a long road to get there.

But the Justice Department's Inspector General says officials still need to watch how they spend taxpayers' money at conferences. And it hasn't changed its findings about $5 sodas, $32 snack breaks and $8 cups of coffee.

One Republican candidate after another has challenged the front-runner status of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Now former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hopes his consistent message will propel him to the front of the pack in this weekend's Des Moines Register poll.

The deficit-cutting supercommittee is the target of intense lobbying efforts. An NPR analysis found that more than 600 separate corporations, trade associations and interest groups have said they intend to lobby around the work of the committee of 12.

An NPR review found that more than 600 different groups and corporations say they intend to lobby around the work of the deficit reduction committee.

Because of the vote, the United States said it would cut its funding for the body. The U.S. said admitting Palestine was "premature."

According to The Washington Post, the United States continued to send detainees to facilities it knew abused prisoners. The Post reports the U.S. received warnings long before a U.N. report found "systematic torture" in Afghan intelligence detention centers.