Financier Kirk Kerkorian is selling his stake in Ford Motor Co. — another piece of dismal news for the faltering auto industry. Could there be another federal bailout, this time for U.S. carmakers?

Election Day is November 4th, but scores of voters — for a wide variety of reasons — have already voted. The Takeaway talks with them about which presidential candidate they checked the box for — and why.

The U.S. government has dismissed all charges against five prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay after the military prosecutor assigned to the cases resigned, saying the government had withheld evidence. Jonathan Mahler, author of "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power" explains what's likely to happen to the five detainees and what this means for the future of the controversial prison and court.

The Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays face off in game one of the 2008 World Series tonight, while in politics, Pennsylvania and Florida are shaping up to become key battleground states in the 2008 presidential election. So, who is a candidate to root for?

It's official: Indians are members of the Outer Space Club. A rocket carrying an unmanned satellite lifted off from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India. The satellite Chandrayaan-1, which means "lunar craft" in Sanskrit, is scheduled to orbit the moon for two years. The mission is to study the moon's mineral composition.

Early voters are turning out across the nation. But the benefits of avoiding long lines and the general chaos that comes with November 4 is being undermined. Many early birds are finding that their votes are being mangled by voting machines. The Takeaway checks in with reporters in West Virginia and Florida where warning signs of technology-going-wrong are in plain view.

They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the eighth in a series on "counties that count," The Takeaway's Political Director Andrea Bernstein talks with voters in Pueblo County, Colorado.

In Oregon the Senate race is in a dead heat. Republican incumbent Senator Gordon Smith is respected for his legislative record and his centrist ways. But this year his party affiliation could be the elephant in the room. Meanwhile, his opponent, Democrat Jeff Merkley, is riding high on a wave of Obama enthusiasm.

With the case of Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is going to the jury, and a verdict expected any day now, Capitol News Connection's Todd Zwillich looks into the history of other senators who've been in legal trouble while in office.

Federal and local police have arrested dozens of members of "The Mongols." a motorcycle gang, on racketeering charges. The gang operates in southern California and five other states. In an odd twist, what may be the biggest blow to the gang's activities is an attempt by the feds to seize control of the Mongols' trademarked logo, a ponytailed, Genghis Khan-like figure riding a chopper.

A homeowner bailout now looks more likely than ever. Both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, are floating plans to help homeowners stuck with bad mortgages and the threat of foreclosures. But is that the best solution to the problem? New York Times Columnist and Economix blogger David Leonhardt talks about the pitfalls of a homeowner bailout.