The dollar gained additional support as U.S. stocks traded little changed and cautious investors squared positions ahead of a key decision on U.S. interest rates.

A defiant Rep. Joe Wilson says he has no plans to make further apologies to Obama or House Democrats.

HBO COMEDIAN BILL MAHER IN BOLD OBAMA RACE SKETCH...(Third column, 2nd story, link)

The ruble climbed to a nine-month high against the U.S. dollar as investors increasingly target carry trades in developing-world assets.

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Susan Boyle Takes on Rolling Stones...(First column, 4th story, link)

The dollar selloff should gain steam this week if data continue to paint a brightening picture of the economy.

Are this year's "tea parties" really tea parties? What could today's protesters have in common with the "Indians" who dumped 90,000 pounds of tea in Boston harbor in 1773? Quite a bit, actually.
What do today's tea partiers want? According to the Christian Science Monitor, the movement "is about safeguarding individual liberty, cutting taxes, and ending bailouts for business while the American taxpayer gets burdened with more public debt. It is fueled by concern that the United States under Mr. Obama is becoming a European-style social democracy where individual initiative is sapped by the needs of the collective." Broadly speaking, the tea parties reflect a growing anger in America that...