While voter registration for the US presidential election ended on Monday, Republicans and Democrats across the country are still trying to sign up as many new voters as possible. Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports from Ohio, a key battleground state, where nearly 700,000 new voters have been signed up since December 2007.
Wall Street banks aren't the only ones asking for money from the US federal government. Until recently General Motors was the biggest carmaker in the world. It's been building new factories to build fuel-efficient cars to try to win back its position but it now needs billions of dollars just to keep its old factories open. Tom Ackerman reports from Youngstown in Ohio.
Just over two years ago she was a small-town mayor, but now Sarah Palin, Alaska's 44-year-old governor and mother of five, is the Republican's first female vice-presidential candidate. She was presented to the party faithful at a rally in Dayton, Ohio during the Republican's convention. John McCain said Palin was exactly what he needed to complete the party's ticket. But his choice, has raised a few eyebrows because of her relative inexperience.