Top News Roundup

Rudy Giuliani has beaten Mitt Romney in the race for campaign cash, raising $11 million in the third quarter of the election season. Romney criticizes Giuliani's management of taxpayer money, saying that Giuliani opposed both a line-item veto and the repeal of a New York City commuter tax.

Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke opposes Giuliani's pro-abortion beliefs. In 2004, Burke said he would refuse communion to pro-abortion Catholic John Kerry. This year, he said he'd deny communion to Giuliani, too.

The nation's largest abortion clinic opened today in Illinois. About 100 pro-life protesters gathered across the street to pray, read the Bible, and sing.

Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" remark continues to stir up controversy as pundits and soldiers take sides. Democratic candidate Bill Richardson would end the debate by immediately pulling troops from Iraq: "The foundation of my Iraq plan is this: Get out now. Get all our troops out now."

The New York Times reports a secret Justice Department document that is "an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques every used by the Central Intelligence Agency." The White House and Justice Department deny that they allowed torture.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has "passed the difficult points" on its path to a nuclear energy industry: "No power can stop this nation from making more and more (atomic) achievements," he said.