• VETERANS’ LAWYER QUITS BUSH CAMPAIGN An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush’s campaign.
• KEEPING YOUR POLITICS TO YOURSELF If you're like most corporate veterans, you can hold your own at the water cooler, whether the topic is sports, current events, or the hit HBO series of the moment. Unfortunately, though, in an election season in which passions are running hot, politics -- the national kind -- can overpower all other workplace conversations. And that can be hard on your office relationships, and perhaps hurt your career.
• WHO WILL BE THE NEXT MARTHA STEWART? With Martha Stewart heading to prison, who can replace the Queen of Quiches, the Duchess of Dumplings, the Empress of Empañadas.?
• ‘SUPER EARTH’ FOUND CIRCLING NEARBY STAR Space.com: European astronomers have discovered one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about 14 times the mass of our own.
• NIGHTLY NEWS: DISSECTING THE SWIFT BOAT ACCOUNTS Dueling accounts about what happened to five swift boats in Vietnam in 1969 are stirring controversy 35 years later. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
• REYNOLDS: OUR OWN BEST HOPE It's worth reminding ourselves to be vigilant and prepared, as many people expect terrorists to try to strike the United States before the November election.