Obama photo surfaces on eve of critical debate: According to The Drudge Report Web site, an Associated Press photo of Barack Obama wearing a white turban and wraparound robe during a 2006 trip to his father's homeland in Kenya was being circulated by "Clinton staffers." Hillary Clinton's campaign denies any wrongdoing, but controversy is brewing on what may or may not be a smear tactic.

Georgia school district plans to segregate students by sex: The same school district that segregated students by race nearly 40 years ago plans to place boys in one classroom and girls in another. The Greene County school district is set to become the first in the nation to go entirely single-sex in hopes of improving poor test scores, soaring dropout rates, and high numbers of teen pregnancies.

American adults drop or change religion: A new study from the Pew Forum finds that half of adults practice a different faith than the one in which they were raised or abandon religion completely. Twenty-five percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 say they have no affiliation with religion.

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