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Hi everyone, I'm Asieh Namda at the CNN. com newsroom in Atlanta. Here is a look at what is happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

The battleground states-they are top focus on the campaign trail. On the Republican side, Senator John McCain and Sarah Palin are visiting a total of four key battleground states. And it's a busy night for McCain, also he will be appearing on Saturday Night Live in New York. And Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden are heading to West and Midwest looking to keeping their tightening¹ lead. At a campaign stop in Nevada this morning, Obama told the crowd they can't get overconfidence because of "favorable polls".

Early voters out in force in several key battleground states. In Broward County Florida, lines are long enough to stretch around polling locations, running hundreds of feet. And it is much the same in North Carolina, the state's election board ruled voting sites are to be opened a few hours longer than planned. But individual counties can close the polls early in some cases.

A Washington lawmaker is asking for investigation² into immigration status leak of Barack Obama's aunt. The Democratic lawmaker representive John Cornel of Michigan is suggesting that the Republican Bush administration maybe behind the leak information, Zeitouni Onyango is said to be living in a Boston public housing unite. She is from Kenya, where Barack's father was born. The Associated Press says she was asked to leave the US, after a judge denied her asylum³ application four years ago. Obama says he didn' t know that his aunt was living in the US illegally.

To the Democratic Republic of Congo now, where US diplomats⁴ says both sides behind the ceasefire are committed to keeping it. Refugees today got a glimmer⁵ of hope after getting food and water for the first time in days. Tens of thousands have been displaced by the violence. The conflict diffused⁶ by hostilities⁷ between rival tribes and Congo's unrelenting civil wars.

And a Pakistani court has freed the parents of a 5-year-old girl and 7-year-boy on bail⁸, after they were arrested for trying to wed⁹ the children. Both kids in traditional wedding clothes were carried by policemen after a raid in Carachi . The parents reportedly arranged the wedding to end a long feud¹⁰ between the families. A Pakistan human right commission says the maximum punishment for the parents should be one month in prison and a fine of about ten dollars.

And those are the headlines this hour. For more on these stories and other news of the day, CNN is your source online, on TV or when you are on the go.