More Jobs: The legal sector picked up 1,000 jobs in September, The Am Law Daily reports. Since September 2011, the sector has added 5,900 positions.
One Billion Dollars: President Barack Obama is on the brink of taking in $1 billion for his re-election campaign, The Washington Post reports. Campaign manager Jim Messina wrote in an email to supporters that the president's fundraising marks "a historic record for grass-roots politics."
'In the Name of His Holiness': Paolo Gabriele, the pope's former butler, on Saturday received an 18 month prison sentence from a Vatican court for leaking confidential documents to a journalist, The New York Times reports. From a Vatican City tribunal room in a palazzo behind St. Peter’s Basilica, the chief judge, Giuseppe Dalla Torre, sentenced Gabriele "in the name of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, gloriously reigning."

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