New York, Oct 25 : Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan’s career is said to be on the verge of dying after the ‘Ugly Betty’ bomb hit it.

It is being predicted that after the reduction of Lohan’s role to mere four episodes, following an alleged feud between her and lead actress America Ferrera, her career is almost in the burial.

"It''s over for Lindsay, she''s got no film work, and after this [''Ugly Betty'' news], she''s not going to land TV jobs,” the New York Daily News quoted an insider telling MSNBC

“I hear she''s even tried to get on ‘Dancing With the Stars'' and can''t," the insider added.

Washington, Oct 25 : Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s popularity is depleting by the day, even as less than two weeks are left for the Nov 4 elections. According to Washington Post, public perception about Palin was falling because people believe that she lacks experience to handle the second-highest post.

According to White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, the reigning first couple of the country, President Bush and Mrs. Bush, cast their ballots Friday for the 2008 election, using Texas’ early voting process. In the three elections, Bush voted in Crawford, Texas, where he owns a 1,600 acre ranch.

Saying that the President and his wife, Laura, would be at the White House for election night, Perino said the ballots will be mailed back to Texas.

The reporters, of course, are leaving no stone unturned to know which of the two presidential candidates – Republican McCain and Democratic Obama – got the present President’s vote.

According to administration sources, secretary of Governor David Paterson, Charles O’Byrne, has resigned on Friday, after a week of increasing criticism over his failure to pay income taxes for 2001-05 – an amount of $300,000 - on time, and not offering a tangible reason for the lapse.

A source told Newsday that O’Byrne has had to leave his $178,500 job primarily “because of the taxes.” O’Byrne blamed his tax delinquency on clinical depression, for which he has undergone treatment three times.

Negotiations for the potential sale or merger of Chrysler LLC withstanding, the automaker announced Friday that it will cut 25 percent of its white-collared work force – that is, 5,000 jobs - to deal with a continued downward spiral in US auto sales.

The announcement of the cut is a blow for Detroit, as it implies that Chrysler, which has about 18,500 white-collar workers, will remove about 5,000 salaried workers and employees who work for other companies under contract with the automaker.

Washington, Oct 25 : In what is being described as an after-affect of former Secretary of State Colin Powell committing his support for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, a large number of Republican moderates, neo-cons and former aides to President Bush who have announced that they will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.

Powell had last week crossed party lines to announce his support for Barack Obama.