Washington Post Top Online Stories: Mon 11/08/10

The Washington Post lead headline online early Monday morning says "For many businesses, 2010 midterm election campaign was a winner." The paper says the 2010 election season was good for Design Cuisine of Arlington, which took in more than $500,000 in catering fees.

The paper says Keith Olbermann's "indefinite" suspension from MSNBC turns out to be definitely short: two days.

It says without additional government action to spur hiring, President Obama said Sunday that he fears the U.S. economy could enter a "new normal" in which corporate profits are high but the number of new jobs is too low to reduce the nation's 9.6 percent unemployment rate to pre-recession levels.

The paper says as foreclosures began to mount across the country three years ago, a group of state bank regulators suspected that some borrowers might be losing their homes unnecessarily.

It says Conan O'Brien is ready to reach out and touch the audience in his cozy new studio - if the lawyers don't stop him.

And the most popular story says the Federal Reserve's aggressive action this week to boost the economy sent stocks soaring Thursday to their highest level in two years as investors expressed renewed confidence that someone in Washington was finally giving the sluggish recovery a lift.