USA Today Top Online Stories: Thu 11/18/10

The USA Today lead headline online early Thursday morning says "'Deathly Hallows, Part 1': A magical beginning to the end." The paper says far from Hogwarts and closer to his final confrontation with evil Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter's cinematic days are numbered.

It says the first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of most charges that he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 — an opening salvo in al-Qaeda's campaign to kill Americans.

The paper says fans rushed to snatch the last caffeinated cans of Four Loko off store shelves as the federal government warned four companies that their caffeinated malt-alcohol drinks are "unsafe" and violate federal law.

It says Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski won her re-election bid Wednesday, making her the first person elected to the Senate as a write-in candidate since South Carolina's Strom Thurmond in 1954.

And the most popular story on USA Today says Bristol Palin in the finals of ABC ballroom competition Dancing With the Stars? Shocker!