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Rocky Mountain News - By Associated Press
Scrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced unprecedented steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The plan, unveiled Sunday, is intended to signal that the government is prepared to take all necessary steps to prevent the credit market troubles that erupted last year with losses from subprime mortgages from engulfing financial markets.
The Fed said it granted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York authority to lend to the two companies "should such lending prove necessary." They would pay 2.25 percent for any borrowed funds - the same rate given to commercial banks and big Wall Street firms.
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Rocky Mountain News - By Associated Press
Scrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced unprecedented steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The plan, u...
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SAN JOSE) – The Governor´s budget cuts to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) would devastate thousands of families and hurt the economy by reducing hours and jobs for many health care workers employed by the valuable safety net program, Democra...
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United Press International
A suicide bomb exploded Monday on a crowded street near the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 41 people and injuring 140, officials said.
Officials said the bomber rammed a car into two Indian dipl...
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) By Betsy Taylor, Associated Press
WINFIELD, Mo. -- A makeshift barrier holding back the Mississippi River failed early Saturday, swamping the low-lying part of the small community of Winfield and ending a valiant bu...
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Several Airlines Likely to Fail; Affordable, Frequent Air Travel and Jobs at Risk.
WASHINGTON and RADNOR, Pa. -- At current oil prices, several large and small U.S. airlines will default on their obligations to creditors beginning at th...
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USA TODAY: By Alan Gomez, Marisol Bello and Judy Keen
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Marie Welton figures her daughter will have to bulldoze her flooded home here. She worries about the survival of her own business, a children's hair salon, as people recover...
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By Georgina Gustin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS -- Area grocery stores have pulled some fresh tomatoes from their shelves after learning that a salmonella outbreak traced to certain tomato varieties has sickened 145 people in 16 states.
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Canadian Press - BOSTON: Banner No. 17 is halfway to the rafters. The Celtics are two wins from another NBA championship.
And maybe a little lucky to be there.
Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, Boston'...
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The Independent (UK) - By Rupert Cornwell
After an epic five-month battle that has rewritten US politics, Barack Obama last night stood poised to secure the 2008 Democratic nomination, with a very real chance of becoming the first African American ...
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Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hillary Clinton coasted to victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, a win she hoped would give her a desperately needed boost-but probably would not.
The New York senator was b...
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 By David Jackson and Richard Wolf
WASHINGTON -- It's not unusual for a former White House official to write a book -- but it is w...
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Fury at Plight of Burmese Under-Fives.
Daily Record; Glasgow (UK) By Stephen White
MORE than 30,000 kids under five will die of hunger in Burma in days unless their brutal rulers let the world help them.
That was the warning yesterday...
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 Civil and Human Rights Groups Hail Landmark Decision As Latest Step Toward Full Equality.
WASHINGTON — The California S...
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International Herald Tribune - From news reports Fierce clashes raged Thursday in Beirut after the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah said the U.S.-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its military telecommunications network.
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 PHILADELPHIA - The primaries in North Carolina and Indiana today offer Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton one more chance to tr...
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By Bronwen Roberts.
Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, where Britain's Prince Harry has been combating the Taliban, is a harsh battleground where extremists have teamed up with powerful opium lords.
It has also proven to be dead...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer - By Thomas Fitzgerald
Stitching together a coalition of blue-collar workers, white men and women, Sen. H...
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USA TODAY - By Jill Lawrence and Kathy Kiely
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton scoured Pennsylvania for votes Monday amid si...
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 USA TODAY - By Joan Biskupic and Kevin Johnson
WASHINGTON -- Several states are poised to resume executions after the Supreme Court o...
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By Stephen Magagnini, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.
Worldwide protest over China's human rights record and actions in Tibet blocked the path of the Olympic torch's worldwide run this week, just before its trek through San Francisco.
The torch was ...
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 USA TODAY, By Richard Wolf
KIEV, Ukraine -- When the United States and 25 other members of the NATO alliance meet in Bucharest this...
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Virginian - Pilot. By Jim Yardley, The New York Times BEIJING - Thousands of Buddhist monks and other Tibetans clashed with riot police in a second Chinese city on Saturday, while the authorities said they had regained control of the Tibetan capit...
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By Rupert Cornwell - The top US commander for the Middle East resigned yesterday, a step that seems to bear out reports of sharp policy differences on Iran between a hawkish White House and a uniformed military leadership opposed to military action. ...
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 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, beating rival Hillary Clinton.
Although there were ju...
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Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was the projected winner Tuesday over Barack Obama in the Texas Democratic primary, media repor...
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 By Joe Vardon, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
CINCINNATI -- A right-wing talk show host three times invoked Sen. Barack Obama's middle name w...
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By David Espo Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama of politic...
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 By Ishtiaq Mahsud and Robert H. Reid Associated Press
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban militants declared a cease- fire Wedn...
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 By Barry Wilner, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GLENDALE, Ariz. - With the Super Bowl on the line, look who had the perfection thing down Pat: Eli...
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By Tom Raum and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sparred, for the ...
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MIAMI - John McCain won Florida's Republican primary with the help of the state's wildly popular governor, his own war-hero biography an...
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Salt Lake City, Utah - The man 13 million Mormons consider to be a prophet of God and who served them as president of more
By Thomas Fitzgerald, The Philadelphia Inquirer
S.C. -- Sen. Barack Obama crushed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday in the South ...
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It was a kinder, gentler GOP debate Thursday night.
Unlike prior gatherings, in which John McCain and Mike Huckabee attacked Mitt Romn...
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 Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
JERUSALEM - President Bush began an eight-day Middle East peace mission Wednesday as Israeli leaders w...
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USA TODAY - By Jill Lawrence MANCHESTER, N.H. -- New Hampshire voters make their presidential picks today in an environment trans...
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 Virginian - Pilot: By MATT APUZZO, The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Justice Department opened a full criminal investigation...
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Treacherous Political Situation Takes Another Blow. International Herald Tribune - By Salman Masood and Graham Bowley Graham Bowley reported and David Rohde contributed reporting from New York. The Pakistani opposition leader Bena...
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 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - By Mark Lavie Associated Press
JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister pledged Sunday to continue attac...
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Virginian - Pilot, By Scott Shane - The New York Times
WASHINGTON - The CIA has agreed to make documents related to the destruction of interrogation videotapes available to the House intelligence committee and to allow the agency's top lawyer, Jo...
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Obama Breakfasts With U.S. Troops
Likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had breakfast with U.S. troops in Afghanistan Sunday before meeting with the the country's president.
Favre Creating GB Rift: At Martha's Coffee Club, Some Want Him Back and Some Don't
Jul. 20--OK, I admit it.
Cristobal Overcomes 'Depression': Upgraded to 'Tropical Storm' and Given a Name, the Disturbance Poses Little Threat Along N.C. Coast
Jul. 20--Tropical Storm Cristobal's northeast crawl off the state's seaboard is expected to drag some bands of rain along the coast today, with wind gusts reaching up to 63 mph as it moves up past the Outer Banks this evening.
Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Jim Souhan Column: Jim Souhan: Favre Hurting Legacy, Even If He Doesn't Play
-- stands the most obvious question of all:
Favre Diverts Spotlight to Men of Hour: He's Greeted Warmly at Hall of Fame Ceremony
Jul. 20--GREEN BAY -- No one wanted to talk about him and no one wanted to talk about that, but the fact that Brett Favre even showed up says something about the ties to this Green Bay Packers franchise that bind.
Batman's Record Knight
THE new Batman movie has shattered US box office records.
Gale More Like Breeze for Shark
FOR a guy standing on the verge of history Greg Norman couldn't have looked more relaxed.
Extra Troops Can Not End Afghan Security Crisis - Observer
Text of report by state-run Iranian radio external service from Mashhad on 17 July
Obama, Afghan President Discuss War on Terror, Corruption
Text of report by Afghan independent Tolo TV, on 20 July
'Shark' Wed to Idea of Third Title
Boosted by his new wife, Australia's fiftysomething shows no sign of slowing down his inspirational charge
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Gary West Column: Victory Today Erases Shark's Old Failures
Jul. 20--From within a cocoon of complacency, Greg Norman always seemed to say, 'it's just a game.'
Visit Shows Security is Obama's Top Priority - Afghan Daily
Text of article entitled: "Barack Obama gave priority to Afghanistan", published by privately-owned Afghan newspaper Payman daily on 20 July
Shark Sinks Teeth into British
SOUTHPORT, England -- Greg Norman has another chance to win a major.
Tropical Storm Cristobal Menaces Carolinas
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Camera-toting vacationers in North Myrtle Beach hoped for a lightning show as Tropical Storm Cristobal rumbled offshore.
'Knight' Breaks Record With $66.4M on Day 1
Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office record.
Afghan Daily Says Officials Do Not Give Visiting Obama True Picture
Text of editorial entitled "Obama should get familiar with Afghanistan's realities", published by Afghan independent secular daily newspaper Hasht-e Sobh on 20 July
First Tropical Storm Rumbles Off N.C. Coast
By John Warren and Shawn Day
General Sees Al-Qaida Turning Away From Iraq
After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casualties are running higher than in Iraq, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday.
'Dark Knight' Sets $66.4 Million Record
Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office record.
Poised for a Fantastic Finish
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