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Questions, and Hope, on Plans for Mortgage Giants - New York Times
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By VIKAS BAJAJ and ERIC DASH For months, the questions hanging over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the beleaguered mortgage giants, have unnerved Wall Street and Main Street.
US to take control of mortgage giants - newspapers
Paulson Meets With Bernanke, Fannie, Freddie Chiefs (Update2)
Desperate Hanna watchers: Track the storm - Baltimore Sun
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Hanna is making her final approach to the US mainland tonight. She's no hurricane, but it doesn't require a hurricane to generate a whole lotta trouble for Maryland.
Video: NC Gov.: Hanna Will Affect Most of the State
Hanna Charging Towards Carolina Coast
US Libya relations in 'new phase' - BBC News
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Relations between the US and Libya have entered a "new phase", according to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Speaking after a historic meeting with Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, she said the talks were very fruitful.
Video: Inside Story - Rice visits Libya - 03 Sep 08 - Part 1
Rice sits down with Gadhafi
Bhutto's widower set to become Pakistan president - AFP
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan lawmakers were Saturday expected to elect slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower as president of the frontline state in the United States-led "war on terror".
Pakistan yearns for political saviour
Pakistan set for presidency vote
Thailand to buy 40% more rice from farmers - Financial Times
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By Amy Kazmin in Bangkok Thailand’s struggling government has agreed to buy 40 per cent more rice from farmers this year, a decision that could boost its popularity among rural voters as it prepares to face a national referendum aimed at ending an ...
Video: Locking horns over politics in Thailand -- 05 September 2008
Thailand: What might happen next?
Federal Highway Fund About to Run Out of Money - New York Times
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By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON - An important account in the federal Highway Trust Fund will run out of money this month, which could hamper completion of road and bridge construction projects across the country, Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said ...
Transportation Dept. almost out of highway funds
Federal highway payments delayed, state to lose millions
Some See a Fighting Spirit as Detroit Mayor’s Ruin - New York Times
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By SUSAN SAULNY and NICK BUNKLEY DETROIT - When it looked to most people around here as if a 31-year-old might be too young to win a mayoral election, Kwame M. Kilpatrick decided to take on the fight, and the reward was his inauguration in 2002 as ...
Video: A Timeline of Detroit Mayor's Text Scandal
Kilpatrick, Cockrel to meet; 140 could lose jobs
Gun Sighting Leads to Arrest Near Library of Congress - New York Times
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By ASHLEY SOUTHALL The police said they arrested a driver on a street near the Library of Congress after he stopped to ask an officer for directions and a rifle was spotted in the vehicle.
Video: Police: Armed Man Arrested Near US Capitol
Capitol Police Arrest Man with Explosive
US Boeing workers set to strike - BBC News
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Production at the world's biggest aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, is to stop in the US after 27000 workers at the company called a strike over pay.
Boeing workers to strike at midnight -- reports
Boeing Labor Talks Fail; Machinists Union Set to Strike
Dell May Shrink Its Network of Factories - New York Times
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By STEVE LOHR Dell, in a government filing this week, strongly suggested that it planned to shrink its network of factories as part of the computer company’s drive to reduce costs.
Dell considers plan to outsource production and sell its factories
Report: Dell may sell its manufacturing operations
SanDisk Shares Soar on Samsung Interest - BusinessWeek
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by Arik Hesseldahl Battered by a year of flagging prices for flash-memory chips and by an inability to get traction in sales of digital media devices, SanDisk (SNDK) may soon get scooped up by South Korean electronics giant Samsung Group.
Samsung Weighs Buying SanDisk
Samsung considers alliance or bid for SanDisk
Palin may bring more Georgia evangelicals to McCain camp - Atlanta Journal Constitution
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By CHRISTOPHER QUINN, AARON GOULD SHEININ Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, with her conservative Christian credentials, appears to have turned grudging support from Georgia evangelicals into an excited buzz that may translate into votes for John McCain.
McCain counts on character to clinch it
McCain, Obama Vie For 'Reformist' Mantle
McCain seizes on theme of ‘change’ - Financial Times
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By Daniel Dombey in Washington John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday night by seeking to wrest the mantle of change from Barack Obama in a speech that mixed appeals to patriotism, criticism of Washington and a promise ...
Video: McCain Vs. Obama: Got Change?
Revere Ronald Reagan? Then respect Barack Obama
Partisanship Appears to Sway Opinions on Palin - Washington Post
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By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta Republicans and Democrats have deeply contrasting first impressions of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, suggesting partisanship, not gender, is paramount in the initial public reviews.
Sarah Palin, if her life was a movie
Half of Voters Doubt Palin Has Necessary Experience, Poll Says
Critics Boo Microsoft's Seinfeld-Gates Ad - Red Herring
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by Lalee Sadighi The much-anticipated Jerry Seinfeld-Bill Gates commercial, intended to give a face-lift to Microsoft’s tired image, aired Thursday evening during the season’s first National Football League game, but it failed to impress critics.
Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista
Seinfeld and Gates' Microsoft misfire
Google Chrome Hit With Another Security Bug - CRN
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By Stefanie Hoffman, ChannelWeb Less than a week after the release of Google's new Web browser Chrome, security researchers detected a buffer overflow vulnerability that could enable remote attackers to completely take control of a user's computer.
NetSuite boasts of Google Chrome support
NetSuite Says Chrome-optimized Apps Are Flying
Subatomic safety revisited - MSNBC
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As Europe's CERN particle-physics center is counting down to the official startup of the Large Hadron Collider, a report reassuring the public that the world's largest atom-smasher won't destroy the world is getting a second wave of publicity.
Large Hadron Collider scientists receiving death threats
Science outreach done right: the LHC
Use of 'Barracuda' for Sarah Palin nets GOP a Heart attack - New York Daily News
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BY NANCY DILLON They put the "amp" in campaign and get voters tapping their toes to the ballot box - but hit songs can be tricky territory for political campaigns.
Heartless GOP
Republicans Take Heart; Heart Takes It Back
Ryan Kwanten Is Bloody Hot - E! Online
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Ryan Kwanten has no problems being more naked than not on the new HBO vampire series, True Blood. In the new drama from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, Kwanten plays Jason Stackhouse, a small-town Louisiana hick who doesn't seem interested in ...
True Blood
Vampires Stake a Claim on Audiences' Hearts
Film Review: Bangkok Dangerous - Hollywood Reporter
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By Stephen Farber Everything is relative in the realm of hyperviolent movies, and compared to this summer's other assassination thriller, "Wanted," "Bangkok Dangerous" is a model of restraint and moral rectitude.
Video: 'Bangkok Dangerous' - Not a Safe Bet
'Bangkok' is dangerous - for Cage's career
Taking Aim at Title and Top Spot - New York Times
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By LIZ ROBBINS Serena Williams steamrolled Dinara Safina, smacking screaming winners past her and at her, and when she was done, Williams had even bent the swirling wind to her will.
US Open: Serena Williams ready to win
Serena, Jankovic to meet in US Open final
Third-inning barrage lifts Braves to win - MLB.com
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By Mark Bowman / MLB.com ATLANTA -- Maybe the Braves were motivated by the fact that they were inching closer to their first last-place finish in 18 years.
Braves notch back-to-back wins over Nats
Brandon Jones helps Braves beat Nationals
Phillies 3, Mets 0 Mets Find a Victory Is Just Out of Reach - New York Times
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By BEN SHPIGEL Greg Dobbs’s seventh-inning fly ball Friday night appeared to stand an equally reasonable chance of dropping beyond the right-field fence or nestling in the glove of Ryan Church, who was patiently timing his leap.
Phils blank Mets, shrink gap in East
National League Game Summary - Philadelphia at New York
FDA System to List Drugs - Wall Street Journal
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By JARED A. FAVOLE WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday unveiled a new system to tell health-care professionals and consumers of drugs it is investigating for potential adverse events.
20 Drugs FDA Is Watching
FDA posts list of drugs that may be unsafe
Health Buzz: Immunosuppressive Drug Warning and Other Health News - U.S. News & World Report
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The Food and Drug Administration has asked the manufacturers of Humira, Cimzia, Enbrel, and Remicade—which belong to a class of medications known as tumor necrosis factor alpha blockers (TNF-alpha blockers)—to strengthen the warning for risk of fungal ...
FDA urges more caution over TNF blocker infections
Arthritis Drugs Linked to Risks From Infection
West Nile virus kills San Bernardino County man - Los Angeles Times
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By Amanda Covarrubias, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer A 48-year-old San Bernardino County man has died of West Nile virus, the third death this year in California from the mosquito-borne illness, authorities said today.
Atlantan gets West Nile virus
West Nile concerns health officials
