NEW YORK (AP) _ Wall Street staged a surprising comeback Friday, with the major indexes jumping more than 5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points in a late afternoon rally, ending another volatile week that saw stocks reach six-year lows. Stocks erased about half of the ...
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WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has accepted the offer to become Barack Obama 's secretary of state, according to reports in The New York Times . Clinton, New York 's junior senator, made her decision to take the position after a second discussion of her role with Obama, the report said ...
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US stocks rallied and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rebounded from an 11-year low after President-elect Barack Obama picked New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner to head the Treasury. ''This news could really give the stock market a badly needed shot in the arm,'' Chris Rupkey ...
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LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill that adds a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that led to the abandonment of nearly three-dozen children, including some teenagers as old as 17. The law goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. local time Saturday. Heineman signed the bill ...
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WASHINGTON -- With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a speech the night before and spurring a 14-hour scare about his health. A Justice Department spokeswoman blamed the 67-year-old’s dramatic and public fall ...
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LIMA, Peru - Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other Asia-Pacific leaders are gathering in the Peruvian capital for a summit expected to be dominated by talks on how to get ahead of the global financial crisis. Harper left Ottawa Friday morning and is expected to arrive in Lima early in the evening ...
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) _ The Golden State Warriors traded disgruntled forward Al Harrington to the Knicks for guard Jamal Crawford on Friday in a swap that addresses both the Warriors' injury problems and New York's salary cap concerns. "I drafted Al back in 1998, and I think his talents are a great ...
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