WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and lost consciousness, a Justice Department official said. The 67-year-old Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, where his condition was not immediately. Mukasey was delivering a ...
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AFP/File – US president-elect Barack Obama (L) and New York Senator Hillary Clinton address supporters during a … WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama is on track to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, an aide to his transition said Thursday. One week ...
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BEIJING (AP) -- China acknowledged Friday for the first time that more than 19,000 schoolchildren were among the dead in the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May. The earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing, but the government had never said how many of the casualties ...
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WASHINGTON— With weekly jobless claims benefits at a 16-year high, the White House said Thursday that President George W. Bush would quickly sign legislation pending in Congress to provide further unemployment benefits. The Senate this week is expected to take up a bill, already passed by the ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are suspending foreclosures during the holiday season. The two companies say they will halt foreclosure sales between Nov. 26th and Jan. 9th, while they evaluate whether borrowers qualify for a new loan modification program ...
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WASHINGTON : The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought by Detroit's beleaguered Big Three American automakers, collapsed Thursday as Congress drew the line at one more bailout. Democrats said they wouldn't even consider it until the companies produced a convincing plan ...
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With that, bailout-fatigued lawmakers closed up shop for Thanksgiving, leaving the nation's foundering car companies scrambling to meet a Dec. 2 deadline to come up with plans to modernize their industry. "We want them to get their act together. We want them to come up with something," said Senate ...
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