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 known. Mukasey was delivering ...
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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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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. The economic picture was only getting worse ...
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. lawmakers deadlocked on a plan to bail out the Big Three automakers, leaving General Motors Corp. facing the prospect it could run out of cash before a new Congress can come to the rescue next year. Democratic congressional leaders disagreed with Republicans and President ...
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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 (AP) — Show us the plan and we’ll show you the money. That’s the message the Democratic-led Congress gave Detroit’s Big Three automakers Thursday. With that, bailout-fatigued lawmakers closed up shop for Thanksgiving, leaving the nation’s once-mighty and now foundering car ...
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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. 26 and Jan. 9, while they evaluate whether borrowers qualify for a new loan modification program. Fannie ...
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