LONDON (AP) _ European and Asian stock markets rebounded Friday as expectations of a recovery on Wall Street prompted investors to scoop up battered financial and energy shares. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 42.78 points, or 1.1 percent, at 3,917.77, while Germany's DAX was 46 ...
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Stories, multimedia, photos and video of the senator from New York and her run for the White House in 2008. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a U.S. Senator from the state of New York. She is a member of the Democratic Party, is married to former President Bill Clinton, and was defeated by Barack Obama in ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Attorney General Michael Mukasey was hospitalized but conscious and alert early Friday after collapsing during a late-night speech to a conservative legal group. It was not clear when the nation's 67-year-old chief law enforcer would be released from George Washington University ...
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WASHINGTON - With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush is about to ensure that millions of laid-off workers won't see their unemployment checks disappear as the year-end holidays approach. Bush is expected to sign into law an extension of jobless benefits as early as Friday ...
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MORE than 19,000 school children died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China acknowledged today for the first time. The earthquake left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing, but the government has never before said how many of the casualties were students. Most of them ...
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European and Asian stock markets rebounded Friday as expectations of a recovery on Wall Street prompted investors to scoop up battered financial and energy shares. A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones... A board on the floor of the New York ...
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US Congressional leaders have asked the country's three big car manufacturers to submit a new viable restructuring plan before their request for a multi-billion bailout can be approved. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said General Motors, Ford and Chrysler had failed to convince the American ...
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