A man walks past an electronic stock board in downtown Tokyo Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average gained 207.75 points, or 2.7 percent, to close at 7,910.79 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after losing nearly 7 percent the day before. BANGKOK, Thailand—Most Asian and ...
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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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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 - 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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McALLEN, Texas -- Lawyers seeking to halt the indictments brought against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others are accusing the prosecutor of trying to end his tenure with a bang and even scores with political enemies. Willacy County District Attorney Juan ...
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Resize NEW YORK -- The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. said Thursday it will cut its worldwide work force by 4 percent, or about 1,800 jobs, blaming the weak global economy. It's the latest in a string of banks to announce layoffs. "It has become clear that we need to take additional steps beyond our ...
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A French judicial official says preliminary terrorism charges have been filed against the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA. The official says a French judge filed preliminary charges of "association with a terrorist enterprise" against Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu, known as Txeroki ...
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