WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation's intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 494 points on the ...
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Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN head Kofi Annan, and Graca Machel, wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, seen from left, during a news conference in Johannesburg, Staurday, Nov. 22, 2008. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he and others have been refused entry to ...
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The New York Knicks acquired Golden State Warriors forward Al Harrington in exchange for guard Jamal Crawford Friday. "I drafted Al back in 1998 and I think his talents are a great fit for our style of play," Knicks president Donnie Walsh said in a statement. "This trade also gives us more long-term ...
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. - An Army wife accused of setting her apartment on fire botched an attempt to collect on her husband's $400,000 insurance policy when he survived and her two children died instead, a federal prosecutor said. Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, was denied bond at a Friday hearing in northeast ...
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Our president-elect speaks with a moderate and reassuring tone on many of his policy views. But on some issues, the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress may have different ideas and likely will hand Barack Obama bills that are further left than his pronouncements. Obama says he wants to raise taxes ...
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DHARMSALA, India - Delegates say that exiled Tibetan leaders meeting on how to advance their struggle for freedom have agreed to keep following the Dalai Lama's path of compromise with China. Tenzin Tsundue, 33, a poet and participant in the meeting says, "we are going to go ahead with middle path ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint. As the crews of the orbiting shuttle-station complex focused on the greasy outdoor ...
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