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Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:16:50 GMT
AP - Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials gyrate within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually ending with a modest advance.
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Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:15:13 GMT
AP - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday praised Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' sense of honor at his trial on corruption charges, calling his reputation for honesty and integrity "sterling" in the quarter-century they've known each other. "As we say in the infantry, this is a guy you take on a long patrol," said the retired four-star Army general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Palin says supporters want tougher attacks on Obama
(AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:15:06 GMT
AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said more than one person has whispered in her ear in Ohio that John McCain needs "to take the gloves off" in his campaign against Democrat Barack Obama. Before a friendly crowd of Republican fundraisers Friday, the Alaska governor did that herself.
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McCain, Obama offer dueling ideas to save economy
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:09:14 GMT
AP - John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on Friday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook issues in their race for the White House.
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Paulson endorses bank stock purchase plan
(AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:04 GMT
AP - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Friday that the Bush administration will move ahead with a plan to buy stock in financial institutions.
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Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:43:50 GMT
AP - The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is finally acting to tamp it down.
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Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:35 GMT
AP - Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will be put before voters in a state where same-sex couples are legally wed.
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Man dies after balloon crashes in flames in N.M.
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:13 GMT
AP - A hot air balloon crashed into power lines and burst into flames Friday during Albuquerque's annual balloon fiesta, throwing both men on board to the ground and killing one of them. Witnesses said that winds had picked up a bit and that many of the balloons were flying low right before the Wings of Wind balloon crashed in Bernalillo, just north of Albuquerque.
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NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:09:21 GMT
AP - Who is running for president? In an upstate New York county, hundreds of voters have been sent absentee ballots in which they could vote for "Barack Osama."
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Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
(AP)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:18:46 GMT
AP - The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class.
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