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Washington Post
Paulson Engineers US Takeover of Fannie, Freddie (Update2)
Bloomberg - 30 minutes ago
By Rebecca Christie and Dawn Kopecki Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The US government seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after the biggest surge in mortgage defaults in at least three decades threatened to topple the companies making up almost half ...
Video: Feds Assume Control of Mortgage Giants AssociatedPress
FDIC to help small banks with Fannie, Freddie exposure MarketWatch
New York Times - Reuters - Wall Street Journal - Forbesall 3,315 news articles
Wall Street Journal
Hurricane, at Category 4, Heads Toward Cuba
New York Times - 46 minutes ago
By MARIA NEWMAN Hurricane Ike grew into a bigger threat to Florida and the Gulf Coast Sunday as it roared through the Bahamas mid-morning, with forecasters expecting it to gain in strength as it approaches Cuba.
Video: Raw Video: Hurricane Ike Slams Into Caribbean AssociatedPress
Category 4 Hurricane Ike hits Turks and Caicos islands hard Los Angeles Times
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Christian Science Monitor
India a step closer to nuclear trade
Christian Science Monitor - 37 minutes ago
The Nuclear Suppliers Group agreed Saturday to lift a 34-year ban on selling nuclear technology to India, even though it hasn't signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
US Congress signals it will clear N-deal Times of India
India Joins Nuclear Market Slashdot
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Bloomberg - 45 minutes ago
By Theophilos Argitis and Alexandre Deslongchamps Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he's the best steward for an economy expanding at the slowest pace in 16 years and warned opposition plans to fund spending and tax ...
Canada's prime minister calls early election The Associated Press
News Analysis: Why Canadian prime minister calls early election Xinhua
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Welt Online
Pakistan's Zardari prepares for presidency
AFP - 2 hours ago
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan president-elect Asif Ali Zardari faced immediate pressure Sunday to tackle an upsurge in militant violence, as the toll from a suicide blast in the country's troubled northwest reached 33.
Suicide blast kills 35 in Pakistan; Zardari set to take power International Herald Tribune
Turkish president congratulates Zardari on being elected Pakistani ... Xinhua
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Christian Science Monitor
Lesson 1: What's 'binge drinking'?
Albany Times Union - Sep 4, 2008
By STEVEN V. ANDERSON College students they find themselves at the center of a national debate on underage binge drinking as they return to school this fall.
SAVE AND SHARE Philadelphia Inquirer
Colleges take on drinking age Christian Science Monitor
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AFP
Rice Urges Morocco, Algeria to Resolve Western Sahara Dispute
Bloomberg - 29 minutes ago
By Viola Gienger Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concluded her first tour of North Africa in Morocco today, where she urged the countries in the region to resolve the three-decade old dispute over the territory of Western ...
Rice presses African allies on terror cooperation The Associated Press
Rice holds terrorism talks in Morocco on last leg of tour AFP
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Newsweek
The Threatening Storm
TIME - 37 minutes ago
By MICHAEL GRUNWALD Workers from the Army Corps of Engineers finish the last part of the new flood wall at the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans, La.
Video: Jindal: Serious Challenges Remain AssociatedPress
Louisiana Mops Up Newsweek
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Wall Street Journal
Boeing machinists walk off the job as talks fail
Reuters - 8 hours ago
By Bill Rigby and Daisuke Wakabayashi NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 27000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer following two days of emergency talks.
Striking Machinists stand firm Seattle Post Intelligencer
Boeing machinists walk off the job MarketWatch
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USA Today
Weather Disrupts Itinerary of Cruise
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By CHRISTINE HAUSER and DARYL KHAN They expected sandy beaches and azure waters. Instead, hundreds of cruise ship passengers debarked on Saturday in New York City into the path of a tropical storm that they had just spent eight days trying to avoid on ...
Cruise lines change course to cut fuel Boston Globe
Hurricane Ike forces quick changes to cruise ship itineraries USA Today
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Canada.com
General Dynamics-built GeoEye-1 Satellite Successfully Launched Today
MarketWatch - 20 hours ago
GILBERT, Ariz., Sept 06, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The GeoEye-1 satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched into a 423-mile orbit today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
GeoEye launches high-resolution satellite Reuters
Satellite launched Saturday to provide color and multispectral ... Military & Aerospace Electronics
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Boston Globe
Sarah Palin, media 'piranhas,' lobbyists
The Swamp - Tribune's Washington Bureau - 1 hour ago
by Mark Silva "This ultimately isn't a race between us and Sarah Palin,'' David Axelrod, chief strategist for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, says today.
Palin floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee San Francisco Chronicle
Obama zeros in on Palin's early earmark acceptance Chicago Tribune
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Boston Globe
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Tom Friedman
MSNBC - 49 minutes ago
MR. TOM BROKAW: Our issues this Sunday: Senator McCain accepts the Republican Party's nomination for president of the United States.
Biden says he looks forward to debate with Palin The Associated Press
From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro: CBS News
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GulfNews
2 Americas, a world apart
Chicago Tribune - 5 hours ago
ST. PAUL—The America here has no suffering middle class to speak of, just like the America in Denver barely sweats terrorist threats.
In Campaign 2008, the story's the thing Los Angeles Times
George W. Palin Atlantic Online
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The Associated Press
CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
GENEVA (AP) - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.
World's Biggest Atom Smasher to Start-up Voice of America
Land Of Big Science Newsweek
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eFluxMedia
Looking forward to 2018, let’s hear your predictions
ZDNet - 1 hour ago
Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way.
German Security Office Smells Stink on Google Chrome Mashable
Google Chrome Reflects A Desktop In Decline InformationWeek
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ABC News
Google: You've Come a Long Way, Baby!
PC Magazine - 1 hour ago
by Lance Ulanoff A little less than a decade ago, the still new (and still carrying an exclamation point) Google was good enough to merit a spot on PC Magazine's annual list of Top 100 Web Sites.
Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 -- and 20 Los Angeles Times
To Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before ZDNet
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E! Online
Nicolas Cage movie "Bangkok" bombs at box office
Reuters - 39 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Less than a year after starring in the biggest movie of his volatile career, Nicolas Cage returned to the top of the North American box office on Sunday with one of his weakest.
Cage's 'Bangkok' tops worst movie weekend since 2001 USA Today
Bangkok Dangerous New York Times
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BBC News
Britney 'Getting an Opportunity to Start Over' at VMAs
People Magazine - 1 hour ago
By Brian Orloff and Nicholas White The pop star will again openMTV's Video Music Awards, which will broadcast live from Los Angeles's Paramount Studios on Sunday night (9 pm ET).
One More Time: Britney returns to MTV VMAs The Associated Press
Brand on hosting MTV awards BBC News
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Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
Please tell me that Evan Rachel Wood is just kidding around with her "The Wrestler" costar Mickey Rourke at the film's Venice Film Festival premiere.
Wrestling with one for the airheads Financial Times
Reuters Entertainment Summary Washington Post
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Bleacher Report
After Gustav, New Orleans Saints happy to be home versus Bucs
The Canadian Press - 55 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Drew Brees wasn't with the Saints when they fled New Orleans as hurricane Katrina approached in 2005, so he talked to neighbours before the team left for Indianapolis last weekend to get out of Gustav's way.
News: Galloway has been nursing a sore groin, but is expected to ... FOXSports.com
Defense braces for Saints' assault Orlando Sentinel
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New York Times
Federer Reaches Final Before Rain
New York Times - 18 hours ago
By LIZ ROBBINS Roger Federer was acing like old times - up the middle, out wide, serving up even more frustration for the snarling Novak Djokovic.
Video: Federer Beats Djokovic to Reach US Open Final AssociatedPress
Roger Federer may be himself again Los Angeles Times
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Times Online
Raikkonen's title hopes doused by Hamilton at Spa
Motorsport.com - 43 minutes ago
By JK Thompson - Motorsport.com For chaos, add water. The underlying theme of Formula One is borne out in Belgium like nowhere else.
Lewis Hamilton Reigns at Spa AutoWeek
Hamilton wins a wet and wild Belgian Grand Prix Kansas City Star
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TheMedGuru
Health Highlights: Sept. 6, 2008
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
On the heels of the huge nationwide salmonella outbreak that caused more than 1400 illnesses from Mexican peppers, a regional Oregon alfalfa sprout distributor has recalled its product in Oregon and Washington state after the sprouts were linked to 13 ...
Salmonellosis outbreak prompts sprout recall Forbes
Salmonella outbreak traced to alfalfa sprouts Seattle Post Intelligencer
TheMedGuru - Seattle Times - eFluxMedia - HeraldNetall 80 news articles
ChattahBox
Genome analysis used to decode brain cancer: study
AFP - Sep 6, 2008
PARIS (AFP) - US scientists have unveiled the most complete genetic profile ever attempted of glioblastoma, a common and deadly form of the brain cancer that US Senator Edward Kennedy is battling.
We Fought Cancer…And Cancer Won HealthNewsDigest.com
In Long-Awaited Maps of Cancer, The Breakthrough Is the Problem Wall Street Journal
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E Canada Now
Health Buzz: Immunosuppressive Drug Warning and Other Health News
U.S. News & World Report - Sep 5, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration has asked the manufacturers of Humira, Cimzia, Enbrel, and Remicade—which belong to a class of medications known as tumor necrosis factor alpha blockers (TNF-alpha blockers)—to strengthen the warning for risk of fungal ...
FDA urges more caution over TNF blocker infections Reuters
Arthritis Drugs Linked to Risks From Infection New York Times
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