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Reuters - Stocks ended higher on Thursday after
a major bond insurer reassured investors about its stability,
fueling a rebound by financial shares hammered recently by the
prospect of crumbling credit markets.
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“AP - Germans are gaga over Barack Obama. He’s got Japan pretty jazzed, too, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Russia’s leaders, not so much: They prefer a Republican — as long as it’s not Kremlin critic John McCain.”
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AP - Adam “Pacman” Jones is busy clearing away the legal problems that led to his suspension from the NFL.
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AP - DNA evidence now links the suspected abduction of a 19-year-old woman from a friend’s home to two attacks on women near a university late last year, and authorities said Thursday that they’re investigating still another attack that could be related.
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“Reuters - At least five people were killed when a
roadside bomb exploded on Friday inside a popular pet market in
central Baghdad, which has been targeted several times in the
past year, police said.”
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AP - Officials in this small, job-starved community hope disaster pays. They’re welcoming plans by a startup company to build a $79 million center that would help people across the nation prepare for catastrophic events such as terrorist attacks and killer storms.
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AP - More and more, top government diplomats are straying from official Bush foreign policy as the administration wanes, leaving Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice struggling to keep them in check.
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AP - Germans are gaga over Barack Obama. He’s got Japan pretty jazzed, too, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Russia’s leaders, not so much: They prefer a Republican — as long as it’s not Kremlin critic John McCain.
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AP - President Bush is relying on his bully pulpit to get an economic deal done, a strategy proving tough with a Senate that fumes at being bullied.
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AP - FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday that the agency is committed to investigating and prosecuting companies involved in mortgage fraud and other violations in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers.
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