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By Signal Editorial Staff | Nov. 12, 2008In a record bailout of a private company, on Monday the government provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American ...
Read More »In a record bailout of a private company, on Monday the government provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American ...
Read More »HONOLULU (AP) - Barack Obama told millions watching him accept the Democratic nomination in Denver that his grandmother's influence on who he is and the ...
Read More »KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen in a red Corolla cut off a van of French aid workers on Monday, kidnapping one and fatally shooting an Afghan who tried ...
Read More »In the Senate race, Democrat Frank Lautenberg defeated Republican Dick Zimmer. Robert Andrews, Democrat Frank LoBiondo, Republican Chris Myers, Republican Chris ...
Read More »CHICAGO (AP) - Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's 7-year-old nephew was found dead in the back of an SUV on Monday, ending a frantic search that began after ...
Read More »KIBUMBA, Congo (AP) - Rebels loyal to a renegade warlord seized an east Congo army base and the headquarters of a park housing some of the world's last ...
Read More »A shooting in the heart of the University of Central Arkansas' campus killed two students and wounded a third person, authorities said early Monday. A ...
Read More »KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban gunmen killed a Christian aid worker in Kabul as she was walking to work on Monday. The militant group said it targeted ...
Read More »Stock prices surged Monday as investors took signs of easing credit markets as evidence that government measures to revive the battered financial system ...
Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday. "He ...
Read More »Gov. Sarah Palin said in campaign debate Thursday night that John McCain would "put partisanship aside" to help solve the nation's economic crisis. Democrat ...
Read More »Wall Street tumbled again Monday, joining a sell-off around the world as fears grew the financial crisis would cascade through economies globally despite ...
Read More »LONDON (AP) - European governments struggled to find a coordinated response to the crisis sweeping financial markets Monday, as countries announced sweeping ...
Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) - The House defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system on Monday, ignoring urgent warnings from President ...
Read More »Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," died last Saturday. China's space program ...
Read More »MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - As a heavily armed U.S. destroyer patrolled nearby and planes flew overhead Sunday, a Somali pirate spokesman told The Associated ...
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) - Financial markets pulled back in uneasy trading Monday as investors awaited details of the government's plan to buy $700 billion in banks' ...
Read More »MADRID, Spain (AP) - A car bombing blamed on the armed Basque group ETA killed an army officer and wounded six people in northern Spain early Monday, ...
Read More »The head of China's food safety watchgroup resigned after his agency failed to stop the widespread contamination of baby formula that sickened 53,000 ...
Read More »Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after attempts ...
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