Bush to announce expanded bank bailout details
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:16:25 GMT
AP - The Bush administration plans to spend as much as $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout buying stock in private banks, greatly expanding protections for the U.S. financial system out of deep concern for the faltering economy, industry and government officials said Monday night. President Bush planned to announce the details Tuesday morning.
McCain: Lewis' remarks on campaign tone are unfair
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:10:49 GMT
AP - John McCain said Monday that it was unfair for Rep. John Lewis to compare the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign to the atmosphere a segregationist fostered in the 1960s.
Fla. congressman seeks probe after affair reports
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:10:34 GMT
AP - Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, married with a child, declined to say Monday whether he had carried on an affair with a former aide and paid to keep her quiet, then called for an investigation by the House ethics committee into his own conduct.
Second out-of-state teen abandoned at Omaha hospital
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:12:34 GMT
AP - A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday.
Levi Johnston speaks out about Bristol Palin, baby
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:12:23 GMT
AP - Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, can't believe all the things he's hearing. No, he wasn't held against his will on the campaign trail. No, he's not being forced into a shotgun wedding with 17-year-old Bristol Palin.
Wildfires force frantic evacuations near LA; 2 die
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:21:46 GMT
AP - Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuations on smoke- and traffic-choked highways, destroying homes and causing at least two deaths.
Therapy helps hard-to-transplant get a new kidney
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:14:00 GMT
AP - Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donated organ. Now doctors are trying new ways to outwit the immune system and save more of those so-called "highly sensitized" patients often with kidneys donated by living donors, considered the optimal kind.
Doctor orders Janet Jackson to postpone tour
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:16:14 GMT
AP - The doctor has again ordered Janet Jackson to postpone a return to her "Rock Witchu" tour. Jackson was scheduled to resume her tour Monday night at the Turning Stone Resort in New York after canceling a show over the weekend in Connecticut. A message posted on the resort and casino's Web site stated the show had been canceled at the advice of Jackson's doctor.
Prosthetic eye gives horse a shot at show career
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:15:24 GMT
AP - A miniature horse has been given a second chance for a career as a show horse thanks to a prosthetic eye. The 65-pound horse, named KBuck, was born June 1 at Lil Chums Miniature Horse Farm in Lawton and lost its eye a few days after birth. Owner Kelsey Chumbley, 12, said she suspects the young horse was the victim of a swift kick from its mother.
Rays bash Red Sox 9-1 to take 2-1 series lead
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:26:12 GMT
AP - B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria and the rest of the Tampa Bay Rays are bashing their way through their first trip to the playoffs. Upton and Longoria homered off a suddenly shaky Jon Lester, and the power-packed Rays cleared the Green Monster four times to beat the Boston Red Sox 9-1 Monday for a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series.