Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:29:48 GMT
AP - Wall Street capped its worst week ever with a wild session Friday that left stocks with a widely mixed finish. Late-day buying helped curb steep losses and gave the market its best showing of the week as investors snapped up bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive losses.
Bush says financial rescue plan big enough to work
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:01:57 GMT
AP - President Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. "We can solve this crisis and we will," he said in brief remarks from the White House Rose Garden.
McCain, Obama offer dueling ideas to save economy
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:12:35 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.
Conn. high court rules gay couples can marry
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:12:39 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.
Colin Powell calls Sen. Stevens' word 'sterling'
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:12:42 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.
NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:28:13 GMT
AP - NASA has decided to press ahead with plans to launch a big new rover to Mars next year. Friday's decision comes after concerns were raised about the budget and technical progress for the Mars Science Laboratory.
Mom of missing Fla. girl can access evidence
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:06:42 GMT
AP - The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl will have access to her car and forensic tests completed by authorities trying to figure out what happened to the child, a judge ruled Friday. But she'll have to wait to find out whether she can leave her home while on house arrest to help explain her version of events to her attorneys, because Ninth Circuit Judge Stan Strickland delayed ruling on that request.
Jolie says Pitt changed her mind about pregnancy
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:36:34 GMT
AP - Angelina Jolie, an advocate of adoption, credits partner Brad Pitt with her decision to have biological children. In an interview with W magazine, Jolie says: "One of the life-changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do."
Woman, 72, moves after finding snakes in apartment
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:57:51 GMT
AP - When 72-year-old Gladys Dressner first saw two snakes last in her new apartment last month, she froze. Days later, when an eight-inch snake crawled across her bed, she screamed. Finally, after stepping on a baby black rat snake, she moved.
Station regrets remarks on Magic Johnson, AIDS
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:56:01 GMT
AP - A Minneapolis radio station said Friday it would air public service announcements on HIV/AIDS after a pair of talk hosts accused Magic Johnson of faking AIDS. KTLK's Chris Baker and Langdon Perry made the remarks during Baker's conservative talk show on Wednesday. After Johnson condemned the statements, the station said on Friday it regretted "some off-hand remarks" by the pair.