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• Government now ‘nation’s mortgage lender’
THE TAKEOVER : The government is taking control mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, installing new chief executives and injecting money into the troubled companies. The government may buy up to $100 billion of preferred stock in ...
• Stocks rally on plan for mortgage giants
THE TAKEOVER : The government is taking control mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, installing new chief executives and injecting money into the troubled companies. The government may buy up to $100 billion of preferred stock in ...
• Analysis:  Mortgage firms failed to heed warnings
As their losses started rising at alarming rates, investors simply lost confidence, forcing the government's historic takeover of the two companies, which could be announced as soon as Sunday.
• Videos said to show Afghan deaths after strike
KABUL, Afghanistan - The bodies of several children lay dead in two videos that surfaced Monday showing the aftermath of a U.S.-led operation the Afghan government and United Nations say killed 90 civilians. The video, apparently taken by a cell ...
• Afghan tribal leader set for drug trial in U.S.
Americans are establishing our future government." Rather than thank him, Noorzai claims the U.S. government betrayed him: In 2005, he was branded a most-wanted drug kingpin, lured to New York and arrested.