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• Obama money from abroad could total millions
Sen. Barack Obama becomes the first African-American presidential nominee of a major political party. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has raised about $3.3 million from contributors who did ...
• 10,700 Chinese children hospitalized over milk
The country is still wrestling with a tainted milk scandal that has killed four babies, made tens of thousands more ill and affected products around the world. But it has rushed to assure buyers abroad and at home that the government is back in ...
• Fed unveils plan to fund some business loans
WASHINGTON - With panic tightening its grip on investors here and abroad, pressure was growing on the United States Tuesday to take further aggressive steps to stem the economic crisis and swiftly implement a $700 billion financial bailout. On that ...
• G7 endorses plan to stem financial crisis
Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke met with their counterparts from the world’s six other richest countries as the rout of financial markets sped ahead in the face of dramatic rescue efforts in the U.S. and abroad. Besides the United ...
• Tate Britain museum buys rare Rubens sketch
LONDON - The Tate Britain museum has purchased a rare sketch by Peter Paul Rubens to keep it from being sold abroad, the museum said. The Tate, with help from several art and heritage foundations, paid $9.9 million for the sketched version of Rubens ...