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• Futures soar after U.S. takes over GSEs
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures surged on Sunday, pointing to a sharply higher open when Wall Street opens on Monday, after the U.S. government seized control of troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae N> and Freddie Mac N ...
• New U.S. review into Afghan civilian deaths
An Afghan government commission has said 90 civilians, including 60 children and 15 women, died in the Aug. 22 bombings, a finding that the U.N. backed in its own initial report.
• U.N.: Nations not doing enough on poverty
UNITED NATIONS - In criticism aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and the European Union, a U.N. report said Thursday that rich nations haven't delivered on promises to help the world's poorest nations and must increase aid by $18 billion a ...
• Tommy Lee Jones sues makers of ‘No Country’
N.M. Classics, Inc., a Paramount subsidiary, is also named in the lawsuit. Jones, who played Sheriff Ed Tom Bell in the film, claims he was not paid promised bonuses and had expenses wrongly deducted.
• Palin offers first television interview to ABC
The trips, the speeches, and the moments of Decision ’08. A look at the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to sit down later this week for her first television ...