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Google Inc. says it will pay as much as $10 million for a fresh idea to help the world, the company said.
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JPMorgan Chase acquired the banking assets of Washington Mutual late Thursday after the troubled thrift was seized by federal regulators, marking the biggest bank failure in the nation's history and the latest stunning development in the ongoing credit crisis.
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Leading Republicans say that, short of total gridlock on the economic bailout, a McCain no-show on Friday would be "a huge political mistake."
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Have Your Wedding Cake ... and Drop it Too [Vids]
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Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said.
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1. Returns to Vietnam and jails himself. 2. Offers the post of "vice vice president" to Warren Buffett. 3. Challenges Obama to suspend campaign so they both can go and personally drill for oil offshore. 4. Learns to use computer. 5. Does bombing run over T
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Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience, explaining in a CBS interview airing Thursday that "we have trade missions back and forth."
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Americans should not stop paying their mortgages even if their mortgage companies are threatened because "your home and your mortgage are not affected by the fact that your mortgage company may go out of business," CNN senior business correspondent Ali Velshi says.
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Bailout Fate Unclear After Bush Meets With Candidates, Congressional Leaders, The fate of the Bush administration's $700 billon bailout package was thrown into doubt Thursday evening, after congressional leaders left a landmark White House summit on the economy hurling accusations at each other and declaring there was no deal.
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When I see something on the horizon that I consider serious, all I can do is dive in and do as much homework as my brain can possibly handle.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- J.P. Morgan & Chase Co. will acquire most of Washington Mutual Inc.'s operations, according to a report published late Thursday. The online edition of The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported that the exact structure of the transaction remains unclear. Washington Mutual , once the largest U.S. thrift, has been scrambling to find a solution to its surplus of bad mortgage loans, and put itself up for sale at auction last week, the report said.
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Bailout Fate Unclear After Bush Meets With Candidates, Congressional Leaders, The fate of the Bush administration's $700 billon bailout package was thrown into doubt Thursday evening, after congressional leaders left a landmark White House summit on the economy hurling accusations at each other and declaring there was no deal.
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Man claims penis amputated without consent
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During "Suspension" McCain Grandstands, Advisers Attack
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Why cant America call its torture *torture*? - Boing Boing
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Ron Paul's answer to the President (about the bailouts)
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McGangsta: Ed McMahon to rap in viral videos
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Ticking Time-Bomb WMD
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Actuarial Firm Projects McCain, Obama Healthy for Eight Years as President, A firm that specializes in calculating risk says that John McCain and Barack Obama have enough healthy years ahead of them to serve two terms as U.S. president.
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A deal that would cost each American taxpayer $5,300 to rescue the banking
system and save the world economy from catastrophe was agreed in outline
tonight.
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Obama, McCain Arrive at White House for Economic Summit With Bush , Barack Obama and John McCain have arrived at the White House for a summit with President Bush and congressional leaders on the controversial economic bailout package being considered on Capitol Hill.
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A West Virginia man accused of passing gas and fanning it toward a police officer no longer faces a battery charge.
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Columbia Business School Spring 2006 Follies spoof on The Police's "Every Breath You Take" featuring imitation Dean Glenn Hubbard and Fed Chairman ...
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Gov. Sarah Palin took questions on Thursday from reporters who travel with her campaign for the first time since being tapped as John McCain's running mate.
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Barack Obama and John McCain, in a show of unity over the economic crisis, will both attend a meeting Thursday with President George W. Bush to discuss a proposed bailout even as they clashed on whether the crisis should delay their first debate.
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Egypt's antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II.
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More at http://www.therealnews.com/c.php?c=080901YTGareth Porter: The US and the world near the end of the Bush administration Pt2
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Congress Reaches Fundamental Deal on Bailout, Congress agrees in principle to bailout of the financial industry.
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Cities Suing Online Travel Companies for Taxes Pt 2
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WANTED: Chicago Policeman Eddie Hicks for Narcotics Conspiracy and Extortion, By all appearances, Sgt. Eddie Hicks was a superstar narcotics detective. But his actions didn't win him awards and accolades. Instead, he earned a reputation as one of Chicago's most crooked cops.
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Your office or bedroom holds telltale signs of whether you are a conservative or a liberal, finds a new study. While political conservatives tend to keep a tidy, organized office, political liberals favor colorful, more stylish but cluttered spaces.
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Did Sarah Palin Really Say She Wouldn't Hire Blacks?
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WANTED: Chicago Policeman Eddie Hicks for Narcotics Conspiracy and Extortion, Eddie Hicks was a narcotics detective in Chicago who made dozens of raids on suspected drug dealers, netting thousands in cash and kilos in cocaine. But there was a problem: Hicks allegedly kept the money and sold the drugs to rival dealers.
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PageOneQ is a liberal lesbian and gay news service based in Washington, DC
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You've heard of solar power and wind power to generate electricity. Now get ready for people power - it's being generated at a Connecticut gym where exercise is being turned into energy.
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Tax Relief for 25 Million Middle-Class Families
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Pentagon Says Pakistan Fired on U.S. Aircraft, Expects Explanation , Pakistani troops fired on U.S. helicopters patrolling eastern Afganistan Thursday, the Pentagon said, adding that it expects an explanation from Pakistani officials.
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A grander pattern is emerging as to what was motivating McCain's Hail Mary publicity stunt today. For starters, we now have the first look at Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. Palin is in so far over her head, it isn't even funny.
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What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?
One's a slimy scum-sucking bottom-dwelling scavenger, the other is just a fish.
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