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For the second time this month, the U.S. government put taxpayer money on the hook to rescue a private financial company, saying the failure of the huge insurer American International Group Inc. would further disrupt markets and threaten the already fragile economy.
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Lion, Tiger Spotted Among Wreckage After Ike , Texas authorities busy trying to clean up after Hurricane Ike have a new problem on their hands: There's a tiger on the loose, and a lion in a church
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Federal Reserve Announces $85B Loan to Bail Out AIG, A person with knowledge of the situation says the government is increasingly likely to step in to help rescue the huge insurer AIG.
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The Federal Reserve agreed to take an 80 percent stake in AIG in exchange for an $85 billion loan, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
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Missing New York City Teacher Rescued From Harbor by Ferry Captain During Apparent Suicide Attempt, A New York City teacher missing since last month was saved by a ferry captain Tuesday after she jumped into the harbor in an apparent suicide attempt.
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In the manner of space-saving beds that zip into the ceiling and bookcases concealed in stairways is the SPAcer bath
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Allies of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin asked a judge Tuesday to halt the state Legislature's investigation into the firing of her public service commissioner, calling the probe a "McCarthyistic" inquisition.
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Larry King talked with Meghan McCain the daughter of the Republican presidential candidate about her new book, "My Dad, John McCain." She also writes about her experiences on the campaign trail for the Web site, McCainBloggette.com.
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On Aug. 6, 2006, the Anchorage Daily News reported, "Palin said she has smoked marijuana -- remember, it was legal under state law, she said, even if illegal under U.S. law -- but says she didn't like it and doesn't smoke it now.
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Gov. Sarah Palin may eventually have said "no thanks" to a federally funded Bridge to Nowhere.
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Life in Prison for Rapist, Killer of Kansas Teen Kelsey Smith, A judge sentenced a suburban Kansas City man to life in prison without parole for the 2007 kidnapping, rape and murder of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, who was abducted from a Target parking lot.
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Trafalgar Square routinely serves as a stage for mimes, jugglers and other acts, but the tourist attraction drew an exceptionally curious crowd Tuesday when the shortest man who can walk met the woman with the longest legs.
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The Wall Street crisis brought the economy roaring back to the center of the presidential campaign.
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Texas High School Student Told Rosary Is 'Gang Symbol', A Texas teen claims she is forbidden from wearing a rosary around her neck in school because the Catholic prayer beads are a gang symbol, MyFOXDFW.com reported.
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- Police say a 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes.
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American Suspect Appears at Italian Hearing in Death of British Coed, An exchange student from Seattle suspected in the murder of her British roommate last November in their Italian home appeared in court Tuesday for a hearing to decide whether she'll face trial.
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Federal regulators on Tuesday defended their assessment that a chemical widely used in plastic baby bottles and in food packaging is safe, even as the first major study of health effects in people linked it with possible risks for heart disease and diabetes.
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South Carolina auction to feature paintings by penguin, sea lions
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Strange 'Ant From Mars' Discovered in Amazon Rainforest, Blind subterranean ant resembles first ants to evolve on Earth, biologists say.
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One shaken Lehman shareholder had a million reasons to mourn the loss of his former company yesterday. Actually, 6 million. "I've lost more than $6 million overnight," lamented...
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If a man's home is his castle then
maybe his car is his rubbish bin, with a study finding the
typical car has 283 different types of bacteria present in
every square centimeter (square inch).
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Of all the possible things that can come between spouses, you can now add BlackBerrys -- or more precisely -- BlackBerry addiction to the list. A new study reveals BlackBerry's are becoming -- among other things -- the 800-pound gorilla in the bedroom.
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Pakistan Orders Troops to Open Fire on U.S. Forces to Stop Raids, Pakistan's military has ordered its forces to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, an army spokesman said Tuesday.
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Your rabbit's ears aren't floppy? Sorry, that's not an emergency. So said police in Scotland when a woman rang the emergency 999 number to discuss her concerns about her new pet. She said the newspaper ad promised floppy ears, but flop they would not.
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
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Scientists have found in the Red Sea several fish that fluoresce in red.
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I saw this staff wanted sign on Ponsonby road and thought it was special
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Aussie invader's phallic fascination
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Fight Club tactics hard at work.
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Asian stock markets plummeted Tuesday as the collapse of Lehman Brothers and takeover of Merrill Lynch spurred fears of an imminent global financial crisis.
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Ike Survivors May Wait Weeks for Hot Meals, Baths, Tens of thousands of residents first hunkered down to wait for Hurricane Ike's brutal punch. Those survivors on the wrecked Texas coast must now wait again — for food, water and ice, for the electricity, for that first hot meal and shower.
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Fla. police use Taser on nude man walking a dog
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The upheaval in the American financial system sent shock waves through the stock market Monday, producing the worst day on Wall Street in seven years as investors digested the failure of one of its most venerable banks and wondered which domino would be next to fall.
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Homeless homing pigeon creates flap
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Newly-discovered bizarre ant - Boing Boing
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Rescuers say an Australian kayaker broke his own leg to avoid drowning after his craft flipped over and became jammed in a tree in a surging river.
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Australian firefighters have rescued a two-metre long python from a power line in Sydney.
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Science News: the weekly magazine of The Society for Science and the Public
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Grim Scenes Greet Ike Rescuers in Galveston, Entire subdivisions obliterated. Oil and chemical slicks in the surf where vacationers once frolicked. Longhorn cattle roaming desolate streets. But, most stunning of all, no more deaths.
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