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•Baghdad locked down for U.S. troop pact protest
17 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces shut streets in Baghdad and placed snipers on rooftops on Friday before a protest by followers of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr against a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain for three more years.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Citigroup eyes options including merger
22 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and despite new support from its largest individual investor.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Recovery from crisis seen slow
29 minutes ago
NEW YORK/BEIJING (Reuters) - Signs of distress in the global economy mounted, with shares in U.S. bank Citigroup Inc plunging on fears about its future, oil prices falling and the future of U.S. automakers hanging in the balance.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Atty. Gen. Mukasey collapses during speech
by By MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN
39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense ally in President Bush's war on terror, was hospitalized Thursday after he collapsed during a late-night speech and lost consciousness....
[From AP Top Headlines At 3 a.m. EST]
•Fed's Bullard: U.S. deflation an issue Fed must face
48 minutes ago
EVANSVILLE, Indiana (Reuters) - Deflation would be very damaging to the United States economy and with nominal interest rates already very low, quantitative easing may be needed to keep it at bay, a top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Bush takes financial reform agenda to APEC forum
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George W. Bush makes his last scheduled trip abroad as U.S. president on Friday, heading to an Asia-Pacific summit where he will seek support for global financial reform and hold talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Ban on wood fires takes effect in Calif.
1 hour ago
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A new California law prohibits residents of the San Francisco Bay area may no longer have a jolly fire on heavy pollution days, officials said.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Verizon staff had unauthorized access to Obama's cell
1 hour ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that some employees had gained unauthorized access and viewed a personal cell phone account held by President-elect Barack Obama that is now inactive.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Life with no parole for killing toddler
1 hour ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A Missouri man has been sentenced to life plus 29 years for killing his girlfriend's daughter, whose beheaded body remained unidentified for four years.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Democrats demand Big 3 offer survival plan
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic congressional leaders, seeking to salvage a bailout of the Big Three automakers, demanded executives provide a business survival plan in exchange for their support of up to $25 billion in loans.
[From Reuters: Top News]
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