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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Schwarzenegger is calling up 1,500 National Guard troops to deploy to the Southern California wildfires....
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This is an incredible simulation from NASA of the arctic melting since the last ice age.
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Stocks fell by nearly 9 percent on Monday — the worst single-day drop in two decades — after the government’s bailout plan, touted by its supporters as a balm for the current market stress, failed to pass the House of Representatives, setting off a fresh wave...(more)
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Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say.
Mr. McCain, the Republican...(more)
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submitted by elvis 5 weeks 17 hours 6 minutes ago
John McCain made a quick stop at the Capitol one day last spring to sit in on Senate negotiations on the big immigration bill, and John Cornyn was not pleased.
Cornyn, a mild-mannered Texas Republican, saw a loophole in the bill that he thought would allow...(more)
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submitted by elvis 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours 34 minutes ago
Senator John McCain had intended to ride back into Washington on Thursday as a leader who had put aside presidential politics to help broker a solution to the financial crisis. Instead he found himself in the midst of a remarkable partisan showdown, lacking a clear public...(more)
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submitted by elvis 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours 42 minutes ago
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests...(more)
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submitted by elvis 5 weeks 2 days 7 hours 28 minutes ago
The government informed the two mortgage-finance companies that it is preparing a plan to seize them and place them in a conservatorship, officials and executives said.
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submitted by elvis 3 days 14 hours 25 minutes ago
John McCain’s surprise policy offering Tuesday night to have the government buy bad mortgages is bold, sweeping and, well, a bit perplexing to nearly everyone.
From economic experts to political pundits, from liberals to conservatives, the proposal has been greeted with a collective sense of puzzlement that...(more)
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submitted by elvis 3 weeks 12 hours 24 minutes ago
In a change from the original proposal sent to Capitol Hill, foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout, according to the fine print of an administration statement Saturday night.
The theory, according to a participant in the negotiations, is that...(more)
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submitted by elvis 2 weeks 18 hours 27 minutes ago
Barack Obama says a John McCain victory would amount to a third term of the Bush presidency. What he doesn’t say: an Obama victory would, too.
While both nominees love to talk about their big agendas for change, whoever wins will take office with their obligations defined...(more)
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submitted by elvis 4 weeks 5 days 9 hours 26 minutes ago
Gov. Palin isn't telling the truth about her opposition to the "Bridge to Nowhere" -- but this is incredible: She continues to build an access road along an empty beach leading to a bridge that won't be built.
You read that right she's using taxpayer dollars...(more)
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