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More anxiety on Wall St.: Stocks dive, Brazilian woman finds fame as McCain’s
oil soars old flame
NEW YORK (AP) – Elation in the financial mar- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) – A former model
kets over the 700 billion bank bailout plan evaporated and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after
Monday and was replaced by all-too-familiar anxiety, being identified as John McCain’s lover 51 years ago.
pummeling stocks and sending oil prices to their biggest Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman
one-day gain. Worries that the rescue package would the Republican presidential candidate fondly described
cost too much, drive up inflation, swell the already- - though never named - in his 1999 book ”Faith of My
bloated deficit and hurt the ailing economy also led Fathers.”...
global investors to flee the U.S. dollar....
Bush seeks to assure leaders about Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor
bailout plan gets 15 to life
NEW YORK (AP) – President Bush sought to as- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A woman whose dogs
sure anxious world leaders on Monday that the United viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hall-
States is taking ”bold, aggressive, decisive action” to way of their apartment building seven years ago was
rescue the crisis-ridden economy with a 700 billion bailout sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison....
package. ”The whole world is watching to see if we can
act quickly,” Bush said, prodding lawmakers in Wash-
ington to approve his plan....
Resetting immune system in bid to beat
scleroderma
FBI searches apartment in Palin WASHINGTON (AP) – First Bari Martz’s fingers
hacking case turned blue. Then she started gasping for breath, and
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI searched the res- her joints stiffened so that she couldn’t even open her
idence of the son of a Democratic state lawmaker in hands. Doctors diagnosed scleroderma, part of an in-
Tennessee over the weekend looking for evidence link- sidious family of diseases where the immune system at-
ing the young man to the hacking of Republican vice tacks a patient’s own body, sometimes enough to kill....
presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail ac-
count, two law enforcement officials told The Associ-
ated Press on Monday....
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Construction workers complain about picked her to be his running mate, says she will do-
nude skater nate to charity more than 36;1,000 in campaign con-
tributions from two Alaska politicians implicated in a
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland Police took federal corruption probe.
a waterfront Lady Godiva down a notch this week.
Barely. They were getting calls about a nude skater
whizzing past tourists and rush-hour commuters....
US-POLITICS Summary (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican John McCain ended the sus-
Carmona, Sheffield, 2 others suspended pense and said he will attend the first of three debates
for brawl with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, setting up a
showdown that could help decide a tight White House
DETROIT (AP) – Cleveland pitcher Fausto Car- race. McCain had vowed to skip the debate if nego-
mona was suspended six games and Detroit slugger tiations were not completed on a 36;700 billion rescue
Gary Sheffield was penalized four games Monday for of the U.S. financial industry but his campaign said in
their brawl last week.... a statement that enough progress had been made to
participate in the 9 p.m. EDT debate.
McCain,Obama finally head for key With McCain in fold, White House
debate clash (AFP) debate is on (Reuters)
AFP - After two days of high drama, Republican Reuters - Republican John McCain ended the sus-
White House hopeful John McCain finally headed Fri- pense and said he will attend the first of three debates
day to join Democrat Barack Obama for the first of with Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, setting up a
three key debates in the US elections. showdown that could help decide a tight White House
race.
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Reuters - Republican John McCain and Democrat Gambler McCain seeks redemption in
Barack Obama meet on Friday in the first of three pres- finance crisis (AFP)
idential debates that could play a big role in deciding
a tight White House race. AFP - John McCain is going all-in on the biggest
bet of a political career marked by instinctive gambles,
seeking new life for his White House bid in the political
convulsions set off by the finance crisis.
McCain to attend Friday debate with
Obama (Reuters)
Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John Online tool estimates taxes under
McCain will take part in a debate with Democrat Barack McCain, Obama (AP)
Obama Friday after determining significant progress
has been made on a Wall Street bailout, his campaign AP - Voters whose bottom line is taxes can use a
said. new online tool to calculate what their own bottom line
would be with the IRS under a Barack Obama or John
McCain administration.
Most US voters want first presidential
debate to go ahead (AFP)
AFP - Three-quarters of US voters want the first de- Palin039;s parents: Retirees, part-time
bate between Republican presidential candidate John rat killers (AP)
McCain and his Democratic rival Barack Obama to go
ahead Friday, even though McCain has asked for a de- AP - More than six years before Sarah Palin visited
lay, a poll showed. ground zero as the Republican vice presidential nomi-
nee, her parents were there as part of the response to
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 151; trapping rats.
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Washington Mutual and sold its assets in America39;s
biggest ever bank failure.