Reuters - President George W. Bush on Monday
froze a lucrative civilian nuclear pact with Russia, the first
big penalty imposed on Moscow after its war with Georgia but
one that can be reversed.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike moved over warm Caribbean
water off the Cuban coast on Monday after blowing off roofs,
toppling trees and flattening sugar cane fields like a giant
lawn mower on a path toward U.S. oil fields in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Reuters - Republican John McCain and Democrat
Barack Obama are dead even in two public opinion polls released
on Monday as they head into the final eight weeks of the race
for the White House.
Reuters - Wall Street greeted the U.S.
government's seizure of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac on Monday, hoping it would provide at least temporary
respite from the troubles plaguing housing and credit markets.
AP - A judge ruled Monday in favor of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling in her copyright infringement lawsuit against a fan and Web site operator who was set to publish a Potter encyclopedia.
AP - MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.
AP - Lots of youngsters on your street? Watch out: Flu may strike your community sooner and harder than it hits the hip singles neighborhood down the road. -- read full article
AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged Monday to withdraw Russian troops from key areas of Georgia after 200 European Union monitors are deployed later this month.
AP - The government's historic bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday will be good news to homebuyers and some homeowners hoping to refinance if it leads to lower mortgage rates, as experts expect.
AP - Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, he and his lawyers walked into a courthouse Monday to pick jurors for his robbery-kidnapping trial.
AP - Stocks mostly advanced Monday as investors placed bets that a recovery in the financial and housing sectors is more likely to occur following the U.S. government's move to bail out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Dow Jones industrials gained more than 150 points but the Nasdaq composite index declined as technology stocks lagged.
AP - Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, blowing homes to rubble and sending waves crashing over apartment buildings. Some 900,000 Cubans evacuated, and forecasters said it could hit Louisiana or Texas this weekend.
AP - Authorities called off evacuation orders for the Florida Keys on Monday as a ferocious Hurricane Ike shifted south over Cuba and appeared on track to miss the low-lying U.S. island chain.
AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visits Moscow and Tbilisi on Monday in a bid to ramp up the international pressure on Russia to withdraw more troops from Georgia and shore up a fragile peace deal.
