Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc
was forced into talks about a possible sale after the Wall
Street investment bank's shares plunged more than 40 percent on
Thursday, raising questions about its survival.
AP - Francisco Rodriguez gave the Los Angeles Angels another reason to celebrate, and it probably won't be long before he puts away Bobby Thigpen's saves record for good.
AP - Testing prompted by an Associated Press story that revealed trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in drinking water supplies has shown that more Americans are affected by the problem than previously thought — at least 46 million.
AP - Republican John McCain declined to disavow Thursday the tough criticism by his campaign of his Democratic opponent's experience as a community organizer, saying politics is "tough business" even as he praised Barack Obama's service.
AP - Sometimes, it pays to be pokey. Going slow has paid the state of New York about $27 million and counting. New Hampshire and Oklahoma, too, are sitting on a pile of federal money.
AP - With Lehman Brothers' shares signaling another steep drop on Friday, top executives are racing to put a sale of the beleaguered investment bank in place before it loses further market value and confidence.
AP - John McCain running mate Sarah Palin sought Thursday to defend her qualifications but struggled with foreign policy, unable to describe President Bush's doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against threatening nations and acknowledging she's never met a foreign head of state.
AP - John McCain is mocked as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate in a television commercial out Friday from Barack Obama as the Democrat begins his sharpest barrage yet on McCain's long Washington career.
AP - As a gigantic Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast, officials in America's fourth-largest city made a bold decision: Instead of fleeing, residents here would stare down the storm.
AFP - Russian troops laboured Thursday over a tentative pull-out from Georgia as Moscow vowed to strengthen its military after last month's war and turned its diplomatic fire on Ukraine.
AFP - John McCain and Barack Obama declared a truce Thursday in their rancorous White House campaign, joining somber Ground Zero ceremonies on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror strikes.
Reuters - Pakistani forces killed up to 100 al
Qaeda-linked militants in fierce clashes near the Afghan border
on Thursday, a security official said, as tensions grew with
the United States over how to tackle militancy.
Reuters - AIDS remains largely a disease of
gay and bisexual men in the United States but also
disproportionately infects black women, according to an
analysis published on Thursday.
