Reuters - The biggest bank failure in U.S. history and nose diving banking stocks added pressure on the U.S. Congress to agree to a $700 billion financial rescue plan to breathe life back into credit markets.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday said he told British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that the U.S. financial bailout was big enough to make a difference to ease financial market turmoil and would be passed.

Reuters - Preparations for a biological attack and repeated outbreaks of food poisoning have interfered with efforts by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to improve the safety of fresh produce, according to a report released on Friday.

Reuters - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy was taken to a hospital near his Cape Cod, Massachusetts, home on Friday after a mild seizure, his office said in a statement.

AP - The brakeman on the freight train involved in a deadly collision with a commuter train filed a lawsuit Friday against the commuter railroad and the companies that provide its engineers.

AP - Seven of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's top aides defied subpoenas for their testimony Friday into possible abuse of power by the governor.

AP - Rickie Weeks showed resiliency after being sent to the bench. Seth McClung came out of the bullpen and showed some grit of his own. Together they put the Milwaukee Brewers in front of the NL wild-card race.

AP - Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon struggled to come up with the right words. Carlos Pena hugged teammate B.J. Upton and yelled "I told you we could do it! I told you we could do it!" This was one sweet celebration for the Rays.

AP - Dave Matthews has acted in a few films, but the Grammy-winning musician has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in Hollywood of late — that of film producer.

AP - Iraq's foreign minister says "there is a new world now" because of the global financial crisis and he hopes it won't lead to an immediate withdrawal of the 146,000 American troops in his country.

AP - Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft were making final preparations for the country's first-ever spacewalk planned for Saturday afternoon.

AP - Lawmakers say they're making progress and hope to reach an agreement over the weekend on a $700 billion government bailout to rescue Wall Street bankers from the bad loans that threaten to derail the economy and send it into a deep and long depression.

AP - In a faceoff that returned again and again to judgment, John McCain portrayed himself as a battle-tested elder running against a naive rookie, while Barack Obama suggested the Republican is a hothead who made the wrong choices on the Iraq war, corporate taxes and more.