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  1. President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House about health care reform and Iraq's new electoral law Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
    Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes agoSent 1,323 times

    WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

  2. Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be AP - Sun Nov 8, 12:00 AM ETSent 283 times

    WASHINGTON - It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.

  3. FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2008 file photo, passengers wait in long lines at United Airlines domestic terminal at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Most carriers pushed through a $10 fare increase at the end of October, 2009. For the holidays, the big airlines added a $20 surcharge each way on popular travel days closest to Christmas and New Year's. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
    Holiday airfares close to last year but climbing AP - Sun Nov 8, 8:02 AM ETSent 200 times

    If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets.

  4. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, left, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, and British Treasury chief Alistair Darling, right, are seen during a group photo session at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Clark)
    G-20 finance officials: Too early to end stimulus AP - Sat Nov 7, 8:13 PM ETSent 78 times

    ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.

  5. Banks in Ga., Mich., Minn., Mo., Calif. closed AP - Fri Nov 6, 10:11 PM ETSent 44 times

    CHARLOTTE, N.C - Regulators on Friday shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and California, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 120 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans.

  6. Jose Betancourt, 57, talks to a reporter outside the South Florida Workforce office in Miami, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Betancourt spends two hours on buses to get to a South Florida Workforce career center in the Miami area, a couple of times a week, to get job training. He's been out of work since July after being let go from his job as a supermarket maintenance worker and lives on about $600 a month in unemployment benefits. That barely pays for the rent for his tiny efficiency, food and utilities. The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
    What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent AP - Fri Nov 6, 6:39 PM ETSent 25 times

    WASHINGTON - Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.

  7. Teaching the Facebook Generation BusinessWeek - Fri Nov 6, 8:08 AM ETSent 20 times

    Our goal as college professors is to open students minds to new experiences so they can grow intellectually while they mature through the traditional four-year process. But we are also challenged to give students the immediate skills they will need once they graduate so that they can begin their professional careers and move away from the fry-o-later to the cubicle and beyond.

  8. A supporter holds a sign during a rally against the health care overhaul bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies AP - Sun Nov 8, 4:24 AM ETSent 18 times

    WASHINGTON - A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.

  9. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, is joined by (L-R) Majority Whip James Clyburn, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Washington after the passage in the house of the health care reform bill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    House, Senate health care bills detailed AP - Sun Nov 8, 12:32 PM ETSent 17 times

    WASHINGTON - A comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans.

  10. In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, front right, accompanied by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, front left, reviews an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony in Cairo, capital of Egypt, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Wen arrived here Friday for a two-day official visit. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Dawei)
    China offers Africa more trade, investment AP - Sat Nov 7, 7:45 AM ETSent 9 times

    BEIJING - China is offering to abolish import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe as part of a package to boost already thriving economic ties, China's commerce minister said in an article published Saturday.

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  1. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi walks to the House floor on Capitol Hill on November 7, in Washington, DC. Democrats Sunday girded for the next battle to push the most sweeping US health care overhaul in a half-century through Congress, after handing President Barack Obama victory in a narrow House vote.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)
    Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

  2. Holiday airfares close to last year but climbing AP - Sun Nov 8, 8:02 AM ET

    If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they're likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets.

  3. Graphic showing the extent of current US healthcare insurance coverage. Democrats Sunday girded for the next battle to push the most sweeping US health care overhaul in a half-century through Congress, after handing President Barack Obama victory in a narrow House vote.(AFP/Graphic)
    House, Senate health care bills detailed AP - Sun Nov 8, 12:32 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans.

  4. House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies AP - Sun Nov 8, 4:24 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.

  5. Two department stores of German retailers Karstadt and Kaufhof stand side-by-side in the southern German city of Trier. Employees of the embattled German department store chain Karstadt, owned by the insolvent retail group Arcandor, agreed Saturday to take salary cuts as part of a last-ditch effort to save their jobs.(AFP/DDP/File/Torsten Silz)
    Staff at struggling German retail giant agree to tighten belts AFP - Sat Nov 7, 3:51 PM ET

    BERLIN (AFP) - Employees of the embattled German department store chain Karstadt, owned by the insolvent retail group Arcandor, agreed Saturday to take salary cuts as part of a last-ditch effort to save their jobs.

  6. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling (R) chats with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as they gather for the family photo at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at a hotel in St. Andrews, Scotland, November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
    Geithner: need stimulus, not financial transactions tax Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 3:03 AM ET

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior.

  7. In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, specialists Scott Wetzel, Michael Bonnano and Peter Gaicchi, left to right, and Gennaro Saporito, foreground right, work at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    Stocks eye retailers as jobless ranks grow Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 11:30 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - As unemployment in the United States edges above 10 percent, anxious investors will look to earnings reports from major retailers for signs of life in the beaten-up consumer.

  8. G-20 finance officials: Too early to end stimulus AP - Sat Nov 7, 8:13 PM ET

    ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.

  9. What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent AP - Fri Nov 6, 6:39 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.

  10. Stock volatility is back, a sign of an aging bull? AP - Sun Nov 8, 1:35 PM ET

    Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end.

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  1. Video: The US House of Representatives approved the broadest overhaul of US health care in four decades late Saturday, handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory for his top domestic priority. The bill amounts to a 10-year, trillion-dollar plan to extend coverage to some 36 million Americans who lack it now. Duration: 0:42(AFPTV/Pool)
    Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

  2. President Barack Obama waves as he walks out of the Cannon Caucus Room with Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., left, after meeting with House Democrats about health care on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    Obama prods House to pass health care bill AP - Sat Nov 7, 8:59 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says now is the time for Congress to "answer the call of history" and approve legislation revamping the country's health care system.

  3. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao talks at a session of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the Sino-African Forum in Egypt at in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
    China hopes U.S. keeps deficit to appropriate size Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 1:49 PM ET

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - China hopes that the United States will keep its deficit to an appropriate size to ensure basic stability in the U.S. dollar exchange rate, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday.

  4. Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be AP - Sun Nov 8, 12:00 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent.

  5. President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House about health care reform and Iraq's new electoral law after returning from Camp David Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
    Obama says it's now Senate's turn on health care AP - Sun Nov 8, 1:24 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says it's now up to the Senate to take the baton from the House and pass a bill aimed at overhauling the nation's health care system.

  6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is surrounded as she walks to the floor of the House of Representatives for continuing debate health care debate at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
    Pelosi: Obama visit inspired Democrats AP - Sat Nov 7, 8:43 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass health care legislation.

  7. House votes strict ban on abortion subsidies AP - Sun Nov 8, 4:24 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.

  8. Geithner: need stimulus, not financial transactions tax Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 3:03 AM ET

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior.

  9. A truck with Opel cars drives past the Opel plant in Bochum November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
    Opel unions see autonomy as condition to talks Reuters - 2 hours, 7 minutes ago

    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Opel's top German labor leader said on Sunday he was willing to hold negotiations over a restructuring of the European carmaker under its parent General Motors so long as it gains greater independence.

  10. US President Barack Obama makes a statement from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, upon his return from Camp David. Obama Sunday urged the US Senate to take up the baton to ensure the nation's most comprehensive overhaul of the health care system in decades is completed.(AFP/Jim Watson)
    House, Senate health care bills detailed AP - Sun Nov 8, 12:32 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans.

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