The AP's John Klobucar takes a look at this week's meeting of the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins. (Oct. 1)
There was little support on New York University's campus among business students and professors for the proposed government bailout. (Oct. 1)
Bankers and political leaders in Europe are anxiously waiting for the U.S. to come up with a solution to what has become a global financial crisis that threatens their economies and markets. (Oct. 1)
Milk is found to be contaminated from an array of new companies in China, tests show. The widening food scandal now includes tainted cheesecake from China that is being recalled in Japan. (Oct. 1)
A New York City park is getting a dozen tree houses perched high in the trees, courtesy of a Japanese artist known for his site-specific sculptural installations. (Oct. 1)
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that it's time for Congress to act on a financial rescue bill for Wall Street. (Oct. 1)
A pre-dawn fire raged through an adult video theater in the western Japanese city Osaka, killing at least 15 people and injuring 10 others, police and fire department officials said Wednesday. (Oct. 1)
International gymnastics officials close investigation into the ages of the Chinese gymnasts at the Beijing Olympics, saying documentation confirms they were old enough to compete. But the 2000 squad remains under scrutiny. (Oct. 1)
A Florida Keys carpenter dove into the water Friday and punched a shark that had grabbed ahold of his dog. (Oct. 1)
The Chicago White Sox finally won the AL Central, defeating the Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff. The White Sox now travel to Tampa to take on the Rays in the ALDS. (Oct. 1)
Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The pirates denied the report. (Sept. 30)
A European tour group kidnapped in the Sahara Desert was abruptly freed after a phone call to one of the captors, and all 19 hostages piled into a single car, some clinging to the roof as they drove 200 miles to safety.
People line up in Zimbabwe by the thousands to hopefully withdraw cash from banks, after the government raised the daily withdrawal limit. The country has the world's highest inflation rate, at 11 million percent. (Sept. 30)
Thousands of pilgrims panicked by false rumors of a bomb stampeded at a Hindu temple in western India on Tuesday, killing at least 168 people in the crush to escape, officials said. (Sept. 30)
President Bush said Tuesday that the economic damage to the nation will be 'painful and lasting' if Congress fails to pass a $700 billion bailout bill. (Sept. 30)
Share prices in Australia and New Zealand plunged Tuesday after U.S. lawmakers voted against a huge government bailout for the American financial system. (Sept. 30)
A Duke University finance professor says the $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system was flawed. Campbell Harvey instead offers a new approach to dealing with the crisis. (Sept. 29)
House Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Roy Blunt said Monday that a partisan speech delivered on the floor by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the failure to pass a bailout package. (Sept. 29)
The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry. (Sept. 29)
Fear swept across the financial markets Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down as much as 705 points, after the government's financial bailout package failed the House. (Sept. 29)
Financial markets endured another difficult start Monday ahead of a planned House vote on an unpopular $700 billion plan to rescue troubled financial companies and as investors examined a deal for Wachovia. (Sept 29)
A town that's home to a puzzle and game company gathered together Sunday to go for a world record for the world's largest jigsaw puzzle. (Sept. 29)
Congressional leaders and the Bush administration have reached a tentative deal on a bailout of imperiled financial markets that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. (Sept. 28)
A 16-acre corn maze near the town of Whitehouse has been carved in Sarah Palin's likeness, complete with her familiar updo hairstyle and eyeglasses. (Sept. 26)
Washington Mutual is known for its no-thrills, no-fees banking with a neighborly feel. But the collapsed bank's new owner, JP Morgan Chase, doesn't give off those vibes. Many are upset. (Sept. 26)
President Bush made a fresh appeal Friday for Congress to move quickly on his proposal for a $700 billion program to stabilize cascading financial markets. (Sept. 26)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday that the time has come for presidential politics to leave the negotiating table as lawmakers work to reach an agreement on a financial bailout plan. (Sept. 26)
President Bush told Congress Friday it must 'rise to the occasion' and pass legislation bailing out the struggling financial system, and leading lawmakers arranged to resume difficult negotiations. (Sept. 26)
Financial markets remained jittery Friday after efforts to approve a $700 billion banking bailout hit a serious roadblock. Stocks fell sharply, while fears of a deepening economic crisis fed safe-haven buying in Treasury notes. (Sept. 26)
Washington Mutual is the latest bank to go belly-up. The Seattle based savings and loan failed on Thursday and was purchased by JPMorgan Chase. The pricetag, nearly two billion dollars. (Sept. 26)
A trifecta of bad news about the economy raised new worries about a possible recession and underscored the concerns that are driving Congress and the White House to reach agreement on an historic bailout of the financial system.(Sept. 25)
President Bush's address on the state of the economy emphasized a sense of urgency to remedy the crisis, but the process set forth in Washington is bothersome for many Americans. (Sept 25)
Illusionist David Blaine has been hanging upside down over a New York ice rink since Monday as part of a 60-hour stunt that ends Wednesday night. (Sept. 24)
The National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will increase slightly over last year. That's the smallest increase since 2002.
A 175-pound pig was able to knock a woman down and keep her cooped up in her house out of fear of what it might do next. (Sept. 24)
The first cell phone running Google's mobile software looks something like Apple's iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard. (Sept. 23)
Yahoo! has created the world's first social networking bike, built with a GPS enabled camera that takes a photo every 60 seconds, geo-tags it and uploads the pictures to Yahoo's photo web site, Flickr. (Sept. 23)
What's David Blaine up to? Oh, just hanging around. The magician-daredevil is attempting to hang upside-down, without a net, for 60 hours in New York's Central Park. (Sept. 23)
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has welcomed a ten-foot Lego dragon to welcome visitors to its dinosaur exhibit. (Sept. 23)
The National Retail Federation today released its forecast for the upcoming 2008 holiday season, projecting that sales will rise 2.2. This gain would fall well below the ten-year average of 4.4 percent holiday sales growth. (Sept. 22)
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