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World Policymakers Try To Stabilize Economies

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Investors are unimpressed by a hint that the Fed may soon cut interest rates and a European pledge to better coordinate its response to financial crisis.

Retirement Savings Wiped Out

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Americans may have to make adjustments after $2 trillion has been erased in the past 15 months.

Sunnis' Uneasy Return Home

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Although sectarian violence has declined, Iraqis are wary as they try to reclaim their houses.

Another Guilty Plea in Tax Scam

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Niece of admitted mastermind in embezzlement of nearly $50M could face decades in prison.

A Test for Breast Cancer Risk?

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Company begins offering a genetic test it says will assess risk for most common forms of the cancer.

Economic Crisis Dominates Debate

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McCain and Obama differ over causes and solutions.

For the New Contagion, the Same Old Prescriptions

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A televised national debate is hardly the ideal place to lay out a 10-point program for containing the credit crisis or for rebuilding and redesigning the world's financial infrastructure.

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AIG Spa Trip Spurs Fury on Hill

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 19:43

Congressional panel is angered by $400K getaway taken by executives at bailed-out insurance giant.

In Ohio, Obama Has Upper Hand

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 18:31

Post-ABC News Poll | A state considered vital to McCain's chances starts tilting away from him.

Stocks Plunge Despite Fed's Talk of Rate Cuts

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 16:51

Bernanke's comments today that the Fed would consider an interest rate cut paint a grim economic picture that unnerved some investors.

Judge Orders Uighurs' Release

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 14:27

Chinese Muslims are first detainees ever ordered to be released from Guantanamo Bay prison.

Three Physicists Share Nobel

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:42

Two Japanese and an American awarded for discoveries about behavior of sub-atomic particles.

McCain's Rock and a Hard Place

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:42

The Trail | As economy dominates race, McCain can't easily interject anything else into debate.

Fed Moves to Boost Lending With New Fund

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:31

Purchase of commercial paper, or short-term debt, puts central bank in unprecedented position of, in effect, funding individual companies.

Dow Sinks Below 10,000 as Stocks Fall Worldwide

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 11:51

Dow drops below threshold for the first time since October 2004 as investors question whether bailout will be enough to prevent global recession.

After Bailout, AIG Execs Relaxed

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 10:00

Less than a week after an $85B bailout, insurance giant holds luxury retreat with a tab of $440,000.

E.U. Doubles Deposit Guarantee

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 10:00

Finance ministers take action to help restore confidence in continent's shaken banking system.

A Family's Losing Battle

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 06:31

Afffordable treatment for heroin addiction proved tragically out of reach for one middle-class family.

A Heist Plot Made for Hollywood

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 06:31

Authorities detail how four people allegedly carried out a bank robbery scheme fit for a movie.