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What would you do with $800?

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Is an extra $800 in your pocket enough to change the course of the ailing economy? President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and members of Congress s...
CIA links Bhutto's death to tribal leader

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The CIA has concluded that a Pakistani tribal leader's network was behind the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, according to ...
General Electric posts profit

Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - HARTFORD, Conn. -- General Electric Co. delivered some cheer Friday to investors worried about a slowing economy, saying its quarterly profit rose 4 percent and reaffirm...
Leaders debate whether tax rebates provide best stimulus

By Martin Crutsinger Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- With the economy's prospects growing bleaker seemingly by the day, politicians in both parties have rallied around the three Ts, the mantra that any stimul...
Minnesota health system purges drug company trinkets

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- When a Duluth-based operator of hospitals and clinics purged the pens, notepads, coffee mugs and other promotional trinkets drug companies had given its d...
Barbs fly after Obama's Reagan comments

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - RENO, Nev. -- John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Barack Obama's praise of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan -- an anathema for many Democrats, parti...
Cold War was played out across chess board when Fischer defeated Spassky

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- The historic chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky was the Cold War played out with pawns instead of missile...
Pakistan tries to take back control of border

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Dozens of Islamic militants died in clashes with Pakistani troops Friday, the army said, amid reports that government forces had launched a...
More advanced vehicles getting to war zones

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A multibillion-dollar effort to produce bomb-resistant vehicles for U.S. troops in Iraq is moving "as fast as humanly possible," Defense Secretary Ro...
Painful week ends on Wall Street

Associated Press
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Wall Street ended a painful week with another decline Friday as skittish investors unable to hold on to much optimism about the economy drew little comfort f...

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