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Officials announce takeover of mortgage giants

The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, announced that the federal government was taking control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

ABC News

Biden: Protect taxpayers in mortgage rescue

CNNMoney

Feds take over Fannie and Freddie

MSNBC

Detroit reflects on scandal, new mayor

Many spoke of hope in interviews with a team of Free Press reporters who fanned out across Detroit to get the pulse of the city in the aftermath of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation and guilty pleas.

Detroit Free Press

Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf

Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast, forcing officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people to wonder where it will eventually strike.

ABC News

Ike bearing down on eastern Cuba

The Weather Channel

Same destination, but different routes for McCain, Obama

As the two candidates and their running mates crisscross the country in search of the ever-elusive swing voter, the competing campaigns have mapped out very different paths to the presidency.

Houston Chronicle

McCain, Palin push reform mantra

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McCain makes an appearance on Biden’s plane (sort of)

CBS News

Obama punches back

MSNBC

Cheney bashes Russia for 'brutality'

Vice President Dick Cheney called Russia's military incursion into Georgia "an affront to civilized standards."

CNN

NATION

The sex change capital of the US

A small rocky mountain town is home to a cottage industry helping transgender people.

CBS News

Boeing machinists start strike, jeopardizing 787 plan

Boeing Co.'s machinists went on strike, seeking improved pay and job security as the planemaker benefits from record orders and tries to keep its 787 Dreamliner schedule from slipping further.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Palin: more and less than she seems

The mother kneels in the snow, cheerfully posing beside her bundled up daughter, behind the bloody, dead caribou the mom just shot.

International Herald Tribune

Where the prospective VP stands on technology issues

BetaNews

Trooper tells his side of the story

CNN

11 states to elect governors this fall

Voters in 11 states are choosing governors in races that offer an important prelude to 2010, when most of the nation's governors' offices are up for grabs.

USA Today

BUSINESS

Wall Street hopes for the best, readies for the worst

With no upturn on the horizon, this week brings housing, inflation reports.

MSNBC

Is the economy putting the freeze on the green consumer movement?

Next to plasma televisions and air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers are the biggest energy-cows in American homes.

PlanetSave.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Saturn moons sport rings too

They're not like the thick, beautiful bands hugging Saturn, but two of the planet's little moons sport faint, partial rings of their own.

Discovery News

Firefighters newest weapon: flame-retardant grenades

A new grenadelike gadget designed to quickly extinguish flames in small quarters, thereby limiting injury to victims as well as firefighters, is becoming an important part of firemen's arsenals.

Scientific American

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Let there be rock: AC/DC plan big comeback on Black Ice tour

The new disc, "Black Ice," will be in stores soon, with a massive tour to follow.

Rolling Stone

Ghostbusters the game in jeopardy?

With a new movie now announced, reviving the Ghostbusters franchise, there’s a level of uncertainty surrounding the Ghostbusters video game.

Space News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Tutu: Church obsessed with gays

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused the Anglican church of allowing its "obsession" with homosexuality to come before real action on world poverty.

BBC

Author of Muhammad novel still mulling over book cancellation

Sherry Jones has seen her novel dropped by Random House, which said that the fictionalized story of one of Muhammad's wives might "incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment."

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

Down-staged liver cancer associated with good post-transplant outcomes

Patients with liver cancer can become viable candidates for transplantation if their tumors respond to treatment.

Medical News Today

Study: no link between measles vaccine and autism

The Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine causes neither autism nor gastrointestinal disorders, a study reported, disputing a theory that has persisted for a decade.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Wounded warriors find new mission

Paralympics gives vets new avenue to compete, serve their country.

CBS News

Volunteer's help the Alamo gleam

Armed with toothbrushes, a brigade of students and workers is defending Texas' most iconic battle site against a modern-day threat: grimy hands.

Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Israeli PM 'should be indicted'

Israeli police have formally recommended to prosecutors that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted in a corruption investigation.

BBC

Venezuela to host Russia navy exercise

Several Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval manoeuvres with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to increase diplomatic tensions with Washington.

International Herald Tribune

Canada's PM calls early election

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked that Parliament be dissolved and called for an early election set for next month.

International Herald Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Leviathan tangled in your nets? Mackie Greene’s your man

If you’re a fisherman and there’s a 70-ton whale thrashing about in your net, who are you going to call? In the Fundy Isles, almost every lobster or herring fisherman has got Mackie Greene’s number.

Christian Science Monitor

The southwest desert's boom in prime solar real estate

From California to Arizona, demand for sites for solar power projects has ignited a land grab.

Fortune

SPORTS

Risky business: gambling on unsettled QBs the norm in NFL

Blow on the dice. Go all in. That's the NFL's mindset as it rumbles into 2008, with players and executives cast as high-stakes gamblers flashing pinky rings and cash.

USA Today

NFL Breakdown: Who's up, who's down, who might get fired

Seattle Times

Federer reaches US Open finals

Only after Federer finished restoring order to his world by dismissing Djokovic did Tropical Storm Hanna carry chaos to Flushing Meadows by suspending the other men's semifinal in progress.

Sporting News

Action from 2008 US Open

WNBC

EDUCATION

The difficulty of school reform

Few things are as difficult as reforming the public schools. Since the beginnings of the public school system, changes have essentially been of solidifying the system rather than of what could be or should be.

EducationNews.org

No simple explanation for college dropout rate

Students drop out because of a combination of factors — some serious, some frivolous and some unpredictable.

PIttsburgh Post-Gazette

Photo of the Day

Power parachutists pass each other while performing at the Great State of Maine Airshow in Brunswick, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)

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