Geithner likely treasury pick; Clinton 'on track'
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:32:05 GMT
AP - President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, a senior Democratic official familiar with the deliberations said Friday.
Stocks jump on report of Geithner nomination
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:48 GMT
AP - Wall Street is ending a volatile week with an unexpected jolt of confidence following reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to name New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary. The major indexes have jumped more than 5 percent, with the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points.
Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:31:04 GMT
AP - Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children ? including teenagers as old as 17 ? to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the Legislature in a 45-3 vote, goes into effect Saturday, and makes Nebraska the 14th state with a 30-day age cap. It had been the only state with a safe-haven law without an age limit.
Iraq: Shiites burn Bush effigy in anti-US protest
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:31:37 GMT
AP - Chanting "no to America," supporters of a radical Shiite cleric burned an effigy of President George W. Bush Friday in a protest demanding parliament scuttle a U.S.-Iraqi security pact and American troops begin withdrawing from Iraq immediately.
Air patrols, cameras to watch big inaugural crowd
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:14:56 GMT
AP - Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security ? thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols ? to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in.
Florida teen commits suicide in front of webcam
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:59 GMT
AP - A South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing on drugs in front of a live online audience as some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it.
Prosecutor who had Cheney indicted yells at judge
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:19:27 GMT
AP - A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge Manuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.
Lavish 1,800 year-old bronze chariot unearthed in Bulgaria
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:18:35 GMT
AP - Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. "The lavishly ornamented four-wheel chariot dates back to the end of the second century A.D.," Veselin Ignatov told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the site, near the southeastern village of Karanovo.
Neb. police arrest 'Butt Bandit' vandalism suspect
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:14:45 GMT
AP - Authorities said they've arrested a suspect in the rash of so-called "Butt Bandit" vandalism cases. County Attorney Eric Scott said a 35-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday morning. Formal charges have not yet been filed. Some vandal had been skipping from one building to another at night, pressing his naked buttocks, groin or both on windows.
Warriors swap Harrington for Knicks' Crawford
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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:31:53 GMT
AP - The Golden State Warriors traded disgruntled forward Al Harrington to the Knicks for guard Jamal Crawford on Friday in a swap that addresses both the Warriors' injury problems and New York's salary cap concerns. "I drafted Al back in 1998, and I think his talents are a great fit for our style of play," Knicks president Donnie Walsh said in announcing the deal in a statement. "This trade also gives us more long-term flexibility while enabling us to remain competitive this season."
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