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  • Alaska inquiry finding: Palin abused power

    Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
    Online update6:50 p.m. |21 comments

  • Stocks end wild session mixed, Dow falls 128

    Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials gyrate within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually ending with a modest advance.
    Online update3:10 p.m. |42 comments

  • Bush says anxiety feeding market instability

    President Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. "We can solve this crisis and we will," he said in brief remarks from the White House Rose Garden.
    Online update9:43 a.m. |12 comments

  • Court makes Connecticut 3rd state to allow gay marriage

    The idea that civil unions could be a satisfying but less contentious substitute to gay marriage was knocked down Friday by Connecticut's Supreme Court.
    Online update11:15 a.m. |31 comments

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Food is loaded on a donkey Thursday in rural Zimbabwe. The U.N. food aid agency found Zimbabweans reduced to eating one meal a day, in some cases only wild fruits. (Richard Lee, Associated Press)
Richard Lee, Associated Press
Zimbabwe's situation desperate
Food is loaded on a donkey Thursday in rural Zimbabwe. The U.N. food aid agency found Zimbabweans reduced to eating one meal a day, in some cases only wild fruits.
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