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New York Times 

Stocks Rise Sharply After Vows of New Bank Capital

The major exchanges in New York moved sharply higher Monday on hopes that the global efforts taken o...

Europe Pledges Billions for Banks

After a weekend of crisis talks, European nations and the United States unveiled a staggering and co...

The Lede: Following the Financial Crisis and the Markets

Top banking executives have been called to meet with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson this aftern...

Morgan Agrees to Revise Terms of Mitsubishi Deal

The Japanese bank demanded better terms after Morgan Stanley's stock lost about 59 percent of its...

Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee

Christians in eastern Orissa State in India say they are being forced to leave their faith in exchan...

CNN Live 

Bush to praise McCain as 'ready to lead'

In comments to be shown at the Republican National Convention tonight, President Bush calls presumpt...

Lawmaker: Palin due to face investigators

As she takes part in the Republican National Convention with Sen. John McCain, the abuse of power pr...

Anti-abortion group says Palin 'walks her talk'

Sarah Palin's announcement that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant -- and she supports her daughte...

Leslie Sanchez: Obama's high-tech advantage

In 1840, a young Whig organizer named Abraham Lincoln wrote the guidebook on political field work. H...

Papers suggest Olympians got banned drugs

Two members of the 2008 Jamaican Olympic track team received shipments of performance-enhancing drug...

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Wired News 

Q&A: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise

John Hodgman is an expert. At everything. (OK, maybe not sports.) But where he really excels is in c...

Oct. 13, 1884: Greenwich Resolves Subprime Longitude Crisis

1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard...

Obama v. McCain: The Wired Scorecard

What do Barack Obama and John McCain say, and what have they done, about policies that matter to Wir...

Microscope-On-a-Chip Is One Step Closer to the Tricorder

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LOS ANGELES, California ? In the very near future, drawing blood m...

'Children in Need' Could Unite All Surviving Doctor Whos

Reports claim the seven surviving actors who played The Doctor will reunite for this year's BBC 'Chi...