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Bank failures top 100, only part of industry woes (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2009 file photo, Bank of Elmwood is seen in Racine, Wis. The cascade of bank failures this year surpassed 100 on Friday, the most in nearly two decades. And the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper than the number suggests. On Friday, regulators took over three small Florida banks — Partners Bank and Hillcrest Bank Florida, both of Naples, and Flagship National Bank in Bradenton — along with American United Bank of Lawrenceville, Ga., Bank of Elmwood in Racine, Wis., Riverview Community Bank in Otsego, Minn., and First Dupage Bank in Westmont, Ill. (AP Photo/The Journal Times, Mark Hertzberg)AP - The cascade of bank failures this year surpassed 100 on Friday, the most in nearly two decades. And the trouble in the banking system from bad loans and the recession goes even deeper than the number suggests.

Pilots missed Twin Cities by 150 miles - but how? (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:51 AM PDT

FILE In this Thursday, April 21, 2005 file photo, a Northwest Airlines plane taxis as another lifts off at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, in Minneapolis. The two Northwest Airlines pilots should have had numerous warnings that their flight was nearing its destination in Minneapolis. Controllers were trying to reach the plane by radio, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)AP - Were the pilots distracted? Catching up on their sleep? Federal investigators struggled to determine what the crew members of a Northwest Airlines jetliner were doing at 37,000 feet as they sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination and military jets readied to chase them. Unfortunately, the cockpit voice recorder may not tell the tale.

Taliban call for Afghans to boycott runoff poll (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:55 AM PDT

An elderly Afghan man holds his head as he sits under a giant portrait of Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan foreign minister who ran against President Hamid Karzai in last August's vote, at a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday that the extensive fraud that marked the first round of presidential elections will be reduced but not eliminated. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)AP - Taliban fighters warned Afghans not to take part in the war-wracked country's upcoming presidential runoff, threatening Saturday to launch a fresh wave of violence on polling day to stop them.

Analysis: Obama's consumer agency no sure deal (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:40 AM PDT

President Barack Obama takes his leave after speaking at a fundraiser for Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, in Stamford, Conn., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Take a hard look now. A new agency that consumers were promised would make bankers, credit card companies and mortgage lenders treat them fairly will never look as strong again.

NJ priest slain in church rectory is mourned (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:46 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson, N.J., Rev. Edward Hinds is seen. Hinds was found slain Friday morning in his clerical robes in the rectory of his northern New Jersey parish, and authorities warned that a killer was on the loose. (AP Photo/Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson, N.J.)AP - Services will be held Saturday at St. Patrick's Church in this tiny borough, a moment of continuity for a community rocked by the slaying of the Rev. Ed Hinds in the town's first violent death in 20 years.

US swine flu deaths surpass 1,000 (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:52 AM PDT

Catherine Governale holds her son George after receiving two swine flu shots in Culver City Friday, Oct 23, 2009. Public demand for the new swine flu vaccine has caused long lines and frustration in several parts of the country. But worries about flu has also prompted record interest in seasonal flu vaccine as well. About 60 million people have been vaccinated already — an unprecedented number for October. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - More Americans have been vaccinated against seasonal flu this fall than ever before by this time of year, federal health officials said Friday.

Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:53 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2004 file photo, Lyn Toelle fills out forms before bringing roses to her legislators during the Rose Day observance, an anti -abortion event, at the state capitol in Oklahoma City. Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk them through an ultrasound. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Haderthauer, File)AP - Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk them through an ultrasound.

Clunkers leads to backlog at recycling yards (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2009 photo, a crane lifts a flattened car to a shredder at Gershow Recycling Corp. in Medford, N.Y. Cash for Clunkers may be history for car shoppers, but the program's largesse lives on in recycling yards around the country. A torrent of traded-in clunkers have arrived at auto recyclers in the past two months and are still waiting to be drained of fluids, stripped of valuable parts and eventually flattened. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - Cash for Clunkers may be history for car shoppers, but the program's largesse lives on in recycling yards around the country.

Michelle Obama's gripe: president's tennis game (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:54 AM PDT

First lady Michelle Obama waves at the start of a breast cancer awareness event in the First Lady's Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - What's President Barack Obama's most annoying habit?

NBA, referees agree to deal, ending lockout (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2009, file photo, NBA commissioner David Stern appears at a news conference in Denver. Stern said on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, that Mikhail Prokhorov, who has a deal to buy 80 percent of the New Jersey Nets, had a positive introduction with NBA owners during their two-day Board of Governors meetings in New York. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski,file)AP - The regular referees made the call. They're coming back to work.

Home sales scale 2-year high in September (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 01:56 PM PDT

A for sale sign sits outside of a house in Miami Beach October 22, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Sales of previously-owned U.S. homes jumped to a two-year high last month, according to data on Friday, though the looming expiry of a tax incentive for first-time home buyers was a major factor spurring sales.

Japan pushes for new East Asian bloc (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:51 AM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (5-L) link hands with ASEAN leaders during group shot before the ASEAN-Japan meeting at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, in the seaside town of Hua Hin, some 190 km (118 miles) south of Bangkok, October 24, 2009. REUTERS/Sukree SukplangReuters - Japanese and Chinese leaders entered talks on Saturday with their Asian counterparts focused heavily on whether the region should pursue an EU-style bloc, and whether Washington should be involved.

Iran ignores U.N. nuclear deadline (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:34 PM PDT

Iran's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ambassador Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh gestures after briefing the media after a meeting on the Iranian nuclear issue in Vienna with EU, Russian and U.S. diplomats at Vienna's UN headquarters October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerReuters - Iran ignored a U.N. deadline on Friday to respond to an international draft deal for it to cut an atomic stockpile the West fears could be used for weapons, and challenged the basis of the pact.

Democrats gauge options on public health plan (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:14 PM PDT

Registered Nurse Regina White-Taylor (R) explains flu vaccination forms to Keisha Skipper before giving the H1N1 flu vaccine to Skipper's two-year-old son William Skipper (not pictured) at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois October 6, 2009. REUTERS/Frank PolichReuters - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives struggled on Friday to agree on which version of a government-run health insurance plan to include in a reform bill, but said one was certain to be in the final legislation.

Abbas sets gamble on January 24 Palestinian election (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 02:44 PM PDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas talks during a news conference after his meeting with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the Presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2009. REUTERS/Tarek MostafaReuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Friday for presidential and parliamentary elections on January 24, in a political gamble that could end in divorce for the divided Palestinian movement.

Mom admits to "Balloon Boy" hoax: court record (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 04:34 PM PDT

Reuters - The mother of a Colorado boy thought to be aboard a homemade helium balloon has admitted to investigators the whole thing was a hoax, according to a court document made public on Friday.

Karzai wants "better" Afghan vote, vows "inclusivity" (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 04:20 PM PDT

An election worker carries a ballot box at the Independent Election Commission warehouse in Kabul October 22, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai said he wanted a better and cleaner presidential election run-off in November to bring stability at a time when Taliban violence is at its worst in eight years of war.

More evacuations as Puerto Rico oil blaze burns on (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 09:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Authorities in Puerto Rico on Friday ordered the evacuation of hundreds more residents from homes around a huge fire at an oil depot which spewed a column of toxic black smoke into the sky near the capital San Juan.

Taliban call for Afghan vote boycott, threaten violence (AFP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2009 12:27 AM PDT

Afghan employees of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) load election material into a truck in Kabul. The Taliban called on Saturday for a boycott of the upcoming run-off in Afghanistan's presidential election and threatened violence against anyone who participates.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - The Taliban called Saturday for a boycott of the upcoming run-off in Afghanistan's fraud-tainted presidential election as top US and UN envoys predicted fewer problems with the second round.

New German coalition gets set for government (AFP)

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 08:02 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Free Democrats Party (FDP) chairman Guido Westerwelle. Germany's newly elected coalition got set for government on Saturday after adopting a common programme in a late-night meeting aimed at guiding the country out of its worst recession since World War II.(AFP/DDP/Axel Schmidt)AFP - Germany's newly elected coalition got set for government on Saturday after adopting a common programme in a late-night meeting aimed at guiding the country out of its worst recession since World War II.
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