| Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday |
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate cleared the last hurdle Friday to passing a housing rescue aimed at sparing hundreds of thousands of homeowners from foreclosure and bolstering troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.... |
| Obama's brief stop in Paris belies his popularity |
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| PARIS (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expected to spend just enough time in Paris on Friday for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, not a rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin.... |
| Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage |
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| MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 passengers over the South China Sea forced the pilot to make an emergency landing Friday after a rapid descent.... |
| Power outages widespread in Texas after Dolly |
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| HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) -- Business at reopened restaurants was humming, grocery store parking lots were packed and residents of south Texas were venturing out on the newly dry roads again as the remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved well away from the Rio Grande Valley.... |
| New home sales drop 0.6 percent in June |
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, more proof that the worst housing slump in decades is getting deeper.... |
| Stocks advance on upbeat economic reports |
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| NEW YORK (AP) -- Upbeat economic data lifted stocks Friday, placating a market pummeled a day earlier by concerns about housing and the financial sector.... |
| Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies |
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| PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.... |