Wall Street turmoil now spans globe
Stock markets around the world cascaded lower Monday, European regulators announced the rescue of four major banks, and U.S. and foreign officials pledged to make hundreds of billions of dollars available to ensure that banks would continue lending to each other.
Dow closes up more than 450 points
Wall Street snapped back Tuesday after its biggest sell-off in years amid growing expectations that lawmakers will salvage a $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector.
Study: Urban bears fatter, die earlier
Urban black bears are much heavier and more likely to die violent deaths than their wilder peers, a new study found. And if female, they're more likely to get pregnant at a younger age.
Study links birth size, breast cancer
Women who were bigger and longer babies may be more likely to develop breast cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Voting begins in pivotal Ohio
Five weeks before the election, Ohioans started casting their ballots Tuesday in the perennial battleground that tipped the election to President Bush four years ago and may determine his successor.
Walter: Dems face big opportunity and risk
This year, Democrats have a rare, not to say unprecedented, opportunity to increase their advantage in Congress. But, winning big in November means playing defense in 2010.
He just didn't win, baby: Raiders fire Kiffin
Davis finally drops axe on coach, reportedly promotes O-line coach Cable
Pirates: Holiday celebrated on hijacked ship
Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The pirates denied the report.
NYT: McCain on attack after deal collapse
Besides stockholders whose portfolios were ravaged Monday afternoon, the one person with the most riding on the bailout bill that collapsed in Congress may have been Senator John McCain.
Candidates push for bipartisan financial rescue
Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain on Tuesday appealed for bipartisanship on a plan to save America's collapsing financial sector at the same time they accused each other of supporting policies that would make a bad situation worse.
