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Your Money: ‘Is My Money Safe?’ and Other Questions to Ask
data: 01.10.08
Addressing the issues on the minds of investors on Main Street who are distressed by the fallout on Wall Street.
 Mr. Baron made headlines over the summer when he acknowledged sending money to John Edwards’s former mistress, Rielle Hunter.
 The half-hour special proved more popular than the final game of the World Series and even last season’s finale of “American Idol.”
 Washington has a long history of providing financial help to the private sector when the economic or political risk of a corporate collapse appeared too high.
Wall Street fell a day after the administration announced a plan to help restore confidence in the mortgage finance companies. But key Democratic leaders expressed support for the plan.
 The Fed’s radical new plan is an effort to stimulate the credit markets, which have all but dried up.
For all of its destructive fury, Hurricane Ike may be remembered as much for what did not happen as for what did.
The F.B.I. presented a sweeping but circumstantial case that Bruce E. Ivins was solely responsible for mailing the deadly anthrax letters.
 The barn, a building whose purpose shifted, then faded away, tells a story of how farming has changed markedly.
 Republican anger over Iraq and the economy has left some advisers to Barack Obama hopeful that they can capture pockets of crossover votes.
The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an Ohio prisoner who argued he is too obese to be executed.
According to International Fund for Animal Welfare reports, online auction sites have become a magnet for trading in items derived from endangered species.
 Analysis of an advertisement for Senator John McCain.
The first lady broadened her reach as a foreign policy spokeswoman for the White House, calling the Taliban “cowardly and shameful.”
 A popular television anchorwoman was bludgeoned almost beyond recognition in her home in Little Rock.
 Texas officials were preparing for Hurricane Ike after the storm spun off Cuba and began heading for the state with growing strength.
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1. On Religion: Obama’s Victory Ushers in a New Generation of Black Ministers
data: 15.11.08
The presence of an African-American president, and one from the post-civil rights era, could impart influence and prominence on his contemporaries in the black ministry.
2. National Briefing | West: California: Fire Coastal Enclave
data: 15.11.08
A brush fire destroyed an unknown number of homes in the enclave of Montecito, outside Santa Barbara, forcing residents to evacuate what has long been a hideaway for the rich.
3. National Briefing | Charities: No Change? Swipe Your Card at a Kettle
data: 15.11.08
The Salvation Army is experimenting with a plastic alternative for people who do not have cash to throw in a holiday red kettle.
4. National Briefing | Midwest: Illinois: Suits Charge Violence by Police
data: 15.11.08
A lawsuit asserts that some white Chicago police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama’s victory last week at their home.
5. National Briefing | Science: Group Set to Sue Over Clean Water Act
data: 15.11.08
The Center for Biological Diversity said it was prepared to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to use the Clean Water Act to respond to the threat of ocean acidification.
6. National Briefing | Washington: Debt, but No Layoffs, at Postal Service
data: 15.11.08
The Postal Service ended its fiscal year $2.8 billion in the red, battered by a faltering economy that cut the amount of mail being sent by 9.5 billion items.
7. National Briefing | Washington: FEMA Trailers Sold as ‘Scrap’
data: 15.11.08
The government is selling travel trailers that were banned from use as emergency housing in disasters because many had toxic levels of formaldehyde.
8. National Briefing | Washington: Bridge Collapse Is Laid to Design Flaw
data: 15.11.08
The Minneapolis Interstate bridge that collapsed in 2007, killing 13 people, had cracks in its welds and rust in many places, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
9. Henry Loomis, Who Led Voice of America, Is Dead at 89
data: 15.11.08
Mr. Loomis extended the reach and defended the independence of the Voice of America in the late 1950s and early 1960s before resigning in a clash with President Lyndon B. Johnson.
10. Space Plumbers Ready for Shuttle Launching
data: 15.11.08
If all goes as planned, a team of intrepid space plumbers and lube-job specialists will lift off on Friday for a visit to the International Space Station.
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