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Saturday, October 11, 2008 - Page updated at 04:56 p.m.
Latest AP Nation/World news
UPDATE - 04:55 PM
Bush, allies seek to calm jittery investors
President Bush and the world's financial leaders staged repeated displays of unity Saturday to combat an unfolding credit crisis, hoping to calm investors whose panic has spread despite bold and accelerating government action.
UPDATE - 01:00 PM
Friday, October 10
Panel: Palin abused power in firing trooper
U.S. to take stake in banks, first since Depression
Some of Obama's donor names appear to be bogus
Isolated Iceland wonders who to turn to for help
New Afghan strategy makes use of militias
Russian scientist suspected of aiding Iran's nuke effort
U.S. poised to remove N. Korea from terror list despite recent actions
Close-up | Overcrowding, mismanaged tourism threaten Galapagos Islands
Quarter of U.S. girls get cervical-cancer vaccine
Small SUV might land on Mars next
Calif. lawmakers' kin found in sunken boat
Libya makes victim-fund payments to compensate families of Americans killed
Scientists: Shark's pup a "virgin birth"
Nation Digest | Bush creates panel to oversee transition to next presidency
World Digest | 5 police officers killed in shootout
Odds and Ends | Drunken bedfellow gets Md. couple's reprieve
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