Friday, November 21, 2008
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AP source: Geithner likely Treasury pick
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AP - President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal reserve, as Treasury Secretary in a time of intense economic turmoil as he rounds out the upper echelon of his Cabinet, an official close to the incoming chief executive said Friday.
Stocks jump on report of Geithner nomination
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AP - Wall Street got a boost of confidence late Friday following a report that President-elect Barack Obama plans to name New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary.
Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law
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AP - Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children ? including teenagers as old as 17 ? to be abandoned at state hospitals.
Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest US pact
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AP - Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal Friday, burning an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat a toppled Saddam Hussein statue five years ago. Chanting and waving flags, Muqtada al-Sadr's followers filled Firdous Square to protest the pact that would allow American troops to stay for three more years.
Air patrols, cameras to watch big inaugural crowd
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AP - Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security ? thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols ? to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in.
Florida teen commits suicide in front of webcam
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AP - A South Florida college student killed himself by overdosing on drugs in front of a live online audience as some computer users egged him on, some debated his method, and others tried to talk him out of it.
