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Reuters: Top News
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Bush pushes revived bailout
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and President George W. Bush eased pressure on financial markets on Tuesday by starting work to revive a $700 billion bailout plan to stem a credit crisis that has spread beyond Wall Street to claim more European banks.
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Wall Street rallies on bailout revival hopes
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street roared back on Tuesday, a day after its worst sell-off in 21 years as investors bet Washington would revive a plan to stabilize the U.S. financial sector following its surprising defeat on Monday on Capitol Hill.
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Obama and McCain urge revival of bailout
RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - White House contenders Barack Obama and John McCain sought to persuade skeptical Americans on Tuesday to back a $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan, warning they face economic calamity if there is no deal.
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Friend testifies against Sen. Stevens at trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former oil services company executive said on Tuesday at the corruption trial of U.S. Republican Senator Ted Stevens that he gave his longtime friend a good deal in a car swap and bought a generator for the lawmaker's home in Alaska.
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NY mayor Bloomberg to seek third term: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will seek a third term next year, believing the Wall Street crisis is so grave that a law barring him from running again should be altered, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Senate leaders vow passage of fiscal rescue plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat and top Republican in the Senate on Tuesday promised swift action to pass a bipartisan financial rescue plan that the White House says is vital to protect all Americans as well as Wall Street.
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Main Street America angry over credit crisis
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Auto salesman Ryan Thomas is watching the credit crisis hit Main Street America. On Monday, as Congress rejected a bailout plan and stock markets plummeted, Thomas had to turn away a customer with $3,000 in his hand who wanted to buy a new vehicle.
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EU monitors begin Georgia mission, awaiting access
TBILISI (Reuters) - European Union observers begin monitoring a ceasefire between Russia and Georgia on Wednesday after a brief war in August, though without access yet to the Russian-controlled conflict zone.
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New institute to focus on AIDS vaccine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new AIDS vaccine research center dedicated to solving one of the stickiest problems holding back development of such a vaccine will open in California, researchers announced on Tuesday.
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IAEA lacks tools to expose secret work: ElBaradei
VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday its failure to detect nuclear arms work in Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s showed his inspectors lacked authority to pre-empt proliferators.
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