Prime Minister Brown unveiled an $87 billion plan Wednesday to buttress British banks. Hailed by some European leaders, credit markets responded tepidly.
AP - Wall Street bounced higher and lower Wednesday trying to make up its mind about an unprecedented coordinated interest rate cut by central banks around the world. In the end it settled on a familiar feeling — fear — and plunged again.
AP - John McCain's health plan would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about 21.1 million people if fully put in place by 2010, while Barack Obama's would reduce the number by 26.6 million, an analysis predicts.
AP - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.
The New York Federal Reserve is lending up to $37.8 billion to AIG to give the troubled insurer access to much-needed cash. The new program is on top of the $85 billion the federal government agreed to lend to AIG last month to prevent the global company from collapsing, CNNMoney.com reports.
Government lawyers were frantically trying Wednesday to stop Friday's scheduled court-ordered release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees from the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said Wednesday he is suspending foreclosure evictions in Cook County, which had been on track to reach a record number of evictions, many because of mortgage foreclosures.