McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain? - Washington Post

HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike charged toward Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico as a ferocious Category 4 storm on Saturday, while Tropical Storm Hanna drenched the U.S. Atlantic coast after barreling ashore in the Carolinas. Ike's top sustained winds reached 135 miles per hour (215 kph), making it an ...

Ferocious Hurricane Ike threatens Cuba, Gulf - Reuters

WASHINGTON - The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the failure of the two companies, which together hold or guarantee half of the nation's mortgage debt, a person briefed on the ...

Government may soon take over troubled mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac - Minneapolis Star Tribune

WEATHER: Overcast, very humid and breezy before play was suspended for the day by rain. High of 83. ATTENDANCE: NA. WINNERS (Semifinals): No. 2 Roger Federer. LOSERS: No. 3 Novak Djokovic. LEADERS: No. 6 Andy Murray. TRAILERS: No. 1 Rafael Nadal. SUNDAY'S MATCHES: Men (Semifinals): No. 1 Rafael ...

US Open at a glance - ESPN.com

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who has little experience in governing, was elected president of Pakistan on Saturday by a wide margin. Zardari, 53, who spent 11 years in jail on corruption charges that remain unproved ...

Bhutto's widower elected in Pakistan - International Herald Tribune

GONAIVES, Haiti – Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. Food was distributed to famished residents, including to emaciated inmates at the local jail ...

Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island - San Diego Union-Tribune

The title match between two-time champion Williams and first-time Grand Slam finalist Jelena Jankovic was postponed from Saturday until Sunday because of heavy rain brought by Tropical Storm Hanna. It's the first time since 1974 that the U.S. Open women's championship match was not played on a ...

U.S. Open women's final postponed until Sunday - CBS Sportsline

The Boeing Company, whose order books are bulging with demand for its planes, was hit by its second major strike in three years early Saturday, when the union that represents 27,000 machinists in Washington State, Oregon and Kansas walked off the job. The union, the International Association of ...

Boeing is hit by another strike - International Herald Tribune

The unemployment rate jumped to 6.1 percent in August, its highest level in five years, as the erosion of the job market showed no sign of slowing, a report released Friday showed. Employers cut 84,000 jobs last month, more than economists had expected, and the Labor Department said that more jobs ...

U.S. unemployment rate rises to 6.1% - International Herald Tribune

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- An United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, on behalf of Boeing Launch Systems, successfully launched the GeoEye-1 satellite at 11:51 a.m. PDT, today. Blasting off from Space Launch Complex 2 here, it marked the second ULA Delta II mission ...