Politico - Less than two weeks ago, MSNBC president Phil Griffin was still defending the network’s anchor team to Politico, despite reports of turmoil behind-the-scenes and on-air squabbles. At the time, a high-ranking MSNBC journalist told me the network was “about to blow up.”
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AP - A hot-air balloon crashed and burst into flames in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday evening, killing one person and injuring six others.
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AP - Asian stock markets soared Monday after Washington announced a bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a move that could help bolster a shaky U.S. housing market and renew global investor confidence.
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Reuters - The frontrunner to become Japan’s next
leader will to pledge tax cuts and bigger government spending
to boost the economy, a newspaper said on Monday, a contrast
with rivals worried about the country’s huge debt.
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AP - Hurricane Ike’s torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town, killing at least 58 people.
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Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki will
meet Zimbabwe’s rival parties in Harare on Monday in a new
attempt to secure a power-sharing deal amid growing doubts over
his chances of success.
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Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki, who
is mediating in Zimbabwe’s power-sharing talks, will meet with
the country’s political parties in Harare on Monday in his
latest bid to end the country’s political turmoil.
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AP - Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes, rocked the Miran Shah area in Pakistan’s troubled northwest Monday, injuring at least 12 people, officials said.
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AP - Serena Williams flung her racket straight up and jumped for joy, hopping and skipping and screaming and generally looking like someone who had just won her first U.S. Open title or earned her debut at No. 1 in the rankings.
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