Economic Report Confidence plummets in September MarketWatch - 17 hours (Web promotion) ago

Economic Report Confidence plummets in September MarketWatch - 17 hours (Web promotion) ago

Economic Report Confidence plummets in September
MarketWatch - 17 hours ago WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - US consumer confidence took a big hit in September from Hurricane Katrina, the Conference Board said Tuesday. The consumer confidence index fell to 86.6 in September from 105.5 in August. The decline was larger than expected.

Paisley attacks 'IRA-nominated' arms witnesses
Independent - 8 hours ago By David McKittrick, Ireland Correspondent. Northern Ireland's political elite and grassroots absorbed the fact yesterday that IRA weapons decommissioning is bound to have far-reaching and profound effects on the conduct of politics.

Brownie points (at others)
Salon - 5 hours ago Former FEMA head Michael Brown admits making mistakes, but says state and local officials were mostly responsible for the disastrous response to Katrina. Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director

Don Adams
Telegraph.co.uk - 5 hours ago Don Adams, who died in Los Angeles on Sunday aged 82, starred as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television series Get Smart, conceived by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry as a spoof of the James Bond pictures, The Man From UNCLE and similar

Greenspan Says Asset Prices May Fall After `Euphoria' (Update2)
Bloomberg - 10 hours ago Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said asset prices often fall after long periods of stability and ``euphoria,'' echoing warnings he's issued over the past year that investors may be too complacent about risk.

US Airways investment lands Milton a seat on the board
Globe and Mail - 21 minutes ago By BRENT JANG. Air Canada chairman Robert Milton has been named to the board of US Airways Group Inc. after the Canadian carrier's parent company completed its $75-million (US) investment in the American airline yesterday.

Webb and D'Backs shut down Dodgers
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours ago Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Brandon Webb pitched seven innings of shutout ball and Chad Tracy provided the offense with a two-run homer in the eighth, as the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0, at Dodger Stadium.

First lady hits the road to promote hurricane relief efforts
Macon Telegraph - 6 hours ago BY MARK SILVA. BILOXI, Miss. - (KRT) - Blocks from the Gulf Coast, where Hurricane Katrina swept homes from foundations and shredded some to sticks, first lady Laura Bush arrived at a hot and crowded civic

Levin to support Roberts' nomination to Supreme Court
Detroit Free Press - 5 hours ago BY KEN THOMAS. WASHINGTON -- Sen. Carl Levin said Tuesday he would vote to confirm John Roberts to the Supreme Court, taking President Bush's choice for chief justice at his word that he would be open-minded

Zarqawi deputy killed in gun battle
Independent - 8 hours ago By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad. Iraqi and US forces have shot dead Abu Azzam, believed to be the second in command of al-Qa'ida in Iraq, in a gun battle after he was trapped in a high-rise building in Baghdad.