AIG has spent $61 billion of the original $85 billion already, and investors and credit raters went nuts. The Fed loaned another $37.8 billion to keep AIG from going bankrupt.

A judge ordered that 17 Chinese Uighurs held in Gitmo must be brought to the US by Friday. The US appealed and the appeals court stayed the order so it can hear arguments.

“Among mortgages on one- to four-family homes, 9.16 percent were a month or more overdue or were in foreclosure in the second quarter.”

The Pentagon confirmed today that two more Guantanamo Bay prisoners were released. No charges were filled against the alleged dangerous enemy combatants. The Pentagon did not release the cost of imprisoning them for so long.

Chicago is in Cook County, and starting tomorrow, the Cook County Sheriff will not evict people because of foreclosure.

Israel and Egypt have closed all borders with the Gaza strip because Hamas controls Gaza. Smugglers have dug hundreds of tunnels under the border to bring in food, fuel, supplies, and weapons. Hamas, as the only government in the Gaza strip, has started to regulate the tunnels. Forty-five workers have died in the tunnels this … Read more

In each country, a central bank sets the interest rate that banks use to lend each other money. The US central bank, the Fed, issued an emergency rate cut today, and so did most other central banks around the world.

Documents prove that the Bush administration detained US citizens for years, in solitary confinement, without access to sunlight, without books, and without charges. Are you a US citizen?

Kashmir militants have fought against Indian rule for twenty years, with more than 43,000 dead. Pakistan has implicitly supported the Muslim fighters, but Pakistan’s president said that they are terrorists.

A Fox News anchor said, “facts…unlike science…the facts are not irrefutable.”