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• McCain and Obama clash on economy
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:35pm
  CEDARBURG, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their party conventions, clashed over the ailing U.S. economy on Friday as unemployment hit its highest monthly rate in nearly five years.
  
  
• Treasury near GSE bailout plan: report
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:31pm
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is close to finalizing a plan to buttress mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
  
  
• Hurricane Ike targets Gulf, Hanna nears U.S
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:58pm
  SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Fierce Hurricane Ike weakened as it charged across the Atlantic on Friday and took aim at south Florida and the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico while Tropical Storm Hanna was set to crash ashore in the Carolinas after killing at least 136 people in Haiti.
  
  
• Boeing workers prepare to strike as deadline nears
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:32pm
  NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's machinists prepared for a strike on Friday as the plane-maker and its largest union tried to hammer out a last-ditch deal on their latest three-year contract.
  
  
• Rice meets Gaddafi on historic Libya visit
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:43pm
  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- once reviled as a "mad dog" by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies.
  
  
• Safety compliance gaps noted for some U.S. airlines
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:49pm
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three major airlines were among 11 U.S. airlines that failed during an unprecedented industry review to demonstrate full compliance with government safety directives, regulators said on Friday.
  
  
• John McCain speech draws record TV ratings
  5 Sep 2008 at 4:07pm
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain beat Democratic rival Barack Obama in the crucial battle to attract U.S. television viewers during their race to the White House, according to figures released on Friday.
  
  
• U.S. appeals to Ukraine to unite with West
  5 Sep 2008 at 5:23pm
  KIEV (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney appealed to Ukraine's divided leaders on Friday to unite and forge closer links with the West, pledging Washington's support for Kiev to join the NATO military alliance.
  
  
• Jobless rate at 5-year high
  5 Sep 2008 at 1:26pm
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An unexpectedly steep 84,000 U.S. jobs were lost in August and the unemployment rate hit a five-year high of 6.1 percent, fanning worry ahead of November's presidential vote that the economy was near recession.
  
  
• Voters say economy overshadows political hoopla
  5 Sep 2008 at 3:36pm
  CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Trudy Tucker doesn't know if the back-to-back U.S. political conventions addressed the financial worries she has raising four children -- she was too busy to watch.