Week of September 8, 2008
The federal government executes a sweeping takeover of mortgage giants
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - aiming at expanding the pool of money available
for home finance.
Russia agrees to pull its troops out of Georgia in a month - but only after
international monitors deploy near the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and
South Ossetia.
Hurricane Ike rips through central Cuba as Fidel Castro proclaims his country on
“combat alert” - after the third storm hits the island in as many weeks.
Sarah Palin
fields questions on foreign
affairs for the first time since entering
the race with John McCain.
Twenty Five are dead after a Los
Angeles Metro Link commuter train
collided with a freight train. A train
engineer’s failure to heed a red light
signal apparently caused the disaster.
Campaign - After two days of
interviews with ABC’s Charles Gibson -
Sarah Palin will now sit down with Sean
Hannity on Fox News Channel.
Meanwhile - Barack Obama is set to
appear on “Saturday Night Live” on their
season premiere this week.
Sarah Palin has given the Republicans
a nice bounce - in some cases two points ahead of Barack Obama’s numbers.
Boliva declares martial law in the northern state of Pando, the site of violent
clashes that left at least nine dead.
Media
- Google will sell some commercials for NBC’s cable networks. It’s the
first time that Google will broker ads sold through a TV network - even though its
TV Ads service is two-years old.
Entertainment news -
New book by Lynne Spears called “Through the Storm” - she says her daughter
Britney has overcome the tabloid nightmares of the past few years and says she
rejects the image that she pushed Britney into show business.
