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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States is considering guaranteeing billions of dollars in bank debt and temporarily insuring all U.S. bank deposits, two dramatic steps to repair ailing financial markets, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.

Treasury isn't quite going to nationalize America's banks but it may just become the biggest investor and stockholder in the troubled credit industry

Asian markets plunge after huge Wall Street losses; Tokyo's Nikkei sinks more than 10 percent

Fear grips Wall Street; Dow down more than 7 percent as steep sell-off spreads overseas

The man whose body was found Tuesday in a San Mateo slough shot himself to death, authorities said today. The 75-year-old Foster City man was discovered in the slough near Anchor Road, next to a jogging path that runs parallel to J. Hart clinton Drive, police...

LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks tumbled at the open on Friday, tracking plunges in Asian and U.S. equities as investors feared world governments' attempts to unlock credit markets would not be enough to ward off a global recession.

More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.

America is headed down “the wrong path" economically and neither Congress nor the presidential candidates are providing the leadership needed to right our financial course, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker warned.

Only one time since 1856 has the party in power in the White House managed to retain the presidency when an election occurred during an economic downturn, a CNSNews.com analysis shows.

APPLE is expected to unveil new notebook computers, perhaps even one priced for those with tight budgets, next week.