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Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor, Monday Oct. 6, 2008. Wall Street tumbled again Monday, joining a sell-off around the world as fears grew that the financial crisis will cascade through economies globally despite bailout efforts by the U.S. and other governments. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Wall Street suffered through another traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points and setting a new record for a one-day point drop as investors despaired that the credit crisis would take a heavy toll around the world. The Dow also fell below 10,000 for the first time since 2004, and all the major indexes fell about 5 percent.


Mon Oct 06 12:38:34 -0700 2008

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Mich, right, talks with committee ranking member Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., during a hearing on Capitol Hill  in Washington, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers.  Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday. Waxman said Lehman was 'a company in which there was no accountability for failure.' (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday.


Mon Oct 06 11:36:24 -0700 2008

Republican vice presidential cadidate Sarah Palin speaks during a campaign rally at the Home Depot Center in Carson on October 4. Palin's attack on Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama as someone who would AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin expanded her attack on Democrat Barack Obama's character Monday to include his relationship with an incendiary former pastor as well as his ties to 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers.


Mon Oct 06 09:18:56 -0700 2008