AP - The White House says it is very concerned about big job losses.

AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe brandished the threat of fresh elections in a bid to force through a stalled power-sharing deal as the United States called for him on Friday to quit.

AP - Stock intended to eventually earn taxpayers a profit as part of the Bush administration's massive bank bailout has lost a third of its value — about $9 billion — in barely one month, according to an Associated Press analysis. Shares in virtually every bank that received federal money have remained below the prices the government negotiated.