(11-05) 18:16 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A day after California voters approved a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, the incendiary issue returned to the state Supreme Court, where gay and lesbian couples and the city of San Francisco filed lawsuits Wednesday seeking to overturn Proposition 8.
And Attorney General Jerry Brown, who represents the state [...]

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The federal government will not pay the ousted chief executives of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac up to $24 million in exit packages.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency notified former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and former Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron that such “golden parachute” payments will not be paid. The housing [...]

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Wreckage from a massive crisis on Wall Street could prompt the Federal Reserve to do an about face and once again cut a key interest rate this week or possibly later this year, economists said Monday.
Just a few days ago, a rate cut appeared largely off the table. Now it [...]

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The Dow Jones industrials suffered their biggest point loss since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks today.
At the same time, the major averages fell to their lowest levels in two years because of the collapse of Lehman Bros. (LEH, news, msgs) and deepening concerns about the future of insurance giant American International [...]