Yahoo! News: Most EmailedMost EmailedConsumer confidence sinks to 16-year-plus low (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - U.S. consumers are the gloomiest they've been since the tail end of the last prolonged recession. Inflation, sinking home values and soaring gas prices have pushed confidence to the lowest level since 1992. Consumers' view of the economic future has never been lower, raising worries that already weak consumer spending could deteriorate further.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... AP IMPACT: Kenyan children abducted, tortured (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... Housing aid bill clears key Senate hurdle (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - A massive foreclosure rescue bill overwhelmingly cleared a key Senate test Tuesday, drawing broad support from Democrats and Republicans alike. The Senate voted 83-9 to speed up work on the $300 billion mortgage aid plan, putting it on track for a final vote as early as the end of the day.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... Crews battle lightning-caused California wildfires (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Fire crews joined aircraft from neighboring states Tuesday to battle hundreds of lightning-caused wildfires across Northern California.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... Bill Clinton offers support to Obama (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Former President Clinton on Tuesday offered to help Barack Obama win the White House, although what work he'll do for his wife's former rival remained uncertain.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... Israeli policeman kills self at Sarkozy ceremony (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - An Israeli police officer fatally shot himself in the head at an airport farewell ceremony Tuesday for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, prompting bodyguards to whisk the visiting leader and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to safety, officials said.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... 'Jacob the Jeweler' gets 30 months in US prison (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - The New York businessman known in the hip-hop world as "Jacob the Jeweler" was sentenced Tuesday to 2 12 years in federal prison for lying to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_e... Mugabe defies mounting pressure to stop vote (Reuters)- June 24, 2008 Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday defied mounting pressure from both inside and outside Africa to call off Friday's presidential election, saying he had a legal obligation to go ahead.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080624/wl_n... Rockets hit Israel, which says truce broken (AP)- June 24, 2008 AP - Palestinian militants on Tuesday fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel, the first such attack since a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza militants took effect last week.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080624/ap_o... Justice Dept. hiring marred by politics: probe (Reuters)- June 24, 2008 Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush's Justice Department improperly injected politics into hiring programs, a department investigation released on Tuesday found.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080624/pl_n... |