The Israeli election to determine a Prime Minister is in limbo, as two of the candidates have claimed victory. Benjamin Netanyahu and Tizipi Livni, each claimed to have won, but neither have the necessary votes to become Prime Minister.
The third candidate will have to decide who he will throw his support behind, giving the winner enough votes to be a clear winner and ability to start to form a Government.

The Economic Recovery Bill, will now head to Committee, for reconcilation, after the Senate passed it by one vote, 61 to 37. Senator Ted Kennedy was able to come out and cast his vote, pushing the bill over the top. Only three Republican Senators voted for the bill's passage, Senators Specter, Snowe, and Collins. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was said to have stated that there were fairly minor differences between the House version and the Senate version of the bill. They will need to keep the three Republicans, in order to get the bill passed.

President Obama is said to have told Envoy Richard Holbrooke to warn Pakistan about the terroists' havens, in Pakistan.

The U. S. markets reacted today, falling almost 400 points, after Treasury Secretary Geithner announced a revamping of the TARP, bank plan. There were not enough details, according to the Wall Streeters. A columnist for the Washington Post stated on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, that the Wall Street people wanted the Treasury Secretary to roll up with truck loads of cash and pass it out to them, so they were not happy. Secretary Geithner said not going to happen, and by the way how about a "sorry" and a "thank you", for the other money you were given. Steven Pearlman said in essence, they were never going to be happy, but that is not important.

Suicide bombers and gunmen, attacked the Afghan Minstry and the police.

Secretary of State Clinton reportedly said that North Korea should not trigger instability in Northeast Asia.

Wal-Mart will be cutting eight-hundred jobs, according to reports.

GM set to cut ten thousand salaried workers.

Nike will reportedly cut one thousand, four-hundred employees.

The Governor of California is just about ready to fire twenty thousand employees, due to the state's budget deficit.

Australia's wildfires are not yet under control, they are still burning in Victoria. There have been two hundred lives lost and nine hundred and twenty-two homes lost. Four thousand, two-hundred people are homeless. The Government is reportedly going to rebuild all the homes and will not spare any expense in the cost. There will not be any cap on the amount the Government will spend to rebuild the homes, according to authorities. Now there's a Government working for the people.

A Navy diver in a Sydney, Australian harbor, was attacked by a shark, he nearly lost a hand.

An insurer group, reports that the Chevy Silverado was the worst in its side crash test.

AIG will reportedly sell its auto insurance unit to Zurich Financial.

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