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Farenheit 9/11, director Michael Moore's scathing depiction of the Bush administration's response to the Sept. 11 attacks, opens in U.S. theaters Friday. The controversial film won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has a review.

Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ has astonished Hollywood by recording blockbuster ticket sales. The Passion remains the nation's top film for a second straight weekend, taking in $53.2 million. In the 12 days since its release, the film has earned a total of $213.9 million. NPR's Kim Masters reports.

One of the country's big mortgage providers says efforts to sell itself have failed. PHH (formerly known as Cendant) is one of the country's top home-loan companies. The private buyout firm Blackstone was planning to buy the company's mortgage business.

This year the North American International Auto Show is prominently featuring a variety of environmentally friendly cars. But for all the environmental preening at the auto show, the nation's top-selling vehicles are still gas guzzling pickup trucks.

The latest issue of Blender magazine includes a piece titled "White House DJ," which features lists of the top 10 favorite songs of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Jonathan Schwartz talks about the candidates' selections, as well as their only commonality: Frank Sinatra.

As Congress grilled top financial regulators about whether the rescue of troubled investment bank Bear Stearns will put taxpayer money at risk, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the bailout was necessary to avoid a financial meltdown.

Former President Jimmy Carter faces criticism for meeting with top Hamas leaders recently who are considered terrorists by the U.S. government. Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East and North Africa program, talks about the Palestinian militant group and Carter's response to the criticism.

Conditions are worsening in Myanmar as hungry survivors wait among the dead for help after a huge cyclone hit the Southeast Asian nation over the weekend. The top U.S. diplomat in the country is predicting that the death toll could rise as high as 100,000, from the official tally of 22,500.

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce the top players on his economic team Monday. Among them is Tim Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, as Treasury secretary. David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, says that pick would indicate that Obama doesn't want to abruptly change the direction of the bailout.

The list of the top-performing college endowments came out Thursday. Yale University's investments have beaten the S&P 500's performance for the last five years. Marketplace's Steve Tripoli explains how college endowments work and how schools like Yale manage to beat the market year after year.