Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:37:30 GMT
AP - Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.
Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:33:25 GMT
AP - Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike.
Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:37:51 GMT
AP - The House and Senate reconvene Monday after back-to-back political conventions, both parties eager to use the three-week session to show voters why their candidates are the ones to fix the economy and lower energy prices.
Candidates weigh in on stabilizing Fannie, Freddie
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:38:50 GMT
AP - The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as Sunday, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday as candidates and congressional leaders seized on the enormous implications for taxpayers and the economy.
Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:44:19 GMT
AP - The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:39:41 GMT
AP - The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
Democrats post big gains in voter registration
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:40:09 GMT
AP - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
London calling at New York Fashion Week
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:41:40 GMT
AP - Designers at New York Fashion week heard London calling from 1975.
Gators snap 6-game losing streak to Miami, 26-3
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:42:23 GMT
AP - Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was good early and even better late, enough to help No. 5 Florida snap a six-game losing streak against rival Miami. Tebow threw two touchdown passes, speedster Percy Harvin ran for a score and the Gators used a swarming defensive effort to beat the Hurricanes 26-3 Saturday night at The Swamp.
Federer a win away from 5th straight US Open title
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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:42:55 GMT
AP - Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him this season underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something Saturday he hadn't in quite a while. He was playing exactly like that guy named Roger Federer.