DAYTON, Ohio -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- a 44-year-old political maverick who hunts and fishes and is a self-described hockey mom with five kids and a commercial-fisherman husband -- could be John McCain's history-making stroke of genius or his undoing. Or maybe neither. Presumptive Republican ...
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""America, we are better than these last eight years,"" Obama said, as he set course for November's presidential elections as the first African-American with a real shot at the White House. ""We are a better country than this,"" Obama said, 45 years to the day since Martin Luther King laid out his ...
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Gulf Coast states prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Gustav, after it inflicted floods and landslides on the island of Hispaniola. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on this still-recovering region, officials on Friday took the first steps in extensive evacuation plans ...
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(AP) BURBANK, Calif. - A small plane overshot a runway and crashed into some power lines near Bob Hope Airport. Three people inside the aircraft were injured, authorities said. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane landed upside down in the power lines and its nose struck a car parked on the street ...
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands Hurricane Gustav plowed through the Cayman Islands toward Cuba, gathering strength on a journey that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina. Gustav, which killed 71 people in the Caribbean, swirled through ...
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(Reuters) - Georgia recalled all but two of its diplomats from Moscow in protest on Wednesday after Russia recognized its rebel South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions as independent. The issue of South Ossetia's independence has bedeviled Georgia's relations with Russia. Here is a short chronology of ...
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PHILADELPHIA "Heads up! Enemy helicopter inbound!" It's not something you'd expect to hear at a store in an American shopping mall but, then again, not many malls have Black Hawk helicopter simulators. The new Army Experience Center, which opened Friday at the Franklin Mills Mall, is not exactly a ...
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