DENVER — Tim Pawlenty plans on being at the Minnesota State Fair bright and early Friday morning. John McCain may have other plans. Pawlenty, Minnesota's Republican governor and a leading candidate to be McCain's choice for vice president, infiltrated Denver Thursday to rain on Barack Obama's ...
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NEW ORLEANS National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles are selling briskly, and one small-town mayor has spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area is skittishly watching as a storm marches across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary. With ...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) _ Tourists and oil workers fled Thursday as Gustav swamped eastern Jamaica on a path to hit the Cayman Islands with winds near hurricane force. Louisiana called a state of emergency and put the National Guard on standby, hoping to avoid the chaos of Hurricane Katrina three ...
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MOSCOW, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Belarus would recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two breakaway regions of Georgia, in the next day or two, Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Vasily Dolgolev said Thursday. "We are allies and this says it all," Dolgolev told journalists when asked ...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Jason Giambi saved the New York Yankees , coming off the bench to hit a tying homer in the seventh and a game-winning single in the ninth for a 3-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday. Desperate to get back in the playoff race, New York salvaged the finale of a three-game ...
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SAN DIEGO -- A construction scaffold that spanned a city block and a wooden walkway next to it collapsed on Thursday, injuring 16 pedestrians. About 25 people were walking in the wooden walkway next to the three-story building under construction when the scaffold fell. The roof and side of the ...
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NEW YORK : Stocks have ended the day sharply higher after a better-than-expected reading on the gross domestic product and a drop in jobless claims gave investors some reassurance that the economy is holding up. The Commerce Department says the GDP rose at an annual rate of 3.3 percent in the second ...
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