This week’s Republican National Convention has re-energized local party members, some said Thursday. Rome resident Julianne Stokes said she pulled her children out of bed for the speeches from presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “I had all the kids ...
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GONAIVES, Haiti : Powerful Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the United States on Thursday while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll from floods in Haiti grew to 136. Campgrounds were closed and some evacuations began on North Carolina's Outer ...
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US Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a statement with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi. The U.S. vice president, appearing with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, pledges continued U.S. support for reconstruction. TBILISI, GEORGIA -- Appearing alongside beleaguered Georgian ...
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The New York Giants won the Super Bowl with defense and they kicked off defense of that title with more of the same. New York Giants' quarterback Eli Manning, left, dives for a touchdown past Washington Redskins' Rocky McIntosh during the first half of an NFL football game at Giants Stadium in East ...
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NEW ORLEANS — This city rubbed its eyes and started to get moving again as evacuees continued to stream home on Thursday after a hurricane scare that left it with little serious damage but knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes. Restaurants began to pull off plywood boards installed for ...
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Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea's nuclear programs as Pyongyang took steps seen as reversing its promised disarmament. The North began moving disassembled parts of its main ...
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When Condoleezza Rice spends a few hours in Libya and shakes hands with Moammar Gadhafi, she will close a nearly three-decade era of bitter animosity between the United States and the North African nation that has sometimes gotten personal. It's not every day that a U.S. president calls a foreign ...
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