MADRID, Spain — A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid’s Barajas airport, killing 149 people on board, officials said. A police officer said the bodies were so hot that police could barely touch them ...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A county spokesman says heavy rain from Tropical Storm Fay has flooded hundreds of homes in central Florida. St. Lucie County spokesman Erick Gill said water in some areas is waist-deep and is getting into homes, causing significant damage. He said an exact number of homes ...
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Shares of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued their plunge Wednesday as investors became increasingly convinced that the stocks will drop to zero if the government bails out the troubled companies. Fannie Mae's chief executive sought to reassure investors that no bailout ...
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Russian soldiers block the highway near Igoeti, northwest of the capital Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday. A top Russian general said Russia plans to construct a series of checkpoints manned by hundreds of soldiers in the so-called "security zone" around Georgia's de-facto border with the breakaway ...
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LENGTH: 30 seconds. AIRING: Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia. SCRIPT: Announcer: "Can we really afford more of the same? John McCain's tax plan: For big corporations _ $200 billion in new tax breaks. Oil companies _ $4 billion. Companies ...
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CBS News chief political consultant Marc Ambinder confirms that Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Indianapolis on Saturday—a nugget that is sure to add to speculation that the Democrat will pick Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh to be his running mate. The Nashville Post, which broke the news of Obama's ...
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Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., right, seen here campaigning with GOP presidential hopeful John McCain in Birmingham, Mich., on Aug. 13, will speak during the Republican National Convention, slated for early September in St. Paul. WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican official tells The Associated Press ...
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