I got a phone call from a reporter acquaintance from the Lower 48 before the official announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's nomination to be Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate was even made. He knew I was an evangelical Christian, live in Wasilla, and that like ...
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Floodwaters frustrated efforts by Argentine peacekeepers to distribute food at orphanages marooned by Tropical Storm Hanna on Thursday. They hunkered down in their base as desperate people begged for food and water outside the gates. A Haitian politician struggling to gauge the ...
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This image provided by NOAA was taken at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. At 11 p.m. EDT, its center was 540 miles south of ...
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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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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is finally going to be paid like one of the NFL's top receivers. Hours before the New York Giants kicked off the season against the Washington Redskins on Thursday night, Burress signed a two-year contract extension that will bump his salary into ...
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GONAIVES, Haiti (Reuters) - 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 ...
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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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