ST. PAUL, Minn. — Liberals sound like conservatives; the right sounds like the left. John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has upended conventional wisdom and brought about a seeming role reversal. Some liberals are belittling the choice, suggesting that as a mother ...
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Stocks are heading for a sharply lower open after the government disappointed investors with news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August. The Labor Department says payrolls shrank by 84,000 last month, more than the 75,000 economists predicted, and higher ...
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GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) _ It's a desperate situation in Haiti after Tropical Storm Hanna, but help has just arrived. A ship carrying more than 33 tons of food, water and other relief supplies managed to dock in Gonaives. U.N. peacekeepers worked through the night to repair a storm-damaged dock in the ...
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SALVO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Fierce Hurricane Ike weakened as it charged across the Atlantic on Friday and took aim at south Florida and the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico while Tropical Storm Hanna was set to crash ashore in the Carolinas after killing at least 136 people in Haiti. Hanna was ...
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KIEV, Ukraine : As tensions with Moscow continued over Russia's actions in Georgia last month, Vice President Dick Cheney renewed Washington's backing for Ukraine on Friday, asserting America's claim to act as a guarantor in a country that was part of the former Soviet Union. Cheney's pledge ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ An industry group says a record 9.2 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, as damage from the housing crisis continues to mount. The latest quarterly snapshot by the Mortgage Bankers Association on ...
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NEW YORK - Oil prices sank below $106 a barrel Friday as a jump in the U.S. unemployment rate signaled to traders that Americans might keep paring back their energy use to save money. The U.S. Labor Department said the economy lost jobs in August for the eighth consecutive month — and at a faster ...
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