Leahy: Suspect had help in anthrax case
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September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
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White House changes course on economy
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September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — The White House throttled back its description of the U.S. economy on Wednesday, labeling it resilient enough to withstand some shocks to the system but refusing to say it is fundamentally sound — the phrase that has jolted the race for the presidency.
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Poll says Obama more likely to bring change
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September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — Despite an effort to distance himself from the way his party has done business in Washington, Sen. John McCain is seen by voters as less likely to bring change to Washington than Sen. Barack Obama.
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Senate passes big military bill
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September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a massive defense bill Wednesday that includes a pay raise for military personnel, despite Republican objections to billions of dollars in special projects lawmakers had added.
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Hackers claim break-in to Palin's e-mail
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September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.
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Hurricane evacuees head back to Galveston, then are kept out
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September 18, 2008
GALVESTON, Texas — Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be turned away at the bridge by officials worried that the crippled island can't accommodate that many people.
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U.S. embassy in Yemen attacked
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September 18, 2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Heavily armed militants opened fire on the U.S. Embassy in Sana, Yemen, on Wednesday and detonated a car bomb at its gates, in an attack that left at least 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said.
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New Thai PM reaches for reconciliation The Associated Press
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September 18, 2008
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's new prime minister showed his determination to mend political rifts by quickly shaking hands with the opposition leader Wednesday. But the gesture didn't appease anti-government protesters, who called him unfit for the job because of ties to a disgraced former leader.
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Agency says 4 dead in plane crash in Mexico
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September 18, 2008
PRESIDIO, Texas — An intergovernmental agency says all four of those on board a plane that crashed in Mexico after taking off from Texas are dead.
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Suspected U.S. missiles hit Pakistan compound
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September 18, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Air-fired missiles hit a militant compound near the Afghan border and killed at least six people Wednesday evening, officials said, soon after a senior American officer met with government leaders to discuss the furor over U.S. attacks inside Pakistan.
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Polls: Livni wins Israel primary
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September 18, 2008
JERUSALEM — Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won the Kadima Party's primary election for its leader Wednesday, TV exit polls said, putting her in a good position to become Israel's first female leader in 34 years and sending a message that peace talks with the Palestinians will proceed.
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Gates apologizes for Afghan civilian deaths
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September 18, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday expressed "sincere condolences and personal regrets" for the recent deaths of Afghan civilians as a result of American and allied air strikes that have brought widespread condemnation.
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New stamp honors Bette Davis
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September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — "She did it the hard way."
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Douglas to meet on energy supply
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September 17, 2008
Gov. James Douglas and Quebec Premier Jean Charest will meet in the Northeast Kingdom early next month to talk about a series of issues confronting the state and the Canadian province, including electricity supply and the future sales of Hydro-Quebec power to Vermont utilities.
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Feds announce $85 billion loan to save AIG
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September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — In a bid to save financial markets and the economy from further turmoil, the U.S. government agreed Tuesday to provide an $85 billion emergency loan to rescue the huge insurer AIG.
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FDA defends plastic linked to health risks
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September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — With scientists at odds over the safety of a chemical found in plastic baby bottles, metal cans and other food packaging, consumers got minimal guidance Tuesday about how to protect themselves.
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Senate reaches agreement on tax relief package
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September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders said Tuesday they had broken a months-long impasse over a tax break package that would bring billions of dollars in relief to individual and business taxpayers, developers of clean energy resources and people threatened by the alternative minimum tax.
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Economy takes over other campaign issues
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September 17, 2008
GOLDEN, Colo. — John McCain and Barack Obama traded increasingly barbed insults along with prescriptions for the ailing economy Tuesday as financial fears shoved aside lipstick on pigs and every other political issue in a blink with just weeks left in the long presidential campaign.
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Video shows farm workers abusing pigs
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September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — An undercover video shot at an Iowa pig farm shows workers hitting sows with metal rods, slamming piglets on a concrete floor and bragging about jamming rods up into sows' hindquarters.
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Bush gets close-up view of Ike damage
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September 17, 2008
GALVESTON, Texas — President Bush got a firsthand look Tuesday at the fury that Hurricane Ike unleashed on the Gulf Coast, and was greeted by a virtual ghost town here where it made landfall. He urged frustrated storm evacuees to keep it that way until local officials say it is safe to return.
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Republicans step up efforts to shelter Palin
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September 17, 2008
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday from state Republican lawmakers who want to end it or delay it past the election.
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Survivors rode out Ike in church — with a lion
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September 17, 2008
BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas — Many years from now, a small group of Hurricane Ike survivors will probably still be telling the story of how, on the night the storm flattened their island, they took sanctuary in a church — with a lion.
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Pakistani troops ordered to fire on U.S. raiders
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September 17, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army said Tuesday that its forces have orders to open fire if U.S. troops launch another raid across the Afghan border, raising the stakes in a dispute over how to tackle militant havens in Pakistan's unruly border zone.
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Petraeus hands over Iraq command
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September 17, 2008
BAGHDAD — Gen. David Petraeus, whose strategy for countering the Iraq insurgency is credited by many with rescuing the country from all-out civil war, stepped aside Tuesday as Gen. Ray Odierno took over as the top American commander of the conflict.
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Shortest man meets woman with longest legs
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September 17, 2008
LONDON — Trafalgar Square routinely serves as a stage for mimes, jugglers and other acts, but the tourist attraction drew an exceptionally curious crowd Tuesday when the shortest man who can walk met the woman with the longest legs.
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China tainted milk scandal spreads
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September 17, 2008
BEIJING — China's latest product safety scandal — tainted milk formula blamed for killing two Chinese babies and sickening 1,200 — expanded to include more foods Tuesday, with state media reporting some formula produced by companies involved was exported.
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1,445 Afghan civilians killed in 2008, U.N. says
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September 17, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan — The United Nations said Tuesday that 1,445 Afghan civilians have been killed so far this year in attacks by insurgents or U.S.- and NATO-led forces — a 40 percent increase over 2007.
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U.S. plans evacuation flights from Bolivia
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September 17, 2008
WASHINGTON — The State Department is organizing at least two evacuation flights for Americans who want to leave Bolivia amid widespread and worsening political unrest there.
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Worst day on Wall Street in years
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September 16, 2008
NEW YORK — The upheaval in the American financial system sent shock waves through the stock market Monday, producing the worst day on Wall Street in seven years as investors digested the failure of one of its most venerable banks and wondered which domino would be next to fall.
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Vt. experts urge all to stay calm
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September 16, 2008
Don't panic.
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