Tropical Storm Fay stays on Florida's coast
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:27:17 GMT
AP - Tropical Storm Fay continued its erratic path Wednesday, moving north along the Florida coast but not going out over the Atlantic Ocean, where many had feared it could strengthen and curve back toward the state as a hurricane.
Rice to sign missile defense deal with Poland
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:30:09 GMT
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an infuriated Russia to threaten its former Soviet satellite.
Bush defends terror war in speech to veterans
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:45:15 GMT
AP - President Bush is defending his line-in-the-sand approach to the fight against Islamic terrorism, following presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama in a speech to a major veterans group.
Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:22:40 GMT
AP - A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.
Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:31:36 GMT
AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.
Shawn Johnson's gold makes for happy Americans
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:01:42 GMT
AP - Clear some more space in that pile of pretty Olympic medal boxes. Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin are bringing home more loot, including a gorgeous gold of Johnson's very own.
Obama, VP choice to campaign together Saturday
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:26:39 GMT
AP - Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.
Study finds minorities more likely to be paddled
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:48:12 GMT
AP - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.
DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:42:09 GMT
AP - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.
AP NewsBreak: Umpires refuse replay call with MLB
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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:43:17 GMT
AP - Umpires want baseball to take another look at instant replay. Umps said their governing board voted Tuesday to boycott a conference call with management intended to discuss implementing replay and are angry that their concerns aren't being addressed.
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