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Sarah Palin introduced as McCain's running mate - 5 Hours ago

DAYTON, Ohio -- Republican John McCain today introduced Alaska as his running mate -- a move that could shake up the presidential race with a social conservative who will appeal to the party's base and

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WRAPUP 4-Hurricane Gustav swirls toward Caymans, Gulf - 4 Hours ago

* Potential to become very dangerous storm * Energy companies evacuate offshore workers * New Orleans marks third anniversary of Katrina GEORGE TOWN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav strengthened over

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Star-Telegram

Georgia, Moscow to Cut Diplomatic Ties - 5 Hours ago

(TBILISI, Georgia) Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said the move would only make things worse. With European Union

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Karadzic Defies Court, Refuses To Enter Plea
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FACTBOX - Gustav threatens U.S. Gulf oil, gas, commods
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Powerful Gustav heads to Caymans
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Indiana dad gets 18 months for killing family cat
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Polish PM: Nothing to fear over base
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Bush 'won't attack Obama' in speech
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Top-Seeded Ivanovic Loses In Huge Upset At US Open - 3 Hours ago
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Obama takes aim at McCain, Bush - 4 Hours ago
Denver, Aug. 29: Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party presidential nomination yesterday, declaring that the "American promise has been threatened" by eight years under President Bush and that John
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Gustav Heads For Loop Current - 3 Hours ago
The difference between a monster and a wimp for Gulf of Mexico hurricanes often comes down to a small patch of warm deep water that's easy to miss. It is called the Loop Current, and hurricane trackers
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Politics/Law

Obama speech draws 38.4 million - 5 Hours ago
Yes, he can, apparently: Barack Obama's acceptance speech, delivered in front of nearly 80,000 punters, pundits, and pols at Denver's Invesco Field, delivered a blockbuster 38.4 million total viewers
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Obama camp hits, then praises McCain's VP choice - 2 Hours ago
Barack Obama's spokesman fired off a fast criticism of Republican John McCain's new running mate Friday, but the Democratic candidate himself quickly stepped in to offer her congratulations and praise.
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US elections: McCain picks woman running mate - 3 Hours ago
Denver, August 29: US Republican Presidential candidate John McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his Vice-Presidential running mate, a senior McCain campaign official said on Friday. McCain was
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Business

Oil stocks end lower; Energy market battens down for Gustav - 4 Hours ago
swept lower by losses in the broad market as early gains whipped up by Hurricane Gustav and firmer oil prices gradually unraveled. The Amex Oil Index , after darting 0.5% higher at the open, ended the
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Ala. County Offer Plan to Avoid Massive Bankruptcy - 5 Hours ago
Gov. Bob Riley negotiated with creditors Friday over whether Alabama's largest county should seek a deal on its $3.2 billion sewer debt or file the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The meeting held
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Georgia bank is 10th to fail this year - 5 Hours ago
NEW YORK -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Ga., has become the 10th U.S. bank to fail so far this year. Regions Bank of Birmingham, Ala., is assuming all of Integrity
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Finance

Alitalia files for bankruptcy - 3 Hours ago
Italy's troubled national carrier Alitalia has filed for bankruptcy protection, paving the way for the company to be restructured and downsized. The move has been awaited for some time as the company
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Oil firm near $117 on storm fears - 3 Hours ago
That pared Thursday's loss of $2.56, triggered after the US government and the International Energy Agency pledged to release emergency stockpiles if Tropical Storm Gustav disrupted US oil production.
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OccuLogix Announces Date of Annual and Special Meeting of Stockholders - 4 Hours ago
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) TORONTO, ONTARIO, August 29 / MARKET WIRE/ -- OccuLogix, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCCX)(TSX: OC) announced today that its Annual and Special Meeting of Stockholders will take
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Sports

NFL Suspends McKinnie for 4 Games - 3 Hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS -- The NFL suspended Minnesota Vikings left tackle Bryant McKinnie for four games without pay Friday for violating the league's personal conduct policy. McKinnie has pleaded not guilty to
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Spurs' Ginobili needs ankle surgery next week - 3 Hours ago
The Spurs said Friday that Ginobili will have surgery next week. The team will announce a timeline for his return after the surgery. Ginobili said an MRI of his ankle showed no improvement from a previous
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Knicks trade for Ewing Jr. - 2 Hours ago
NEW YORK -- The New York Knicks acquired Patrick Ewing Jr. in a trade with the Houston Rockets on Friday. New York sent the draft rights for center Frederic Weis to Houston in exchange for the son of
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Industry

Union leaders call for Boeing strike - 3 Hours ago
The Chicago-based company hoped the proposal, which provides added pay and incentives to workers over three years, would help it avert a labor standoff. The talks come as Boeing tries to keep up with
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Jennifer Aniston returns to NBC - 3 Hours ago
Jennifer Aniston will return home to NBC, the TV network where she became a breakout star on the hit sitcom 'Friends.' She's currently filming a guest appearance on the network's ' 30 Rock,' Aniston publicist
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David Duchovny's sex disorder likened to alcoholism - 109 Minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Did life imitate art when David Duchovny, who plays a sex-mad writer on the hit U.S. TV show 'Californication', seek treatment for sex addiction? Or was it case of art imitating
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Internet

The Securities Law Firm of Klayman & Toskes Files Arbitration Claim Against Charles - 4 Hours ago
(GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The Securities Law Firm of Klayman & Toskes, www.nasd-law.com, announced today that it filed a securities arbitration claim against Charles Schwab (SCHW: SCHW News,
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Continuent's open-source database scale-out stack - 4 Hours ago
Open-source middleware maker Continuent has launched a database scale-out stack called Tungsten, which supports open-source databases like MySQL as well as proprietary ones from the likes of Oracle. On
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Quick Fix for Firefox 3 Bug with Yahoo Mail - 3 Hours ago
If you're missing scrollbars in Yahoo Mail, here's how to get them back. Erik Larkin 0 Yes 0 No Recommends With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. Live wirelessly.

Science

Report: NASA studies extending shuttle to 2015 - 2 Hours ago
The e-mail obtained by The Orlando Sentinel describes NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's order for a study to determine if the shuttle could fly until 2015, when NASA's next-generation space platform
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Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made - 3 Hours ago
ABC Newsâ?? Rick Klein Reports: Among the issues Sen. John McCain will have to smooth over with his new running mate: global warming. In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine
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Bayer CropScience Plant in Institute: ; One Dead, One Hurt in Blast; Worker Rushed - 66 Minutes ago
On the Web * Visit dailymail.com for more photos of the explosion. Authorities have identified the man killed in the explosion at the Bayer CropScience plant in Institute that rocked homes miles away.

Entertainment

Usher kicks off NFL season with concert, hopes to make it to the Super Bowl - 3 Hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) _ Like the NFL teams beginning their new seasons, Usher is hoping to go all the way to the Super Bowl. B singer will perform the season's kickoff concert on Thursday in New York's Columbus
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Cuban punk rocker goes to court for "dangerousness" - 5 Hours ago
HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban punk rocker whose songs have ridiculed the Cuban government went to court in handcuffs on Friday charged with 'social dangerousness,' which could bring a prison sentence of
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Cake and cartoons for Jackson 50th - 5 Hours ago
Michael Jackson said he would celebrate his 50th birthday with cake and cartoons. In a phone interview with ABC News' Good Morning America, the pop star revealed his low-key plans to mark his half century.'I'll
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Technology

Critics Question Comcast Broadband Caps - 3 Hours ago
Comcast's decision to put a 250-gigabyte cap on monthly bandwidth use for its residential customers may look like a generous number, but some critics suggested the cap may cause problems for users in
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Microsoft and Nikon Enter Into Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement - 94 Minutes ago
Agreement furthers Microsoft and Nikon collaboration on new products and features in digital imaging.REDMOND, Wash. and TOKYO -- Aug. 27 -- Microsoft Corp. and Nikon Corp. have signed a patent cross-licensing
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EMC blogger tears into HP and NetApp - 3 Hours ago
EMC has set out to rubbish its competition on storage capacity efficiency and claimed its new CX4 array is much more efficient than HP and NetApp arrays. It's EMC's VP for Technical Alliances, Chuck Hollis,

Health

87 salmonella cases reported across Quebec; outbreak linked to 1 death - 2 Hours ago
MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) _ A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec. Horacio Arruda, a director with Quebec's
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Moms smoking during pregnancy increases preemies' breathing problems: study - 2 Hours ago
New research indicates premature infants whose mothers smoked during pregnancy had a higher heart rate and more trouble breathing than preemies whose mothers didn't smoke. The study by researchers at
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Mother of missing Fla. toddler arrested again - 2 Hours ago
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The mother of a missing Florida toddler being put behind bars again. The Orange County Sheriff's Office says in a news release they arrested Casey Anthony at her home Friday night in
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Culture

On Katrina anniversary, another storm brews - 4 Hours ago
NEW ORLEANS -- With a new storm threatening to cause chaos in New Orleans all over again, a horse-drawn carriage brought the last seven unclaimed bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims for entombment at
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John Russell: Art critic and man of letters - 4 Hours ago
John Russell's last job was as chief art critic of The New York Times, but this stylish English polymath could write with equal, elegant authority about literature, music, history, the theatre, architecture,

Powell and the KGB - 4 Hours ago
Reviving Michael Powell's The White SwanLast Updated: 12:01am BST 30/08/2008 Rupert Christiansen tells the story of Michael Powell's $35m follow-up to The Red Shoes, now lovingly restored Rootling through