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Hurricane Norbert strengthens to Category 3 storm
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico-- As Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, it gathered strength overnight and was classified as a Category 3 hurricane early today. -
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Robert Mugabe grabs key Zimbabwe Cabinet posts
Los Angeles Times (subscribe) | 15 minutes ago | World
The surprise move, in defiance of a power-sharing deal, ensures Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party will retain their iron grip on the troubled country. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has defied a fragile power-sharing deal with the opposition, giving all key Cabinet posts, including the crucial security ministries, to his own party. -
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Singer Lisa Marie Presley gives birth to twins
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 30 minutes ago | Celebrity
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again. A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not released. One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds and 2 ounces.... -
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Ethics probe hits hardest at Todd, not Sarah Palin
Los Angeles Times (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
A month after she became governor, Sarah Palin's staff ushered Alaska's public safety commissioner into her private office. -
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Rays take 4-3 lead over Red Sox after 3 innings
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 40 minutes ago | Sports
Evan Longoria and B.J. Upton homered off Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford delivered a go-ahead single, giving the Tampa Bay Rays a 4-3 lead over the Boston Red Sox after three innings of Game 2 in the AL championship series Saturday night.
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Rangers score 4 in the 1st for unbeaten Rangers
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 45 minutes ago | Sports
Nikolai Zherdev scored the first of four first-period goals, and the New York Rangers remained unbeaten and are off to their best start in 25 years with a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night. -
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Ovechkin, Laich lead Capitals past Blackhawks, 4-2
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Sports
Alex Ovechkin scored twice, a sprawling Brooks Laich was credited with the go-ahead goal after a replay review, and the Washington Capitals came back to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 Saturday night. -
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Clintons launch Obama campaign swing as Nov. nears
USA Today (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign ... -
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Congressman says McCain sowing "seeds of hatred"
Boston Globe (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Democratic congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights leader, accused Republican John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin on Saturday of "sowing the seeds of hatred and division" and said it reminded him of the segregationist era of Alabama Gov. George Wallace. -
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U.S. state considers assisted-suicide law
CNN (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
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"Playing With Fire"
Slog (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Civil rights legend and Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a man McCain has said he greatly admires , today issued a harsh warning to McCain over the tone of his rallies: What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse... George... -
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Minister delivers divisive invocation at McCain event.
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
The Iowa Independent reports that a minister who spoke at John McCain’s rally in Davenport, IA today injected a divisive statement into his invocation. Here’s what Pastor Arnold Conrad said: I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around [...] -
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Innumerate, Illiterate, and Amnesia Prone
Balloon Juice (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
The McCain team response to the determination that Sarah Palin abused her office in TrooperGate is one for the ages: Today’s report shows that the Governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan. The report also illustrates what we’ve known all along: this was a partisan led inquiry run by [...] -
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Obama's Ghostwriters -- ObWi Exclusive!!
Obsidian Wings (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
by publius Andy McCarthy has a major scoop today — he suggests that Bill Ayers not only knows Obama, but that he actually wrote Obama’s book. I was understandably skeptical that Ayers would ghostwrite a book about growing up fatherless... -
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McCain: ‘As President, I’m going to end these abuses [of power] whatever it takes.’
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Just moments ago at a townhall rally in Davenport, IA, John McCain delivered this statement: As a Senator, I’ve seen the corrupt ways of Washington and wasteful spending and other abuses of power, and its corruption. We now have former members of Congress residing in federal prison. That’s how bad it’s gotten. As President, I’m going [...] - see blog ranking see all discussions
