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stories: National
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stories: National
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Ike grows to Category 4 strength
Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it plodded on an uncertain path that forced millions along an arc of coastline from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico to nervously wonder where it would end up.
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Fannie, Freddie to be taken over by Treasury
The nation's year-long financial crisis entered a new and unprecedented stage this weekend as the Treasury Department prepared to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure Americans continue to have easy access to cheap mortgage credit.
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Lots of rain, some flooding as Hanna moves north
Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm's whipping winds and rain didn't linger long enough over the Southeast to cause much more than some isolated flooding and power outages.
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Cheney says Russia's actions an 'affront'
Vice President Dick Cheney says Russia's actions in the conflict with Georgia are an "affront to civilized standards."
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Rain and flooding as Hanna heads inland
Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.
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Lots of rain, some flooding as Hanna heads inland
Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.
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Hanna rakes Carolinas with rain, wind, some floods
Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.
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Gustav evacuees tired, glad to return
There's no place like home. Especially after spending consecutive nights in three different shelters and being unable to sleep for the past 48 hours.
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American Scene
Storms delay launch of Hubble mission
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Pelosi 'pastor' asks to meet on abortion
San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer, home bishop to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, released a letter Friday saying that local Catholics are pressuring him to forbid Mrs. Pelosi to receive Holy Communion.
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Storms brewing in our heads
The entire East Coast is now experiencing Hanna-phobia. Or Ike-xiety.
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Fires doomed WTC Building 7
It wasn't explosives and it wasn't burning jet fuel.
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Rice to dine in Gadhafi's tent
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that her historic visit to former pariah state Libya proves that the U.S. never writes off another nation forever.
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Bush to announce US troop levels in Iraq next week
The White House says President Bush will announce his decision on future troops levels in Iraq next week.
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McCain vows to end 'rancor'
John McCain tells the nation Thursday night that the scars he earned in war and during years of Washington's policy battles left him better-equipped than Democrat Barack Obama.
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Palin yet to say 'no thanks' to other big earmarks
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has said repeatedly that she told Congress "thanks but no thanks" to the notorious bridge-to-nowhere project derided nationally as an example of pork-barrel spending. But some are waiting to see whether she'll also pull the plug on another big earmark dubbed "Don Young Way" that could benefit her hometown.
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Redskins drop opener to Giants
Zorn falls flat in debut as Redskins coach.
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Detroit's mayor steps down, admits lying
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigned Thursday, striking a deal with prosecutors and admitting that he lied under oath in a police whistleblower case and scandal that has stymied the Motor City for months.
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'Black hats' keep lookout for troublemakers
Fearing demonstrations from Ron Paul delegates at the Republican National Convention, the party has created a "black-hat" squad to track the Paulites and other potential disrupters.
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PRUDEN: A live dream for Hillary's women
Hillary's feminists have something new to root for this morning, a compelling reason to clap for Barack Obama with only one dainty hand. The success of John McCain and Sarah Palin in November would likely set up their dream match for 2012.
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