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Obama set to woo nation with historic speech (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:32:42 +0800

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, joins his running mate, Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on stage after Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Barack Obama stands before delegates and the nation Thursday — the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech — to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize.


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Officials may evacuate New Orleans as Gustav nears (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:14:58 +0800

Contractor Lawson 'Sonny' Brannan discusses his plans for the approaching storm Gustav in New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is on Aug. 29. Area residents are keeping a close eye on Gustav in the Caribbean, which forecasters are predicting could make landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast as early as Monday, and officials are making plans early to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles sold briskly, and one small-town mayor spent a sleeple! ss night worrying. The New Orleans area watched as a storm marched across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.


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Poll: California voters oppose ban on gay marriage (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:02:22 +0800

In this June 16, 2008 file photo, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, center, kisses Del Martin, left, as Martin's partner Phyllis Lyon, right, looks on in a special ceremony at City Hall in San Francisco. Martin, a pioneering lesbian rights activist who married her lifelong partner on the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in California, has died. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, says Martin died at a San Francisco hospital Wednesday morning Aug. 27, 2008, two weeks after a broken arm exacerbated her existing health problems. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, Pool)AP - A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday.


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Factory had tension between union, immigrants (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:47:43 +0800

Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin shows a photo of himself participating in an immigration rally in his office in Providence, R.I., Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Bishop Tobin has called on U.S. immigration authorities, in a letter, to stop arresting illegal immigrants in mass sweeps in Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions.


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4 inmates accused of helping with NM jailbreak (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:49:54 +0800

This undated photo, supplied by the Curry County Sheriff's Department, shows Raynaldo Enriquez, who was one of eight men who escaped from the Curry County jail in Clovis, N.M., Sunday, Aug. 23, 2008. He was being held on multiple charges of aggravated burglary, robbery and assault and battery charges. (AP Photo/Curry County Sheriff's Department)AP - Four jail inmates who authorities say helped eight others make a brazen escape were charged Wednesday, as officials kept up the search for the five prisoners who remain on the loose, including a convicted murderer.


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Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:23:08 +0800

Aviation Maintenance Tech 2 John Ferrari looks out of the back of a Coast Guard C-130 as he surveys the ice off of the coast of Barrow, Alaska, during a surveillance flight to the Arctic on Thursday Aug. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)AP - More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years.


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SoCal jury gets case of ex-Marine in Iraq deaths (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:21:36 +0800

Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, at the office of one of his attorneys, Joseph M. Preis, in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 16, 2008. Nazario faces charges of shooting detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. The defense has rested without calling a single witness Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008, at the civilian trial of Nazario, a former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq, in Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - A federal jury on Wednesday began deliberating whether a former Marine squad leader committed manslaughter in I! raq, marking the first time in which civilians will decide whether the actions of a military service member during combat were criminal.


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LA park to stand as tribute to Robert F. Kennedy (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:53:51 +0800

AP - With a band of traditional Korean drummers, a Latin dance group and a martial arts exhibition, city officials broke ground Wednesday on a small urban pocket park at the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago.

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Death for man who kidnapped, murdered Idaho boy (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:37:10 +0800

Steve Groene, father of victims Dylan and Shasta Groene, leaves the Federal Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, after a jury delivered a verdict of death on all three counts in the sentencing phase of the Joseph Edward Duncan III trial at the Federal Courthouse in Boise, Idaho on Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008. Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges involving the kidnappings and the murder of Dylan. (AP Photo/Joe Jaszewski)AP - A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of so! me of the brutality deliberated just three hours.


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Arrest reopens mystery of missing Calif. couple (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:28:04 +0800

In this undated image provided by Lydia Marano is shown Jonathan and Linda Sohus sometime prior to their 1985 disappearance. The still-unsolved mystery of the couple's disappearance, dormant for years, was reignited this month with the arrest of a German man who had lived in a guest house on the Sohuses' property, and more recently had a bizarre disappearance of his own. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Lydia Marano, File)AP - Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his wife's passion for science fiction.


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One small hitch for FAA, one giant mess for fliers (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:14:43 +0800

Passengers are reflected in a video display showing flights with rescheduled or delayed departure times shown in yellow at the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. An FAA Web site that tracks airport status showed delays at some three dozen major airports across the country. The site advised passengers to 'check your departure airport to see if your flight may be affected.' (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - When a computer system that distributes flight plans nationwide came rolling to a halt this week because of a software glitch, so did airplanes on t! armacs from Orlando to Chicago. The ensuing delays drove home just how easily an apparently isolated problem can trigger network-wide disarray in the country's aging air traffic control system.


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Border Patrol struggles to keep newly hired agents (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:29:20 +0800

U.S. Border Patrol field operations supervisor John Paisley does the daily briefing for border patrol agents during muster at the Imperial Beach Border Patrol Station Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 in Imperial Beach, Calif. The sobering reality of life on the border has created an environment in which about 30 percent of agents leave the agency in less than 18 months. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures.


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Soros behind Mass. effort to decriminalize pot (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:33:39 +0800

AP - A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros.

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Husband gets guardianship in Schiavo-like case (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:10:02 +0800

AP - A judge on Wednesday granted temporary guardianship to the husband of a woman on a feeding tube in a case similar to the lengthy legal dispute over whether Terri Schiavo should be kept alive.

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Cells change identity in promising breakthrough (AP)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:09:49 +0800

AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.

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