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Deficit panel members had moments of independence
By News on Aug 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even lawmakers most loyal to their leaders and political party on occasion buck them with a flash of independence or bipartisanship. That includes some of the six Republicans and six Democrats given the task of finding up to another $1.5 trillion deficit savings over the next decade....
Obama on Irene: 'This is not over'
By News on Aug 28, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says that while Tropical Storm Irene is weakening, it is still a threat to those communities in its path....Hurricane evacuees in NYC allowed to go home
By News on Aug 28, 2011
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The nearly 400,000 New Yorkers who had been ordered to evacuate low-lying neighborhoods because of Hurricane Irene were told they could go home Sunday afternoon, but officials said the city's transit system probably won't be up and running in time for the Monday morning commute....Officials: 5 dead in suicide attack in Iraq mosque
By News on Aug 28, 2011
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi police say a suicide bomber has blown himself up inside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, killing five people....Gadhafi forces killed detainees, survivors say
By News on Aug 28, 2011
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Retreating loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi killed scores of detainees and arbitrarily shot civilians over the past week, as rebel forces extended their control over the Libyan capital, survivors and a human rights group said Sunday....