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  • [+] Obama tells huge Dem crowd he'll fix Washington (AP)
    • Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, 10, second from right, and Sasha, 7, wave after his acceptance speechat the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)





      AP - Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.


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  • [+] More than 84,000 attend Obama speech (AP)
    • Delegates and interested participants fill Invesco field at the 2008 Democratic National Conventionin Denver, Colorado August 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg   (UNITED STATES)   US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)





      AP - More than 84,000 people have jammed into Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to hear Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech, city officials say.


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  • [+] As Gustav nears, Gulf Coast puts faith in planning (AP)
    • This view shows a section of drainage pumps located on the 17th Street canal in New Orleans Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. The pumps where installed after Hurricane Katrina. The Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars to improve the levee system, but because of two quiet hurricane seasons, the flood walls have never been tested. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)





      AP - With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.


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  • [+] Probe reveals oxygen tank burst on Qantas flight (AP)
    • Australian pilot Captain John Francis Bartels (R) looks at the damage to a Qantas Airways plane after it made an emergency landing at the Manila International airport in this July 25, 2008 file photo. (Handout/Files/Reuters)





      AP - An oxygen tank exploded and blew a car-sized hole in a Qantas jet last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why.


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  • [+] Jury acquits former Marine in killing of detainees (AP)
    • 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 former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.


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  • [+] Dell 2Q profit drops, hurt by PC price cuts (AP)
    • In this May 29, 2008 file photo, Dell computers are on display at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Computer maker Dell Inc. says its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Restructuring charges were partly to blame. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)





      AP - Computer maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent, hurt in part by PC price cuts. Both earnings and margins fell short of Wall Street estimates, and Dell shares plunged.


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  • [+] David Duchovny in rehab for sex addiction (AP)
    • In this Aug. 2006 file photo, actor David Duchovny arrives at the premiere of 'Trust The Man', in New York. Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction, his representatives said Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Duchovny, 48, plays a sex-obsessed character on the Showtime series 'Californication,' which earned Emmy nods for casting and cinematography. The show's second season begins Sept. 28. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)





      AP - David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. In a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the actor said he did so voluntarily, adding: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."


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  • [+] Tourists, residents flee as Gustav swamps Jamaica (AP)
    • This satellite image released by NOAA shows Tropical Storms Gustav and Hanna on Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Atlantic Thursday, northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. (AP Photo/NOAA)





      AP - The spinning core of Gustav bore down on southern Jamaica on Thursday after leaving 67 people dead in Hispaniola. Texas and Louisiana put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.


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  • [+] Disposable diaper breaks fall, saves child's life (AP)
    • AP - A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
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  • [+] Top-seeded Ivanovic loses in huge upset at US Open (AP)
    • Julie Coin, of France, celebrates her 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over top-seeded Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, in a U.S. Open tennis tournament match in New York, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)





      AP - Even for the mathematics major from Clemson, it just didn't add up: How could someone who recently struggled so badly she wanted to quit tennis stay on the court with the No. 1 player in the world?


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  • [+] Obama tells huge Dem crowd he'll fix Washington (AP)
    • Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, 10, second from right, and Sasha, 7, wave after his acceptance speechat the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)





      AP - Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.


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  • [+] More than 84,000 attend Obama speech (AP)
    • Delegates and interested participants fill Invesco field at the 2008 Democratic National Conventionin Denver, Colorado August 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg   (UNITED STATES)   US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)





      AP - More than 84,000 people have jammed into Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to hear Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech, city officials say.


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  • [+] As Gustav nears, Gulf Coast puts faith in planning (AP)
    • This view shows a section of drainage pumps located on the 17th Street canal in New Orleans Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. The pumps where installed after Hurricane Katrina. The Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars to improve the levee system, but because of two quiet hurricane seasons, the flood walls have never been tested. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)





      AP - With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.


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  • [+] Walkway collapses in San Diego, injuring 16 (AP)
    • Paramedics, police, and firemen attend to the injured after a construction site covered walkway collapsed injuring a dozen pedestrians in downtown San Diego, Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)





      AP - A block-long covered walkway next to a construction scaffold collapsed on Thursday, trapping and injuring 16 pedestrians, three critically.


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  • [+] Jury acquits former Marine in killing of detainees (AP)
    • 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 former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.


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  • [+] New Katrina death tally: Half of victims 75 and up (AP)
    • A contract worker for United States Corps of Engineers packs sand in a Hesco basket near a flood wall in New Orleans, Louisiana August 28, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)





      AP - As New Orleans residents warily track another threatening storm, a new report presents the clearest picture yet of deaths from Katrina in Louisiana. Of the nearly 1,000 who died, almost half were 75 or older, according to researchers.


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  • [+] Huge underground water plant takes shape under NYC (AP)
    • A worker's shadow falls on a pipe in the underground construction site of New York's first underground water filtration plant plant, which spans over six football fields and as much as 100 feet deep,  in the Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday July 2, 2008. The below-ground plant is designed to be nearly invisible, but it has already attracted a lot of attention, with construction beset by cost spurts, delays, seven-figure fins, community opposition, plus a brush with a high-profile Mafia case this year. (AP Photo/Ed Ou)





      AP - It requires enough concrete to build a sidewalk from New York to Miami and enough pipe to reach the top of the Empire State Building 140 times over. Workers carved out enough dirt from the ground to fill more than 100,000 dump trucks.


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  • [+] Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions (AP)
    • Garmin GPS units, similar to this one shown Wednesday night, Aug. 27, 2008 in Tampa, Fla., can be used in court cases to pinpoint for jurors the places defendants have been. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)





      AP - Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a GPS unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four family members.


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  • [+] Iowa college president steps down after beer photo (AP)
    • AP - An Iowa community college president resigned less than a week after a photo was published appearing to show him pouring beer into a young woman's mouth.
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  • [+] Trying to stop removal hearing, Detroit mayor sues (AP)
    • FILE **In this Aug. 7, 2008 file photo, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick attends a hearing in 36th District Court in Detroit, Mich.  Michigan's Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Detroit's embattled mayor have had a strained relationship for years, and the tension is bound to escalate when she holds a hearing next week to decide whether to remove him from office for misconduct.   (AP Photo/Bryan Mitchell, File)





      AP - Lawyers for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a lawsuit Thursday aimed at scuttling a hearing that could lead to his ouster, saying the proceedings would be unfair and presided over by a governor who is biased against him.


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  • [+] Putin: US orchestrated conflict in Georgia (AP)
    • Georgian soldiers cover with dirt a mass grave for unknown Georgian soldiers killed in South Ossetia, during military funerals in Mukhadgverdi, west of Tbilisi on August 28. Washington will seek to boost alliances and offset Russian energy dominance when Vice President Dick Cheney visits Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine next week, a White House official said Thursday.(AFP/Olivier Laban-Mattei)





      AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of instigating the fighting in Georgia and said he suspects a connection to the U.S. presidential campaign — a contention the White House dismissed as "patently false."


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  • [+] Tourists, residents flee as Gustav swamps Jamaica (AP)
    • This satellite image released by NOAA shows Tropical Storms Gustav and Hanna on Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Atlantic Thursday, northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. (AP Photo/NOAA)





      AP - The spinning core of Gustav bore down on southern Jamaica on Thursday after leaving 67 people dead in Hispaniola. Texas and Louisiana put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.


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  • [+] Probe reveals oxygen tank burst on Qantas flight (AP)
    • Australian pilot Captain John Francis Bartels (R) looks at the damage to a Qantas Airways plane after it made an emergency landing at the Manila International airport in this July 25, 2008 file photo. (Handout/Files/Reuters)





      AP - An oxygen tank exploded and blew a car-sized hole in a Qantas jet last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why.


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  • [+] Afghans say deadly US raid based on misleading tip (AP)
    • Graphic shows civilian deaths in Afghanistan; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101.6 mm





      AP - Afghan officials said Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan.


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  • [+] Senior Iraqi official suspected of militia links (AP)
    • Iraqi police conduct a mock operation during a graduation ceremony held at a police academy, near the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)





      AP - A senior official in Nouri al-Maliki's government was in custody Thursday suspected of ties to Iranian-backed Shiite militias and plotting a June bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans, Iraqi authorities said.


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  • [+] Poulter remains in golf's Ryder Cup hunt (AFP)
    • Ian Poulter of England on August 9 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. Paul Casey doesn't buy Nick Dougherty's assertion that Nick Faldo must have guaranteed Poulter a place on Europe's Ryder Cup team.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)





      AFP - If Ian Poulter has a lock on a spot with Europe's Ryder Cup team, then somebody better tell Paul Casey.


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  • [+] Boats with Palestinians defy Israeli Gaza blockade (AP)
    • Members of the Free Gaza group leave the Gaza Strip on a boat Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. A human rights group says two boats have departed for Cyprus from Gaza, carrying dozens of international activists who defied Israel's blockade of the coastal strip. The activists sailed into Gaza on Saturday Aug. 23, 2008 to protest Israel's blockade, imposed after the anti-Israel Hamas movement took control there last year. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)





      AP - Two boatloads of international activists who defied Israel's blockade of Gaza set sail for Cyprus on Thursday, carrying seven Gaza Palestinians who had been confined to the territory.


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  • [+] Ex-generals convicted of killing Argentine senator (AP)
    • Retired Gen. Luciano Benjamin Menendez arrives to a court prior to being sentenced to life in prison by a courthouse in San Miguel de Tucuman, northern Argentina, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Menendez and Retired Gen. Antonio Domingo Bussi have been found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Sen. Guillermo Vargas Aignasse. The senator disappeared on the day of a March 24, 1976 military coup and was never seen again, although the military later said he was released from prison. (AP Photo/Julio Pantoja)





      AP - An Argentine court convicted two former generals on Thursday for the murder of a senator during the country's seven-year military dictatorship and sentenced them to life in prison.


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  • [+] Tunisian courts convicts 19 Islamic militants (AP)
    • AP - A Tunisian court convicted 19 Islamic militants on charges linked to plots to carry out attacks in the north African country or send fighters to Iraq, a defense lawyer said Thursday.
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  • [+] Malaysia ban on anti-government website draws outcry (Reuters)
    • Reuters - Malaysia has pulled the plug on a popular news portal often critical of the government, sparking protests from a resurgent opposition.
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  • [+] Delphi liquidation looms large: report (Reuters)
    • Delphi Corp.'s headquarters is seen in Troy, Michigan October 8, 2005. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)





      Reuters - Bankrupt U.S. auto parts maker Delphi Corp may end up being liquidated, with some U.S. plants being taken over by its former parent General Motors Corp , the Wall Street Journal said, citing people involved in the bankruptcy process.


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  • [+] Economy shows vigor in Q2, but seen flagging (Reuters)
    • The U.S. economy expanded at a stronger-than-first-reported 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, as consumer spending and net exports were more robust than initially estimated and inventories fell less sharply, a government report showed on Thursday. (Graphics/Reuters)





      Reuters - Strong exports and consumer spending supported by government stimulus checks drove the U.S. economy up at a solid 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, much faster than first thought, but growth is expected to flag as those factors fade.


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  • [+] Dell profits disappoint as tech spending weakens (Reuters)
    • A Dell laptop computer is seen in New York, August 26, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)





      Reuters - Dell Inc posted a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings on Thursday and said companies around the world are cutting back on technology spending, sending its shares tumbling 10 percent and sparking fears of weakness in the whole tech sector.


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  • [+] Boeing makes "best and final offer" to union (Reuters)
    • Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union (IAM) rally on a highway overpass over ongoing contract negotiations during their lunch break at the Boeing airplane assembly plant in Everett, Washington, August 27, 2008. (Marcus Donner/Reuters)





      Reuters - Boeing Co said on Thursday it made its "best and final" contract offer to its largest labor union, including concessions the aerospace manufacturer hopes will help avert a strike.


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  • [+] Marvell beats Street but posts weak outlook (Reuters)
    • Reuters - Diversified U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd gave a conservative outlook for the third quarter, sending shares lower, even after it posted better-than-expected profit helped by increased sales in the wireless and storage sectors.
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  • [+] Audit shows China's government mismanaged $6.7 billion (Reuters)
    • A staff member displays Chinese yuan notes to the media at a currency exchange booth at Songshan airport in Taipei, July 26, 2008. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters)





      Reuters - Chinese central government departments misused or mismanaged more than 46 billion yuan ($6.73 billion) last year, including using disaster relief money to build government offices and diverting funds to speculate in stocks, the National Audit Office said on Thursday.


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  • [+] Thornburg survival in doubt, sees completing tender (Reuters)
    • Reuters - Thornburg Mortgage Inc , a specialist in jumbo home loans, said its survival remained in doubt following additional margin calls, but it is on track to complete a restructuring and avoid collapse.
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  • [+] Sears' 2Q profit drops 62 percent (AP)
    • The Sears store at the CambridgeSide Galleria mall in Cambridge, Mass., is seen, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. Sears Holdings Corp. reported a 62 percent drop in second-quarter profit Thursday, as the retailer continues to struggle to attract customers to its stores despite a high-stakes restructuring.  (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)





      AP - Beleaguered retailer Sears Holdings Corp. reported a hefty drop in second-quarter profit as sales slumped, despite a restructuring aimed at drawing back shoppers who've taken their checkbooks elsewhere.


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