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    Tea party's Joe Miller: What he plans if Alaska sends him to Washington

    Washington Post

    FAIRBANKS, ALASKA - The people who live in the farther-flung cities of this farthest-flung state take a frontier pride in their physical and cultural distance from the cushy "Lower 48." Many will tell you that they are especially...

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    Weakened Earl begins smacking Nantucket

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    MSNBC

    A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Earl began smacking Nantucket Friday evening as it steamed toward the gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages of Cape Cod, disrupting people's vacations on the unofficial final weekend of the short New England...

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    Too Early to ‘Declare Victory’ as Housing Revives, Donovan Says

    Bloomberg

    Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The housing market is showing progress two years after the credit crunch drove down home prices, though it’s too soon to “declare victory,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said. “It is too...

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    Man Behind Airport Scare Once Jailed for Smuggling Deadly Bubonic Plague

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    ABC News

    The scientist who prompted an evacuation of Miami International Airport for carrying what screeners believed was a pipe bomb is known to federal authorities and was charged in 2003 for illegally transporting 30 vials of the deadly bubonic...

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    'Miracle' Encounter: Nurse Finds Long-Lost Dad in Hospital Bed

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    A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill. Wanda Rodriguez, 41, a head nurse at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, was...

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    America's Crumbling Roads and Bridges

    CBS News

    In its "Where America Stands" series, CBS News is looking at a broad spectrum of issues facing this country in the new decade. Deliveryman Mike Sweeney used to just drive over the Lake Champlain Bridge to get to...

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    Texas youths could face new charge after man dies

    Washington Post

    DALLAS -- Officials say a suburban Dallas man critically wounded in a shooting last month in which two children are charged has died. The man's wife, 46-year-old Darlene Nevil, was killed in the shooting two weeks ago. The...

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    Settlements remain obstacle in Mideast peace talks

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    CNN

    After two days of meetings and talks led by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli and Palestinian leaders leave Washington deadlocked over the contentious issue of Israeli settlements.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian...

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    Obama to address new economic ideas next Wednesday

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    Reuters

    By Alister Bull and Jeff MasonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he would outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy, but analysts were skeptical he would be able to deliver a big...

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    Puzzling over Florida's three-way Senate math

    MSNBC

    The last time Florida Gov. Charlie Crist ran for the Senate, he got 37.5 percent of the vote and lost by a million-ballot landslide. This November, 37.5 percent could make him the next senator from Florida. Crist, who...

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