Challenges abound for Bush at last economic summit
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:00:16 GMT
AP - The problems do not get any easier as President Bush attends his final summit with leaders of industrialized democracies.
California wildfires strain state's resources
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:14:47 GMT
AP - A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.
Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:33:51 GMT
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
3 freed U.S. hostages give thanks for their rescue
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:40:15 GMT
AP - The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to "return home to the country we love."
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:41:34 GMT
AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:43:54 GMT
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Helms never changed on civil rights opposition
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:45:33 GMT
AP - Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
TV's 'The Bachelor' weds in California
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:10:45 GMT
AP - "The Bachelor" is a bachelor no more. Andrew Firestone, star of the ABC-TV reality show, married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday, Firestone's publicist Alisha Mahon told The Associated Press.
Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:49:34 GMT
AP - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.
Venus beats Serena for 5th Wimbledon singles title
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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:48:29 GMT
AP - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she's done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she's let out in the past.