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Hurricane Earl was barreling toward the Atlantic Coast of the United States today, and tourists have evacuated the vulnerable barrier islands of North Carolina — heading into Labor Day weekend, a key tourist time — as the Category 4 storm approaches. Federal Emergency Management Agency director Craig Fugate warned that with winds topping at 140 [...]
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I found this explanation in the Tribune archives very helpful: From “Sunset breaks can flame out, cast lasting glow,”July 8, 2001, by Kathy Kristof, Tribune Media Services Tax sunset provisions have been around since the mid-1980s, when Congress created a formula for speeding so-called reconciliation bills. Reconciliation bills have to conform with [...]
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A blast has ripped through an oil platfrom in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site where BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April. Read more
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Victor, Chantelle and Nadia have been getting ready to perform as Kandy Floss (“spelt with a K!”) in the Ultimate Big Brother house today. The trio will bring back the fictional group, who were used as the cover story for Chantelle in Celebrity Big Brother 4, for one last performance of ‘I Want It All’. [...]
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Estelle Gonzales Walgreen: “I am practically blind from all the holy water thrown at me” As one of 33 million Catholic Latinos in the U.S. I am well versed on the rosary, novenas, penance and the versatile uses of holy water when one is in hot water. Read more
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WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday called on the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians to “walk the path of peace” and reach a comprehensive agreement that will finally end decades of bloodshed. “Do we have the wisdom and the courage to walk the path of peace?” Obama asked as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin [...]
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Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
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TEHRAN – An influential Iranian state-run newspaper on Tuesday reiterated and expanded on its earlier derogatory remarks about French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, spurring Iran’s Foreign Ministry to warn news media to refrain from insulting foreign dignitaries. The Kayhan daily first called Bruni-Sarkozy “a prostitute” on Saturday. The paper repeated that remark Tuesday and added [...]
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KABUL – With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation’s biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan’s economy but also to the battle against the Taliban. This Story Worried Afghans withdraw Kabul Bank deposits [...]
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]