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1. Torrential rains have caused flooding up and down the East Coast, nearly a foot of rain fell in some areas, dozens of people had to be rescued or evacuated. 2. Billionaire Warren Buffett is giving
1. Mission Control managers at NASA are trying to decide what to do about the space shuttle Discovery. A crack was found in the shuttle's insulating foam, and NASA is trying to figure out if they can
1. U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem. She met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about a possible peace plan to end fighting with Hezbollah. Rice's plan calls for an inter
1. Dozens of women and children were killed after an Israeli air strike hit the southern Lebanese town of Qana overnight. Many world leaders are outrage d over the attack and have stepped up demands f
1. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks publicly for the first time since accidentally shooting and injuring Harry Whittington, a fellow hunter, Saturday in Texas. In an exclusive interview with FOX News
1. Rescuers say all 10 troops whose helicopters crashed off the coast of Africa have been accounted for, but they won’t say if they survived. Officials say they will not release information until ne
1. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury in Ohio has indicted three men in an international terrorism plot to target U.S. armed forces in Iraq. 2. President Bus
1. After meeting with General John Abizaid, chief of the U.S. Central Command, Iraq President Jalal Tablabani said he had been assured that U.S. troops will remain in Iraq as long as needed,
1. Dana Reeve, the widow of actor Christopher Reeve lost her battle with lung cancer Monday night. The 44-year-old announced last August she had cancer. They have a 13-year-old son. 2. The sentencing
1. 3 college students were arrested Wednesday for allegedly setting fire to 9 Baptist churches across Alabama. One of the suspects allegedly said the first fires were set as a joke. The others were st
1. The US launched its largest air assault in Iraq since the war began in 2003. Operation Swarmer, as it's being called, will continue over the next few days. 2. Firefighters in Texas hope a break in
1. An apartment building collapses in Istanbul with rescuers pulling two people out of the rubble alive. The mayor blames the collapse on a damaged foundation caused by a contractor tearing down the building next door. 2. A historic veto showdown is
1. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76. He is credited with engineering the collapse of the Soviet Union and introducing a market economy to the former communist state. 2. Thousands of Virginia Tech students paid solemn
1. Officials in Iraq now say over 130 people were killed in a massive market blast in Baghdad. Some three hundred other people were wounded in the blast. More than a dozen people are dead in bombings and shootings in Baghdad today. 2. Authorities in
1. At least 14 people are dead after a storm's cut through central Florida early Friday. The weather system included the state's deadliest tornado in a decade. Searchers move through a four-county area to assess the damage. 2. A report by the U.S. I
1. British counter-terrorism police have arrested 9 people in an alleged kidnapping plot. Reports state the planning involved torturing and beheading a British Muslim soldier and then showing it all over the Internet. 2. Baghdad has been set with ev
1.The latest congressional estimates say President Barack Obama's budget will likely generate deficits averaging almost one trillion a year over the next decade. That's a lot worse than the White House had predicted just last month. 2.A huge crowd w
1.President Barack Obama and his economic team are taking a cheerier tone on the economy while making about ten billion dollars in federal loans available to struggling small businesses. The White House economic team hopes to build confidence in the
1. President Bush says its obvious the economy is going through a tough time. He wants the country to be optimistic about the future with unemployment low, productivity high. On Wall Street, stocks tumbled, the Dow giving up about 195 points. 2. By
1. The president's chief economic adviser calls the tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses paid out by AIG outrageous. Larry Summers says these kinds of bonus payments should be a matter of future regulations. AIG has gotten more than 170 billio