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US Loses AAA Credit Rating as S&P Slams Debt, Politics
Bloomberg
By John Detrixhe - Sat Aug 06 11:14:52 GMT 2011 Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) --
Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC, Joshua Rosner,
managing director of Graham Fisher & Co. and Jim Bianco, president of
Bianco Research LLC talk with ...
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US suffers worst loss of life in Afghan war when helicopter crash kills 38
The Guardian
A Chinook helicopter arriving to pick up supplies at Forward Operating Base
Edi in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in June. Photograph: Anja
Niedringhaus/AP The United States suffered its worst loss of life of the
nearly 10-year war in Afghanistan last ...
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Pilot of vintage plane gets modern company during Obama trip to Chicago
Boston Globe
AP / August 6, 2011 CHICAGO - Myrtle Rose was just taking a short flight
over suburban Chicago when the 75-year-old aviation enthusiast looked out
her cockpit window to see two F-16 jets. She assumed the military pilots
were slowing down to get a ...
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Ethics probe investigates Rep. Meeks after News exposes he kept hush on ...
New York Daily News
BY Benjamin Lesser Seven-term Representative Gregory Meeks is now under an
investigation after the Daily News reported he had secretly taken $40000
rom a businessman in 2007. Congressional investigators say Rep. Gregory
Meeks appears to have violated ...
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Critics question if Perry prayer event is too political
Bend Bulletin
By Dave Montgomery / McClatchy-Tribune News Service David J. Phillip / AP
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has never been hesitant about
proclaiming his deep devotion to God and the lifelong "walk of faith"
that has carried him from his boyhood on ...
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Police convictions in Katrina shootings, cover-up
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Five current or former police officers were convicted
Friday of federal civil rights charges related to deadly shootings on a New
Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina: SGT. KENNETH BOWEN Bowen, 37, was
in the passenger seat of a ...
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$1m mystery donor to PAC for Romney ID's himself
Boston Globe
By Donovan Slack WASHINGTON - Hours after two nonpartisan campaign-finance
watchdogs filed complaints yesterday with federal election officials and
the US attorney general, a mysterious $1 million donor to a political
action committee supporting ...
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Al-Shabab Militants Withdraw From Somali Capital
Voice of America
August 06, 2011 Al-Shabab Militants Withdraw From Somali Capital VOA News
Somali government and Islamist spokesmen say al-Qaida linked al-Shabab
militants are pulling out of Mogadishu. An al-Shabab spokesman says the
group began leaving its positions ...
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Obama Creating jobs must be Washingtons top priority
Politico
Marking the end of a tumultuous week for Washington and Wall Street,
President Barack Obama used his weekly address to urge Congress to focus
all of its attention on job creation as soon as it reconvenes in September.
In remarks recorded before the US ...
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Obama in Chicago tonight for 50th birthday campaign fundraising events
Chicago Tribune
By Rick Pearson, Kristen Mack and John Byrne Clout Street President Barack
Obama is back in town tonight, doing some birthday fundraising for his 2012
re-election bid at a North Side concert hall. The president turns 50 on
Thursday, and he's spending ...
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