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US News Archive for September 2004:
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Bush to Ivan victims: 'Hang in there'
President Bush on Sunday got a firsthand look at Hurricane Ivan's devastation during his third trip to Florida to assess the damage from this summer's fierce storms in the South...
CNN - September 19, 2004
How Would They End the War?
President Bush and John Kerry have said little more than that each will end the war the right way and his opponent will not...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Europe Wins Ryder Cup
Europe won the 35th Ryder Cup on Sunday, clinching 14 points to retain the trophy against the United States...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Storm Chasing on Wall Street
Long before Hurricane Ivan made landfall, a special breed of money managers was carefully tracking its development...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Europe beat US for Ryder Cup
Colin Montgomerie holes the winning putt as Europe thrash the USA by a record margin in Detroit...
BBC News - September 19, 2004
Colts tame Titans
Peyton Manning stars as Indianapolis beat Tennessee 31-17 - plus an NFL round-up...
BBC News - September 19, 2004
Turkey confirms 10 kidnapped in Iraq
Turkish officials in Baghdad said today that 10 employees of a U.S.-Turkish company were kidnapped in Iraq Friday. No additional information on the hostages was released. Meanwhile, a U.S. airstrike Saturday targeted a fake checkpoint in Falluja where officials said Iraqis were kidnapped and later killed. Also Saturday, a car bomb killed 19 in Kirkuk...
CNN - September 19, 2004
Turkey confirms 10 kidnappings in Iraq
The Turkish Embassy in Baghdad says that 10 employees of a U.S.-Turkish company were kidnapped in Iraq, a day after the wife of a captured American in Iraq pleaded for his life...
CNN - September 19, 2004
President Bush to visit storm-torn states
President Bush scheduled a visit Sunday to hurricane-stricken Florida and Alabama -- the third such visit for Florida -- as Hurricane Ivan victims faced another day of digging through the debris for their belongings and waiting hours in lines for food and water...
CNN - September 19, 2004
State bans same-sex unions
Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment Saturday banning same-sex marriages and civil unions, one of up to 12 such measures on the ballot around the country this year...
CNN - September 19, 2004
Senior Leader Resigns in China, Leaving President in Full Control
The move completed the first orderly transfer of power in Communist Party history, state media announced...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to riots in Los Angeles in 1992, is out of jail now and talking frankly for the first time about the riots, himself and the American way of life...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Wife of hostage held in Iraq pleads for release
The wife of Jack Hensley, one of three Westerners kidnapped from their residence in Baghdad on Thursday, made a personal plea to the kidnappers to free her husband, saying he wanted to help the Iraqi people. "Please let them go," Patty Hensley said. "They need to come home." The Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera broadcast video Saturday that it said showed two Americans and one Briton who were seized from their home-office in an early morning raid...
CNN - September 19, 2004
Airstrike targets 'fake checkpoint'
A U.S. airstrike Saturday night targeted a fake checkpoint on the northern outskirts of Falluja apparently used to kidnap and execute Iraqi citizens, according to the Combined Press Information Center (CPIC)...
CNN - September 19, 2004
Iran Moves to Roll Back Rights Won by Women
The hard-liners who won Iran's parliamentary elections have focused on women's rights in their efforts to reverse the reforms carried out under the moderate president...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Hopkins stops De la Hoya
Bernard Hopkins knocks out Oscar de la Hoya in round nine of their middleweight title showdown in Las Vegas...
BBC News - September 19, 2004
Al-Jazeera: U.S., UK hostages threatened
The group who claimed responsibility for the beheading of U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg say they kidnapped two Americans and a Briton in Iraq Thursday, Arabic language TV network Al-Jazeera reported Saturday. The Americans have been identified as Jack Hensley, from Atlanta, Georgia, and Eugene 'Jack' Armstrong, from Michigan. In a video aired on Al-Jazeera the kidnappers said their hostages would be killed unless female prisoners in Iraq are released...
CNN - September 19, 2004
Bush 'pleased' with Iraq progress
In a phone interview with a newspaper, President Bush played down a U.S. intelligence forecast painting a pessimistic picture for the future of Iraq, including the suggestion that civil war could erupt there...
CNN - September 19, 2004
For Hussein, a Spartan Life at His Former Palace
Saddam Hussein lives in an air-conditioned 10-by-13 foot cell, tending plants and proclaiming himself Iraq's lawful ruler...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
New York Hopes to Win Olympics by Dividing Votes
The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Summer Games think they have a chance to beat the four competing European capitals...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Are Some Red States Blue About Jobs?
Could differences in economic performance among the states actually determine how the election shakes out?...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Storm Chasing (the Wall Street Version)
Long before Hurricane Ivan began bearing down on the Gulf Coast last week, a special breed of money managers was carefully tracking its development...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National
Whether or not the machines are ready for the election - or the electorate ready for the machines - there is no turning back...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
So, That's the Point of This Company
The head of InterActiveCorp talks about the confusion that the company's setup provokes and whether he would consider becoming the chief executive at Disney...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Commodities Are Riding on China's Coattails
In the first half of 2004, commodities investors worried that a hard landing for China's economy could be disastrous for them, but those fears have not borne out...
New York Times - September 19, 2004
Cardinals into play-offs
St Louis clinch their play-off spot while New York crush Boston 14-4 - plus an MLB round-up...
BBC News - September 19, 2004
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