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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Romes chaos and crime meets its would-be Giuliani
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Jetliner plot suspect believed killed in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Economy, not rights, rules the new China-US world
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for September 2004:
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Rejuvenated Ivan, Jeanne threaten U.S.
The storm that was once Hurricane Ivan is gathering strength in an encore visit to the Gulf of Mexico. This time it's a tropical storm spinning toward Texas and threatening to cause flooding in Louisiana. Meanwhile, forecasters predict Hurricane Jeanne, now with 105 mph winds, may hit Florida's east coast late Sunday or early Monday, possibly as a Category 3 major storm...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Ivan and Jeanne threatening
The storm formerly known as Hurricane Ivan is gathering strength in an encore visit to the Gulf of Mexico. This time it's a tropical storm spinning toward Texas and threatening to cause flooding in Louisiana...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Kerry Steps Up His Attack on Bush Over Iraq
Senator John Kerry said today that conditions were so bad that the elections in Iraq planned for January were in jeopardy...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Florida Court Rejects Law Keeping Comatose Woman Alive
The court said that Gov. Jeb Bush violated separation of powers when he signed a law to keep Terri Schiavo alive...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Ill Winds Improve the View
There's an old truth about hurricanes: they take out the trees that gardeners don't have the heart to cut down...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Halliburton May Separate KBR Unit
Halliburton plans to shed its KBR engineering and construction unit if the company's share performance does not match its peers, it said today...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Bush Said to Be Ready to Open Oil Reserve Spigot
The Energy Department is reviewing requests for oil loans from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve following the recent hurricanes, the government said today...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Regulators Order Fannie Mae to Fix Accounting Problems Now
The regulator said broad problems raised questions about the reliability of the mortgage finance company's management...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Heavy cost of Hurricane Frances
Insurance payouts for Hurricane Frances look set to reach $4.4bn, making it the fourth most expensive storm in US history...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Iraqi PM: 'Thank you America'
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, speaking to Congress, thanked the United States today for liberating Iraq and vowed that American sacrifices will not be in vain. "We are succeeding in Iraq, " he said. "Thank you, America, " he added, bringing a standing ovation from lawmakers. Allawi later joined President Bush for a press briefing at the White House...
CNN - September 23, 2004
1,070 dead, 1,250 missing in Haiti
Trucks dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in this flood-ravaged city still littered with corpses, as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could double again...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Ivan's encore
Ivan has resurfaced in the Gulf of Mexico, this time as a tropical storm that could come ashore Thursday night along the coasts of Texas or Louisiana...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Debate on Iraq intensifies
Iraq continues to take center stage this week in the campaign, with Vice President Dick Cheney charging that Democrat John Kerry would not aggressively fight the war against terror and Kerry's running mate accusing President Bush of bungling the war...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Even Near Home, a New Front Is Opening in the Terror Battle
Federal officials are trying to prosecute operators of Web sites that recruit terrorists...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Ex-Chief of Computer Associates Kumar Pleads Not Guilty
The charges against the former chief executive, Sanjay Kumar, were revealed Wednesday after the company agreed to a $225 million settlement...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Trump Hotels and Equity Firm Break Off Investment Talks
Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts said on Wednesday that a recently announced deal to inject fresh money into the debt-laden concern had fallen apart...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Unemployment and Oil News Keep Stocks Mixed
Stocks were mixed today as investors weighed a rise in unemployment claims against a slight drop in oil prices...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Caribbean coral under threat
US conservationists say nearly two-thirds of the Caribbean's coral reefs are threatened by human activities...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Willis back with Hawks
Veteran centre Kevin Willis re-joins Atlanta aged 42 - plus other NBA news...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Allawi addresses US Congress
Despite setbacks, Iraq is on the way to establishing democracy, its prime minister tells the US Congress...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Brazil nuclear talks 'not over'
The UN's nuclear agency says it is still negotiating with Brazil over a nuclear plant inspection...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Police 'restore' Galapagos order
Police take control of the Galapagos Islands reserve after a row between protesting wardens and fishermen...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Muslim, Christian leaders plead for hostage's life
Muslim and Christian religious leaders in Liverpool -- the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq -- appealed today for his captors to free him. British hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared Wednesday in a video on an Islamist Web site, tearfully begging Prime Minister Tony Blair to "please, please help me." The group holding Bigley has already beheaded two American hostages...
CNN - September 23, 2004
TS Ivan back in the Gulf
Remnants of Hurricane Ivan swung back into the Gulf of Mexico and have developed into a tropical storm just off Louisiana, prompting warnings there and in southeastern Texas. Landfall is expected sometime tonight or early Friday...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Religious leaders in hostage plea
Muslim and Christian religious leaders in the hometown of a British hostage facing death in Iraq have appealed for his captors to free him...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Bad Mouth or Free Mouth, He Ruffles Genteel Airwaves
If freedom of expression has limits in Canada, Jean-François Fillion, a radio shock jock on CHOI-FM, is testing them...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
S.E.C. Opens Investigation of Fannie Mae
Accounting problems at Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage company, have prompted an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
CBS Is Fined $550,000 for Super Bowl Incident
The Federal Communications Commission issued the penalty because of an incident during the Super Bowl halftime show in which the singer Janet Jackson's breast was bared...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Brazil allows nuclear inspection
Brazil ends a standoff with UN's atomic agency by permitting a check of a new uranium enrichment plant...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Sea find linked to Chile missing
Divers in Chile find pieces of railway alleged to have been used to sink the bodies of the 'disappeared'...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Blue Jays make Yankees wait
Toronto's victory means the Yankees are still one win short of guaranteeing a wild card - plus an MLB round-up...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Surgery for Browns trio
Three of Cleveland's starting line-up have operations on various injuries...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Jeanne leaves more than 1,050 dead
The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,050 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said Wednesday. Rescuers have counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Senate OKs Goss for CIA
The Republican-led Senate approved President Bush's choice to head the CIA, Rep. Porter Goss, over protests from some Democrats who said he has too many Republican ties for a job that requires independence...
CNN - September 23, 2004
Deal in Congress to Keep Tax Cuts, Widening Deficit
Lawmakers agreed to extend $145 billion worth of tax cuts sought by President Bush without trying to pay for them...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
U.S. to Free 'Enemy Combatant,' Bowing to Supreme Court Ruling
Yaser E. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, will be allowed to return to Saudi Arabia in the next few days...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Politicians Go Courting on Indian Reservations
In the last few years, political races from Congress to county sheriff have begun to hinge on the American Indian vote...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Poker Pros, Now in TV's Glare, Rarely Pass Up a Game
Although pitiless when they play a game of Texas Hold 'Em, Doyle Brunson, T. J. Cloutier and Gus Hansen are friends, as friendly as professional card players get...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Ex-Chief of Computer Associates Is Indicted on Fraud Charges
While Sanjay Kumar faces charges, Computer Associates agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, enabling the company to avoid a corporate indictment...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Insurer to Refund Money to Soldiers Who Bought High-Cost Life Policies
Hundreds of soldiers who unwittingly signed up for high-cost life insurance will receive full cash refunds from the insurance company...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
A Strategy for Shell?
Shell outlined a profit strategy of modest acquisitions and no buybacks. Investors sold...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Study Finds Accelerating Decline in Corporate Taxes
America's largest and most profitable companies paid less in corporate income taxes in the last three years, even as they increased profits, according to a new study...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
For Jobs, Brazilians Desert Their Cities
A growing number of Brazilians are finding it increasingly difficult to get good jobs in big metropolitan areas like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and are looking elsewhere...
New York Times - September 23, 2004
Afghanistan battle captive freed
A US citizen held prisoner by the US since his capture in Afghanistan in 2001 is due to be sent to Saudi Arabia, as part of a deal securing his release...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Iraq PM to address US Congress
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is addressing a joint session of the US Congress on Thursday...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
Bush man confirmed as CIA boss
Porter Goss is confirmed by the US Senate as the new CIA chief, despite opposition by some Democrats...
BBC News - September 23, 2004
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