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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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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
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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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for September 2004:
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Footage shows drama inside besieged school
Russian television broadcast dramatic video Tuesday that apparently was shot by terrorists inside the school gymnasium where more than 335 people were killed last week. The video, distributed by Russian NTV, showed streaks of blood across the gymnasium floor and basketball hoops filled with explosives...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Footage shows drama inside besieged school
Russian television broadcast a dramatic video Tuesday that apparently was shot by terrorists inside the school gymnasium where more than 335 people were killed last week...
CNN - September 7, 2004
U.S. death toll passes 1,000
Four U.S. troops died in Iraq on Tuesday, bringing the total of Americans killed in the 18-month-old war to 1,002. More than three-quarters of those killed, 756 of them, have died in combat, and 647 of those have been killed since President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Kerry blasts Bush on deficit
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday that new predictions of a record federal budget deficit are fresh evidence that President Bush is taking the country in the wrong direction...
CNN - September 7, 2004
9/11 Legislation Is Introduced as Congress Returns to Capitol
Senators McCain and Lieberman entered a bill that would put into effect the 41 recommendations of the 9/11 commission...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Investigators Say Ex-Medicare Chief Should Repay Salary
Federal investigators said Thomas A. Scully should be penalized for illegally withholding data from Congress...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Kerry, Turning to Economy, Mocks Bush's Reaction to Data
Senator John Kerry said today that the president has tried to sugarcoat some clear signs that the country is on the wrong path...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
US Airways Pilots Reject Wage and Benefit Cuts
Leaders of US Airways' pilots union rejected late last night a bid to have pilots vote on a concessions proposal from the airline...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Stocks End Higher on Falling Oil Prices
A drop in oil left stocks higher at the start of the holiday-shortened week Tuesday as investors perceived new economic strength...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
US budget deficit outlook worsens
The US is set to rack up an even bigger budget deficit than first thought over the next decade, officials say...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Tribe challenges American origins
Some of America's earliest settlers may have been from Australia, south Asia, and the Pacific, research suggests...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Clinton off respirator after op
Former US President Bill Clinton is breathing on his own after heart surgery, but will need weeks to recover...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
13 U.S. troops killed since Monday
Thirteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since Monday, U.S. military officials said, bringing the number of American deaths in the war to 999. Six soldiers and seven Marines were killed in the fighting. Meanwhile, Iraqi police said two Italian women and three Iraqis were abducted by kidnappers dressed as Iraqi National Guard members...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Clinton off ventilator after bypass
Former President Bill Clinton was described as doing well Tuesday, breathing on his own as he recovers from an operation to relieve arteries so severely clogged that they had posed imminent danger of a major heart attack...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Bush campaigns in Missouri
Pressing his advantage, President Bush is campaigning by bus in Missouri, where rival John Kerry needs help from a state Democratic Party that faces problems of its own...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Russia rallies against terrorism
A massive rally of tens of thousands of Russians is taking place in Moscow's Red Square to denounce terrorism and express support for the victims of last week's school siege in southern Russia...
CNN - September 7, 2004
A Universe of Loss and Recovery for 9/11 Families, Survey Shows
A survey of people who lost family members in the Sept. 11 attacks found lives colored by continuing pain...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Drowned, Not Downed, Trees in the Amazon Get Nasty
Decomposing vegetation caused by a dam in Brazil has resulted in the emission of millions of tons of greenhouse gases...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
US Airways Pilots Reject Wage and Benefit Cuts
Leaders of the US Airways pilots' union rejected a bid to have pilots vote on a proposal by the airline for $295 million in wage and benefit cuts...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Stocks Rise on Falling Oil Prices
Investors rallied around falling oil prices as a possible sign that the summer's run on crude oil futures was over...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Bush's tactical victory
The Republicans are reaping the benefits of targeted assaults on Democratic candidate John Kerry, writes Tom Carver...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Colombia seeks arrest of soldiers
Colombian prosecutors order the arrest of three soldiers and a civilian in connection with the killings of trade union leaders...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
LA Lakers star eyes Serbian deal
LA Lakers basketball star Vlade Divac is to pursue plans to buy Serbia's top mineral water firm, reports say...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Florida cleans up as Frances weakens
Floridians began the task of cleaning up as a weakening Frances was downgraded to tropical depression status Monday night. The storm is still expected to bring heavy rains as it moves north. "This is going to be a rainfall all through the week here as it spreads into the Appalachians," Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, told CNN...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Putin: Why talk to child killers?
Vladimir Putin has criticized Western leaders in the wake of the school siege tragedy for urging Russia to negotiate with Chechen rebels, whom he likened to al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Fighting in Baghdad Kills at Least 34 Iraqis and a U.S. Soldier
U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr and Baghdad's governor narrowly escaped an assassination attempt...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
An Actor Working on Madison Avenue
Rob Huebel, a New York comedian and commercial actor, hopes to find the intersection of Madison Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
US army 'to axe Halliburton deal'
The Pentagon is to end the contract Halliburton has to service US troops in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reports...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Yankees see off Tampa
The New York Yankees remain top of the American League after beating Tampa Bay 7-4...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
NFL back in action
The NFL returns on Thursday as Super Bowl champions New England host Indianapolis...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Hurricane loss 'less than feared'
Hurricane Frances could cause $3-6bn in insured losses in the US, less than experts first predicted...
BBC News - September 7, 2004
Florida cleans up as Frances weakens
Floridians began the task of cleaning up as a weakening Frances was downgraded to tropical depression status Monday night. Frances is still expected to bring heavy rains as it moves north. "This is going to be a rainfall all through the week here as it spreads into the Appalachians," Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, told CNN...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Suspect: We wanted to start a war
A suspect in the bloody school siege that left more than 330 people dead has said the hostage-takers were ordered to seize the school to "start a war across the Caucasus."...
CNN - September 7, 2004
Bush and Kerry Clash Over Iraq and a Timetable
Senator John Kerry said he wanted troops home within four years, and President Bush defended the war as "right for America."...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Storm Lands Again as Floridians Start to Assess Damage
The final blows from the two-day trek of Hurricane Frances added to the frustration of millions of Florida residents...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
9/11 Proposals Lead the Agenda Facing Congress
Members of Congress return for a march to Election Day that is complicated by the call to reorganize U.S. intelligence agencies...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Onetime Star Investment Banker Is Facing U.S. Sentencing
Frank P. Quattrone, the banker whose deal making helped fuel the 1990’s technology boom, is expected to receive a sentence of 16 months...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Laissez-Faire My Gas Guzzler, Already
High fuel prices are beginning to change consumer behavior and business fortunes now in a way that they hadn’t at the beginning of the summer...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Alitalia Tells Unions of Plan to Lay Off 5,000 Workers
Alitalia, the Italian government-run airline, plans to lay off about 5,000 of its 21,000 employees in a move to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Diet Pill Was a Driving Force in French Drug Merger
The year's big drug-industry merger may turn out to be about using marketing muscle to fight fat...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Summer Box Office Hits a High, Despite Lows
In a summer when many of the studios' biggest bets failed to pay off, it was familiarity in the form of sequels and low-budget comedies that resonated with movie audiences...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Perle Asserts Hollinger's Conrad Black Misled Him
Richard N. Perle, a director at the media company Hollinger International who was criticized in an internal report, says he was duped by its former chief, Conrad M. Black...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
In Trying Time, Scaling Down Expectations of Job Growth
The reception of 144,000 new jobs as adequate employment growth is evidence of economists' more modest view of what the economy can deliver...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Products Slide Into More TV Shows, With Help From New Middlemen
Television networks have worked hard in the last two years to strike their own product placement deals, closing the gap with the movies...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
Merck Says It Will Post the Results of All Drug Trials
The move comes ahead of a House hearing this week where, it is expected, drug companies will be excoriated for refusing to publish unfavorable clinical trial results...
New York Times - September 7, 2004
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