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Powell: Cheney takes 'cheap shots' in bookFormer Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday dismissed as "cheap shots" the criticism leveled at him and others in Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir. More » |
First black naval aviator honored in new filmJesse LeRoy Brown dreamed of becoming a pilot his entire life. As a child, he would watch planes fly overhead, and told his family that he, too, would someday fly airplanes. More » |
Irene spares big cities, but Vt. sees huge floodsMONTPELIER, Vt. - The storm that had been Hurricane Irene crossed into Canada overnight but wasn't yet through with the U.S., where flood waters threatened Vermont towns and big city commuters had to make do with slowly reawakening transit systems. More » |
6 years after Katrina, Lower 9th Ward still bleakNEW ORLEANS - In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now. More » |
Poll: Obama faces trouble with key votersWhites and women are a re-election problem for President Barack Obama. Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent. All are important Democratic constituencies that helped him win the White House in 2008 and whose support he'll need to keep it next year. More » |
