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<description><![CDATA[A ferocious Category 4 storm, Hurricane Ike roared across the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands before dawn Sunday.]]></description>
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<title>Parents of special-needs children divided over Palin&#x27;s promise to help</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/07/america/07needs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's offer of friendship sparked hope in many with a stake in the often-marginalized subject of disabilities rights, an issue she has not focused on in Alaska.]]></description>
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<title>Obama and McCain to appear at World Trade Center site</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The presidential candidates will join together at the site in New York to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.]]></description>
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<title>Little damage as tropical storm soaks Carolinas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With a fearsome Hurricane Ike in its wake, Hanna was creeping up the East Coast with rain and strong winds.]]></description>
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<title>With themes set, both campaigns begin a 60-day dash to election day</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With their conventions behind them, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain grappled for the mantle of change.]]></description>
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<title>Candidates launch 60-Day dash to the White House</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With their conventions behind them, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain grappled for the mantle of change.]]></description>
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<title>McCain&#x27;s challenge: To cast Republican ticket as anti-establishment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As John McCain accepted the Republican Party's nomination, he sounded a rousing insurgent's call to topple the establishment - except that he and his party head the establishment.]]></description>
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<title>Canada to hold early elections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada plans to dissolve Parliament on Sunday and call early elections in hopes of strengthening his minority government's hold on power.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/business/05rating.php">
<title>Ratings of McCain speech top Obama</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A record 38.9 million U.S. viewers watched John McCain accept the Republican nomination, beating the record set Barack Obama last week.]]></description>
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<title>Carolinas brace for tropical storm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Coastal residents on Friday prepare for gusting winds and torrential rain as Tropical Storm Hanna approaches the Carolina border.]]></description>
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<title>Foreign policy factions vie for McCain&#x27;s heart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hidden from view during much of the Republican convention here, a fierce struggle has been under way to mold the foreign-policy approach of John McCain.]]></description>
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<title>Haiti doubles hurricane death toll; U.S. extends storm watches and warnings</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/europe/storm.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical storm watches and warnings in the United States were extended from Georgia to areas just south of New York City on Friday as states along the Atlantic braced for Tropical Storm Hanna, which killed at least 137 people in Haiti.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/america/repubs.php">
<title>McCain claims mantle of &#x27;change&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/america/repubs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination with a pledge to move the nation beyond "partisan rancor."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/america/05women.php">
<title>Meet the Sarah Palin sisterhood</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Governor Sarah Palin has a following of Alaska women as dedicated to her as others were to a very different politician, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.]]></description>
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<title>Texas drops half of cases in polygamist sect raid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians.]]></description>
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<title>A firing in Guatemala</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Álvaro Colom fired his security chief after the discovery of seven unauthorized listening devices and video cameras in the presidential office and residence.]]></description>
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<title>Text: McCain&#x27;s speech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The following is a transcript of Senator John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, as recorded by CQ Transcriptions.]]></description>
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<title>Firing up faithful with echoes of &#x27;cultural war&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This year's Republican convention hardly measures up to the belligerence of Pat Buchanan in 1992, but some of the same refrains are playing in the background.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/05/america/05kwame.php">
<title>Detroit mayor resigns</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned as part of a deal with prosecutors.]]></description>
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<title>At McCain&#x27;s convention, big money still talks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For all of John McCain's efforts to purge big money from politics, large donors still wielded sizable influence over the RNC.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/news/04broad.php">
<title>Billionaires re-endow Harvard-MIT venture</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/news/04broad.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Eli and Edythe Broad, who are giving away a multibillion dollar fortune made in real estate and insurance, announced Thursday their biggest gift so far, a $400 million donation to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.]]></description>
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<title>McCain accepting nomination after Palin&#x27;s tough speech thrills party faithful</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/repubs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Republican vice presidential nominee was looking to wrest back the narrative of her life and redefine herself to the American public after a rocky start.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/assess.php">
<title>With speech behind her, Palin now faces the real test</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/assess.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[From here, Sarah Palin will have to navigate far less controlled campaign settings that will test not only her political skills but also her knowledge of foreign and domestic policy.]]></description>
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<title>McCain&#x27;s evolution: From maverick to standard-bearer</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/mccain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the Republican nominee for president, John Sidney McCain 3rd stands at the pinnacle of a career defined by ambition, contradictions and a singular ambivalence about his own success.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/storm.php">
<title>Strongest storms linked to global warming</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/storm.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Warmer ocean waters have intensified the strength of major storms, researchers conclude in new study.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/georgia.php">
<title>Nicaragua recognizes independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/georgia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nicaragua has recognized the two breakaway Georgian regions, backing the Russia and siding with other leftist Latin American countries to defy Washington.]]></description>
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<title>Detroit mayor pleads guilty and will resign</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04detroit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kwame Kilpatrick, the charismatic mayor of Detroit, who has been embroiled in legal problems stemming from a sex scandal since the beginning of the year, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and agreed to resign Thursday morning as part of a deal with prosecutors.]]></description>
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<title>Text: Palin&#x27;s speech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention]]></description>
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<title>Mayor allows residents to return to New Orleans</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/orleans.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With thousands of residents impatient to return to New Orleans after evacuating for Hurricane Gustav, Mayor C. Ray Nagin shifted course and ordered an immediate lifting of the barriers around the city.]]></description>
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<title>Democrats dissect a former ally</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman's speech to the Republican convention is dissected left and right in Connecticut.]]></description>
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<title>Ending conspicuous silence, Palin makes her case</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04watch.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Until she spoke up for herself, no defense, no matter how spirited or well-argued, could fully make up for Palin's conspicuous absence from the screen.]]></description>
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<title>The unusual challenges of governing Alaska</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04alaska.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Like so many other distinctions about Alaska — the biggest, wildest, coldest state — being governor there is just flat different.]]></description>
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<title>Facing deadly fish virus, Chile introduces reforms</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04chile.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Facing sharp criticism, Chile has introduced measures to improve the sanitary conditions of its salmon industry and reduce the levels of antibiotics used to treat the fish.]]></description>
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<title>Giuliani questions Obama&#x27;s qualifications</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04rudy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In prepared remarks, Rudolph Giuliani says that Governor Sarah Palin "has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket."]]></description>
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<title>Excerpts of Giuliani&#x27;s speech</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04giuliani-excerpts.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Excerpts of Giuliani's speech at the Republican National Convention]]></description>
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<title>McCain policies differ sharply from party plank</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/04/america/04platformcnd.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain's record and policy views are putting him at odds with the party platform adopted this week.]]></description>
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