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Associated Press:
New Orleans Relives Flooding Nightmare — NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.
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CNN:
Water flows over New Orleans levee — Flooding in already hard-hit Lower 9th Ward — NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — As Hurricane Rita headed for Texas, water surged through a damaged levee protecting New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. — A CNN photojournalist reported that the water …
Chicago Tribune:
Offer of buses fell between the cracks — WASHINGTON — Two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, as images of devastation along the Gulf Coast and despair in New Orleans flickered across television screens, the head of one of the nation's largest bus associations repeatedly called federal disaster officials to offer help.
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Sheila Flynn / Associated Press:Fire on Bus Carrying Evacuees Kills 24
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Antiwar Rally Will Be a First for Many — Focused Message Draws Protesters of All Stripes — The seasoned protesters who organized tomorrow's antiwar demonstration are well-versed in many other causes. They have marched and rallied against police brutality, racism …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:SPINNING THE PROTESTS: I recommend that readers google the names …
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Houston Chronicle:
For motorists, all roads lead to frustration — Thousands of furious evacuees sweltering for hours on traffic-choked freeways Thursday put a stain on what had been a generally successful response by state and local governments faced with back-to-back weather emergencies in Texas.
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Beldar / beldar.blogs.com:
Rita and gridlock — A (slightly edited) email I just sent to NRO's Jonah Goldberg, who's presenting "competing views" about the gridlock and gas shortages as folks have been evacuating from the Houston area as Hurricane Rita approaches: — My preliminary impression, In a nutshell …
Associated Press:
Bush Waives Saudi Trafficking Sanctions — WASHINGTON - President Bush decided Wednesday to waive any financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia, Washington's closest Arab ally in the war on terrorism, for failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers.
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Washington Post:
Housing the Displaced Is Rife With Delays — Nearly four weeks after Hurricane Katrina displaced more Americans from their homes than any event in at least 60 years, efforts to find housing for 200,000 families from the devastated Gulf Coast are getting bogged down, according to federal, state and private sector officials.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Rewrite of Endangered Species Law Approved — House to Vote Soon; Senate Could in 2006 — Setting the stage for the most sweeping restructuring of endangered species protections in three decades, the House Resources Committee yesterday approved legislation that would strengthen the hand …
Meghan Clyne / New York Sun:
President Bush Is 'Our Bull Connor,' Harlem's Rep. Charles Rangel Claims — WASHINGTON - Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."
Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
Can You Marginalize a Majority? — In a move to preempt the antiwar protesters converging on Washington this weekend, President Bush yesterday put forth the following equation: Withdrawing from Iraq equals letting the terrorists win equals more 9/11s. — The White House's goal is to cast anybody …
Jonathan M. Katz / Associated Press:
Frist's HCA Stock Sale Being Investigated — WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family. — In a statement released Friday …
CNN:
Poll: Fewer than half think U.S. will win in Iraq — More than half say country should speed up withdrawal — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday indicated fewer than half of Americans believe the United States will win the Iraq war, and 55 percent of those surveyed …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Request Briefings on Iraq, Al Qaeda — Congressional Democrats, signaling plans to become more assertive about Iraq, yesterday asked the director of national intelligence to brief senators on conditions there, including whether the conflict has strengthened Islamic terrorists rather than weakened them.
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