“On the road together, Obama and Biden show they have that elusive political quality: chemistry.

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AP - Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 32 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs.
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AP - Sordid bribery allegations and jokes about “cold cash” hidden in Rep. William Jefferson’s freezer apparently did not matter much to voters two years ago when the New Orleans Democrat won a runoff election for his long-held congressional seat with a surprising 57 percent.
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AP - Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.
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Reuters - U.S. energy companies shut nearly all
offshore oil production and were racing to bring down
flood-prone Louisiana refineries on Sunday ahead of Hurricane
Gustav’s landfall, which could rival the wrath of 2005’s
Hurricane Katrina.
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Reuters - Nearly two million people fled the
Louisiana coast on Sunday as Hurricane Gustav moved within
hours of striking land, possibly with a weaker punch than
2005’s devastating Hurricane Katrina.
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AP - As if trying to remind himself and everyone else where he’s been and where he’s quite certain he’ll return, Roger Federer thrust his right fist overhead and pointed skyward with his index finger.
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AP - Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after a monstrous Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.
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Reuters - Action film parody “Tropic Thunder”
clung to the top spot at the North American box office for a
third straight week as the summer moviegoing season sputtered
to a lackluster close, Hollywood studios reported on Sunday.
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Politico - ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican officials say their radically curtailed convention offers a big political opportunity for the party to redeem itself on the competence issue — and for John McCain to step out of President Bush’s shadow once and for all.
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