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Firefighters in Colorado Battle Raging Flames

Thousands of people living near Boulder, Colorado have been told they have to leave their homes, as a 3,500 acre wildfire fanned by high winds continues to threaten the landscape.
Though the winds have calmed down since Monday, firefighters still have a long battle ahead, as the fire has already engulfed dozens of homes in an [...]

Tropical Storm Wearies Texans but Does Little Damage

The people of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley are probably tired of tropical storms, enduring the third one to come ashore in as many months.  But, Tropical Storm Hermine caused little damage to the weather-weary region, as only minor damage and a few scattered power outages were reported.
The storm came ashore Tuesday in Mexico and lashed [...]

Trick or Tweet, One in the Same, for Japanese Journalist

He was held captive in Afghanistan for over five months.  A Japanese journalist, who never thought he would get out of the prison alive, now has quite a story to tell.
Kosuke Tsuneoka managed to get a message out of the prison, via Twitter, after one of his captor’s asked him how to use his new [...]

Petreus Balks at Quran-Burning Protests

A couple of weeks ago, Terry Jones was just another Florida preacher.  Now, Jones is becoming a household name as his controversial plan to burn copies of the Quran has sparked protests around the Nation and the World.  The latest person to weigh in is General David Petreus, commander of American Forces in Afghanistan.
Petreus released [...]

Burger King On the Market for a Buyer

The number two burger chain is on the market. Shares in Burger King stock had their highest increases in more than four years after the news.
The company, which has a reported value of more than $2 billion, has suffered a drop in sales of more than 2 percent during the current fiscal year, even amid [...]

East Coast Evacuates Ahead of Hurricane Earl

Hurricane Earl is spiraling onto the East Coast, forcing tourists and residents to leave. Visitors to the popular North Carolina vacation areas have been forced to cut short their visits, and the bad weather from the storm is expected to continue through the Labor Day weekend.
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia has declared a state of [...]

Ovary Removal Reduces Cancer Risk in Women with Faulty Gene

Women with faulty BRCA gene mutations may live longer if they opt to have their ovaries removed. A recent study revealed that women with the BRCA gene mutation had a five times greater risk of developing breast cancer than other women and a ten times greater risk of developing ovarian cancer.
Removing the ovaries dramatically reduced [...]

Hostages Held at Discovery Building in Maryland

At around 1p.m., shots were fired in the lobby of the Discovery Channel headquarters building at One Discovery Place in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to local police. The man who fired the shots appears to have explosive devices strapped to his body. Employees, who were originally instructed to leave the building, were then instructed by [...]

Summer of 2010 Marks Lowest Movie Attendance in Over a Decade

Early projections indicate that this summer’s movie ticket sales will be at the lowest level since 1997. The number of tickets sold between May 1 and Labor Day is expected to fall 2.6% since last year to a total of 552 million, the lowest figure since the summer of 1997 when 540.3 million tickets were [...]

Obama Addresses Nation as Iraq War Ends

Jim Young / Reuters-Landov

With the ending of the war, Obama said he hopes to repurpose war funding that he believes had previously “shortchanged the nation” back into rebuilding core areas of the economy at home.

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