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Obama: McCain should stop questioning character (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual conference in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Democrat Barack Obama challenged his Republican opponent John McCain on Tuesday to stop questioning his "character and patriotism."


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`Boomerang' Fay strengthens over Florida (AP)

Efrain Garcia, uses a chain saw to cutup  a tree that fell on his vehicle, after severe weather struck in Wellington, Fla. on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, Flooding remained a concern as Tropical Storm Fay heads up the Florida peninsula, with rainfall amounts forecast between 5 and 10 inches. The storm could also push tides 1 to 3 feet above normal and spawn tornadoes. (AP Photo/Jon Way)AP - Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, gaining power and threatening — once again — to become a hurricane.


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Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at US base (AP)

French soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walk during a patrol in Kabul in May 2008. Ten French NATO soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, the deadliest ground attack on foreign troops here since the US-led war was launched in 2001.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.


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Russia moves toward pullback but shows strength (AP)

A Russian convoy leaves the military airbase where they are stationed in the village of Senaki, western Georgia. NATO-Russia relations plunged to their lowest point in years Tuesday over the conflict in Georgia and Russia's failure to withdraw from the former Soviet republic.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)AP - Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles and seized four U.S. Humvees.


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Richards, Jones squander chances at Olympic gold (AP)

United States' LoLo Jones reacts after the women's 100-meter hurdles final during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium  at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Lolo Jones was supposed to take the Olympic 100-meter hurdles title. Other entrants knew it. Jones knew it. Even told herself so right before the start, mouthing, "I can win this race," when she was introduced to the crowd.


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Obama may unveil veep choice Saturday in Illinois (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama speaks during a town hall event at the Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 18, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave his clearest signal yet that he has settled on a running mate when he announced Tuesday he would appear Saturday in this city where he launched his campaign.


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Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit (AP)

Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi holds a photo of what he claims to be the mouth and teeth of a deceased bigfoot or sasquatch creature during a news conference Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.


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Trace arsenic in water may be linked with diabetes (AP)
AP - A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. The study's limitations make more research necessary. And public water systems were on their way to meeting tougher U.S. arsenic standards as the data were collected.
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Armed 85-year-old woman makes intruder call cops (AP)
AP - An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.
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Swollen elbow knocks Mets' Wagner out indefinitely (AP)

In this July 6, 2008 file photo, New York Mets' Billy Wagner throws in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia. Wagner had an MRI exam Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 that revealed additional inflammation in his left elbow and will be out indefinitely. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek, File)AP - Billy Wagner has more pain and swelling in his pitching elbow, and the New York Mets' All-Star closer is out indefinitely. Wagner had an MRI exam Tuesday that revealed additional inflammation in his left elbow — an alarming sign.


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This Day in History

Afghanistan Gains Independence from United Kingdom
After becoming the major power on the Indian subcontinent in the late 18th c, the British Empire sought to secure its trade routes through Afghanistan against expanding Russian influence in the region. In doing so, Britain transformed Afghanistan into something of a buffer state, subjecting it to countless wars and treaties before finally relinquishing control of its foreign affairs with the Treaty of Rawalpindi. According to archeological research, when did humans first come to Afghanistan?
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Lolita Published in US
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is the story of a middle-aged European intellectual's infatuation with a 12-year-old American "nymphet," a term Nabokov himself coined in this novel. Due to the novel's highly controversial subject matter, Nabokov initially had trouble finding a publisher for the work. Today, it is considered one of the finest novels written in the 20th century. Lolita contains a number of literary allusions to the works of Edgar Allan Poe. What are a few examples?
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Leo Frank Lynched
Leo Frank was a Jewish-American factory manager who was accused of raping and murdering his employee, 12-year-old Mary Phagan. Frank was convicted, despite evidence incriminating a janitor at the factory, but his death sentence was commuted when further evidence called his guilt into question. A group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan then kidnapped and lynched Frank in a highly publicized event that turned the spotlight on anti-Semitism in the US and led to the founding of what organization?
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