| Embroiled Hawaii Farm Too Big to Fail? |
| As owners of a large farm in Hawaii face human trafficking charges, two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters say their farm is too valuable to the islands' food supply to let it go untended |
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| Many Pakistanis Still Waiting for Flood Aid |
| More than 3 million people have yet to receive desperately needed food aid, according to the U.N., and the Pakistani government says nearly 1 million people have received no help of any sort | Death Toll Rises to 65 in Attack on Pakistanis |
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| Evidence Mounts That Democrats Are Facing Midterm Wipeout |
| Hopes for an economic recovery to save Dems from voter punishment during midterm elections this November quickly fade as an already high unemployment rate inches up.GOP Vows Crackdown on ControversiesNew Mormon Ads PR for Romney '12 Run?Can Republicans Embrace the Tea Party? FULL COVERAGE: AEHQ |
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| Obama: Economy Better Off After Efforts |
| Faced with a stalled economy, the president took to airwaves for Labor Day weekend address to tell Americans, particularly the middle class, they'd be worse off without his economic policies ahead of midterm electionsObama: Expired Tax Cut Revenues for BusinessYOU DECIDE: What's Fix?OPINION: Repeating Mistakes |
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| Earl's Biggest Damage in Northeast: Business- WEATHER CENTER |
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| Craigslist Shuts Down Adult Services Section |
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| Second Acid Attack a Copy Cat Assault? |
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| Authorities Say Fire at Tenn. Mosque Is Arson- Report: Mosque Backer Funded Terror Group |
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| At Least 43 Killed in Violence in Sudan's Darfur |
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| Nev. Candidate Pushes Pay-to-Speed Program |
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| Earl's Biggest Damage In Northeast: Business |
| The storm swooped into New England waters as a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph after sideswiping North Carolina's Outer Banks, where it caused flooding but no injuries and little damage. |
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| Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Paul Conrad Dies |
| Paul Conrad took on U.S. presidents from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, mostly in the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for 30 years. He was fierce in his liberalism and expressed it with a stark, unmistakable visual style. |
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| Craigslist Drops Adult Services Ads |
| The section on the website was replaced with a black bar that says "censored." A group of state attorneys general had asked the site to drop the section last month, saying there weren't enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution and child trafficking. |
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| Scientist Watches Glacier Melt Beneath His Feet |
| Scientists collecting ice cores from Indonesia's Pancak Jaya say they saw the 16,000-foot glacier drop 12 inches in just two weeks. Puncak Jaya is one of the few tropical glaciers remaining in the world, and it's especially vulnerable to climate change. This makes it especially important to researchers. |
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| Thousands Of Returning Soldiers Face A New Enemy |
| The legacy of one of America's longest combat missions will continue to affect the thousands of troops who came home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. |
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| Week In News: Romer, Economy, Midterms, Oil |
| This was the last week on the job for Christina Romer, the president's top economic adviser. In her farewell speech, she shed some light on the backroom dealings that got the stimulus package passed. Host Guy Raz speaks with our regular news analyst, James Fallows of The Atlantic, about those revelations and other top stories in the news. |
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| A Village Sacrificed For China's Greater Good |
| A $62-billion water diversion project 60 years in the making will channel water from the south of the country to the drought-prone North. The project will dislocate 330,000 people, who must leave their homes forever. |
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| Mexico Orders Alleged U.S.-Born Drug Lord Held |
| Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as "La Barbie," was arrested by Mexican police Monday, following a yearlong pursuit. Authorities blame Valdez for several dozen homicides in his fight for control of the Beltran Leyva cartel. A judge ordered him held for 40 days pending an investigation into charges. |
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| Indonesians Protest Fla. Church's Quran-Burning Day |
| The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., said it will burn the Islamic holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Religious leaders in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, have appealed to U.S. authorities to stop the event. |
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| BP Faces Delays Raising Faulty Blowout Preventer |
| Crews have to wait for icy hydrates to melt before they can bring it aboard the Helix Q400 vessel. FBI investigators will examine it, hoping to gain insight into why the device failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| Report: Blackwater Created Shell Companies |
| The report on the newspaper's website says Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has asked the Justice Department to see whether Blackwater misled the government when using the subsidiaries to gain government contracts. |
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| Goodbye Earl: Storm Spins Into Canada |
| In the end, Hurricane Earl wasn't even as bad as some of the no-name nor'easters that pound New England from time to time. It left clear, blue skies in its wake, the perfect start to the Labor Day weekend. |
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| On Jobs, U.S. Now Ranks Worse Than Similar Nations |
| The U.S. unemployment rate surged far higher and has remained higher than in other major industrial countries. It's now at 9.6 percent. The big shift came when American companies cut workers more aggressively than foreign firms in the face of the financial crisis. |
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| Sputtering Recovery Prompts More Tinkering |
| Job growth this past spring had the Obama administration hopeful that the recovery would be more stable by Labor Day. Not so. And so Obama Friday renewed his call for the Senate to act on legislation to reduce taxes for small business. He promised more initiatives would be unveiled next week. |
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| Mississippi's Haley Barbour, GOP Heavyweight |
| Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governors' Association, has been described as the "most powerful Republican in American politics." In a wide-ranging conversation, host Scott Simon talks with Barbour about Mississippi's recovery from Hurricane Katrina, the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill and the significance of conservative figures like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. |
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| Maiden Flight of the First US Airship (1923) |
| The USS Shenandoah was the first American-built rigid dirigible. Its design was based on a German zeppelin downed during WWI, and it was the first ship to be filled with helium—making it safer than hydrogen-filled crafts. A year after its maiden voyage, it became the first rigid airship to cross North America. While on another tour in 1925, it passed through a storm and was torn apart. Thirteen crew members died in the crash. How did those who survived the disaster manage to do so? Discuss |
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| Malcolm Campbell Becomes First to Drive over 300 MPH (1935) |
| Campbell, an English automobile and speedboat racer, set many speed records for motorcycles, airplanes, automobiles, and motorboats. In 1931, he was knighted for his accomplishments. Four years later, driving his famed automobile Bluebird at Bonneville Flats, Utah, Campbell set his final land speed record, becoming the first person to drive an automobile faster than 300 mph (483 km/h). He later turned to speedboat racing and set a new record in 1939, when his boat reached what speed? |
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| September Massacres Break Out in Paris (1792) |
| After an abortive insurrection in June 1792, French revolutionaries followed it with a decisive one in August. Under pressure from the insurrection, the Assembly suspended Louis XVI and ordered elections for a National Convention to draw up a new constitution. Mass arrests of royalist sympathizers were followed by the September massacres, in which frenzied mobs entered jails throughout Paris and killed approximately 2,000 prisoners, many in grisly fashion. Who was targeted during the massacres? |
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