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Troops ask amid debt crisis: Will we get paid? A half a world away from the Capitol Hill deadlock, the economy and debt crisis are weighing heavily on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Tropical storm makes landfall, fizzles over Texas Tropical Storm Don began to fizzle Friday night as it made landfall in Texas, bringing rain and scattered showers but not nearly enough to make a dent in the state's prolonged drought. Cops bust huge pot farm in Calif. national forest Law enforcement officials said Friday they struck a major blow against illegal marijuana cultivation on public lands in the heart of Northern California pot country. Debt-limit deadlock; Senate kills Boehner bill Lawmakers determined to avoid an unprecedented government default remained at an impasse over the raising the nation's debt limit Saturday as prospects of economic chaos loomed. Cost of Casey Anthony case near $700,000 The Casey Anthony murder investigation and trial cost taxpayers almost $700,000, based on new tallies on Friday from the major agencies involved in the case. Adrift 18 hours, pilot mulled ‘how much time I had left’ “The motor started sputtering, and that’s when the panic set in,” said Michael Trapp, 42, who survived 18 hours treading water after his Cessna 150 crashed in Lake Huron. “I don’t know how much time I had left,” he said Friday. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml

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