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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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Irene wallops floundering flood insurance program

    Volunteer firefighters help evacuate people from their flooded homes in Totowa, New Jersey, on Tuesday.In the United States, uniquely in the developed world, insuring homeowners against flood damage is the sole province of the federal government. And its program is a disaster itself.


Ex-Powell aide: Cheney fears war crimes trial

    Activists representing Amnesty International hold a banner bearing the portrait of former Vice President Dick Cheney during a demonstration in front of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.Dick Cheney was "president for all practical purposes" during George W. Bush's first term in office and "fears being tried as a war criminal," a former administration official claims.


Wildfires burning homes in Texas, Oklahoma

    A water drop aims to slow the Possum Kingdom Lake fire on Tuesday.A Texas Forest Service spokesman says a fast-moving wildfire is sweeping through a lakeside community outside of Fort Worth, Texas.


Kosovan admits killing 2 US airmen in Germany

    Police investigate the scene after a gunman fired shots at U.S. Air Force service members on this bus outside Germany's Frankfurt Airport on March 2.A 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian said he killed two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport on March 2 and wounded two others, but said that he doesn't understand why he committed the crime.


Dad: It was 'horse play' before boy went overboard
    A man accused of throwing his 7-year-old son overboard during a sightseeing cruise around California's Newport Harbor says he and the boy were just "horse playing" and talked about jumping in the water together.
HBT: Ex-Giants employee faces embezzlement charges
    Man in domestic dispute decapitates self
      A Chicago man who quickly accelerated in a sport utility vehicle with a cable around his neck decapitated himself after a domestic dispute in Yorktown, authorities said Tuesday.
    Cheney: I don't think Iraq war hurt U.S. reputation
      In an exclusive live interview on TODAY Tuesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney disputed the notion that the invasion of Iraq has weakened America’s standing in the global community.
    Pruning shear impalement: 'The pain was so bad'

      In this image provided by the University Medical Center in Tucson, a CT scan shows a pair of pruning shears embedded in the head of 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher. He is expected to make a full recovery. An 86-year-old Arizona man who survived falling face-first into his pruning shears reflects on the harrowing ordeal.


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