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Former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens Killed In Alaska Plane Crash – Vancouver Sun
America’s longest-serving Republican senator was killed on Tuesday night after a plane in which he was travelling with eight people crashed in Alaska.
Ted Stevens, who represented Alaska for 41 years until 2008, was among those killed when the aircraft came down late on Monday in south-west Alaska, 300 miles from Anchorage, near the town of Aleknagik.
Mitch Rose, a spokesman for Senator Stevens’s family, said that they had been notified that the 86 year-old was among those killed.
It was unclear whether Sean O’Keefe, 54, the former head of Nasa and the chief executive officer of the defence contractor EADS North America, had also perished in the crash.
His son was also on board the single-engine propeller plane, a DeHavilland DHC-3T, which was bringing the group to a remote part of the state for a fishing trip.
Rescuers arrived via helicopter and gave medical care to the four survivors, said Major Guy Hayes, a spokesman for Alaska’s National Guard. The cause of the crash was unclear.
The group was on a fishing trip to Agulowak Lodge. The plane, a DeHavilland DHC-3T propeller float plane, was owned by communications company GCI.
Senator Stevens was one of two survivors of a 1978 plane crash at Anchorage International Airport that killed his wife, Ann, and several others.
A Second World War veteran, he was appointed to the Senate in 1968 and served longer than any other Republican in history.
He lost his re-election bid in 2008 by a tiny margin after he was convicted on corruption charges related to gifts from an oil services company. The case was later thrown out because of prosecutorial misconduct.
While often gruff and short-tempered with staff, reporters and even other senators, the man known to Alaskans as “Uncle Ted” rose to become one of Washington’s most powerful Republicans.
Among his duties, the moderate Republican headed the key Senate Appropriations Committee, which doled out billions of federal dollars each year to states and communities.
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Obama’s Approval Rating At Lowest Point Ever – Rasmussen Reports
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president.
46% Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22. Overall, 43% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty-six percent (56%) disapprove.
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Democrats, Advocacy Groups Blast Cuts To Food Stamps To Fund Public Union Bailout – Fox News
Some Democrats are upset and advocacy groups are outraged over the raiding of the food-stamp cupboard to fund a bailout that some call a gift to teachers and government union workers.
House members convened Tuesday and passed the multibillion-dollar bailout bill that provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or ensure that more teachers won’t be let go.
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Florida AG Proposes Law Against Illegal Aliens – Reuters
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Wednesday proposed legislation that would toughen law enforcement measures against illegal immigrants in the melting-pot southeastern U.S. state.
The proposal by McCollum, who is engaged in a tough election race as a Republican candidate for the state governorship, was certain to thrust Florida into the sensitive immigration debate.
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Trade Deficit Swells To $49.9 Billion In June – The Street
A jump in demand for foreign-made pharmaceuticals, cars, and telecom supplies, coupled with a drop in U.S. exports for items like semiconductors and computers, helped widen the country’s trade deficit to its steepest gap in nearly two years.
The trade deficit swelled to a seasonally adjusted $49.9 billion in June, the Commerce Department said. Exports fell by $2 billion in June.
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Thousands of British online banking customers have fallen victim to a sophisticated attack by cyber criminals who have stolen thousands of pounds from their accounts.
About 3,000 bank customers have been victims of a computer virus that empties their accounts while showing them fake statements so the scam goes undetected. The cyber criminals stole an estimated £675,000.
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Linda McMahon Wins Republican Senate Primary In CT – TPM
Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Connecticut, and will now face Democratic state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
With 53% of precincts reports, McMahon has 49%, former Congressman Rob Simmons 29%, and financial commentator Peter Schiff 22%. McMahon has been projected as the winner by the Associated Press.
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Death Toll In China Landslides Rises To 1,117 – NewsMeat
Heavy rains lashed a remote section of northwestern China as the death toll from weekend flooding that triggered massive landslides jumped to 1,117, although the fading hopes of rescuers got a boost late Wednesday when a survivor was found in the debris.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency gave no immediate details on the survivor, found nearly four days after the disaster struck.
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Doctor Finds Plant Growing Inside Man’s Lung – WHDH
There was a problem sprouting in a local man’s lung. Doctors originally thought the new growth was a tumor, but when they looked closer, they got a big surprise.
“I was told I had a pea seed in my lung that had split and had sprouted,” said Ron Sveden. It was not the diagnosis he was expecting. He had prepared himself to hear the words cancer and tumor, but a plant?
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Man ‘Marinated’ Live Cat In Car Trunk – Orange News
Police were shocked when they pulled over a motorist – and found a live cat ‘marinating’ in oil and peppers in his trunk. Officers in Buffalo, New York, heard the cat meowing when they stopped Gary Korkuc, 51, for running a stop sign.
They checked the trunk and found four-year-old Navarro in a cage, his fur covered with oil, salt, crushed red peppers and chili peppers.
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Woman Faked Cancer For Cash – Yahoo News
A woman in the Toronto area has admitted to faking cancer, running a bogus charity and collecting thousands of dollars from people who thought she was dying, a Toronto newspaper reported.
Ashley Anne Kirilow, 23, shaved her head and eyebrows, plucked her eyelashes, and starved herself to look like she was going through chemotherapy treatments, the report in the Toronto Star said.
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Man Seeks To Change Name To Boomer The Dog – NewsMeat
A judge is considering whether a Pittsburgh-area man can legally change his name to Boomer the Dog after a short-lived television series.
The man who went to court Tuesday is 44-year-old Gary Guy Matthews, of Green Tree. He is a fan of the 1980s NBC series “Here’s Boomer,” which featured a dog who rescued people. But he’s also an enthusiast of Anthrocon.
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