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McCain taps Alaska governor for VP (AP) -

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin listens to a question during a press conference with victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill at the National Press Club in February 2008 in Washington, DC. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican rival's choice of Palin as a running-mate, highlighting her AP - Republican John McCain introduced first-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate Friday, a stunning selection of a little-known conservative newcomer who relishes fighting the establishment.


A hurricane again, Gustav plows toward Caymans (AP) -

A truck drives across a flooded road caused by Tropical Storm Gustav in Kingston, Jamaica, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Gustav, which has killed 71 people in the Caribbean, drenched Jamaica and menaced the Cayman Islands on Friday. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)AP - Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.


Jennifer Aniston will make a return visit to NBC (AP) -

In this April 14, 2007 file photo, actress Jennifer Aniston arrives to the 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)AP - Jennifer Aniston will return home to NBC, the TV network where she became a breakout star on the hit sitcom "Friends."


In New Orleans, no shelter for those who stay (AP) -

Bill Lister (R) holds a support for window covering while Tyler Malejko saws in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Gustav. Exactly three years after deadly Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, authorities on Friday begin bussing people out of the city ahead of the possible landfall of Gustav, forecast to hit the area early Tuesday as a powerful Category Three hurricane.(AFP/Matthew Hinton)AP - Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street this weekend with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own.


John Edwards to emerge from seclusion for speech (AP) -

In this undated image rendered from video and provided by Extra, Rielle Hunter is shown during an interview. Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed firm run by Rielle Hunter, who directed the production of four Web videos. (AP Photo/Extra)AP - In a return to the public stage, John Edwards has confirmed plans to talk politics a month after admitting to an extramarital affair. But his wife won't be at his side.


Hide-and-seek turns up abandoned baby in bushes (AP) - AP - A 6-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her grandmother found a newborn baby girl abandoned in a vacant lot next to her home.
Palin???s hubby and son not Republicans (Politico) - Politico - Democrats may be blasting Sarah Palin as a doctrinaire conservative, and Republicans may be embracing her for the same reason, but her husband and oldest son are independents.
Obama camp hits, then praises McCain's VP choice (AP) -

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., talk with reporters during a tour of Pennsylvania Bio Diesel in Monaca, Pa., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Barack Obama's spokesman fired off a fast criticism of Republican John McCain's new running mate Friday, but the Democratic candidate himself quickly stepped in to offer her congratulations and praise.