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Ike's floods kill 58, add insult to Haiti's misery (AP)

A dead body lies on the ground after Hurricane Ike hit the area in Cabaret, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Twenty four people, including seventeen children, drowned overnight in Cabaret north of Port-au-Prince, according to Osner Desulme, a funeral home's director, raising Haiti's overall death toll to 262 from four tropical storms in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia)AP - Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters for the second time in a week on Sunday as squalls from Hurricane Ike killed 58 people and collapsed a bridge that cut the last land route into the starving city of Gonaives.



US Government takes over mortgage giants (AP)

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Jr. speaks during a news conference in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 on the bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The Bush administration's seizure of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.



US re-examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack (AP)

In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)AP - The U.S. military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died.



Killer Ike hits Cuba after lashing Bahamas, Haiti (AP)

This Sepetmebr 7, 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1610 GMT. Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again Sunday for another killer storm, with more than half a million people evacuating Cuba's northeast coast, officials said.(AFP/HO NASA/Ho)AP - Hurricane Ike roared onto Cuba Sunday after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.



McCain takes on GOP and Bush along with Obama (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,  speaks at a campaign rally at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Toby Jorrin)AP - Barack Obama isn't John McCain's only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he's running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.





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