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Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:03 AM PDT

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News - Latest News & Headlines: Isaac nears hurricane strength, forecast for landfall Tuesday night GOP convention floor fight averted Romney to fly to Tampa Tuesday, ahead of wife's convention speech GOP convention protesters come armed with outrage, hashtags Rob Portman to play Barack Obama in debate prep Mike Huckabee to Ron Paul supporters: You lost, move on Louisiana gov says Obama emergency declaration falls short Hurricanes hold election-year peril for candidates One of three tank fires extinguished at Venezuela refinery Report: Specter hospitalized with serious illness Renowned pianist Van Cliburn diagnosed with cancer Alaska couple admits to plot to kill federal judge and others Man killed while trying to create Bigfoot sighting Autopsy for NY girl, 5, found in trash; 2 charged Family of alleged shooter 'horrified' Group: Teens set themselves on fire, take Tibet burnings over 50 Romney vows free-market defense as GOP opens convention Obama promises to help Gulf Coast governors with TS Isaac Syrian man threatens to blow up the Arab League Isaac nears hurricane strength, forecast for landfall Tuesday night Mon,27 Aug 2012 10:46 PM PDT Good Morning America - New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Says Gulf Coast on 'a High Level of Anxiety.' Full Story Top GOP convention floor fight averted Mon,27 Aug 2012 05:58 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - A compromise on Republican Party rules will likely prevent a convention floor fight on Tuesday. Republican National Committeeman James Bopp, who had led a movement to oppose a new delegate rule on the convention floor, confirms to ABC News that he has agreed to a... Full Story Top Romney to fly to Tampa Tuesday, ahead of wife's convention speech Mon,27 Aug 2012 05:38 PM PDT BOSTON—Mitt Romney will fly to Tampa Tuesday, arriving in town just hours before his wife, Ann Romney, is expected to address the Republican National Convention. The Romney campaign declined to say on the record what the presumptive Republican nominee will be doing in Tampa. But he's arriving in Florida two days earlier than expected. Romney [...] Full Story Top GOP convention protesters come armed with outrage, hashtags Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT As dark rain clouds gathered over downtown Tampa, Michael Purchner, who came from Mississippi to protest the Republican National Convention, said he was frustrated with the country's economic state and the way both political parties are handling it. "These corporate monsters, these corporations, are pretty much running the show," Purchner said. "There's just so much [...] Full Story Top Rob Portman to play Barack Obama in debate prep Mon,27 Aug 2012 03:03 PM PDT TAMPA—Ohio Sen. Rob Portman will play the role of President Barack Obama during practice debates with Mitt Romney, multiple sources told Yahoo News. Portman is the Republican Party's go-to man for high-profile debate preparation. Since 1996, national political campaigns have tapped him to play the role of Democrats and even some Republicans. In mock debates, [...] Full Story Top Mike Huckabee to Ron Paul supporters: You lost, move on Mon,27 Aug 2012 02:14 PM PDT Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a message for Ron Paul supporters who say they feel "disrespected" by the Republican Party's delegate allocation process: You lost, move on. Full Story Top Louisiana gov says Obama emergency declaration falls short Mon,27 Aug 2012 07:24 PM PDT Associated Press - President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on Monday as that state and others along the Gulf Coast prepared for Tropical Storm Isaac. Full Story Top Hurricanes hold election-year peril for candidates Mon,27 Aug 2012 06:54 PM PDT Associated Press - Politicians know every hurricane means avoiding disaster — including their own. Full Story Top One of three tank fires extinguished at Venezuela refinery Mon,27 Aug 2012 10:52 PM PDT Reuters - PARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Firefighters managed to extinguish one of three burning storage tanks at Venezuela's biggest refinery on Tuesday, President Hugo Chavez said, in line with the authorities' target to restart the facility by the end of the week. Chavez broke the news in a series of pre-dawn Tweets, saying the fire at one tank at the Amuay refinery had been put out, while the intensity of the blaze in one of the other two had fallen by 75 percent. ... Full Story Top Report: Specter hospitalized with serious illness Mon,27 Aug 2012 11:54 AM PDT National Journal - Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator who lost his bid for reelection in 2010 after three decades in Washington, has been hospitalized with a "serious illness," according to a Philadelphia media outlet. Full Story Top Renowned pianist Van Cliburn diagnosed with cancer Mon,27 Aug 2012 08:00 PM PDT Associated Press - Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday. Full Story Top Alaska couple admits to plot to kill federal judge and others Mon,27 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT Reuters - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An Alaska couple pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of conspiring to kill a federal judge in what prosecutors said was a revenge plot over income-tax rulings against them. Lonnie and Karen Vernon, followers of jailed Alaska militia leader Schaeffer Cox, reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid the need for a trial that had been set to begin next month. The Vernons and Cox were active in the "sovereign citizen" movement, whose adherents believe individuals are sovereign nations and federal, state and local laws do not apply to them. ... Full Story Top Man killed while trying to create Bigfoot sighting Mon,27 Aug 2012 07:17 PM PDT Associated Press - A man dressed in a military-style "ghillie" suit and apparently trying to provoke reports of a Bigfoot sighting in northwest Montana was struck by two cars and killed, authorities said. Full Story Top Autopsy for NY girl, 5, found in trash; 2 charged Mon,27 Aug 2012 11:24 PM PDT Associated Press - Two teens charged in the death of a 5-year-old girl are facing arraignment. Full Story Top Family of alleged shooter 'horrified' Mon,27 Aug 2012 06:42 PM PDT Associated Press - A 15-year-old student opened fire on the first day of classes at a Baltimore County high school Monday, getting off two shots and wounding a classmate before being rushed by teachers, authorities said. Full Story Top Group: Teens set themselves on fire, take Tibet burnings over 50 Mon,27 Aug 2012 07:41 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule of their homeland has topped 50 after two teenagers burned to death in a southwestern corner of the country, a rights group said. The pair, one an 18-year-old monk and the other a 17-year-old former monk, died on Monday after setting themselves on fire outside the Kirti monastery in Ngaba, a heavily Tibetan part of Sichuan province, the London-based Free Tibet group said. ... Full Story Top Romney vows free-market defense as GOP opens convention Mon,27 Aug 2012 12:13 PM PDT TAMPA , FLA.— As powerful tropical storm Isaac churned through the Gulf of Mexico, Republicans opened their abbreviated nominating convention on Monday with a knock at President Barack Obama's record on spending and a Hollywood-style video message from Mitt Romney. "In the campaign to come, the American ideals of economic freedom and opportunity need a [...] Full Story Top Obama promises to help Gulf Coast governors with TS Isaac Mon,27 Aug 2012 02:13 PM PDT President Barack Obama on Monday promised the governors of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi that they would have "the resources they need" to cope with Tropical Storm Isaac, on track to batter the Gulf Coast in the coming days, the White House said in a statement. Concerns about the storm led Republicans, gathered at their presidential [...] Full Story Top Syrian man threatens to blow up the Arab League Mon,27 Aug 2012 06:19 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities arrested late on Monday a Syrian man who threatened to blow up the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo after he learned that his parents had been killed in Syria during a battle between the rebels and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, Egyptian news agency MENA reported. At least 62 people were killed in an assault on the suburbs of Damascus on Monday, according to opposition activists, as the anti-Assad uprising is about to enter its 18th month in September. ... Full Story Top

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