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Elshanna Carter, 3, waits with her family to board a bus during the evacuation from the approaching Hurricane Gustav at the Greyhound Bus and Amtrak station in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Sancetta / AP)

New Orleans mayor: 'You've got to go'

In a press conference, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had strong words for his citizens who might be too stubborn to evacuate despite warnings and mandatory evacuation orders.

ABC News

Gustav cuts Gulf oil, gas output; refining curtailed

Bloomberg

Gustav batters Cuba

MSNBC

FEMA: We will be proactive this time

CNN

Minnesota's Twin Cities spruce themselves up for convention

St. Paul, Minnesota is the official site of the Republican Party's National Convention, but the event is really a Twin Cities endeavor.

Monsters and Critics

Ron Paul followers gather for own convention

MSNBC

Palin accused of using bridge to gain stature

Palin supported the controversial "Bridge to Nowhere" for lengthy time before later opposing it, records show; Critics say she used her opposition to gain national stature.

Anchorage Daily News

Advisers say conservative ire pushed McCain away from picking Lieberman

International Herald Tribune

Storm forces McCain camp to 'improvise'

MSNBC

US drunken-driving deaths decrease

Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states.

Houston Chronicle

Georgian foreign minister calls for European unity against Russia

Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili called for the European Union to take a united stand against what she described as the Russian occupation of parts of her country.

Monsters and Critics

Students face a long list of obstacles on the way to college degree

As the school year begins, many college students are going to face hurdles that will slow them down or stop them altogether.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

NATION

Bacteria in water at Oklahoma E. coli outbreak site

Bacterial contamination has been found in well water at a northeast Oklahoma restaurant linked to an E. coli outbreak that killed a man and sickened dozens of others, state health officials said.

USA Today

Two ERs placed on lockdown after chemical scare

The emergency rooms at two hospitals in Missouri were placed on lockdown after patients arrived complaining they had been exposed to a chemical.

CNN

POLITICS

McCain, Palin going to region threatened by storm

Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling to Mississippi to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav.

Google News

Twenty- five things you may not know about McCain

MSNBC

Dems rally for Obama at Ohio congresswoman's memorial

A memorial service for an Ohio congresswoman turned into a strong show of support for Barack Obama as the Clintons and Obama flanked the stage and took turns at the podium.

Newsday

Obama on Biden, Palin

YouTube

iReporters on McCain and Obama

CNN

BUSINESS

Machinists union calls for Boeing strike

Machinists union members will vote on Boeing's contract offer. If two-thirds vote in favor of the union recommendation, a strike will begin.

Seattle Times

Lenders mulling new offer in Alabama's Jefferson County debt standoff

Alabama's Jefferson County and lenders pulled back from the brink of a threatened bankruptcy filing after the county proposed restructuring $3.2 billion debt.

Reuters

Little disclosure on U.S. municipal bonds

International Herald Tribune

Payrolls probably fell, factories stalled: US economy preview

Payrolls in the U.S. probably fell in August for an eighth month and manufacturing stalled, signaling growth faltered, economists said before reports this week.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA to study extending shuttle era

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has ordered his subordinates to study how the agency could fly the space shuttle beyond its planned retirement in 2010.

Orlando Sentinel

Comcast to cap broadband use

Comcast has announced that it will impose a monthly cap of 250 GB on customers' Internet usage.

TechNewsWorld

HEALTH

Is it mutant or health food?

Don't expect to find irradiated spinach and lettuce in your supermarket any time soon, even though federal regulators have given the food industry permission to sell it.

ABC News

Are you a mosquito magnet?

Experts try to crack the code behind why mosquitoes like some humans more than others.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Wind energy bumps into power grid's limits

Expansive dreams about renewable energy, like Al Gore’s hope of replacing all fossil fuels in a decade, are bumping up against the reality of a power grid that cannot handle the new demands.

Environmental News Network

How strong can a hurricane get?

Hurricane Gustav, churning toward the Gulf coast now, has a small chance of becoming a category 5 storm before it makes landfall, according to the National Hurricane Center.

LiveScience

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

Democracy triumphs through example, not force

Observer

Column:

Obama shouldn't try to out-hawk McCain

Houston Chronicle

Column (Daniel Gross):

Is America losing at globalization?

Newsweek

Column:

It was loose talk that lost Georgia

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

For political candidates, relatives are irrelevant

San Jose Mercury News

Column:

School choice: a Q&A primer

EducationNews.org

Column:

Africa: Aid is good, business is better

International Herald Tribune

Column:

Bring back the real McCain

Economist

Column:

Fall shopping, without the guilt

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Michael Phelps in New York City to boost youth swimming

A day after returning to the United States from his Olympic triumphs, the 14-time gold medalist jumped into a YMCA swimming pool and gave pointers to kids about their strokes.

ABC News

Lotto winner gives ticket to parish

A Long Island church is $3 million richer — thanks to a generous parishioner who hit the lottery and donated his winning ticket.

NY Daily News

Miracle donation to church

YouTube

Horse sanctuary is saved by donations

A Northern California sanctuary for hundreds of old and ailing horses that was in danger of shutting down has received enough donations from well-wishers to continue operating through the winter.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Thai leaders hold emergency session

Thailand's parliament is holding a session prompted by days of street protests in which an anti-government group has stormed government buildings and police headquarters.

Al Jazeera

A 6.1 magnitude quake kills 22 in southwest China

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck China's southwestern Sichuan province, killing 22 people and injuring more than 100, state media said.

Google News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Young guys try to read society's road map for behavior

It's a rough road to manhood for young guys, who more than ever are finding themselves confounded and conflicted about what "masculinity" means.

USA Today

'American Wife' focuses on Laura Bush

Why bother writing your own memoirs when someone can write them for you? This is the case of Curtis Sittenfeld, Laura Bush and “American Wife”, the writer, the First Lady and the novel.

eFluxMedia

SPORTS

ECU's Lee is unlikely hero in win over Virginia Tech

With less than two minutes remaining and Virginia Tech in punt formation, Lee broke free on the left side and blocked the kick. He chased it down and ran it 27 yards into the end zone for the game-winning score.

ESPN

Nadal, Williams sisters, Safina advance at US Open

Wimbledon champions Venus Williams and Rafael Nadal moved into the fourth round of the U.S. Open with straight-sets victories today.

Bloomberg

Roddick overcomes early problems at the US Open

MSNBC

Rested pitching rotation has paid dividends for Brewers

Milwaukee manager Ned Yost spent 12 valuable seasons on Bobby Cox's coaching staff in Atlanta. Much of Yost's managerial style comes directly from the Book of Cox.

Sporting News

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Hindus call off protest in Indian Kashmir

Hindus in Indian-administered Kashmir ended two months of demonstrations after the state government agreed to allow pilgrims the use of land near an important Hindu temple.

International Herald Tribune

Vatican warns of rising persecution

"Christianophobia" is a growing problem around the world and it must be fought with the same determination as anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, according to the Vatican.

AOL News

EDUCATION

A disappointing finish for Americans at education Olympics

The United States turned in a dismal performance at the Education Olympics. Americans took home only one medal from those games, for an embarrassing 20th-place finish.

U.S. News & World Report

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