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- Obama widens lead in national poll
A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.
- Candidates go negative but risk alienating voters
With less than 30 days until the election, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are stepping up their negative ads as they try to win over the narrowing margin of undecided voters.
- Senator curses prosecutors in wiretaps
Prosecutors trying to persuade a judge not to throw out the criminal case against Sen. Ted Stevens expect the Justice Department to investigate them for their failure to disclose evidence that might help clear the 84-year-old GOP lawmaker.
- Rollins: McCain, turn up the heat!
With four weeks to go till Election Day, the road ahead for John McCain is straight up the side of an ice-covered mountain.
- Female fighters: Enough with male dominance
The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops.
- Sources: Taliban split with al Qaeda, seek peace
Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country's bloody conflict -- and are severing their ties with al Qaeda, sources close to the historic discussions have told CNN.
- Global warming -- seeing may cause believing
For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.
- Scientist: Holographic TV to become reality
Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the Sex and the City movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3D on your coffee table.
- Dead athlete's relatives star in Ice Cube video
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- Tiny, charming island offers taste of pure Italy
The charm of Ventotene is apparent the moment you spot it from the boat transporting you to its shores. Sitting there like a lonely sponge cake protruding from the surface of a clear blue plate, the island's sheer size -- or lack thereof -- promises something not only special but personal.
- Fall getaways with younger kids
You are so lucky.
- American Airlines to use a la carte pricing
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- Pick up the phone, pay twice the price
Joseph Dunlap runs into a snag when he tries to buy an airline ticket online for his mother. So he calls the online agency, Expedia, and is sold a ticket that costs twice the online rate. Do rates really vary by that much? Well, yes -- and no.
- Mount Rainier hike: Scraped knees, big smiles
If Mount Rainier were in Austria instead of Washington State, I likely would have explored it long ago. All my life, I've watched it shimmering Fuji-like on Seattle's horizon, and have never driven the hour off the interstate to actually take a hike there.
- Travel Snapshots: Falling in love with Venice
- Zoos go all out for Halloween
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- Washington's Union Station marks centennial
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- Fanfare greets returning Intrepid
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- The world's scariest runways
It's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan. Suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. They fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and putting it on the tarmac.
Headlines last updated on Oct 06, 2008 17:21:42pm.
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