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Just hours left to register to vote
MIAMI - Democrats and Republicans are making a last-minute push to sign up new voters in Florida before the state's midnight Monday registration deadline for the fiercely battled presidential election.

Just hours left to register to vote
MIAMI - Democrats and Republicans are making a last-minute push to sign up new voters in Florida before the state's midnight Monday registration deadline for the fiercely battled presidential election.

Race, fear collide in campaign
An anti-integration candidate for Congress opens old wounds in Tennessee and his own life.


Presidential campaign
The vice presidential debate - by the numbers
Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina meet for their first and only debate Tuesday night in Cleveland. Here are some facts and figures on their debate:

Four soldiers charged with murder in Iraqi general's death
FORT CARSON, Colo. - Four soldiers were charged with murder Monday in the asphyxiation death of an Iraqi general during questioning in Iraq last fall.

U.S. praises Iraqi forces in pacifying Samarra
SAMARRA, Iraq - Bloodied by weeks of suicide bombings and assassinations, Iraqi security forces emerged Sunday to patrol Samarra after a morale-boosting victory in this Sunni Triangle city, and U.S. commanders praised their performance.

Mount St. Helens' neighbors spend a watchful weekend
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. - As scientists warned that an eruption of Mount St. Helens appeared imminent Sunday, eager tourists camped out along park roads, hoping to catch a glimpse of the seething volcano without being overcome by ash and smoke.

Pope beatifies mystic nun, Austrian emperor
VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas.

Violence racks pro-Aristide slum of Haiti's capital city
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gunfire erupted in a slum teeming with loyalists of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Sunday, sending people scattering through trash-strewn streets after days of political clashes that have left at least 14 dead.


World briefs
Attacks' 2-day death toll hits 57 in India
GAUHATI, India - Militants bombed utilities, a tea plantation and a crowded marketplace in northeastern India on Sunday, intensifying violence that has killed 57 people in two days and snarling efforts to bring cease-fires in a region where dozens of ethnic rebel groups are fighting for separate homelands.

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