GOP candidates compete for DeMint, tea party favor

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• GOP candidates compete for DeMint, tea party favor
• Texas wildfires burn nearly 500 homes
• USPS may default on trust fund payment
• Panel demands truth on CIA 'black sites'
• Lee's remnants spawn tornadoes
• Katia strengthens to Category 4 storm
• Amanda Knox challenges DNA evidence
• Missing invitations worry 9/11 families
• Frum: Get America back on track
• Battle over international pipeline grows

GOP candidates compete for DeMint, tea party favor Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:52 PM PDT Five of the GOP's leading presidential contenders traveled to South Carolina to kiss the ring of tea party kingmaker Sen. Jim DeMint at a first-of-its-kind forum.

Texas wildfires burn nearly 500 homes Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:56 PM PDT Firefighters southeast of Austin battled strong winds and struggled to control a fast-moving wildfire that has scorched 25,000 acres and burned nearly 500 homes.

USPS may default on trust fund payment Posted: 05 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT The Postal Service doesn't have the money to make a $5.5 billion payment to a retiree health care trust fund coming due at the end of the month.

Panel demands truth on CIA 'black sites' Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:09 AM PDT The Council of Europe wants countries that hosted secret CIA "enhanced interrogation" sites to come clean, as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches.

Lee's remnants spawn tornadoes Posted: 05 Sep 2011 05:46 PM PDT A mother and her 18-month-old child killed when a fire engulfed their east Texas mobile home are the apparent victims of a wildfire stoked by the storm known as Lee.

Katia strengthens to Category 4 storm Posted: 05 Sep 2011 02:54 PM PDT Katia picked up strength and became a Category 3 hurricane on Monday as it churned in the Atlantic with winds of 115 mph, forecasters said.

Amanda Knox challenges DNA evidence Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:41 AM PDT Knox is appealing a 26-year sentence for the murder of her housemate in Italy in 2007. Her lawyers argue that DNA evidence used in her original trial is not conclusive.

Missing invitations worry 9/11 families Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:29 PM PDT Some families of 9/11 victims say they are confused, anxious and surprised as the 10th anniversary approaches because they have not received invitations to the Sunday ceremony opening the ground zero memorial.

Frum: Get America back on track Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:14 AM PDT About 8 o'clock on the night of September 11, 2001, President Bush's staff received word. The president had returned to Washington. The White House had reopened.

Battle over international pipeline grows Posted: 05 Sep 2011 04:17 PM PDT The battle over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch 1,700 miles through six states, from Alberta, Canada, across the U.S. heartland, and into Texas to Gulf Coast refineries, is intensifying.

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