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• Cross-country paddler completes 4,300-mile trip Sep 25, 2021 04:16 PM
  
  • PORTLAND, Maine - An extreme paddler who launched a cross-country canoe trip in Portland, Ore., has completed the journey 4,300 miles later in Portland, Maine.
  • Alexander Martin paddled the final stretch down the Presumpscot River Friday and arrived at Portland's East End Beach, where family waited.
  • And he's thinking about his next waterborne adventure, possibly Siberia's Lena River.

  • Obama dismisses GOP 'Pledge' as echo of disaster Sep 25, 2021 03:28 PM
    
    • WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says Republicans' plan to slash taxes and cut spending if the GOP retakes the House in November is no more than "an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive."
    • Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to skewer House Republicans over the "Pledge to America" they unveiled this week.
    • It also promised to cut down on government regulation, repeal Obama's health care law and end his stimulus program.

    • Despite Dalton's INTs, No. 4 TCU outlasts SMU Sep 25, 2021 03:11 PM
      
      • DALLAS - Andy Dalton bounced back from interceptions on consecutive throws by leading three straight touchdown drives, lifting No.
      • 4 TCU to a 41-24 victory over longtime rival SMU on Friday night.
      • Playing on the road for the first time this season, the Horned Frogs were in a bit of trouble when Dalton's second interception set up a touchdown that gave the Mustangs a 17-14 lead early in the third quarter.

      • AP Poll: Many think health overhaul should do more Sep 25, 2021 03:09 PM
        
        • WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November.
        • A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should have done more outnumber those who think the government should stay out of health care by 2-to-1.
        • The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral.

        • Ed Miliband elected new leader of UK Labour Party Sep 25, 2021 02:04 PM
          
          • LONDON - Britain's opposition Labour Party elected young lawmaker Ed Miliband as its surprise new leader Saturday, after he narrowly defeated his elder and better-known brother in a close run contest to replace ousted prime minister Gordon Brown.
          • The siblings shared an emotional embrace after Miliband, 40, squeezed out David Miliband, the 45-year-old former foreign secretary, in a ballot of legislators, party activists and about 3.5 million labor union members.
          • The Labour Party said Ed Miliband took 175,519 votes to David Miliband's 147,220, after second, third and fourth choice preferences of those who voted for three other beaten candidates were allocated in a final runoff.

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