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3 years 18 weeks agoSeptember 26, 2008
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Democratic leaders say they won't force their rank and file to vote without GOP support on a bailout advanced by an unpopular president on an unwilling public.
23:00
Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is in treatment for brain cancer, is taken by ambulance to a hospital near his Cape Cod home after complaining of feeling ill.
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House Republicans say they'll send a top leader to the closed-door session after earlier boycotting bargaining on an emerging bipartisan consensus.
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John McCain, reversing an earlier statement, agrees to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal.
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AIDS activists celebrate the removal of South Africa's health minister, who fostered countless unnecessary deaths by promoting vitamins instead of drugs for HIV.
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"It's hard to do door-to-door registration when people don't have doors," says Equality Texas' Randall Terrell in urging an extension of the deadline.
September 25, 2008
19:00
The messages, which can be delivered by online request, are intended to nudge women to check for breast cancer; Ellen's mom, Betty, is a survivor.
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Under Dodd and Frank's plan, the U.S. would charge premiums to insure firms that buy frozen assets, not purchase the junk directly as Bush envisioned.
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Hooligans yelling "Death to gays!" attack the opening of Bosnia's first gay festival, injuring 10 people, including two journalists and a policeman.
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One poor girl is so distraught she has to miss work, but almost everyone else, including Simon Cowell, thinks the popster/new papa did the right thing.
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As Palin tours New York, a YouTube video surfaces showing her being blessed by a Kenyan pastor against "witchcraft" as she prepares to seek higher office.
September 24, 2008
19:00
The collective act of piety starts Wednesday and culminates three days before the election in a revival for 100,000 people at the San Diego Chargers' stadium.
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Scott Pomfret is amazed St. Anthony Shrine removed him as lector, because he interviewed many of the friars for his memoir, "Since My Last Confession."
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Ronald Dominique is sentenced in the deaths of eight young men he solicited for sex, then raped and killed over a decade in Terrebonne Parish, La.
September 23, 2008
23:00
The number of transgender representations on TV remains very small, so Isis King's presence on "America's Next Top Model" is important to activists.
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People magazine shows him with his baby son, Parker Foster Aiken, and the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay: I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things."
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Broadcast TV has 16 gay and bisexual regular characters in prime-time series this fall, more than double the seven of a year ago, though CBS has none.
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Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, give $100,000 to fight Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 California ballot measure that would revoke marriage equality.
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Among voters who backed his rival in the bitter primary campaign, only 58 percent now support Obama, a stunning lack of progress, an AP poll finds.
September 22, 2008
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Masked assailants beat up participants in a Belgrade gay gathering Friday, including a U.S. citizen who sustained a concussion and a broken arm.
