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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - Sept 10
10 Sep 2008 04:31:01 GMT
 Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Sept 10. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il did not appear at North Korea's 60th-anniversary parade on Tuesday, lending credence to intelligence reports that he may be gravely ill after suffering a stroke.

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From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared that she opposed the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," critics, the news media and nonpartisan fact checkers have called it a fabrication, a distortion or, at best, a half-truth. But on Tuesday in Lebanon, Ohio, and again in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she crossed that bridge again.

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A weak economy and a sharp increase in government spending will drive the federal budget deficit to a near-record $407 billion when the budget year ends later this month, and the next president is likely to face a shortfall in January of well over $500 billion, congressional budget analysts said.

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