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Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed

French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home. Sarkozy spoke to...

Headlines Today

US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio suffers aneurysm

Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio in hospital after suffering aneurysm

Tropical Storm Fay hugs Florida's Atlantic coast

Fay hugs Florida's Atlantic coast; forecasters see waning chances of storm becoming hurricane

Kerry returns to stump 4 years after nomination

Mass. Sen. Kerry finds smaller stage as he seeks re-election to Senate instead of White House

Study: Cost often not factor when picking college

Paying for college: Middle-class students borrowing most for school

Today In History

On Aug. 20, 1940,

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

In 1833,

Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.

In 1866,

President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after fighting had stopped.