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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.



Tropical Storm Hermine makes landfall in Mexico (AP)

Tropical storm Hermine is seen in this satellite image courtesy of the National Hurricane Center. REUTERS/National Hurricane Center/HandoutAP - Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into Mexico's northern Gulf coast near the U.S. border late Monday with winds of 65 mph (100 kph), threatening heavy rains that could cause flash flooding in Mexico and Texas.



Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides (AP)

Rescue workers look for survivors at a mudslide area in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)AP - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.



Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of  nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)AP - Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s.



Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations (AP)

Kurt Rieder, in white hat, with his 9 year old daughter Lily watch the smoke plume from a wildland fire burning in the Four Mile Canyon area just west of Boulder Colo. on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. High winds pushed the smoke and ash eastward over the Colorado plains. (AP Photo/Peter M. Fredin)AP - A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others.





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