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1.Tropical Storm Hanna is closing in on the Carolina coast with top sustained winds of 70 miles an hour. The forecast calls for Hanna to make landfall early Saturday morning, then marching up the Atlantic seaboard, dumping inches of rain.

2.Republican presidential nominee¹ John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin hit the campaign trail, traveling to Wisconsin in their first joint² campaign appearance since the GOP convention. Palin says she wants to bring the campaign straight from the convention into "small-town America".

3.The United States and Libya sealed a turnaround deal on their sometimes troubled relationship. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited the leader Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli. Her visit coming up to Libya renounced³ terrorism and vowed⁴ to give up weapons of mass destruction.

4.The LPGA Tour is backing off plans to suspend players who could not effectively speak English in the tournaments. The Tour's commissioner⁵ disclosed the original plan in a meeting with South Korean players. The unwritten rule was widely criticized as discriminatory, especially against Asian players.

WORDS IN THE NEWS
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Merriam-Webster Online

1.seaboard
The seaboard is the part of a country that is next to the sea; used especially of the coasts of North America.
    ...the Eastern seaboard of the USA.=coast

2.the GOP
the Grand Old Party another name for the Republican Party in US politics

3.turnaround
a complete change from a bad situation to a good one

4.the LPGA Tour
the U.S. Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour