Claudette Downgraded to Tropical Storm
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PALACIOS, Texas (AP) _ Hurricane Claudette sloshed ashore on the Texas Gulf Coast on Tuesday, peeling off roofs, knocking out power and flooding low-lying areas before its whistling wind began to let up. Claudette began losing its punch after reaching Texas and was downgraded late Tuesday afternoon to a tropical storm, with sustained wind down to 70 mph.
U.S. Voices New Worries on N. Korea Nukes
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Bush administration said Tuesday it would try to use diplomacy to deal with North Korea's claim that it has produced enough plutonium for about a half-dozen nuclear bombs. U.S. officials said they were not sure whether North Korean representatives were bluffing or telling the truth when they claimed to have finished extracting plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods.
Dems Demand Probe of Prewar Intelligence
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Democrats renewed calls Tuesday for an investigation into the Bush administration's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs, some of which turned out to be bogus. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said her committee's inquiry into intelligence on Iraq will look into President Bush's claim in his State of the Union speech that Iraq sought uranium from Africa _ a statement apparently based on a series of documents now known to be forgeries.
Kidnapped Israeli Taxi Driver Freed
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JERUSALEM (AP) _ Israeli special forces stormed a house in the West Bank early Wednesday and freed a taxi driver from his Palestinian captors, the military said, ending an abduction that threatened a tenuous Mideast cease-fire. Eliyahu Goral, 61, was rescued hours after a Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the fatal stabbing of an Israeli sitting with his girlfriend on a seaside bench. Israel's foreign minister warned that Palestinian officials were running out of time to disarm the militants, a step Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has refused to take.
White House Sees Record Deficit of $455B
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Bush administration dramatically raised its budget deficit projections on Tuesday to $455 billion for this year and $475 billion for next, record levels fed by the limp economy, tax cuts and the battle against terrorism. The totals would easily surpass the $290 billion shortfall of 1992 that has been the red ink high water mark until now. They also mark a deterioration by more than 50 percent since February.
R.I., Tribe File Suit in Tobacco Dispute
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ The state and the Narragansett Indian Tribe have taken their dispute over the tribe's tax-free tobacco store to court, following a state police raid that included seven arrests of tribal members. The tribe sued Tuesday in federal court seeking a declaration that as a sovereign nation it has the right to sell tobacco tax-free. The state attorney general is asking the Washington County Superior Court to declare that the tribe acted illegally.
U.S. Marine to Contact FBI About Girl
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LONDON (AP) _ Toby Studabaker, the former U.S. Marine who disappeared with a 12-year-old English girl he met over the Internet, has phoned his relatives to say the child is safe and that he was contacting the FBI, his brother said Tuesday. Leo Studabaker told BBC News his brother did not give his location or that of the girl, Shevaun Pennington. Police traced them as far as Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris.
Dow Ends Down 48; Nasdaq Slips 2
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Wall Street retreated Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the economy should post stronger growth by year's end but cautioned that the threat of deflation remains. Analysts said some investors feared Greenspan's remarks might signal a return to higher interest rates, while others decided the best bet in any event was to cash in profits after several months of stock gains.
Actress Diaz Seeks Injunction on Photos
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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Cameron Diaz is seeking an injunction barring the release of photographs taken at a private modeling session over a decade ago, before she was a star. In the lawsuit, the 30-year-old "Charlie's Angels" star claims she didn't sign a photo release and that a release produced by the photographer is a forgery, her publicist, Brad Cafarelli, said Tuesday. He wouldn't describe the nature of the pictures.
Clemens Rushes to Make All-Star Game
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Roger Clemens was on a fishing trip, an hour north of Houston, when Yankees general manager Brian Cashman called at 10 a.m. Monday. "He said that, basically, somebody went down and they needed an arm," Clemens recalled.
Image Caption: Christopher Cruse pauses after looking over his flooded car in Surfside Beach, Texas, after Hurricane Claudette passed Tuesday, July 15, 2003. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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