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6A Daily News – Friday, August 26, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Hurricane Irene barrels toward East Coast BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — A nightmare Hurricane Irene barreled toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, sending thou- sands of vacationers flee- ing and threatening up to 65 million people from the Carolinas to New England. The Category 3 storm with winds of 115 mph — the threshold for a major hurricane — would be the strongest to strike the East Coast in seven years, and people were already get- ting out of the way. Tens of thousands fled North Carolina beach towns, farmers pulled up their crops, and the Navy ordered ships to sea so they could endure the punishing wind and waves in open water. All eyes were on Irene's projected path, which showed it bringing misery to every city along the I-95 corridor, includ- ing Washington, New York and Boston. The for- mer chief of the National Hurricane Center called it one of his three worst pos- sible situations. ''One of my greatest nightmares was having a major hurricane go up the whole Northeast Coast,'' Max Mayfield, the cen- ter's retired director, told The Associated Press. Rebel siege leaves sewers running red with blood TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The streets where rebel fighters bombarded snipers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi were strewn with bullet-ridden corpses from both sides Thursday. Streams of blood ran down the gutters and turned sewers red. By sundown the rebels appeared to have won the battle for the Abu Salim neighborhood, next to Gadhafi's captured Tripoli compound, but the fallen dictator continued to elude them. Speaking from an unknown loca- tion, he exhorted his sup- porters to fight on. ''Don't leave Tripoli for the rats. Fight them, and kill them,'' Gadhafi said in a new audio mes- sage broadcast on Al- Ouroba TV, a Syria-based satellite station. Outside his Bab al- Aziziya compound, which rebels captured Tuesday, there was anoth- er grim scene — one that suggested mass, execu- tion-style killings of civil- ians. About two dozen bod- ies — some with their hands bound by plastic ties and with bullet wounds to the head — lay scattered on grassy lots in an area where Gadhafi sympathizers had camped out for months. Charities formed after 9/11 raised big dollars, didn't deliver NEW YORK (AP) — Americans eager to give after the 9/11 terrorist attacks poured $1.5 bil- lion into hundreds of charities established to serve the victims, their families and their memo- ries. But a decade later, an Associated Press investi- gation shows that many of those nonprofits have failed miserably. There are those that spent huge sums on them- selves, those that cannot account for the money they received, those that have few results to show for their spending and those that have yet to file required income tax returns. Yet many of the charities continue to raise money in the name of Sept. 11. One charity raised more than $700,000 for a giant memorial quilt, but there is no quilt. Another raised more than $4 mil- lion to help victims, but didn't account publicly for how it spent all of the money. A third helps sup- port a 9/11 flag sold by the founder's for-profit company. There are other chari- ties that can account for practically every penny raised — except that all the money went to pay for fundraising, and not the intended mission. To be sure, most of the 325 charities identified by the AP followed the rules, accounted fully for their expenditures and closed after fulfilling identified goals. 87% in US disapprove of Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are plenty angry at Congress in the aftermath of the debt cri- sis and Republicans could pay the greatest price, a new Associated Press- GfK poll suggests. 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They suggest that politicians, regardless of party, have little to gain by prolonging the nation's most consequential policy debate. And they high- light the gap between the wider public's wishes now and the tea party's cut-it-or-shut-it philoso- phy that helped propel Republicans into the House majority last year. Romney sticks with strategy EXETER, N.H. (AP) — Despite a new rival's surge, Mitt Romney is campaigning as though he's still the GOP presi- dential front-runner, focusing his criticisms on President Barack Obama, taking few risks and keep- ing most proposals vague enough to leave ample maneuvering room. That may change soon, however, as events shift the contest to a higher gear. September will bring several GOP debates that will include Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the first time, as well as renewed attention to the question of how to create desperately needed jobs. 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He took a cautious stand on climate change, down- played GOP differences on jobs policies, and shrugged off suggestions that Perry may have over- taken him. US destroying millions of court records CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. officials are destroy- ing millions of paper fed- eral court documents to save storage costs, but the effort is raising the ire of historians and others who rely the records. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration says more than 10 million bankrupt- cy case files and several million district court files from 1970 through 1995 will be destroyed. Cornell Law School professor Theodore Eisenberg says it's often those mundane records with no clear historical significance that are criti- cal to establishing legal trends and court policy. Chicago-based private detective Don Haworth says records from those years can be a ''gold mine.'' Archives official Mar- vin Kabakoff tells The Associated Press he sym- pathizes but says keeping the records is unrealistic. He says digitizing the bankruptcy cases alone would cost tens of mil- lions of dollars. Feds ask to dismiss case against Kansas man WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to dismiss all charges against a Kansas man convicted of lying to U.S. immigration officials about his whereabouts during the 1994 Rwandan mass killings, ending a case that was the first in the nation to require proof of genocide. Prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Monti Belot to set aside Lazare Kobagaya's visa fraud conviction and dismiss a charge of lying during his citizenship application. Jurors earlier this year found that Kobagaya, 84, of Topeka lied on immi- gration forms about where he was at the time of the genocide, but said the government did not prove he took part in the atrocities. They hung on the second count related to lying on his citizenship application. In their motion, prose- cutors said that they have identified a potential issue with the jury instructions and witness information that likely would warrant a new trial even on the single count for which Kobagaya was convicted. ''Based on the totality of circumstances in this case, including the sub- stantial resources required to continue to litigate this matter and the jury's ver- dict in the first trial, the Government has deter- mined it would not seek to retry this case,'' prosecu- tors wrote. In a filing last week, the government first revealed to the court that it inadvertently failed to disclose earlier to the defense information from a consular officer in Kenya who was listed on Kobagaya's immigration application. The consular officer had told prosecu- tors that even if she had known Kobagaya was in Rwanda in 1994, it would not have caused her to inquire further into his application because Kobagaya was a Burundi- an national. Rebels find a album with Condoleezza Rice pictures TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan rebels who took control of Moammar Gadhafi's sprawling com- pound made a surprising discovery in one of the buildings: a photo album with pictures of Con- doleezza Rice. Though maybe the dis- covery isn't that surpris- ing. Over the years, the Libyan leader's com- ments and actions related to the former secretary of state have raised a few eyebrows. Consider how he talked about her in an interview with Al-Jazeera television in 2007, where he hinted that then-Presi- dent George W. Bush's Gadhafi and Rice had an opportunity to meet when the secretary of state paid a historic visit to Libya — one that made steps toward normalizing rela- tions after the United States went decades with- out an ambassador in Tripoli. (The U.S. ''does- n't have any permanent enemies,'' she said during the trip.) Grandparents stepping in to help raise grandkids WASHINGTON (AP) — America is swiftly becoming a granny state. Less frail and more involved, today's grand- parents are shunning retirement homes and stepping in more than ever to raise grandchildren while young adults strug- gle in the poor economy. The newer grandpar- ents are mainly baby boomers who are still working, with greater dis- posable income. Now making up 1 in 4 adults, grandparents are growing at twice the rate of the overall population and sticking close to family — if their grandkids aren't already living with them. Grandparents in recent decades have often filled in for absent parents who were ill or battled addic- tion, or were sent to prison. The latest trend of grandparent involvement, reflected in census figures released Thursday, is now being driven also by the economy and the graying U.S. population, including the 78 million boomers born between 1946 and 1964 who began turning 65 this year. ''We help out in terms of running errands, babysitting, taking the grandkids to doctors' appointments, and for back-to-school shop- ping,'' said Doug Flock- hart of Exeter, N.H., list- ing some of the activities that he and his wife, Eileen, do for their five kids and seven grandchil- dren. But that's just the start. They also pitch in with health care payments for family members due to insurance gaps, and their pace of activity has picked up substantially since their daughter, who lives three blocks away, gave birth to her first child this month. Flock- hart, a retired architect, likes the family time even if he and his wife worry about their grandkids' futures. Their oldest grandchild is 16.