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House passes housing bill; Bush lifts veto threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives passed a massive housing rescue bill on Wednesday while the White House dropped a threat to veto it, paving the way for measures aimed at shoring up the worst U.S. housing market since the Great Depression. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/topNews?a=tW0BYS"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/topNews?i=tW0BYS" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=fWqsLJ"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=fWqsLJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=ZY88Oj"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=ZY88Oj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=tjCkFj"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=tjCkFj" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/343117330" height="1" width="1"/>

Obama leads McCain by 6 points: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a 6-point lead over Republican John McCain in the presidential race as a growing percentage of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday. <p><a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/topNews?a=0bpeUH"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~a/reuters/topNews?i=0bpeUH" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=E5PyCJ"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=E5PyCJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=nhjK8j"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=nhjK8j" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=t01xjj"><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=t01xjj" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/344067897" height="1" width="1"/>

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1974: Nixon 'must hand over Watergate tapes'
The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.

2000: Loyalist killer Michael Stone freed from Maze
Loyalist paramilitary hitman Michael Stone is released from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

1987: Archer wins record damages
Former deputy chair of the Conservative Party Jeffrey Archer is awarded record libel damages at the High Court.

1959: Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words
Russia's prime minister and America's vice-president fight a battle of words at an American exhibition in Moscow.

1969: Briton freed from Soviet prison
British lecturer Gerald Brooke is returned to London after four years in a Soviet jail.