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Hurricanes storm past Oilers to win NHL Stanley Cup
AFP   Tuesday, 20 June 2006

Rod Brind'Amour of the Carolina Hurricanes celebrates with the Stanley Cup after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in game seven of the 2006 NHL Stanley Cup Finals at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Hurricanes defeated the Oilers 3-1 to win the Stanley Cup finals 4 games to 3.(AFP/Getty Images/Grant Halverson)AFP - Rookie sensation Cam Ward made 22 saves as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-1 to win the first National Hockey League Stanley Cup in franchise history.


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Thousands of cars flooded by Katrina towed
AP   Tuesday, 20 June 2006

A car destroyed by Hurricane Katrina is removed from New Orleans Monday June 19, 2006.  DRC Recovery Services hauled away 100 cars in the first three hours and speculate they will be about to remove 300-400 a day. It is estimated that 100,000 flooded cars in the Southern Louisiana area. These cars were originally towed to  the underpass clearing city streets after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and are now being removed to a staging area. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)AP - A forklift raised a muddy and battered car from beneath an interstate overpass Monday morning, marking the start of the cleanup of some 100,000 vehicles flooded by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.


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IRS eases hurricane taxpayers' deadlines
AP   Tuesday, 20 June 2006
AP - Taxpayers still cleaning up from last summer's hurricanes got some help from the IRS on Monday with their tax deadlines and loss calculations.
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La. faces battle against Mother Nature
AP   Friday, 16 June 2006
AP - Last year's hurricanes showed that nearly every part of Louisiana's long, circuitous and sinking coast is vulnerable to catastrophic flooding similar to what happened here.
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La. fights uphill battle to save coast
AP   Friday, 16 June 2006
AP - Last year's hurricanes showed that nearly every part of Louisiana's long, circuitous and sinking coast is vulnerable to catastrophic flooding similar to what happened here.
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Senate sends Bush $94.5B for Iraq, Katrina
AP   Friday, 16 June 2006
AP - The Senate Thursday sent President Bush a $94.5 billion emergency spending bill, meeting his funding requests for America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and providing new aid to Gulf Coast hurricane victims.
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Bush signs $94.5 bln war, hurricane funding bill
Reuters   Friday, 16 June 2006

U.S. soldiers hold flags during a ceremony marking the United States Army's 231st birthday, at the Bagram airbase, north of Kabul June 14, 2006. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters)Reuters - President Bush on Thursday signed into law a $94.5 billion compromise emergency bill to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and to rebuild after last year's hurricanes along the U.S. Gulf Coast.


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New Orleans seen a boom town as storm aid arrives
Reuters   Friday, 16 June 2006

A construction workers carries his equipment on Canal St. in the CBD of New Orleans, June 15, 2006. (Sean Gardner/Reuters)Reuters - The devastation of New Orleans has made the city a modern American tragedy to many, but billions of aid dollars about to flow may transform the city known as the "Big Easy" into a boom town.


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Senate poised to pass $94.5B spending bill
AP   Thursday, 15 June 2006
AP - The Senate is poised to send President Bush an emergency spending bill meeting his funding requests for America's two ongoing wars and aid to Gulf Coast hurricane victims.
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FEMA official casts doubt on GAO study
AP   Thursday, 15 June 2006

A survivor of Hurricane Katrina holds  a debit card from FEMA  outside the Reliant Center in Houston in this Sept. 9, 2005 file photo. The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, getting hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP - A FEMA official angered lawmakers Wednesday, after she cast doubt on a congressional study that concluded up to $1.4 billion of the individual aid doled out after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was spent for bogus reasons.


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HUD to reopen more New Orleans housing
AP   Thursday, 15 June 2006
AP - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday that it will reopen 1,000 additional New Orleans public housing units this summer and increase the amount it pays for rental assistance to help bring the city's poor people back.
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