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to developing nuclear weapons. The Senate opened debate on legislation creating a new Homeland Security Department.
• Five years ago: Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, went missing after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada. (The wreckage of the plane and traces of his remains were found more than a year later.) President George W. Bush, accompanied by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, paid a surprise visit to Iraq, where he was briefed by U.S. military commanders and Iraqi leaders. Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened in 1914. Jerry Lewis raised nearly $64 million during his annual Labor Day Telethon.
• One year ago: A judge in North Carolina sentenced Robert Stewart to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing eight people at a rural nursing home in 2009. The Vatican vigorously rejected accusations it had sabotaged efforts by Irish bishops to report priests who sexually abused children to police.
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• Today's Birthdays: "Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Mort Walker is 89. Actress Anne Jackson is 86. Actress Eileen Brennan is 80. Country singer Tompall Glaser is 79. Actress Pauline Collins is 72. Rock singer-musician Al Jardine is 70. Actress Valerie Perrine is 69. Rock musician Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) is 64. Rock guitarist Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols) is 57. Actor Steve Schirripa is 55. Actor Holt McCallany is 48. Rock singer-musician Todd Lewis is 47. Actor Charlie Sheen is 47. Singer Jennifer Paige is 39. Dance-rock musician Redfoo (LMFAO) is 37. Actress Ashley Jones is 36. Actress Nichole Hiltz is 34. Actor Nick Wechsler is 34. Actor Garrett Hedlund is 28. Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White is 26.
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• Thought for Today: "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." -- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962).
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