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  • Obama implores minister to call off Quran burning (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:17:09 GMT

     

    AP - President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to \"listen to those better angels\" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.
  • Storm that killed 2 in Texas continues north (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:02:48 GMT

     

    Visitors to Salado, Texas snap photos of a submerged truck under the main street bridge on Wednesday morning, Sept. 8, 2010 as waters begin to receed from excessive rainfall caused by Tropical Storm Hermine. (AP Photo/Temple Daily Telegram, Rusty Schramm) MANDATORY CREDIT; TV OUTAP - The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine trekked northward after forcing more than 100 high-water rescues in Texas, swamping streets, producing several tornadoes and killing at least two people.


  • PROMISES, PROMISES: FAA fatigue rules finally near (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:48:49 GMT

     

    FILE - This Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, a plane burns after it crashed into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y. After a regional airliner crashed in western New York a year and a half ago killing 50 people, Obama administration officials vowed to take swift action to prevent similar tragedies. High on their list: new rules governing the hours pilots may work, to prevent tired flight crews from making fatal errors. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)AP - After a regional airliner crashed in western New York a year and a half ago, killing 50 people, the Obama administration promised swift action to prevent similar tragedies. High on the list: new rules governing the number of hours pilots may work, to prevent tired flight crews from making fatal errors.


  • Suicide attack in Russia kills 15, wounds over 100 (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:12:08 GMT

     

    AP - A suicide car bomber hit the central market of a major city in Russia's North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least 15 and wounding more than 100 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said.
  • Dynasty speculation on North Korea's founding day (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:48:57 GMT

     

    A tourist looks at a poster of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, painted by North Korean defector Sun Moo, at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. North Korea requested a shipment of rice, cement and heavy equipment days after South Korea offered relief aid to its communist neighbor to help it recover from recent flooding, the Unification Ministry said Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - North Korea celebrated its 62nd anniversary Thursday with odes to supreme leader Kim Jong Il and pilgrimages to his late father's statue amid hints that a political meeting believed aimed at promoting his son as successor is imminent.


  • Laura Bush to speak at 9/11 memorial fundraiser (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:08 GMT

     

    FILE - A Sept. 11, 2009 file photo shows a wooden cross with other mementos at the temporary memorial for United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Just $40 million of the $58 million needed for the memorial has been raised, and the first phase of the project is scheduled to be dedicated in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks next year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/file)AP - Former first lady Laura Bush will speak at a National Park Service fundraiser in Pittsburgh on Friday, a day before joining Michelle Obama in rural Pennsylvania to remember the victims of Flight 93, which crashed there in the Sept. 11 attacks.


  • Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950 (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:19 GMT

     

    Vehicles sit in traffic on the Croatan Highway as people evacuate the Outer Banks area in Southern Shores, North Carolina. Hurricane Earl bore down on a vast stretch of the US East Coast on Thursday, as tens of thousands of people fled North Carolina's barrier islands to avoid dangerous winds and surf.(AFP/Getty Images/Mark Wilson)AP - The number of people dying on the nation's roads has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, helped by a combination of seat belts, safer cars and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.


  • Crews contain 10 percent of Colorado wildfire (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:38 GMT

     

    A tanker flies through smoke as a wildfire burns outside of Boulder, Colo. on Wednesday Sept. 8, 2010. Firefighters encountered a tangle of rattlesnakes, downed power lines and combustible propane tanks Wednesday as they struggled to get an upper hand on a wildfire that has destroyed dozens of homes.(AP Photo/Matt McClain)AP - As thousands of people waited to learn if their homes survived a raging Colorado wildfire, Dan Hackett hiked a second time behind roadblocks to make sure his house near boulder was still standing.


  • APNewsBreak: Spears' ex disputes abuse claims (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:49:58 GMT

     

    FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, Britney Spears arrives at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - An attorney for Britney Spears' ex-husband called child abuse claims leveled at the singer by a former bodyguard baseless and motivated by money.


  • Federer fights off wind to reach US Open semis (AP)
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:50:20 GMT

     

    Roger Federer, of Switzerland, returns a shot to Robin Soderling, of Sweden, during a quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - On a wind-swept day at the U.S. Open that had everyone complaining about the conditions, Roger Federer simply embraced them.


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