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in: Technology
 Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown - at: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:00:06 GMT  [ AP ]
in: Sports
 Federer beats the heat, Beck; Soderling looms - at: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:24:35 GMT  [ AP ]
in: Entertainment
 Rapper T.I. comeback could be derailed with arrest - at: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:26:19 GMT  [ AP ]
in: Business
 Stocks rise on economic hopes ahead of payrolls - at: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:45:00 GMT  [ Reuters ]
in: Politics
 Israel and Palestinians agree to more peace meetings - at: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:40:40 GMT  [ Reuters ]
in: Science
 Earl's path along northeast is not well-worn - at: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:48:04 GMT  [ AP ]
1.Oil platform explodes off La. coast; crew rescued
 
AP - An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:15:18 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 21 minutes ago
2.Earl weakens, still powerful, headed to NC
 
AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Earl has weakened to a Category 2 storm though they warn it is still powerful as it heads toward North Carolina and the Eastern Seaboard.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:14:35 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 22 minutes ago
3.Wash. woman in acid attack recounts agonizing pain
 
AP - Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:26:48 GMT [ AP ] 21 hours, 10 minutes ago
4.Arizona governor stumbles during debate
 
AP - It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:27:50 GMT [ AP ] 21 hours, 9 minutes ago
5.Police: Discovery Channel hostages planned escape
 
AP - Police had been negotiating with James Jae Lee for several hours and intended to keep him talking for as long as it took to safely resolve the standoff at the Discovery Channel's headquarters. Inside the lobby, Lee's three hostages had no intention of waiting.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:52:29 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 44 minutes ago
6.Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe
 
AP - The Justice Department sued the nation's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" on Thursday, calling Joe Arpaio's defiance of an investigation into his office's alleged discrimination against Hispanics "unprecedented."
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:49:50 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 47 minutes ago
7.Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks
 
AP - To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:06:52 GMT [ AP ] 30 minutes ago
8.Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles
 
AP - The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site still have financial hurdles to clear: They haven't finished buying all the property they want for the project and are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:04:48 GMT [ AP ] 21 hours, 32 minutes ago
9.Chicago gangs to top cop: You're not playing fair
 
AP - Calling the Chicago police chief's ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city's most notorious street gangs held an unlikely news conference on Thursday to send their own message to police: You're not playing fair.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:06:23 GMT [ AP ] 21 hours, 30 minutes ago
10.Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail
 
AP - The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:26:09 GMT [ AP ] 10 minutes ago
11.Judge punishes Michigan juror for Facebook post
 
AP - A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a jury for commenting about the ongoing case on Facebook has a longer writing task ahead: a five-page essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:44:30 GMT [ AP ] 6 hours, 52 minutes ago
12.Temporary cap that stopped oil gusher removed
 
AP - Engineers removed a temporary cap Thursday that stopped oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well in mid-July. No more oil was expected to leak into the sea, but crews were standing by with collection vessels just in case.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:55:01 GMT [ AP ] 22 hours, 42 minutes ago
13.Army: Chaplain is 1st killed in action since '70
 
AP - A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:56:27 GMT [ AP ] 23 hours, 40 minutes ago
14.Embattled Illinois prisons chief resigns
 
AP - Illinois' prison chief, who became a political liability to Gov. Pat Quinn during an election year because of a secret prisoner release program he oversaw, is stepping down, the governor said Thursday.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:08:48 GMT [ AP ] 22 hours, 28 minutes ago
15.Attorney accused in prison drug-smuggling case
 
AP - An FBI agent says an Illinois defense attorney facing federal charges that he tried to smuggle a heroin-filled condom into an Indiana federal prison claims to have done it repeatedly, exploiting greater privacy privileges lawyers are afforded in the lockups.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:57:24 GMT [ AP ] 39 minutes ago
16.Fired aide to ex-Mo. gov runs for gov's dad's seat
 
AP - It's been three years since Scott Eckersley was fired after asserting that his then-boss, former Gov. Matt Blunt, and others in Blunt's administration should not be deleting certain e-mails because they belonged to the public record.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:57:19 GMT [ AP ] 4 hours, 39 minutes ago
17.Mariner Energy shares fall after platform blast
 
AP - Mariner Energy, Inc. shares dropped more than 4 percent Thursday following news that one of its production platforms exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:42:17 GMT [ AP ] 2 hours, 54 minutes ago
18.Senate upset erases Alaska seniority
 
AP - The defeat of Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski by an upstart fiscal conservative in Alaska's GOP primary could mark a significant shift for a state that has so long relied on federal pork to survive. The outcome was also an unexpected blow to the seniority Alaska has enjoyed in the Senate.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:43:00 GMT [ AP ] 11 hours, 54 minutes ago
19.McCourt: Wife didn't risk of being a Dodgers owner
 
AP - Former Dodger CEO Jamie McCourt didn't want to take the risk associated with buying the Los Angeles Dodgers six years ago and if she had, it would have adversely affected the team, her estranged husband testified Thursday at their divorce trial.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:17:49 GMT [ AP ] 19 minutes ago
20.Co-worker: Suspect's girlfriend alive during chase
 
AP - The co-worker of a woman found dead in her boyfriend's car after a fatal California police chase said Thursday that she spoke with the victim during the pursuit.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:42:24 GMT [ AP ] 22 hours, 54 minutes ago

 
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