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Weakened Earl hits Mass. with wind, rain, surf (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:15:01 GMT
The Chatham Lighthouse, situated at a working U.S. Coast Guard Station, casts its beam into a foggy evening, in Chatham, Mass., on Cape Cod, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Hurricane Earl is expected to arrive at Cape Cod late Friday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The remnants of Hurricane Earl dumped wind-driven rain on Cape Cod's gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages Friday night, but its close brush with the Northeast was less intense than feared only hours earlier.
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Report: Blackwater created shell companies (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:07:39 GMT
FILE - In a Monday, July 21, 2008 file photo, Blackwater Worldwide's headquarters is seen in Moyock, N.C. The New York Times is reporting that the security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to get government business after the company faced strong criticism for its conduct in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)AP - The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday.
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BP: Failed blowout preventer removed from well (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:40:41 GMT
FILE - In this July 14, 2010 combination of two file photos made from images taken from video provided by BP PLC oil flows from two of three valves on the new 75-ton cap atop the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at 17:04 CDT, left, and the top of the cap at 14:27 CDT on  July 15, minutes after the flow of oil was choked off. Engineers plan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 to delicately remove the cap as a prelude to raising the massive piece of equipment underneath that failed to prevent the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Plans were being made for oil collection vessels to be on standby in case of a problem. (AP Photo/BP PLC, File) NO SALESAP - BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

Body of son of boxing promoter found in Cascades (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:45:06 GMT
AP - Searchers spotted the body of the son of Hall of Fame boxing promoter Bob Arum on a rugged Washington state mountainside Friday afternoon, five days after they began looking for him in North Cascades National Park, authorities said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_sp_bo_ne/box_arum_missing_son

New Zealand skydiving plane crashes; 9 die (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:23:53 GMT
AP - Nine people have died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company burst into flames and crashed Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_re_as/as_new_zealand_plane_crash

Powerful 7.1 quake hits New Zealand's South Island (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:11:47 GMT
A police officer is seen on a street blocked by rubble from a damaged building following a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in central Christchurch, New Zealand, early Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday. No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries, but looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander) ** NEW ZEALAND OUT **AP - A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand's South Island early Saturday, but there were so far no deaths and only two injuries reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_re_as/as_new_zealand_earthquake

Clinton: Time is now for Mideast peace (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:21:06 GMT
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looks on as she hosted the re-launch of direct negotiations, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at the State Department in Washington\. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_mideast_talks

Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:25:47 GMT
Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer  waits for a televised Arizona gubernatorial debate to begin Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_el_gu/us_arizona_governor

Bristol Palin tells Leno 'Dancing' choice was easy (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:19 GMT
FILE -  In this May 6, 2009 file photo, Bristol Palin, daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, arrives at an event to promote National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day in New York.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - Bristol Palin said she didn't think twice before waltzing into "Dancing with the Stars," though she's barely danced in her life.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100904/ap_on_en_tv/us_leno_bristol_palin

Nadal beats Istomin; reaches 3rd round of US Open (AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:53:40 GMT
Rafael Nadal, of Spain, pumps his fist and yells after winning a point against Denis Istomin, of Uzbekistan, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - Even Rafael Nadal felt compelled to applaud when his second-round opponent at the U.S. Open hit a spectacular, full-sprint winner and was left doing the splits at the net.
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