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• BP: Crews lifting device from Gulf face delay (AP)      Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:24:17 GMT

In this image taken from video provided by BP  PLC at 12:23 a.m. EDT, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 Aug. 3, 2010 shows the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico being raised to the surface. The blowout preventer wasn't expected to reach the surface until Saturday, at which point government investigators will take possession of it. (AP Photo/BP PLC) NO SALESAP - Investigators may now be able to answer the most elusive question since a rig explosion unleashed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill more than four months ago, as they get a close-up view of a key piece of equipment for the first time.




• Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:40:14 GMT

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark stands in front of the Craigslist office in San Francisco, California in 2006. Online classifieds website Craigslist has blocked US access to its AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."




• Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:26:21 GMT

Job seekers wait in line to show their resumes to potential employers at a career fair in Denver, Colorado. US unemployment jumped to 9.6 percent in August, the Labor Department said, as most analysts had predicted.(AFP/Getty Images/John Moore)AP - Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs — or know someone who has — now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections.




• Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:01:20 GMT

From left in the canoe, Lexi Olson, 12, Petunia the pug, Corey Olsen, 9, and Amber Racette, 13, and in the water, Bennett Hartley, 7, and sister Ella, all of Brewster, Mass., enjoy what the neighborhood jokingly calls 'Lake Leona' after Leona Terrace was flooded by Tropical Storm Earl in Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. According to residents, the road frequently floods during major storms but this is the highest they've seen it.  (AP Photo/Julia Cumes)AP - In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.




• For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:56:09 GMT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo, demonstrators hold up signs during a news conference on the step of New York's City Hall. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.




• Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:15:30 GMT

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Huntington Library/Independent Television Service shows cartoonist Paul Conrad at his drawing board. Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, died Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 of natural causes at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.  (AP Photo/Huntington Library/Independent Television Service, File) NO SALESAP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.




• Shoes, eggs hurled at ex-Brit PM Blair in Dublin (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:09:03 GMT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, attends a public book signing, with Conor Whelen, Managing Director of Eason book store, in Dublin, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. Anti-war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair as he arrived for his first public signing of his fast-selling memoir. (AP Photo/Niall Carson, pool)AP - Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed — evidence that the divisions left by Blair's decade as British leader have yet to heal.




• Many desperate Pakistanis still wait for flood aid (AP)      Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:31:46 GMT

A Pakistani family displaced by floods prepares to cross a flooded road as the rain falls,  in Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab Province, Pakistan, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. More than 3 million people have yet to receive desperately needed food aid, according to the U.N., and the Pakistani government says nearly 1 million people have received no help of any sort. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.




• Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle (AP)      Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:19:37 GMT

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2009 file photo, singer Kanye West takes the microphone from singer Taylor Swift as she accepts the 'Best Female Video' award during the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year, and he’s expressing his pain all over Twitter. West has unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, acknowledging he was wrong for taking an award from the country sweetheart at the MTV Video Music Awards. But he says he 'bled hard.' He says he had to cancel his tour with Lady Gaga and even lost employees. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)AP - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.




• Snedeker is leading in Boston; Woods shoots 65 (AP)      Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:07:07 GMT

Tiger Woods makes a birdie putt on the seventh hole during the second round at the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament at TPC Boston, in Norton, Mass., Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)AP - About the only thing fun for Jason Day was being atop the leaderboard in the Deutsche Bank Championship.