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Earl weakens to Category 1, heads for Northeast (AP)
09/03/2010 11:38 AM

Debris covers the road along the beach in south Nags Head, N.C., Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 after wind and rain from Hurricane Earl passed through overnight. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday, flooding the vacation islands but causing no injuries and only modest damage, then took aim at New England as a weaker but still dangerous storm.






Companies add 67K workers, but jobless rate rises (AP)
09/03/2010 10:24 AM

In this Aug. 25, 2010 photograph, job seekers including Lindsey Wright, of Detroit, center, attend a job fair in Southfield, Mich. On Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. EDT, the Labor Department issues the August unemployment report. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, a glimmer of hope for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose because not enough jobs were created to absorb the growing number of people looking for work.






Airport official: plane crashes outside Dubai (AP)
09/03/2010 11:45 AM
AP - An aircraft believed to be a cargo plane crashed Friday outside Dubai, an airport official said. There was no immediate word on casualties.



Pakistan Taliban say their bomber kills 43 Shiites (AP)
09/03/2010 12:12 PM

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF QUT111** People who were injured by an explosion lie down on road during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed a score of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan on Friday. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country battered by massive flooding.






Police release scientist in Miami airport scare (AP)
09/03/2010 11:45 AM

Passengers sleep and sit on the curbside at concourse J after being evacuated from the terminal at Miami International Airport in Miami, early Friday morning, Sept. 3, 2010. A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item. Several flights were diverted to other parts of the terminal.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - Investigators on Friday released a scientist detained at Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a senior law enforcement official.






Gates sees progress in tour of Afghan war zone (AP)
09/03/2010 10:07 AM

U.S. Marines in the background provide security as a Marine and a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow flight medic, right, rush a Marine wounded in an explosive attack across a  field to a medevac helicopter, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he saw and heard evidence that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.






Small signal, big meaning? Castro in military duds (AP)
09/03/2010 10:06 AM

Cuba's leader Fidel Castro delivers a speech to students outside Havana's University in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Castro dusted off his military fatigues for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a Communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Fidel Castro dusted off his full military uniform for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.






Clams befouling Tahoe invade Adirondack lake in NY (AP)
09/03/2010 12:07 PM

In this Aug. 30, 2010 photo, Dan Marelli, of Tallahassee, Fla., a biologist and scuba diver specializing in mollusks, holds Asian clams found in Lake George, in Bolton Landing, N.Y. Scientists consider the clams arrival a stroke of bad luck that could cause ecological and economic harm. They hope to smother the rapidly reproducing mollusks before they spread. (AP Photo/Mary Esch)AP - A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters.






Brooks & Dunn end 20-year career at Nashville show (AP)
09/03/2010 10:25 AM

FILE - In a April 19, 2010 file photo, Kix Brooks, left, and Ronnie Dunn accept the ACM Milestone Award during “The Last Rodeo” tribute concert, in Las Vegas. The country music duo closed out a 20-year career at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Thursday night, Sept. 3, 2010 with their 1991 debut single, 'Brand New Man,' during the encore.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)AP - The first song Brooks & Dunn ever sang together has become their last.






Roethlisberger suspension reduced to 4 games (AP)
09/03/2010 11:44 AM

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger stands on the sidelines at the end of the first quarter against the Carolina Panthers during NFL preseason football game action in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Roethlisberger played for most of the first quarter in the Steelers' 19-3 win.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - Ben Roethlisberger's suspension has been cut from six games to four by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The Pittsburgh Steelers' star quarterback met with Goodell early Friday and was told he could return on Oct. 17 against Cleveland.






Obama says to address new economic ideas next week (Reuters)
09/03/2010 11:40 AM

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the latest employment statistics released on Friday, alongside Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in the Rose Garden of the White House, September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama will outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy after August data on Friday showed again that jobs -- the central issue in November elections -- were being created too slowly.






Strong 7.4 quake hits New Zealand near Christchurch (Reuters)
09/03/2010 11:57 AM
Reuters - A strong earthquake of 7.4 magnitude hit New Zealand, just 4 miles southeast of Christchurch, in the middle of the night local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said Friday.



U.S. and Israel spying behind BlackBerry woe: Dubai police (Reuters)
09/03/2010 09:30 AM

A family walks past a display of a BlackBerry smart phone at a shopping mall in Dubai August 1, 2010. REUTERS/Mosab OmarReuters - Concerns over Israeli access to BlackBerry data, and the use of the device by the United States to spy on the United Arab Emirates are behind the Gulf state's moves to curb the smartphone, Dubai's police chief said.






Pakistan Taliban threaten attacks in U.S., Europe (Reuters)
09/03/2010 11:45 AM
Reuters - Pakistan's Taliban on Friday threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon" and dismissed a move by Washington to add the group to its terrorism blacklist.



Private hiring surprises with 67,000 new jobs (Reuters)
09/03/2010 10:10 AM

A home for sale is seen in Great Falls, Virginia August 23, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - U.S. employment fell for a third straight month in August, but the drop was far less than expected and private hiring surprised on the upside, easing pressure on the Federal Reserve to prop up economic growth.






Hurricane Earl swipes U.S. east but no big hit (Reuters)
09/03/2010 11:54 AM

Dianna Lesiewicz (L) watches her twin boys Paul and Bode play in a pool of water in front of the Atlantic Ocean as the area awaits Hurricane Earl in Nags Head, North Carolina September 2, 2010. REUTERS/Richard ClementReuters - Hurricane Earl slapped North Carolina's coast with rain, winds and heavy surf on Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a much tamer storm than feared.






Pakistan's Taliban threaten attacks in U.S., Europe (Reuters)
09/03/2010 12:13 PM

Volunteers help injured men to an ambulance from the site of a suicide attack during a Shi'ite procession in Quetta September 3, 2010. REUTERS/Rizwan SaeedReuters - Pakistan's Taliban threatened on Friday to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon."






Corrected: An outgunned FDA tries to get tough with drug ads (Reuters)
09/03/2010 12:09 PM

Tom Abrams (R), director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC), talks with co-workers Sheetal Patel (L) and Ernest Voyard (2nd L) about the FDA's enforcement of rules against deceptive pharmaceuticals advertising at FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, June 9, 2010. To drug companies, it is all part of patient education. But consumer advocates, some lawmakers and others see the barrage of ads as a way to push medicines that people may not need as well as raise the nation's overall healthcare costs. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - It wasn't what you would call a casual get-together.






Mideast leaders to hold bimonthly peace talks (AFP)
09/03/2010 06:54 AM

US State Department picture shows Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R rear) and Special Envoy George Mitchell (R) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L rear) and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas at Clinton's office. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to meet every two weeks in a bid to settle core differences within a year.(AFP/US State Department)AFP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be difficult negotiations, vowing to try to settle core differences within a year and meet every two weeks.






Suicide bomber kills 53 at Shiite rally in Pakistan (AFP)
09/03/2010 12:12 PM

Pakistani men help injured blast victims at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Quetta. At least 53 people were killed and 197 wounded on Friday in a suicide bombing targeting a Shiite Muslim rally in the southwestern city of Quetta, police said.(AFP/Banaras Khan)AFP - At least 53 people were killed and 197 wounded on Friday in a suicide bombing targeting a Shiite Muslim rally in the southwestern city of Quetta, police said.