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AP - 41 minutes ago
The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere.
 
  • Colorado fire forced residents to make mad dash
    AP - 1 hour , 9 minutes ago
    David Myers knew it was time to leave when he looked out into the forest and spotted bright red flames towering skyward. Then came a blinding cloud of smoke and a deafening roar as the fire ripped through the wilderness.
  • George Soros gives $100M to Human Rights Watch
    AP - 22 minutes ago
    Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is putting up $100 million, one of the largest donations of its kind, to expand Human Rights Watch and help it court more international support.
  • Flight attendant in passenger tiff to be evaluated
    AP - 31 minutes ago
    The flight attendant accused of onboard antics that captured the nation's attention when he told off a passenger and slid down the plane's emergency chute with a beer will undergo a mental health evaluation with the aim of avoiding jail time in a possible plea deal.
  • Chicago Mayor Daley says he's served his last term
    AP - 1 hour , 28 minutes ago
    Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wielded more control over Chicago than anyone but his father decades before, said Tuesday he will not seek re-election, a surprising end -- at least for now -- of a dynasty whose surname became synonymous with the city's legendary political machine.
  • Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen
    AP - 2 hours , 16 minutes ago
    Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
  • Court: Judges can demand warrant for cell locales
    AP - 2 hours , 4 minutes ago
    Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case.
  • WTC steel column installed at 9/11 museum
    AP - 2 hours , 38 minutes ago
    A salvaged 50-ton steel column was hoisted onto a support structure Tuesday at the World Trade Center site, where it will eventually serve as part of the entryway to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
  • Feds: Army base gunman threatened to kill Obama
    AP - 3 hours , 14 minutes ago
    A former soldier accused of demanding mental treatment as he took hostages at gunpoint at a Georgia Army hospital later told investigators he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Tuesday.
  • 2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth
    AP - 3 hours , 42 minutes ago
    NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.
  • LAPD chief defends deadly shooting
    AP - 4 hours , 50 minutes ago
    Police Chief Charlie Beck on Tuesday defended an officer's shooting of a knife-wielding man whose death sparked a violent protest in which demonstrators pelted police with rocks and bottles.
  • Kansas man charged with murdering burned teen
    AP - 4 hours , 54 minutes ago
    A 36-year-old factory worker who spent much of his adult life in prison was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose badly burned body was found behind gravel piles at the asphalt plant where he worked.
  • Pharmacy heists are up amid popularity of Rx drugs
    AP - 5 hours , 35 minutes ago
    Less than a couple months after Nick Curtin opened a pharmacy in suburban Tulsa in 2008, the store was burglarized twice in one week. And just last year a masked man robbed him at gunpoint, making off with 1,800 pills.
  • Haiti quake survivor returns home after 6 months
    AP - 11 hours , 10 minutes ago
    Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe -- a dead woman lay on his chest. He knew he had to get her off, fast. Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman's own belt and drag her off. But his legs were still pinned.
  • Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip
    AP - 11 hours , 40 minutes ago
    An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday.
  • Wrigley rooftops hurting as Cubs, economy struggle
    AP - 13 hours , 43 minutes ago
    The crowded rooftop bleachers overlooking Wrigley Field stand as proof that no matter how bad the Chicago Cubs played, the ballpark was simply not big enough to hold everyone who wanted to see them play.
  • Boston Dawna, the Batman of Venice Beach, retires
    AP - 14 hours , 48 minutes ago
    Hipsters, hustlers, celebrities, thieves, dope peddlers and just about everyone else in gritty, quirky Venice Beach know Boston Dawna. You can't miss the one-woman crime fighter.

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