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BP: Crews lifting device from Gulf face delay (AP)

    

The Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer is lifted onto the deck of the Helix Q4000 in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece evidence is secure aboard a ship.





Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP)

    

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."





JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good (AP)

    

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2010 file photo, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater leaves a correctional facility in the Bronx after posting bail in New York.  JetBlue Airways says that there will be no second exits for Slater, who captured the nation's imagination with his profanity-laced loudspeaker tirade and jump down a plane's emergency chute, beer in hand. Spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 that Slater is no longer employed by the airline.   (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)AP - Sometimes there's no going back.





5 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

    AP - A suicide car-bomber killed five soldiers and wounded 40 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.


French bid to ban veils worries allies, tourists (AP)

    

In this photo taken Aug. 6, 2010, a veiled woman walks past luxury shops in the so-called Golden Triangle, a high-priced shopping district centered around the Champs-Elysees Avenue, in Paris. A bill to outlaw face veils, aimed at upholding French values but with international implications, is expected to win Senate approval this month. If it passes this key hurdle, French diplomats will have their work cut out for them, ensuring the ban doesn't alienate governments, deter devout foreign shoppers loaded with cash, or inspire Islamist terrorists. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Protests in Pakistan, al-Qaida warnings, skittish Muslim tourists: France's plan to do away with burqa-style veils is already reverberating far beyond its borders.





NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line (AP)

    

A person cycles past a damaged road near the Avon River following Saturday's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The quake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city also ripped a new 11-foot- (3.5 meter-) wide fault in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander)  **NEW ZEALAND OUT**AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.





Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes (AP)

    

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2008 file photo, then-Ohio Congressional candidate John Boccieri is seen in Wooster, Ohio. Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot 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 here in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)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.





Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP)

    

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.





Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle (AP)

    

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 ambush of Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.





LSU holds on against short-handed Tar Heels 30-24 (AP)

    

LSU linebacker Stefoin Francois, left, breaks up a touchdown pass attempt to North Carolina tight end Zack Pianalto on the final play of the game during a NCAA college football game at the Georgia Dome on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, in Atlanta. LSU defeated North Carolina 30-24. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)AP - With the NCAA lurking around Chapel Hill and some of its best players sitting in the stands, North Carolina found itself in a most improbable position.









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