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Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall (SPACE.com)

September 5, 2010

SPACE.com - As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes.

AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins (AP)

September 5, 2010

AP - Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.

Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident (AP)

September 5, 2010

AP - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.

For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other (AP)

September 5, 2010

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.

Irreverent Cuban movie promises zombie revolution (AP)

September 5, 2010

AP - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?

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

September 5, 2010

AP - 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.

Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP)

September 5, 2010

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."

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

September 5, 2010

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.

Analysis: Special-ops on show to woo war skeptics (AP)

September 5, 2010

AP - The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years â special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents â to try to convince skeptics the war can be won.

Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP)

September 5, 2010

AP - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago.