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Obama says voters may blame him for economy (AP)

September 10, 2010

President Barack Obama attends Milwaukee Laborfest event in Wisconsin to celebrate Labor Day September 6, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningAP - President Barack Obama insisted Friday that the U.S. economy is digging itself out of the deepest recession in decades but conceded that "progress has been painfully slow" and many voters in November's elections may blame him.


9/11 politicized by mosque, Quran controversies (AP)

September 10, 2010

In this Aug. 13, 2010 photo, construction cranes tower above One World Trade Center in New York. On Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, the nation will observe the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - For almost a decade, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked by somber reflection and a call to unity, devoid of politics. Not this time.


Police: Feuds led Pa. woman to shoot colleagues (AP)

September 10, 2010

Police gather at the scene of a workplace shooting at the Kraft Foods Inc. facility in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday Sept. 9, 2010.  (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - A Kraft Foods plant worker was suspended from her job because she was feuding with colleagues, then returned minutes later with a handgun and fatally shot two of them and critically wounded a third, police said Friday.


Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium (AP)

September 10, 2010

File - In this Sunday, April 3, 2005 file photo Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels leans on his staff while leading a memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II, at the St. Michael church in Brussels. On Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 a Belgian commission looking into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it has received testimony from hundreds of victims and that witnesses say widespread abuse over decades led to at least 13 suicides. Cardinal Godfried Danneels, acknowledged Wednesday that damage control often took precedence over concerns for victims in sexual abuse cases involving clergy. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)AP - Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.


Japan missing more than 230K listed centenarians (AP)

September 10, 2010

AP - More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday.

Spanish miners in Day 9 of underground protest (AP)

September 10, 2010

Miners read newspapers and magazines inside Las Cuevas mine near the town of Velilla del Rio Carrion, northern Spain, on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Fifty Spanish coal miners 1,640 feet (500 meters) underground are staging the ninth day of a strike over unpaid wages and government aid to the coal industry. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels — but by their own choice.


New FAA rules would mean fewer hours for sleepy pilots (AP)

September 10, 2010

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, the wreckage of Continental flight 3407 lies amid smoke at the scene after crashing into a suburban Buffalo home and erupting into flames. After a regional airliner crashed in western New York a year and a half ago killing 50 people, Obama administration officials vowed to take swift action to prevent similar tragedies. High on their list: new rules governing the hours pilots may work, to prevent tired flight crews from making fatal errors. (AP Photo/Dave Sherman, File)AP - Some airline pilots would fly fewer hours and others would fly longer under a government proposal Friday to help prevent dangerous fatigue.


DiCaprio granted 3 years' protection from woman (AP)

September 10, 2010

FILE - In this July 21, 2010 file photo, actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers during a news conference for  'Inception' in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, file)AP - A judge has granted Leonardo DiCaprio a three-year restraining order from a woman who he said claims to be his wife and carrying his baby.


Brady OKs contract to become NFL's top paid player (AP)

September 10, 2010

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) stretches before practice begins at the NFL football team's facility in Foxborough, Mass., Thursday afternoon, Sept. 9, 2010. Brady was in a two-car accident near his home on Thursday morning but was unhurt. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A day that started badly for Tom Brady turned out to be a pretty good one after all. After a morning crash left Brady's car damaged but the New England Patriots quarterback unhurt, he came to terms on a contract that will make him the highest paid player in the NFL.


Obama says Koran burning can badly damage U.S. abroad (Reuters)

September 10, 2010

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday he hoped a Florida pastor would drop a plan to burn Korans on U.S. soil, saying such an act could deeply harm the United States abroad.

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