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    NYC Trade Center dig exposes Ice Age landscape (AP)

    A U.S. flag flies from a crane over the World Trade Center site September 11, 2008. Today marks the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  REUTERS/Daniel Acker/Pool (UNITED STATES)AP - Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole.


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    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:19:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Police: Pa. landlord spied on female tenants (AP)

    This undated photo submitted by the Montgomery County District Attorney's office shows Thomas Daley, 45, of Phoenixville, Pa. Daley, a suburban Philadelphia landlord, was charged on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008 with secretly videotaping female tenants with cameras hidden in their apartments. (AP Photo/Montgomery County District Attorney)AP - A suburban Philadelphia landlord placed hidden cameras throughout his apartments and secretly videotaped female tenants for years, investigators said Monday.


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    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:43:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Court: US govt can't block detainee photos release (AP)
    AP - The United States cannot conceal pictures of abusive treatment of detainees by its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by saying their release might cause enemies to hurt someone, a federal appeals court said Monday in ordering the release of 21 photographs. -- read full article
    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:43:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Boaters idle on swollen rivers in Ike's aftermath (AP)
    AP - Ron Gumm has made the best of 10 days spent with his apartment-like boat docked near here — taking in museums, scenic drives, eateries and, of course, the Gateway Arch — but he was eager to head down the Mississippi River. -- read full article
    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:11:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Protesters set up camp outside Florida mom's home (AP)

    Bystanders and reporters gather outside the home of Casey Anthony, mother of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, after Casey Anthony was released on bail in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Each night about a dozen protestors plant lawn chairs across the street from the home of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, demanding a confession from her mother and grandparents. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)AP - Each night, a half dozen protesters plant lawn chairs across the street from the home of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony, demanding a confession from her mother and grandparents. "Baby killer," one woman's sign reads. "My mommy did it!" reads another.


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    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:10:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Witnesses conflicted on whether Simpson saw gun (AP)

    Thomas Riccio testifies during O.J. Simpson's trial in Las Vegas, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. (AP Photo/John Locher, Pool)AP - Two key witnesses in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery trial contradicted each other Monday, one saying Simpson probably did not see guns during the confrontation and the other saying he heard someone, possibly Simpson, say: "Put the gun away."


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    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:21:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Alamo denies fostering marriages among young (AP)

    A child walks towards the door of the Tony Alamo Christian Church in Fouke, Ark., where an afternoon service was scheduled Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. Investigators said their two-year investigation into child-abuse and pornography allegations focused on convicted tax evader Tony Alamo and his ministry, described as a cult by its critics. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - Since Tony Alamo's start as a California street preacher more than 40 years ago, the self-styled evangelist's story has been colorful and checkered.


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    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:28:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    UMass officials quash credit-for-campaigning offer (AP)
    AP - University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. -- read full article
    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:13:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Iran's president returns to UN General Assembly (AP)
    AP - Iran's president, whose appearance at the U.N. General Assembly last year sparked thousands of protesters in the streets and an American walkout during his speech, returns to the United Nations on Tuesday amid heightened concerns over his country's nuclear ambitions. -- read full article
    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:14:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Computer is last clue in Ark. Democrat's slaying (AP)

    Former President Bill Clinton, center, waves as he arrives at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Flanking Clinton  is Rebecca Gwatney, left, widow of slain Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney, and Mervyn Jones II, son of Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who died Aug. 20 after suffering a brain hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm. Hillary Rodham Clinton remembered the departed in her much-anticipated speech to the Democratic National Convention. Gwatney was fatally shot Aug. 13 at the state party headquarters in downtown Little Rock.  (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - A computer used by the gunman who killed a state Democratic Party chairman is the last clue to be investigated in the search for his motive, authorities said Monday.


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    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:41:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Upbeat professor remembered for Web 'last lecture' (AP)

    Hundreds of stuffed Tiggers occupy the seats in Rangos Hall on the Carnegie Mellon University campus in preparation for a memorial Monday, Sept. 22, 2008 in Pittsburgh for professor Randy Pausch. Pausch whose 'last lecture' became an Internet sensation has been remembered for urging people to do more than they thought they could and to have fun doing it. He died of cancer in July, 10 months after giving the lecture that touched millions of people worldwide. During his last lecture, Pausch said, 'You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore. I think I'm clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate. Never lose the childlike wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.' (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP - A Carnegie Mellon University professor whose "last lecture" of his life's lessons became an Internet sensation was celebrated Monday for challenging people to strive for more than they thought they were capable of, while remembering to have fun.


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    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:30:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Texas mayor to request $2.3B in aid from Congress (AP)

    Debris is shown in front of a home that was destroyed by flooding from Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas, Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. (A Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP - As repair crews work to make this hurricane-ravaged island city inhabitable for the thousands of residents set to return this week, the mayor is seeking more than $2 billion in emergency federal aid.


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    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:30:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Congress hustling to pass rail reform after crash (AP)

    Dr. Marc Eckstein, medical director for the Los Angeles Fire Department, is seen at the scene of a Metrolink train crash in Chatsworth, Calif., Friday, Sept. 12, 2008.  Eckstein was pulling up to his San Fernando Valley home when he heard about the Metrolink crash on the radio and raced to the scene 10 minutes away. 'I've been doing emergency medicine for 25 years,' since he was a teenage paramedic in New York in the 1980s, said Eckstein, 44, in an interview days later. 'I have never seen so much carnage like this in one place in my career.'  (AP Photo/Frank Stoltze, KPCC/Radio)AP - After a fatal commuter train collision, Congress is hurrying to pass new laws that would limit hours engineers work, mandate technology to stop trains on a collision course and enact the rail industry's first other major reforms in 14 years.


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    Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:02:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Global financial crisis could hurt UN program (AP)

    Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations, is seen in his office where he met foreign leaders who arrived to attend the General Assembly debate at U.N. Headquarters Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008.  (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - World leaders meeting at the U.N. General Assembly this week face a global financial crisis that threatens the United Nation's efforts to generate billions of dollars to fight poverty, especially in Africa.


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    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:27:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
    Prosecutor: Accused cat killer was jealous (AP)

    This undated photo provided by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shows Lisa Altobelli's orange tabby Norman. A New York City prosecutor says Altobelli's former boyfriend, baseball player-turned-actor Joseph Petcka, brutally killed the cat during a jealous rage. Petcka, who's trial began Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008, claims he killed the 7-pound feline out of self-defense. (AP Photo/American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)AP - A former minor league baseball player was "washed up" and had "zero income and no prospects" last year when he became jealous and killed his girlfriend's cat, a prosecutor said Monday.


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    Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:49:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
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