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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

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President Barack Obama, leaves Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, Sep. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A combative President Barack Obama is promising to put Americans back to work rebuilding roads, railways and runways, and is blaming Republicans for opposing his efforts to stimulate the economy.




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Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas (AP)

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Tropical storm Hermine is seen in this satellite image courtesy of the National Hurricane Center. REUTERS/National Hurricane Center/HandoutAP - Mexican authorities opened shelters and warned people to watch out for mudslides Monday as Tropical Storm Hermine approached the northeastern border with Texas, the second major storm to hit the area this season.




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Son: Iran woman who faced stoning to be lashed (AP)

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An undated photo of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani provided by Amnesty International. The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.(AFP/Amnesty International)AP - An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday.




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Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

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FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)AP - Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.




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NKorea prepares for biggest convention in 30 years (AP)

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A large campaign poster is posted in a street, promoting a Workers' Party conference early this month in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. North Korea's ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, state media reported Monday, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons. The campaign slogans in the poster reads: 'Let us mark the representatives' meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea as a celebration that will shine in the history of our party and our country.' (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut.




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Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people (AP)

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Map of Pakistan locating the site of the suicide attack on Monday. At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Afp Graphics)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes.




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Rare color footage of London blitz found (AP)

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AP - Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

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Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case (AP)

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US actor John Travolta (R) promotes his film AP - A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain.




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Philly cyclists bare all to promote cleaner air (AP)

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People on a double-decker tour bus react upon seeing cyclist make their way through the streets of center city Philadelphia during a naked bike ride on Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air.




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Williams, Querrey play the US Open numbers game (AP)

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Venus Williams of the United States returns the ball to Shahar Peer of Israel at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Venus Williams says 30 is the new 20. Sam Querrey likes to think 20 could be No. 1.




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