Obama calling for more infrastructure spending

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By JULIE PACE 2010-09-06T16:57:49Z

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy. The infrastructure spending is part of a package of targeted proposals the White House announced on Monday. With November's elections for control of Congress approaching, Obama planned to discuss the proposal later Monday at a Labor Day event in Milwaukee...

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Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas

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By JORGE VARGAS 2010-09-06T16:38:52Z

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) - 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. Hermine could approach hurricane strength before making landfall early Tuesday in a sparsely populated area about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Matamoros, a city bordering Brownsville, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami....

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Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case

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By JUAN MCCARTNEY 2010-09-06T16:29:43Z

NASSAU, Bahamas (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. Prosecutor Neil Braithwaite had submitted a motion to drop the case just as a retrial was about to start for the two defendants....

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UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered

1 hour, 1 minutes ago

By GEORGE JAHN 2010-09-06T16:05:13Z

VIENNA (AP) - In an unusually blunt warning, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program. The complaint by the International Atomic Energy Agency was made in a restricted report on Iran made available to The Associated Press. It follows Iran's recent decision to strip two experienced inspectors of the right to monitor Tehran's nuclear activities after the t...

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Son: Iran woman who faced stoning to be lashed

1 hour, 21 minutes ago

By 2010-09-06T15:45:26Z

TEHRAN, Iran (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. There was no official confirmation of the new sentence. The son, Sajjad Qaderzadeh, 22, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but heard about it from a prisoner who had recently left the Tabriz priso...

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Rare color footage of London blitz found

2 hours, 33 minutes ago

By 2010-09-06T14:33:36Z

LONDON (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. The dramatic footage shows the destruction of several London landmarks, including the flagship John Lewis store on Oxford Street....

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Philly cyclists bare all to promote cleaner air

2 hours, 36 minutes ago

By 2010-09-06T14:30:34Z

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air. Some of the buff bikers wore body paint, some were in bathing suits and some were completely naked....

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Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people

3 hours, 23 minutes ago

By IJAZ MOHAMMAD 2010-09-06T13:43:04Z

LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan (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. About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road between Punjab province, Pakistan's largest and most prosperous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions....

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Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction

4 hours, 33 minutes ago

By MATTI FRIEDMAN 2010-09-06T12:33:39Z

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations. Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli government must keep its promise to voters that the 10-month slowdown, declared last November under U.S. pressure in order to draw the Palestinians to the negotiating table, will end as scheduled at the end of the month....

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Williams, Querrey play the US Open numbers game

9 hours, 49 minutes ago

By EDDIE PELLS 2010-09-06T07:17:47Z

NEW YORK (AP) - Venus Williams says 30 is the new 20. Sam Querrey likes to think 20 could be No. 1. Thirty-year-old Williams is talking about age, and No. 20 Querrey is talking about seeding, but both are talking about the same thing when it comes to the U.S. Open....

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