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Serena Williams comes back to win U.S. Open

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 05:46 PM PDT

Serena Williams reacts after beating Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, in the championship match at the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Finally tested, even trailing, at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams turned things around just in time.

Iraq blasts kill 100 as VP gets death sentence

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:17 PM PDT

Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi gestures as he leaves a meeting in AnkaraA series of bombs ripped through mainly Shi'ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, ending one of the bloodiest days of the year with more than 100 killed across the country. The violence and the sentence for Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, threatened to stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq where a Shi'ite-led government is battling political instability and a Sunni Islamist insurgency nine months after U.S. troops left. ...

Bicyclist dies in Utah-to-Wyoming race

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT

A bicyclist competing in a race from Logan, Utah, to Jackson Hole, Wyo., crashed on a bridge in Wyoming and fell about 35 feet to his death into the Snake River.

Congress to return Monday, but will Jackson Jr., Kirk?

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:34 PM PDT

Congress returns from a five-week recess Monday, but Sen. Mark Kirk's plans are unknown and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s people can't seem to agree.

Early laptop designer Moggridge dies at 69

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:50 PM PDT

Early laptop designer Moggridge dies at 69Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died. He was 69.The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design ...

Nobel Prize-winning writer says Ryan 'never a man of substance'

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT

Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan 'Was Never a Man of Substance'Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said that GOP presidential nominee Paul Ryan was "never a man of substance" during our "This Week" roundtable discussion about the Romney-Ryan tax plan that I questioned Ryan about earlier on the program. You can read the full exchange...

Former MMA fighter pleads guilty to killing his sparring partner

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT

Mixed-Martial Artist Who Ripped Heart, Tongue Out of Friend Pleads GuiltyMen had Taken Drugs and Thought They Were in a Struggle Between God and Satan

Tropical Storm Leslie slowly moves past Bermuda

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Leslie about 180 miles southeast of Bermuda moving north at 8 mph. Max winds are currently at 65 mph and Leslie is forecast to become a hurricane by tonight. Hurricane Michael in the central Atlantic and has max winds of 100 mph. The hurricane is moving north-northwest at 6 mph. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)Tropical Storm Leslie's outer bands buffeted Bermuda with gusty winds and rain Sunday as it slowly edged past the wary British enclave on a path that was expected to take it to Canada's Newfoundland later in the week.

Wave of attacks leave 92 dead in Iraq

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. In violence, which struck at least 10 cities across the nation Insurgents killed at least 39 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country. Underscoring the instability, insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across Iraq, killing at least 92 people in one of the deadliest days this year.

Romney says he would keep parts of Obama healthcare law

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney talks to reporters at the airport in Sergeant BluffWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for scrapping President Barack Obama's 2010 U.S. healthcare law, said in remarks aired on Sunday that he likes key parts of "Obamacare" despite his party's loathing of it and wants to retain them. Romney, who faces Obama in the November 6 election, has vowed throughout the campaign to repeal and replace the Obama healthcare law. But asked about the Obama healthcare law on NBC's "Meet the Press" program, Romney said, "Well, I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform. ...

Parents planning for kids if Chicago teachers strike

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 05:32 PM PDT

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distribute strike signage at the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, should it fail to reach an agreement over teachers' contracts with Chicago Public Schools by that date. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work.

Obama gets boost from pizza shop owner

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:59 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama is hugged by Scott Van Duzer at a pizza shop in FloridaFlorida pizza shop owner Scott Van Duzer lifted President Barack Obama a solid foot off the ground in a bear hug during an unscripted stop at his Fort Pierce, Fla., store. Literally. So what did the Secret Service think about Van Duzer — a registered Republican who says he'll vote for Obama in November — [...]

Steep price for National Sept. 11 Memorial

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2011 file photo, visitors to the National September 11 Memorial in New York walk around its twin pools. The foundation that runs the memorial estimates that once the roughly $700 million project is complete, it will cost $60 million a year to operate. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)With its huge reflecting pools, ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is an awesome spectacle that moved and inspired some 4.5 million visitors in its first year.

Wave of attacks leaves 82 dead in Iraq

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. In violence, which struck at least 10 cities across the nation Insurgents killed at least 39 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fueled sectarian tensions in the country. Underscoring the instability, insurgents unleashed an onslaught of bombings and shootings across Iraq, killing at least 82 people in one of the deadliest days this year.

Car bomb kills at least 17 in Syria

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:42 PM PDT

FSA soldiers help a severely wounded colleague after being shot by a Syrian Army sniper in Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Sept 8, 2012. On Friday, U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, who have toured the volatile Middle East in recent days, urged Washington to help arm Syria's rebels with weapons and create a safe zone inside the country for a transition government. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)A car bomb ripped through Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 40 in one of the main battlegrounds of the country's civil war, state-run media said.

Wave of attacks leaves 75 dead in Iraq

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. In violence, which struck at least 10 cities across the nation Insurgents killed at least 39 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Iraqi officials say a late-night car bomb has killed 11 people in a Shiite stronghold in Baghdad in an attack that has brought the day's death toll to 75.

Pakistan ends weeks of fighting; over 100 dead

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:40 AM PDT

Pakistani security forces pushed Taliban militants who came from Afghanistan back across the border after more than two weeks of fighting in a mountainous tribal region, spokesmen for both sides said Sunday. The government says over 100 people were killed in the offensive.

Trial to begin in 55-year-old murder case in Sycamore

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:42 AM PDT

Jack D. McCullough was among a group of initial suspects, but his parents vouched for his whereabouts. In July 2011, police arrested McCullough, by then a 71-year-old in Seattle.

Wave of attacks kill at least 64 in Iraq

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. In violence, which struck at least 10 cities across the nation Insurgents killed at least 39 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Insurgents killed at least 64 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said.

Questions linger about when Rep. Jackson will work

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 10:37 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. attends ceremonies for Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. Days after Jackson was released from a hospital where he was being treated for bipolar disorder, it's still unclear when he'll return to work. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)Days after U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was released from a hospital where he was being treated for bipolar disorder, it's still unclear when he'll return to work.