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By 2010-09-02T14:51:26Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shutter the largest institutions if they threaten to bring down the financial system....

By 2010-09-02T13:49:43Z PARIS (AP) -- American officers are taking up posts at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport to help identify potential terrorists or other high-risk passengers heading to the United States....

By ANGELA K. BROWN 2010-09-02T11:27:26Z McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No. 273 slow going. Supporters and well-wishers keep stopping him....

By SOPHIA TAREEN 2010-09-02T10:58:48Z CHICAGO (AP) -- The idea seemed simple though bold: Call reputed gang leaders to a meeting with top police and federal prosecutors and deliver an ultimatum to end killings in the nation's third-largest city....

By HOWARD FENDRICH 2010-09-02T08:02:01Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Andy Roddick found it infuriating that a lineswoman who called him for a foot fault was wrong about which of his shoes touched the line....

By MATTHEW PERRONE 2010-09-02T08:01:52Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug....

By CHRIS BLANK 2010-09-02T07:44:12Z SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- It's been three years since Scott Eckersley was fired after pointing out that his then-boss, former Gov. Matt Blunt, and others in Blunt's administration should not be deleting certain e-mails because they belonged to the public record....

By CHARLES WILSON 2010-09-02T05:42:53Z INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs....

By LIZ SIDOTI 2010-09-02T05:42:45Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is the tea party the new Republican Party? The grass-roots network of fed-up conservative-libertarian voters displayed its power in its biggest triumph of the election year: the toppling of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP primary. Political novice Joe Miller is the fifth tea party insurgent to win a GOP Senate nominating contest, an upset that few, if any, saw coming....

By JESSICA MINTZ and JORDAN ROBERTSON 2010-09-02T03:50:13Z SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple Inc. is refining its plans to annex the living room into its entertainment empire....

By HOPE YEN 2010-09-02T03:35:24Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades - decreasing by 8 percent since 2007, a new study finds. The reasons range from the sour economy to Mexican violence and increased U.S. enforcement that has made it harder to sneak across the border....

By JOE KAY 2010-09-02T01:32:26Z CINCINNATI (AP) -- Sometimes, left-hander Aroldis Chapman can't help but peek....

By MEGHAN BARR 2010-09-02T01:12:42Z CLEVELAND (AP) -- Outspoken former Democratic congressman Jim Traficant, who served time in federal prison for corruption, has fought his way back onto the Nov. 2 ballot to again run for a U.S. House seat - this time as an independent....

By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-09-02T01:12:19Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago....

By DAVE KOLPACK 2010-09-01T23:05:44Z SISSETON, S.D. (AP) -- An 18-year-old high school student stockpiled bomb-making materials in his bedroom and wrote about wanting to blow up his school, target individuals he hated, rape women and "become the world's most infamous sociopath," authorities said....

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE 2010-09-01T22:27:54Z Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has the disease and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it....

By 2010-09-01T21:27:55Z AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with a trove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used for religious rituals, officials said Wednesday....

By TOM WITHERS 2010-09-01T19:28:04Z CLEVELAND (AP) -- For the second straight game, Manny Ramirez watched from a few feet away as one of his new teammates hit a game-winning homer. Claimed off waivers by Chicago for his renowned power, Ramirez provided only a bloop a single in his debut but he was on deck when Paul Konerko hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning to give the White Sox a 6-4 win and three-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday....

By SANDY SHORE 2010-09-01T16:27:11Z Oil prices sailed higher Wednesday as improvement in the manufacturing industry eased some fears about the strength of the global recovery....

By CHRIS TALBOTT 2010-09-01T16:02:23Z NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist....