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By 2010-09-01T15:19:42Z DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Co.'s August sales dipped 7 percent compared with July as fears about the shaky economy discouraged customers from buying new cars and trucks....

By BRIAN MURPHY 2010-09-01T15:10:38Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York said the fight is over more than "a piece of real estate" and could shape the future of Muslim relations in America....

By CHRIS BRUMMITT 2010-09-01T14:34:50Z ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's military canceled a trip by officers to an annual meeting at U.S. Central Command after they were taken off a plane and subjected to "unwarranted security checks" at Dulles International Airport in Washington, a spokesman said Wednesday....

By 2010-09-01T13:22:24Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Douglas says he faces an "eight-week struggle" against throat cancer but is optimistic about his chances for recovery....

By 2010-09-01T13:02:05Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal bank regulators are defending their actions leading up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the purchase of Wachovia at the height of the financial crisis....

By MALIN RISING 2010-09-01T10:50:34Z STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other....

By ANNE GEARAN 2010-09-01T10:24:00Z RAMADI, Iraq (AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that while the United States is no longer at war in Iraq, history will judge whether the fight was worth it....

By MARK STEVENSON and PAUL J. WEBER 2010-09-01T10:23:54Z MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A former Texas high school football player and petty street dealer who allegedly rose to become one of Mexico's most savage assassins says he personally knew the country's top drug lords and shipped cocaine from Colombia through Panama....

By DAN JOLING 2010-09-01T10:22:20Z ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Backed by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin, a little-known conservative lawyer from Alaska became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010....

By ROBIN HINDERY 2010-09-01T10:22:13Z SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers have rejected a bill seeking to ban plastic shopping bags after a contentious debate over whether the state was going too far in trying to regulate personal choice....

By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS 2010-09-01T07:21:33Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead....

By 2010-09-01T02:40:03Z BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later....

By RICK FREEMAN 2010-09-01T02:14:49Z NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark Teixeira hit a three-run homer and Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher also went deep for the Yankees, who beat up on Oakland again in a 9-3 win over the Athletics on Tuesday night....

By DAVID SHARP 2010-09-01T01:46:48Z PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A Pakistani man detained during an investigation of a botched car bombing in New York City's Times Square says he knew the plotter years ago as a partying college student - not as the radical Muslim who later said he received explosives training from the Pakistani Taliban....