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Today's Most Popular News: Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 Irreverent Cuban movie promises zombie revolution NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure Analysis: Special-ops on show to woo war skeptics Burger King to stop buying oil from Indonesian co. Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface Salvadoran police find over $9M in cash in drums Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician The Last Secrets of the Forbidden City Head to the U.S. Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes Dogs' Hip Dysplasia Risk Often Missed Toshiba Recall Signals Larger Trend for Hot Laptops JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good Outgoing NATO deputy rues early optimism on Marjah Hillary Clinton’s one-man presidential campaign Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:33 pm PDT SPACE.com - As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes. Full Story Top AP Interview: Author leaving home next to Palins Sat, 4 Sep 2010 04:20 pm PDT AP - Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate. Full Story Top Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident Sat, 4 Sep 2010 05:09 pm PDT AP - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60. Full Story Top For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:17 pm PDT AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities. Full Story Top Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:18 pm PDT AP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating. Full Story Top Irreverent Cuban movie promises zombie revolution Sat, 4 Sep 2010 09:12 am PDT AP - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government? Full Story Top NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:46 pm PDT AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday. Full Story Top Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:12 pm PDT AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored." Full Story Top Analysis: Special-ops on show to woo war skeptics Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:58 am PDT AP - The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years — special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents — to try to convince skeptics the war can be won. Full Story Top Burger King to stop buying oil from Indonesian co. Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:50 am PDT AP - Environmentalists on Saturday praised Burger King's decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rainforests. Full Story Top Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:11 pm PDT AP - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago. Full Story Top Salvadoran police find over $9M in cash in drums Sat, 4 Sep 2010 05:15 pm PDT AP - Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday. Full Story Top Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician Fri, 3 Sep 2010 02:03 am PDT Reuters - A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. Full Story Top The Last Secrets of the Forbidden City Head to the U.S. Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:30 pm PDT Time.com - Though Beijing's Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates heads to U.S. Full Story Top Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:16 pm PDT AP - Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs — or know someone who has — now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections. Full Story Top Dogs' Hip Dysplasia Risk Often Missed Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:25 am PDT LiveScience.com - Traditional methods of evaluating dogs for hip dysplasia risk may miss 80 percent of cases, according to a new study. Full Story Top Toshiba Recall Signals Larger Trend for Hot Laptops Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:40 am PDT PC World - Toshiba is the latest laptop vendor to fall victim to overheating technology. The recall of approximately 41,000 laptops resulting from more than 100 reports of melting laptop cases and minor injuries follows similar issues and recalls from other laptop manufacturers, and illustrates the problem with cramming so much processing power into such a small space. Full Story Top JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good Sat, 4 Sep 2010 11:12 pm PDT AP - Sometimes there's no going back. Full Story Top Outgoing NATO deputy rues early optimism on Marjah Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:52 pm PDT AP - NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success taking the key Taliban-held town of Marjah last winter, the outgoing deputy commander said. Full Story Top Hillary Clinton’s one-man presidential campaign Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:40 am PDT The Upshot - While the rest of the political world is preoccupied with the midterm elections, Chicago dentist William DeJean is hatching plans for 2012. He shelled out $5,000 to create an ad encouraging Americans to back a Hillary Clinton presidential run in 2012. He says the spot will run in New Orleans, Washington, New York and Los [...] Full Story Top

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