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Japan Posts $9.6B Aug. Trade Deficit; Exports Down

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Finance Ministry reports a smaller-than-expected trade deficit of $9.6 billion for August, though weakening demand overseas is undermining hopes for an export-driven revival. The...

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FBI Asked to Keep Data on Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a massacre victim at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin is asking the federal government to begin collecting statistics on hate crimes against Sikhs. The 18-year-old Harpreet Sing...

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Ban: Syria Will Top UN General Assembly Agenda

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the Syrian crisis will top the agenda of the General Assembly gathering of world leaders next week. Ban lamented that both sides seem...

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Bahrain Agrees to Most UN Rights Recommendations

GENEVA (AP) — Bahrain's foreign minister says the government has agreed to ease its treatment of political activists and demonstrators while accepting the vast majority of the U.N.'s top human rights...

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Kroger Recalls Spinach Over Listeria Risk

CINCINNATI (AP) — Kroger is recalling spinach sold at grocery stores in 15 states due to possible Listeria contamination. The Fresh Selections Tender Spinach was sold in 10-ounze packages and had a...

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Joyner to Stay On as Acting Penn State AD

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State's acting athletic director will stay on the job as long Rodney Erickson remains the school's president. Erickson said in response to a question Wednesday at a Penn...

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Sudan Refugees Flee Intensified Bombing Runs

YIDA, South Sudan (AP) — Refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan's southern reaches say civilians are among the casualties from aerial bombings. Ryan Boyette, a former American aid worker who now lives in...

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Ai Weiwei to Contribute to German Show at Biennale

BERLIN (AP) — Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei will contribute to Germany's pavilion at next year's Venice Biennale. Organizers of the German pavilion said Wednesday that the acclaimed artist is one of...

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Report: Syria Aimed at Turkish Jet With Missile

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Military prosecutors investigating the downing of a Turkish plane by Syria say initial findings show Syria targeted the plane with a long-range missile while it was in...

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House Bill Allows Taxpayers to Donate to Treasury

WASHINGTON (AP) — Feel your taxes are too low? House Republicans are offering a new convenient way to donate more to the government in order to bring down the national debt. And in a dig at President...

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W.Va., Va. Weighing Impact of Alpha Mine Layoffs

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Coal communities are measuring the implications of Alpha Natural Resources' mine closures and the layoffs of hundreds of workers. Fayette County receives about $750,000 a year...

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Retired Shuttle Endeavour Set for Stop in Houston

HOUSTON (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour is flying over Houston as it prepares to land for a one-day stop on its trek west to retirement in a California museum. The shuttle, atop a modified jumbo jet,...

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Iraq Nominee Says US Pressing on Use of Airspace

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice for ambassador to Iraq says he will make clear to Baghdad that U.S. officials are angered by reports that Iran is using Iraqi airspace to deliver...

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Lohan Charged With Leaving Scene of NYC Accident

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say Lindsay Lohan has been arrested in New York City on charges that she clipped a pedestrian with her car and did not stop. Police say the 26-year-old actress was arrested at...

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15 Die in Southwest Nigeria Truck Crash

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police in Nigeria's southwest say at least 15 people have died in a crash involving two trucks and many other vehicles. Ogun state police spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi said...

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Saudi Arabia Denies Blocking Syrians From Hajj

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia has denied allegations that Syrians will not be able to perform the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj this year because of a conflict with Damascus. The Saudi...

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Yellow Pages Group Hibu's Shares Slide on Warning

LONDON (AP) — Hibu PLC, the publisher of the Yellow Pages directories, loses a third of its market value after it warned that restructuring could leave investors with worthless shares. Shares were...

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Sri Lankan Muslims Protest Anti-Islam Film

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of Muslims in Sri Lanka have protested against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, calling for its creators to be hanged. About 300 protesters marched...

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Navy: Affair Caused Conn. Sub Boss to Fake Death

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A former Navy submarine commander has been found in violation of the military's criminal code for having an affair with a woman and faking his own death to end the relationship....

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Mayweather Ordered to Pay $114K in Pacquiao Case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal court judge in Nevada ordered boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. to pay about $114,000 in lawyer fees and costs for avoiding questioning from rival fighter Manny Pacquiao's lawyers....

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Venezuela Says Alleged Drug Lord Changed Look

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's justice minister says an alleged Colombian drug lord had changed his appearance through repeated plastic surgeries before he was captured while making a call from...

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Czech PM Wants Sales of Spirits Resumed

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech prime minister says that any new hard liquor produced in the country would need to have a certificate showing its detailed origin, after at least 23 people who drank bootleg...

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AP Source: Obama to Meet With Suu Kyi

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior administration official says President Barack Obama will meet privately with Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the White House Wednesday. Suu Kyi is on a 17-day...

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NY Parks Department Launches Smartphone App

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's state parks department has launched a smartphone application designed to help people get information about recreation sites and events. The department says the free app...

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Macy's NYC Flagship Getting $400M Makeover

NEW YORK (AP) — A $400 million makeover is giving New York's iconic Macy's store a sleek, new 21st century style. And some preservationists aren't happy about it. They see the overhaul of America's...

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Thief Gets $10M in Luxury Goods From LA-Area Home

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Somewhere, a burglar is living in luxury after the score of a lifetime. And police are trying to bring his life of bling to an end. A vacationer recently returned to his...

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UN Experts to Probe Algeria's Disappeared

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — U.N. experts will visit Algeria to investigate what happened to thousands of people who disappeared in the 1990s during an insurgency's darkest moments. The U.N. human rights...

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Queen's Brian May Battles for Threatened Badgers

LONDON (AP) — There's a battle over badgers in Britain — and rock star Brian May is facing off against the country's farmers. For animal-loving Britons, the burrowing black-and-white creatures are a...

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Heineken Tightens Hold on Tiger Beer

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Heineken NV says it has taken another step closer to winning its struggle to take over Asia Pacific Breweries, maker of Tiger beer. The Dutch brewer said Wednesday it has agreed to...

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Official: Milosevic Family Welcome Back in Serbia

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A senior Serbian official says Slobodan Milosevic's widow and son should return from their exile in Russia now that the former autocrat's allies have returned to power in the...

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Gadfly Has Colorful Past in Politics and in Court

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A serial litigator suing to undo the sale of a New Hampshire grand hotel to force its reopening is a perennial candidate for office and self-proclaimed instigator of the "birther...

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UK Police Arrest 3 in Phone Hacking Probe

LONDON (AP) — British authorities have arrested a police officer and two journalists as part of the investigation into phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The 39-year-old police officer was...

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EU-China Summit Set-But Without Press Questions

BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of the EU and China will discuss a range of issues at a summit Thursday in Brussels, but the EU's customary joint press conference afterward won't be held amid concerns...

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Dennis Hopper's Lost Prints on Show in Berlin

BERLIN (AP) — A collection of more than 400 recently rediscovered prints in which Dennis Hopper documented the U.S. arts scene of the mid-1960s, the civil rights movement and much more is going on...

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The Democrats and the Liberal Catholic Voter

To the Editor: Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re “The Power of Political Communion” (Sunday...

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Romney's Comments Ripple Across Battleground Map

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mitt Romney's comment that he doesn't worry about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax has quickly entered the bloodstream in the presidential campaign's most...

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Vox Pop Trumps the Parish Bulletin

Separation of church and state should be a cherished no-brainer under the Constitution, but that never seems so in an election year when some clergyman or other cannot resist the temptation to speak...

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Court to Hear Challenge to Calif. DNA Sample Law

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court in San Francisco is preparing to hear arguments on whether requiring everyone arrested on felony charges to provide a DNA sample amounts to an...

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Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Christ?

AT an academic conference in Rome on Tuesday, Karen L. King, a church historian at Harvard Divinity School, presented a finding that, according to some reports, threatened to overturn what we know...

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Defrocked Monsignor Sues in NYC Sex Abuse Scandal

NEW YORK (AP) — A defrocked Roman Catholic monsignor who once led fundraising for the Archdiocese of New York has sued the church for libel. Charles Kavanagh's lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal...

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The United States and the Muslim World

The anti-Islam video that set off attacks against American embassies and violent protests in the Muslim world was a convenient fuse for rage. Deeper forces are at work in those societies, rived by...

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Ineffective Counsel in Georgia

Robert Wayne Holsey, on death row in Georgia for killing a police officer, is seeking a new sentencing hearing because he received ineffective counsel. He should get one. His own lawyer told a Georgia...

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Squinting at the Polls in New York City

Many New Yorkers who went to the polls last Thursday were a little surprised to find a large magnifying sheet inside their voting booths. One glance at the ballot explained why. The names of the...

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South Dakota: Ceremonial Tobacco Is Approved for Indian Inmates

A federal judge has ruled in a lawsuit by two prisoners that the South Dakota prison system’s ban on tobacco in religious ceremonies substantially burdens American Indian inmates’ religious rights....

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California: 11 Are Hurt In Prison Riot

A riot at the California State Prison in Folsom on Wednesday left 11 inmates hospitalized, including one who was shot by officers, officials said. The disturbance, which broke out around 11 a.m. in a...

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What Makes a Leader

To the Editor: “Must Great Leaders Be Gregarious?,” by Susan Cain (Sunday Review, Sept. 16), reminded me of the difference between introverted and extroverted mathematicians: the introverted...

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USA Swimming Bars Coach

USA Swimming barred a coach, Rick Curl, for life for an improper relationship with a teenage swimmer in the 1980s. Curl, who ran one of the nation’s largest swim clubs, near Washington, and coached...

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Kim Dotcom in Court as US Appeals Evidence Ruling

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is back in court as the United States appeals against releasing millions of emails in its case against him. The founder of file-sharing...

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Zuno Arce, Convicted for DEA Agent Slaying, Dies

MEXICO CITY (AP) — U.S. prison authorities say a Mexican man convicted in the 1985 torture-slaying of DEA agent Enrique Camarena has died at a federal correctional facility in Florida. Ruben Zuno Arce...

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Opposition-Led Strike Hits Trains in India

NEW DELHI (AP) — Angry opposition workers have disrupted train services as part of a daylong strike in India to protest rising diesel prices and the government's decision to open the country's huge...

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