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  • Xbox blocks W.Va. gamer over town's name: Fort Gay (AP)
    AP - Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay — a name the company considered offensive.

  • Clinton: It's time to seize an `American Moment' (AP)

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seen here on September 8, is expected to say in a keynote foreign policy speech that the United States remains the best hope to solve many of the world's most intractable problems(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted Wednesday that the Obama administration's approach to foreign policy is beginning to pay important dividends.




  • BP report blames itself, others for oil spill (AP)

    A British Petroleum (BP) logo is seen at a petrol station in south London April 27, 2010. BP deflected much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill, releasing an internal report on Wednesday which said that drilling contractor Transocean had missed danger signs. REUTERS/Toby Melville/FilesAP - BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible preview of its legal strategy, it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.




  • Reggie Bush: Heisman matter 'out of my hands' (AP)

    FILE - This Aug. 27, 2010, file photo shows New Orleans Saints player Reggie Bush watching from the sidelines during the first quarter of their preseason NFL football game at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. Yahoo! Sports reported Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, that 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush is expected to be stripped of the award by the end of the month. The former Southern Cal running back would become the first player in the 75-year history of the award to have the Heisman Trophy taken away. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)AP - Reggie Bush declined to go into any detail Wednesday on what he knows about the status of his 2005 Heisman Trophy.




  • China-U.S. ties improving, Hu tells White House team (Reuters)

    Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets devotees as he arrives to give a religious talk at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. The talks, requested by a Southeast Asian group, will end Friday. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)Reuters - China and the United States said on Wednesday that their sometimes rocky relationship is sounder after talks in Beijing, with both putting an optimistic face on ties that have been jolted by economic and security tensions.




  • China blacks out towns to meet energy goal (AP)
    AP - Chinese steel mills and mobile phone factories are being idled and thousands of homes in one area are doing without electricity as local governments order power cuts to meet energy-saving targets set by Beijing.

  • Obama firm, won't yield on tax hike for wealthiest (AP)

    President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy,Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, at Cuyahoga Community College West Campus in Parma, Ohio. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Politically weakened but refusing to bend, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that Bush-era tax cuts be cut off for the wealthiest Americans, joining battle with Republicans — and some fellow Democrats — just two months before bruising midterm elections.




  • Obama Economic Agenda Seeks Middle Class, Populists (The Atlantic Wire)
    The Atlantic Wire - President Barack Obama says he will not extend Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, which are scheduled to expire this year. However, he will extend the Bush tax cuts for the 98 percent of households that annually earn below $250,000 for couples or $200,000 for individuals. The White House says the tax cuts for the top 2 percent would add $700 billion to the deficit over the next ten years. Obama's announcement comes only two days after his proposals, which some call a "second stimulus," for $50 billion in infrastructure spending and $100 billion over ten years in business tax credits for research and development. Here's what pundits are saying about whether Obama's new economic initiatives will counterbalance two very negative forces for the White House: The poor economic situation and the forecasted electoral losses for Democrats.

  • Clinton, Gates denounce planned Quran burning (AP)

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The top two national security advisers in President Barack Obama's Cabinet on Wednesday denounced plans by a small church in Florida to burn the Muslim holy book to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying it would inflame tensions and put Americans abroad at risk.




  • Angelina Jolie condemns planned Quran burning (AP)

    Hollywood actress and the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, Angelina Jolie visits a camp setup for people displaced by heavy floods, in Mohib Banda near Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Angelina Jolie on Wednesday condemned a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

 
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