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WASHINGTON – Her re-election quest suddenly in jeopardy, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski struggled to avoid becoming the latest incumbent lawmaker to be fired. She fought against a political novice with the backing of Sarah Palin and tea party activists in a stunningly tight Republican primary race. Full Story »
AP ASHLAND, Ore. - A wind-whipped wildfire burned through 11 homes outside an Oregon college town as hot, dry weather — with temperatures near 100 degrees — also helped fires spread in Idaho and Southern California, where homes were evacuated. Full Story »
AP SAN MARINO, Calif. - During the final days of World War II, as American soldiers were returning from Germany with swastika-inscribed helmets, flags and other Nazi memorabilia, Gen. George Patton was packing up his own set of souvenirs. Full Story »
AP NEW ORLEANS - The cleanup of history's worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental concerns. Full Story »
AP NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered an impassioned speech at an event marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, saying that not allowing a proposed mosque to be built near ground zero would be "compromising our commitment to fighting terror with freedom." Full Story »
Reuters AUSTIN, Texas - Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is getting the trial he's been seeking for five years that he says will clear him of allegations that he illegally funneled campaign money. Full Story »
AP THEODORE, Ala. - Five people were hospitalized in intensive care Tuesday as federal investigators sought the cause of an ammonia leak a day earlier in a plant that freezes chickens. Full Story »
AP EL PASO, Texas - The first bullets struck El Paso's city hall at the end of a work day. The next ones hit a university building and closed a major highway. Shootouts in the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border are sending bullets whizzing across the Rio Grande into one of the nation's safest cities, where authorities worry it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt or killed. Full Story »
AP DES MOINES, Iowa - Low-cost vaccines that may help prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs haven't been given to nearly half the nation's egg-laying hens. Full Story »
SAN DIEGO - The Coast Guard said Tuesday that a failure by the Navy to follow standard air traffic control procedures contributed to a midair collision that killed seven Coast Guard members and two Marines last year, while the Navy insisted the pilots were responsible. Full Story »
KINGSTON, Tenn. - A driver who appeared to be having a seizure plowed his van into a busy Tennessee beauty salon on Tuesday, injuring at least 10 people and trapping some behind debris, witnessess and hospital officials said. Full Story »
AP HOUSTON - Federal investigators probing the blowout that led to the Gulf oil spill grilled a Halliburton official Tuesday about concerns the petroleum services firm raised over the potential for a severe gas flow problem if a BP plan was used. Full Story »
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Marine mammal experts are examining a stranded sperm whale for injuries in waters next to a South Beach marina. Full Story »
AP CHICAGO - Two gators in the Chicago River. One strolling down a Massachusetts street. Another in bustling New York City. And that's just in the past few weeks. Full Story »
Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea on Wednesday, the communist nation's state media reported, on a mission aimed at bringing home an imprisoned American. Full Story »
Stock futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P; 500 and the Nasdaq 100 rise 0.3 to 0.5 percent, pointing to a higher start on Wall Street on Wednesday, after steep declines in the previous session on grim data. Full Story »
In the same regard that African-American writer Toni Morrison labeled Bill Clinton as "America's first black president," could a case be made for George W. Bush being America's first Muslim-American president? At least one former member of his administration thinks so, and he believes that prominent Republicans voicing opposition to the "Ground Zero mosque" is [...] Full Story »
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