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RALEIGH, N.C. – The jaunt didn't make for much of a war story, and there is no record it ever happened. But the man successfully argued that he may have been exposed to Agent Orange during his stopover and that it might have caused his diabetes — even though decades of research into the defoliant have failed to find more than a possibility that it causes the disease. Full Story »
AFP/Getty Images Emmy had a split personality this year. Television's annual awards show honored hot new broadcast comedies "Modern Family" and "Glee," while sticking with more familiar favorites from cable in drama. Full Story »
AP NEW YORK - The chairwoman of the community board that voted for an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero said she believes adding an interfaith dimension would help unite people, saying a nondenominational chapel built at the Pentagon as part of a Sept. 11 memorial did just that. Full Story »
ATLANTA - A woman who killed her husband and later her boyfriend by poisoning them with antifreeze has died in an Atlanta prison. Full Story »
afp.com NEW YORK - Adnan Zulfiqar, a graduate student, former U.S. Senate aide and American-born son of Pakistani immigrants, will soon give the first khutbah, or sermon, of the fall semester at the University of Pennsylvania. His topic has presented itself in the daily headlines and blog posts over the disputed mosque near ground zero. Full Story »
AP LOS ANGELES - The drug conspiracy trial of two doctors and the lawyer-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith entered its second month with the prosecution nearing the end of its case but for a lingering question: Will the nannies testify? Full Story »
NEW YORK - A man accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down military planes ranted against Jews and mused about "taking down" targets in the United States, according to audio tapes played Monday at his federal trial. Full Story »
AP SALT LAKE CITY - A tip from a resident helped police on Monday capture a 23-year-old man who authorities say fatally shot a sheriff's deputy and went on the run for four days in the rugged wilderness along the Utah-Arizona border. Full Story »
AP WASHINGTON - Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-psychotic called Seroquel. Full Story »
VISALIA, Calif. - A man who was killed in a shootout with police after allegedly gunning down a Mormon lay bishop in Central California was identified Monday by police. Full Story »
AFP/NOAA SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Earl lashed the northeastern Caribbean on Monday as a still-growing Category 3 storm, tearing roofs off buildings and cutting power to islanders on a course that could threaten the eastern United States this week. Full Story »
AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A standoff between authorities and a man suspected of ambushing and killing two police officers continued Monday in a small village in southeast Alaska. Full Story »
AP LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - A gunman entered a western Arizona home and fatally shot five people, including the mother of his two children and her new boyfriend, before fleeing with the kids to Southern California where he killed himself, police said Sunday. Full Story »
AP NEW ORLEANS - Gulf Coast residents tried to put Hurricane Katrina behind them on Sunday, marking its fifth anniversary by casting wreaths into the water to remember the hundreds killed. But part of the catastrophe lives on, in abandoned homes still bearing spray-painted circles indicating they had been searched and whether bodies were found inside. Full Story »
A gunman went on a rampage in Slovakia's capital on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 15, then committed suicide, officials said. Full Story »
U.S. stocks dropped on Monday as a statement on the economy from President Barack Obama fell short of addressing worries the recovery is faltering. Full Story »
A public opinion poll showing Americans are increasingly convinced, wrongly, that he is Muslim does not trouble him, President Barack Obama said on Sunday. Full Story »
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