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Iraqi security forces progressing

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Aug. 30,2006 11:01 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The top U.S. general in Iraq said Wednesday he believes Iraqi forces can take over security with little coalition support within a year to 18 months.

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Prime Minister: Israel won't withdraw forces until cease-fire

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Teibel · Wednesday, Aug. 30,2006 11 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israel rejected demands Wednesday from visiting U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that it immediately lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon and withdraw its forces once 5,000 international troops are deployed. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated Israel would only lift the blockade and withdraw its soldiers from Lebanon after the full implementation of a U.N.-brokered cease-fire.

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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs arrested in Las Vegas

By Ken Ritter · Tuesday, Aug. 29,2006 10:41 p.m.

LAS VEGAS - The leader of a polygamist breakaway Mormon sect who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List has been arrested and faces sexual misconduct charges for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men, authorities said Tuesday.

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Karr avoids murder charges

By Alyson Brodsy and Jon Sarche · Monday, Aug. 28,2006 10:59 p.m.

BOULDER, Colo. -- Prosecutors decided not to charge John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, his lawyers said Monday after a TV station reported that the schoolteacher's DNA failed to match genetic material on the 6-year-old girl's body. "The warrant on Mr. Karr has been dropped by the district attorney," public defender Seth Temin said outside the jail. "They are not proceeding with the case." Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy's office did not return repeated calls from The Associated Press. "We're deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand, with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him and no independent factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong," Temin said.

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With Ernesto threatening, Bush visits Gulf Coast

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer Loven · Monday, Aug. 28,2006 10:56 p.m.

BILOXI, Miss. -- President Bush returned Monday to the first scene he saw a year ago of Hurricane Katrina's devastation and declared "a sense of renewal" in the region still struggling to come back from the storm's battering. "Amazing what the world looked like then and what it looks like now," Bush said, marveling at the air conditioning and electrical service in the newly constructed home visible behind him. "People can't imagine what the world looked like then." When Bush first saw the neighborhood, it was littered by debris of all sizes, cars were in trees and homes were battered to bits. Bush said "there's still challenges." Other parts of the neighborhood, which is being rebuilt in patches, and a woman he consoled on a trip here last year, demonstrated just that. Sought out by the White House to meet Bush again, she said before his remarks that she has come far -- but not far enough. Then -- Bronwynne Bassier had returned from Alabama, clutching trash bags, to search the rubble of her former home for clothes for her young son. Sobbing uncontrollably, she told Bush she had lost everything.

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Route changed 1 week before crash

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeffrey McMurray · Monday, Aug. 28,2006 10:55 p.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The taxi route for commercial jets at Blue Grass Airport was altered a week before Comair Flight 5191 took the wrong runway and crashed, killing all but one of the 50 people aboard, the airport's director said Monday. Both the old and new taxiways to reach the main commercial runway cross over the shorter general aviation runway, where the commuter jet tried to take off early Sunday, Airport Executive Director Michael Gobb told The Associated Press. While the main strip, Runway 22, is 7,000 feet long, the shorter one, Runway 26, is just 3,500 feet. Aviation experts say the CRJ-100 would have needed 5,000 feet to fully get off the ground.

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Fox journalists released in Gaza hostage case

By Alyson Brodsy and Ibrahim Barzak · Sunday, Aug. 27,2006 9:08 p.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Militants freed two Fox News journalists Sunday, ending a nearly two week hostage drama. One of the former captives said they were sometimes held face down in a dark garage, tied up in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to make videos and say they had converted to Islam.

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49 dead in Kentucky plane crash

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeffrey McMurray · Sunday, Aug. 27,2006 9:03 p.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A commuter jet crashed during take off early Sunday and burst into flames, killing 49 people and leaving the lone survivor in critical condition. Investigators were trying to determine if the plane was on the wrong runway and ran out of pavement.

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FDA lifts morning-after pill limits

By Alyson Brodsy and Andrew Bridges · Friday, Aug. 25,2006 12:39 a.m.

WASHINGTON - Women can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription, the government declared Thursday, a major step that nevertheless failed to quell the politically charged debate over access to emergency contraception.

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Laptop batteries recalled

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 11:03 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Computer Inc. recalled 1.8 million Sony-built laptop batteries Thursday that could overheat and catch fire.

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Dutch police arrest 12 passengers

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:28 a.m.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for India back to an airport here Wednesday after the pilot radioed for help, and police arrested 12 passengers who had aroused suspicions, authorities said.

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