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By VERENA DOBNIK
2010-08-23T00:09:00Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, "Say no to racist fear!" and American flags waving on both sides....
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By MATTHEW BROWN
2010-08-22T22:02:48Z
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Yellowstone's grizzlies are going to be particularly hungry this fall, and that means more dangerous meetings with humans in a year that is already the area's deadliest on record....
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By HARRY R. WEBER
2010-08-22T01:34:12Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- For months, the U.S. government talked with a boot-on-the-neck toughness about BP, with the president wondering aloud about whose butt to kick....
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Posted: August 21st, 2010, 5:32pm EDT
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2010-08-21T21:32:03Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would directly put more than 9,000 people out of work and indirectly affect another 14,000 jobs, according to a memo from the nation's top drilling regulator....
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By JIM FITZGERALD
2010-08-21T16:18:46Z
MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) -- A few weeds have popped up on the fairways, and summer's heat has scorched the grass here and there, but the golf course at the Hampshire Country Club is still tidy and scenic, its little waterfall still burbling through the rocks....
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
2010-08-15T05:01:44Z
SANTA ROSA, N.M. (AP) -- Lost in the Bonnie and Clyde tale of Arizona fugitives on the run for two weeks is the grisly slaying of an Oklahoma couple whose bodies were found in a burned-out travel trailer on a remote ranch in eastern New Mexico....
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Posted: August 14th, 2010, 11:54pm EDT
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2010-08-15T03:54:08Z
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A man has drowned in the Gulf of Mexico about eight miles from where President Barack Obama and daughter Sasha were taking a dip....
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By PAULINE JELINEK and JULIE PACE
2010-08-15T01:16:28Z
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so....
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Posted: August 14th, 2010, 7:20pm EDT
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2010-08-14T23:20:20Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of couples donned sailor hats and nurse's caps and smooched in Times Square on Saturday to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II....
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By JESSIE L. BONNER
2010-08-14T21:23:25Z
BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) -- On the road to Threemile Canyon Farms, Achut Shiwakoti stared out at the neat rows of corn and fields of fresh mint, his father anxiously nudging him to translate as their new workplace came into view....