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Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface (AP)

The Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer is lifted out of the Gulf of Mexico by the Helix Q4000 near the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship.



Assault on Baghdad military headquarters kills 12 (AP)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L-R), U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen stand during the U.S. national anthem during a change of command ceremony in Baghdad September 1, 2010. The U.S. Military's Outgoing commander Raymond Odierno will hand over to Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin. 
  REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool  (IRAQ - Tags: IMAGES OF THE DAY POLITICS MILITARY)AP - Suicide bombers hit a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security.



Guatemala mudslides kill at least 28; 2 buses hit (AP)

People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide, due to heavy rains, on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and around 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo)AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 28 people in Guatemala — most of them in separate disasters along the same highway.



Speaker-in-waiting Boehner balances GOP factions (AP)

FILE - In this June 16, 2010 file photo, House Minority John Boehner, R-Ohio, participates in a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner could walk down most U.S. streets anonymously. But the perpetually tanned golf lover, who grew up in a Cincinnati family of 14, could become the next House speaker and the GOP leader of opposition to President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - John Boehner could walk down most American streets without turning a head.



Israel unlikely to extend current settlement curbs (AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza tunnels, killing two Palestinians and wounding a third, Hamas security officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)AP - Israel's defense minister says a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is unlikely to continue in its current form after it expires at the end of this month.



Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal' (AP)
AP - The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

Political Chatter


Can the president boost jobs and the economy between now and Election Day? (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)

President Barack Obama, center, delivers a statement on monthly jobs number, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010,  in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. From left are, outgoing Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the president, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Small Business Administrator (SBA) Karen G. Mills and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Exclusive to Yahoo! News - With the Democrats' prospects in the upcoming midterm elections sinking with the release of each new bit of bad economic news, President Obama was quick to concede that performance is "not nearly good enough."






Tea Party Express hopes to repeat Alaska win in Delaware Senate primary (The Upshot)

The Upshot - Buoyed by Joe Miller's surprise win in Alaska's Senate GOP primary, the Tea Party Express is hoping to take down another heavily favored Republican incumbent, this time in Delaware. The group plans to spend $250,000 on radio and TV ads to boost Christine O'Donnell, a largely unknown conservative activist who is vying against longtime GOP [...]



Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings (AP)

AP - A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.



Why Are the Feds Suing Brash Arizona Sheriff? (The Atlantic Wire)

As he attends an unrelated news conference, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio hands back to one of his deputies an Associated Press news report stating the U.S. Justice Department is suing Arpaio saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, in Phoenix.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)The Atlantic Wire -





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Sports

Japanese rider, 19, killed in Moto2 crash in Italy (AP)

Japan's Shoya Tomizawa steers his bike during the Moto2 grand prix at the Misano circuit in Misano Adriatico, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. Italian news reports are quoting a San Marino track doctor as saying Japanese motorcyclist Shoya Tomizawa has died of injuries suffered in an accident during the Moto2 race on the San Marino Grand Prix track on Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - Japanese teenager Shoya Tomizawa died after he crashed and was hit by two other riders during Sunday's Moto2 race at the San Marino Grand Prix in the sport's second fatality in eight days.



Jimenez wins European Masters ahead of EMolinari (AP)

Miguel Angel Jimenez from Spain tees off during the final round of the 2010 Omega European Masters Golf Tournament in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)AP - Miguel Angel Jimenez won the European Masters on Sunday, shooting a 4-under 67 to reach 21-under and beat Edoardo Molinari by three strokes.



Entertainment

Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2009 file photo, singer Kanye West takes the microphone from singer Taylor Swift as she accepts the 'Best Female Video' award during the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year, and he’s expressing his pain all over Twitter. West has unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, acknowledging he was wrong for taking an award from the country sweetheart at the MTV Video Music Awards. But he says he 'bled hard.' He says he had to cancel his tour with Lady Gaga and even lost employees. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)AP - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.



Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident (AP)
AP - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.

Business

Expiring tax cuts pose dilemma for US lawmakers (AFP)

The U.S. Capitol building. US lawmakers returning from summer recess face a conundrum on tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, with the economy seemingly sputtering ahead of looming congressional elections.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Smialowski)AFP - US lawmakers returning from summer recess face a conundrum on tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, with the economy seemingly sputtering ahead of looming congressional elections.



Obama to propose permanent research tax credit (Reuters)

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama greets members of the Wisconsin National Guards 128th Air Refueling Wing upon his arrival at Mitchell International airport in Milwaukee, Wis. When President Barack Obama makes his third Wisconsin visit in a little over two months Monday, he will get a chance to shore up his base at a Labor Day rally in a state where his approval ratings are dipping and fellow Democrats face tough re-election bids.  (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)Reuters - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will ask the U.S. Congress to increase and permanently extend a tax credit for business research as a way of boosting job growth, an administration official said on Sunday.



Obituaries

Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP)

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Huntington Library/Independent Television Service shows cartoonist Paul Conrad at his drawing board. Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years, died Saturday Sept. 4, 2010 of natural causes at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.  (AP Photo/Huntington Library/Independent Television Service, File) NO SALESAP - For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush.



Comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident (AP)
AP - Standup comic Robert Schimmel, a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, has died after suffering serious injuries in a car accident. He was 60.