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Market Update - The Bank of England offered no surprises Thursday, holding its key lending rate at a record low 0.5% and maintaining its bond-buying program at 200 billion pounds ($309 billion). 
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN') dumped up to 10 inches of rain in parts of eastern Oklahoma — causing flooding and road closings.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The police officer who shot and killed a knife-wielding man whose death has sparked three days of violent protests in Los Angeles had been involved in two previous shootings while on duty, according to a media report.
SEATTLE (AP) — The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it.
HOUSTON (AP) — Suzi Hanks reads Playboy magazine for the articles. And the jokes. And the letters and cartoons. And yes, for the pictures.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Amid the uproar over the proposed mosque near ground zero in New York, a new Islamic college recently opened its doors in California with plans to educate a new generation of Muslim-American leaders.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP's long-awaited internal report on what it believes went wrong when a rig exploded and started the massive Gulf oil spill never mentions the words blame, regret, apology, mistake or pollution.
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Former first lady Laura Bush will speak at a National Park Service fundraiser in Pittsburgh on Friday, a day before joining Michelle Obama in rural Pennsylvania to remember the victims of Flight 93, which crashed there in the Sept.
DETROIT (AP) — As exhausted Detroit firefighters battled wind-fed blazes burning wild in some neighborhoods and threatening to char much of the city, a half-dozen departments from surrounding communities brought in sorely needed — and gladly accepted — help.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire burning in the canyons and steep mountainsides near Boulder became one of the most destructive blazes in Colorado history Wednesday as authorities determined it had destroyed at least 135 homes in just three days.
NEW YORK (AP) — The imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero cautioned Wednesday that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security.
CHICAGO (AP) — The last time Chicago was left without a Daley at the helm, the next mayor was thrown out of office by voters angry because he couldn't keep snow off the streets.
NEW YORK (AP) — The group of Muslims planning to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque near ground zero appears plagued by divisions that raise questions about the future of the project, with one major investor saying he is prepared to sell some or all of the site if the price is right.
DALLAS (AP) — A series of tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine are menacing the Dallas area but there are no immediate reports of damage.
CHICAGO (AP) — John Goss, an environmental activist and former state official from Indiana, was appointed Wednesday as the Obama administration's point man in the fight to prevent Asian carp from gaining a foothold in the Great Lakes.
CHICAGO (AP) — Months of political jockeying began in earnest Wednesday as speculation grew about who would try to succeed Mayor Richard M.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Florida pastor who plans to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 is rooted in Pentecostal tradition that believes Christians are engaged in a modern-day spiritual battle with evil.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Twitterverse is full of far more mysterious forces than indecipherable trending topics and Lady Gaga. There are people out there with dark, dastardly intents, as I learned when my account was hacked.
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Igor is growing a bit stronger in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down. A total of 278 sea turtle nests were trucked to the space center from the Gulf Coast from the end of June until mid-August.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An accused Somali pirate has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy from a November 2008 attack in the Gulf of Aden on a Danish ship carrying cargo from a U.S.
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