
By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
The caution of appearing overconfident comes despite polls released this week showing voters think Republicans are more fit to handle most of the country's pressing issues and that the GOP holds an "unprecedented" lead over Democrats in a new Gallup Poll. Published 8:06 p.m. September 2, 2010
By Brian Murphy and Nasser Karimi - Associated Press
Pro-government crowds swarmed outside the battered home of a key Iranian opposition leader Friday after militiamen attacked with firebombs and beat a bodyguard unconscious in a brazen message of intimidation and pinpoint pressure on dissent. Published 7:53 p.m. September 3, 2010

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Sec. of State Hillary Clinton host talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington.
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Hurricane Earl spins along East Coast
Hurricane Earl with winds hovering around 115 mph barrels toward the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
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Activist gunman killed after tense standoff
James J. Lee, the gunman who on Wednesday took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, is killed by police.
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Three bombs are detonated during a Shi'ite Muslim religious procession, killing 25 in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore.
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President Obama on Wednesday hosts the first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in two years in the Oval Office of the White House.
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President Obama travels to Fort Bliss to speak with the troops, before addressing the nation and formally ending the combat mission in Iraq.
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Russian police broke up unauthorized anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg, detaining dozens of demonstrators.
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A behind the scenes look at the renovations to the Oval Office of the White House, including a new carpet, drapes, wallpaper and furniture.
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Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens has pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids.
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Biden steadfastly optimistic about midterms
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. implores Democrats not to fall victim to pessimism about midterm elections at the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee.
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By Bob Salsberg - Associated Press
A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Earl dumped wind-driven rain on Cape Cod's gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages Friday night, disrupting people's vacations on the unofficial final weekend of the short New England summer. Published 7:28 a.m. September 3, 2010
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By Associated Press
A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday and caused widespread damage, but there were just two reports of serious injuries. Looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. Published 2:12 p.m. September 3, 2010
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By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
Growth in jobs last month was not fast enough to prevent the unemployment rate from ticking up to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday morning. Published 9:46 a.m. September 3, 2010
updated 10 hours, 28 minutes ago

By Amanda Lee Myers and Paul Davenport - Associated Press
Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert. Published 10:04 p.m. September 3, 2010

By Amanda Lee Myers and Paul Davenport - Associated Press
Gov. Jan Brewer rose to national fame defending the state's immigration law and warning of rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a claim that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert. Published 10:04 p.m. September 3, 2010

By Curt Anderson and Jennifer Kay - Associated Press
updated 24 minutes ago
The suspicions airport security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the man who brought it in from the Middle East: a scientist who sparked a bioterrorism scare after he reported missing vials of plague samples seven years ago. Published 8:21 a.m. September 3, 2010

By Angela K. Brown - Associated Press
Rep. Chet Edwards consistently makes the list of the most vulnerable Democrats; he hails from a district that gave Republican John McCain a whopping 67 percent of the presidential vote in 2008. Published 8:06 p.m. September 2, 2010
By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times
A draft U.N. report accusing the Rwandan army of massacring Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1990s is corroborated by findings of an international human rights group. Published 2:55 p.m. September 3, 2010

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Obama administration could be breaking the law if it follows through on guidance that would mean the government detains fewer illegal immigrants, two top Republican senators said in a warning letter to the Department of Homeland Security this week. Published 9:30 p.m. September 2, 2010
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