| BP: Crews lifting device from Gulf face delay (AP) |
AP - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout preventer, the massive piece of equipment that failed to stop the gusher four months ago.
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| Craigslist strikes adult services under pressure (AP) |
AP - Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored."
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| JetBlue: Flight attendant's big exit was for good (AP) |
AP - Sometimes there's no going back.
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| NZ cleans up after quake that tore new fault line (AP) |
AP - The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city of Christchurch also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist said Sunday.
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| Dems' prospects threatened by economic woes (AP) |
AP - Frustrated, discouraged and just plain mad, a lot of people who have lost jobs — or know someone who has — now want to see the names of Democrats on pink slips. And that's jeopardizing the party's chances in Ohio and all across the country in November's elections.
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| Earl's biggest damage in Northeast: business (AP) |
AP - In the end, Earl's worst damage in New England was to seasonal businesses hoping to end their summer on a high note.
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| For US Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other (AP) |
AP - American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States — all ahead of a 9/11 anniversary they fear could bring more trouble for their communities.
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| Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86 (AP) |
AP - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating.
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| Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle (AP) |
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.
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