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AP Top Headlines At 7 a.m. EDT
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Mud buries Guatemala bus, 2nd slide kills rescuers
By MOISES CASTILLO
2010-09-06T10:55:53Z
NAHUALA, Guatemala (AP) -- When news came over the radio that a landslide had buried two pickup trucks and a bus along a major highway, Suagustino Pascual Tuy and others rushed to the rescue, picks and shovels in hand....
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Officials: Obama to back infrastructure spending
By JULIE PACE
2010-09-06T10:05:08Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and airports that would cost at least $50 billion, administration officials said....
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Massive earthquake sets back NZ economic recovery
By ROB GRIFFITH
2010-09-06T10:04:44Z
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch....
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Va. woman devours 181 chicken wings in NY contest
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR
2010-09-06T09:32:39Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Black Widow of eating contests gobbled up nearly 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, devouring the national championship record in Buffalo on Sunday....
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Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people
By RIAZ KHAN
2010-09-06T09:24:15Z
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes....
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Tropical Storm Hermine forms in the Gulf of Mexico
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2010-09-06T09:10:31Z
MIAMI (AP) -- Tropical Storm Hermine has formed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas....
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Israeli FM: Settlement slowdown will end
By MATTI FRIEDMAN
2010-09-06T08:47:51Z
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's hard-line foreign minister said Sunday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations....
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Williams, Querrey play the US Open numbers game
By EDDIE PELLS
2010-09-06T07:17:47Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- Venus Williams says 30 is the new 20. Sam Querrey likes to think 20 could be No. 1....
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Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle
By BARBARA SURK
2010-09-05T20:52:41Z
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens....
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Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MICHAEL LIEDTKE
2010-09-05T17:54:53Z
Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay - or none at all....
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