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More than 100 are injured in the assault on a Shiite procession in Quetta, which comes two days after similar attacks on Shiites in Lahore. A suicide bombing Friday targeting a Shiite procession in the southern city of Quetta killed 58 people and injured more than 100 others, police said. The explosion came two days [...]

The latest government figures show hiring remains lackluster, with the nation’s jobless rate rising to 9.6% in August. Pressure on President Obama to do something about the weakening economy intensified Friday with new government data showing that hiring remains lackluster, nudging the nation’s unemployment rate up to 9.6%.

Having given her campaign $104 million, the GOP candidate buys TV, direct mail and a Web presence. Yet she and Jerry Brown are in a statistical dead heat. Meg Whitman’s record-breaking spending in the race for governor has enabled her campaign to blanket California with more TV ads and mailers than any other in state [...]

The Hindu Platform fire expands worry on oil drilling Boston Globe Workers from an oil platform that caught fire Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico jumped into the sea and were quickly rescued. (AFP/Getty Images) By David A. Fahrenthold WASHINGTON — The fire at an oil platform off the Louisiana coast on Thursday may not, [...]

CNN’s John King talks about the recovering economy with his political panel.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who gained fame defending the state’s immigration law and warning of border violence, says her claim that headless bodies were turning up in state was ‘an error.’

A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor – a wounded Ecuadorean – and the two fled together, an official said Friday.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand’s South Island early Saturday, but there were so far no deaths and only two injuries reported.

Inspectors say no pollution has leaked from a Gulf of Mexico oil platform that exploded in flames and sent 13 workers escaping into the sea.

Reuters India Texas watchdog reviews Google's practices Financial Times Google disclosed on Friday that Texas regulators have launched the first broad antitrust review of its search and advertising practices in the US. The move is the latest of a growing number of fights the company faces … Texas opens inquiry into Google search rankings The [...]

National Geographic Cape Cod greets Earl with plywood and grumbling Reuters The windows of Cranberry Real Estate are boarded up and marked with a message to the looming storm in West Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, September 3, 2010. By Scott Malone CHATHAM, Massachusetts (Reuters) – Residents and business owners in the … Earl Weakens, [...]

The Irrawaddy News Magazine Indictment Accuses Firm of Exploiting Thai Workers New York Times A federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted six labor contractors from a Los Angeles manpower company on charges that they imposed forced labor on some 400 Thai farm workers, in what justice officials called the biggest … Head of alleged [...]

Reuters Inspectors don't find oil leaking at platform CNBC WASHINGTON – The Interior Department said late on Friday that government inspectors did not find any oil leaking from Mariner Energy's platform that burned in the Gulf of Mexico. "Inspectors have reported no sign of pollution coming from Mariner Energy … Coast Guard: Sheen not likely [...]

Reuters India Texas Investigates Whether Google Is Distorting Search Results New York Times The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, the first United States case to strike at the heart of the company's main search business. The issue at hand — referred to as … Texas watchdog [...]

The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, striking at the heart of its main search business.

USA Today Earl Weakens, Claims Victim Wall Street Journal Even as Hurricane Earl appeared to weaken on Friday, elected officials, utility companies and public transportation officials were putting the final touches on storm preparations in Greater New York. As of Friday afternoon, … Outer bands of Hurricane Earl lash the Cape and Islands Boston Globe [...]