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<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T22:09:35Z">2010-09-03T22:09:35Z</span> <div class="entry-content">WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">BOB SALSBERG </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-04T02:19:46Z">2010-09-04T02:19:46Z</span> <div class="entry-content">CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) -- 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....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">RAY LILLEY </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-04T01:37:57Z">2010-09-04T01:37:57Z</span> <div class="entry-content">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....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MATTHEW LEE </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T23:07:42Z">2010-09-03T23:07:42Z</span> <div class="entry-content">WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">DAVID B. CARUSO </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T23:05:18Z">2010-09-03T23:05:18Z</span> <div class="entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near ground zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ALESSANDRA RIZZO and DAN PERRY </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T23:09:25Z">2010-09-03T23:09:25Z</span> <div class="entry-content">CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">JOE MANDAK </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T23:10:23Z">2010-09-03T23:10:23Z</span> <div class="entry-content">PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was "100 percent" effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">LYNN ELBER </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-04T01:25:38Z">2010-09-04T01:25:38Z</span> <div class="entry-content">LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kara DioGuardi is following Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell out the door at "American Idol."...</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">LINDA DEUTSCH </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T23:13:02Z">2010-09-03T23:13:02Z</span> <div class="entry-content">LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A witness in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial recanted statements Friday that he saw defendant Howard K. Stern give the celebrity model excessive drugs....</div> </div>

<div class="hnews hentry item"> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ALAN ROBINSON </span></span> <span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T23:56:13Z">2010-09-03T23:56:13Z</span> <div class="entry-content">PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger isn't the only Steelers quarterback who might be out for four weeks....</div> </div>