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    Petraeus: Quran-burning could endanger troops
    The U.S. commander in Afghanistan criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning that it could endanger American troops.


    Obama economic push: Too little, late?
    President Obama is rushing to roll out a new economic plan this week, but his fellow Democrats are confronting a difficult question: Is it too little, too late?


    Hurricane watch issued for TX, Mexico
    A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said.


    Paper: Van der Sloot admits extortion
    Joran van der Sloot admitted in an interview with a Dutch newspaper that he extorted money from the family of Natalee Holloway, but his attorney in a Peruvian murder case suggested Monday that his client's comments may have been mistranslated.


    Google mulling iTunes-like service?
    Apple may get a nasty surprise this holiday season; rumors are swirling that Google's Andy Rubin is planning on a holiday-season launch for the search behemoth's new music download service.


    'Little Rock Nine' member dies
    As a 15-year-old, Jefferson Thomas was one of nine African-American students who braved mobs to integrate an all-white school. Thomas died Sunday of cancer at age 67.


    'Plan B' on hold at Chilean mine
    Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.


    Help sought after spy found dead in bag
    Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month's death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom.


    Ex-ELO member killed in freak accident
    A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay, local police said.


    'Vicious thugs' kill pizza delivery man
    Boston police have arrested three suspects who they say stabbed a Domino's pizza delivery man and drove off in his car.