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Monday, July 6, 2009 - Page updated at 08:40 a.m.

Latest AP Nation/World news

Updated at 08:41 a.m.

AdWatch: TV ad war begins over health overhaul

Russians offered football during Obama conference

Sarkozy, Brown push against tax havens

Israeli foreign minister: I'm not being sidelined

Mass. mom pleads not guilty to denying son meds

Public memorial, viewings set for ex-QB McNair

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Janet Francis looks at job postings at the New York State Department of Labor in Brooklyn on Thursday. Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate hit a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Francis, 36, has been unemployed for two years and has used the time to work toward her college degree in social work.

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Janet Francis looks at job postings at the New York State Department of Labor in Brooklyn on Thursday. Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate hit a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Francis, 36, has been unemployed for two years and has used the time to work toward her college degree in social work. Read story

UPDATE - 08:03 AM

Service sector shrinks less than expected in June

A trade group's measure of the health of the U.S. services sector contracted less than expected in June, reaching its highest level in nine months.

UPDATE - 08:30 AM

Obama, Medvedev agree to pursue nuclear reduction

Ousted Honduras leader blocked from return by air

Pakistan attack targets nuclear lab workers

UPDATE - 08:32 AM

Bankruptcy judge OKs GM sale plan, appeal looms

UPDATE - 08:40 AM

Knox trial: Witness says weapon and wound not compatible

Nuclear-arms control heads Obama's Moscow agenda

Jackson worth $100M more than he owed?

UPDATE - 08:38 AM

6 US troops killed in Afghanistan

Israel free to set own Iran path, Biden says

UPDATE - 07:55 AM

Oxfam to G-8: Climate change will spread hunger

Sandstorms in Iraq debilitating

Saddam's gun may go on display as memento at Bush presidential library

UPDATE - 07:55 AM

About 100 firefighters battle blaze at Wis. plant

Berlin school closed due to swine flu

UPDATE - 08:01 AM

Dalai Lama turns 74, says should live to 100

NEW - 07:50 AM

Plant shutdown reignites German nuclear spat

UPDATE - 07:58 AM

Report: Mugabe calls top US official 'an idiot'

NEW - 07:35 AM

Researchers study 'personality traits' of cars

Takeo Doi, scholar on Japanese psyche, dies

UPDATE - 07:56 AM

World's oldest Christian Bible digitized

FBI denounces rumors: Palin not investigated

Honduran military told to turn back Zelaya's jet

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Obama warns of 'difficult' days in Iraq, pledges support for troops

Top Iran clerics decry election, defy supreme leader

Sailor recounts girl's rescue after plane crash

Obituary | Beijing opera singer inspired 'Madame Butterfly'

Bill fails to focus on cutting oil use

Churches look for flock on social-networking Web sites

Michael Jackson's doctors scrutinized; drugs prescribed by at least five

Minority GOP gets creative to flex muscle

Park service reopens Statue of Liberty's crown to public

Remains merely deepen the mystery of lost wanderer

Odds and Ends | 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes: American Joey Chestnut wins hot-dog eating contest

Saturday, July 4

Palin links resignation to 'higher calling' and blasts media in Facebook posting

 

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