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Today at 8:56 AM  A federal judge said she will issue an order to halt the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, after she declared the ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional.

Today at 6:35 AM  If the lion can lie down with the lamb, can a skin-crawly preacher from Gainesville, Fla., get an Islamic leader to move a mosque farther away from ground zero in New York?

Today at 5:37 AM  A Northern California fire chief says one fatality has been confirmed in amassive blast and fire in a residential neighborhood south of San Francisco.

Today at 5:27 AM  Update: The leader of a tiny Florida church says he won't follow through on a plan to burn copies of Islam's holy text if he's able to meet Saturday with the organizers behind a mosque planned near ground zero in New York.

Today at 5:19 AM  A food plant where a just-suspended employee allegedly shot and killed two people Thursday night in Philadelphia is closed until further notice.

Today at 5:16 AM  A Colorado wildfire that's destroyed 170 homes shows no signs of relenting as wind gusts fuel fears that flames could move east from the foothills into the heart of Boulder.

Today at 5:14 AM  A White House official says President Barack Obama has chosen economist Austan Goolsbee to be the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers.

Yesterday at 5:22 PM  A Christian minister in Florida cancels plans to burn Qurans on Sept. 11, heeding outcry

Yesterday at 4:19 PM  Florida minister says he might change his mind.

Yesterday at 3:09 PM  Facing devastating poll numbers and prospects of high double-digit losses, Democratic House and Senate candidates have spent much of the summer trying to localize races while characterizing GOP rivals as extremes who would gut Social Security and Medicare.

Yesterday at 1:55 PM  Alabama seafood market owner David Scott can accept a piece of BP's $20 billion claims fund — relatively fast, easy money — or sue the oil giant for a bigger payday, wait years and risk ending up with nothing.

Yesterday at 1:41 PM  All evidence suggests that the once-sacrosanct nature of a day when candidates used to clear their schedules except for the most solemn and intimate of events and take down their television ads has fundamentally changed.

Yesterday at 5:52 AM  Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday he would closely monitor what happens Saturday at the Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville to try to ensure people are safe

Yesterday at 5:34 AM  The imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero cautioned Wednesday that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security.

Yesterday at 5:28 AM  The government says the number of people dying on the nation's roads has reached its lowest level in six decades.