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The last ferries have pulled away from North Carolina's barrier islands, as Hurricane Earl closes in with winds near 125 miles an hour.

Firefighting vessels are battling a fire on an oil platform off the Louisiana Coast, while the Coast Guard monitors a spreading oil sheen.

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan says an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The military says a chaplain who died in Afghanistan is the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War.

A lawyer for Joe Halderman says the former CBS news producer is looking for work.

Engineers don't expect to see another gusher when they delicately remove a cap on the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well that spawned the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Kia Motors is recalling about 35,000 Soul and Sorento vehicles to fix wiring in the interior lighting panels that could lead to fires.

A Detroit-area woman who was removed from a jury for declaring the defendant guilty on Facebook before the trial was over has been ordered to pay $250 and write an essay about the constitutional right to a fair trial.

Retailers are reporting surprisingly solid gains for August even as unusually hot weather and job worries kept a lid on back-to-school buying.

A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body, took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said.