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Slowing economic rebound raises unemployment fears (AP)

In this photograph taken July 22, 2010, employees sort garlic cloves at the Christopher Ranch, in Gilroy, Calif. The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - The recovery is losing so much momentum that employers are unlikely to step up hiring anytime this year, and unemployment could return to double digits.


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July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP)

NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.


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Incoming BP CEO: Time for 'scaleback' in cleanup (AP)

James Lee Witt, right, listens to BP PLC CEO of Gulf Coast Restoration Organization Bob Dudley as he speaks at a news conference to announce Witt's hiring as an advisor to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill response in Biloxi, Miss., Friday, July 30, 2010. Witt, the former FEMA director under President Bill Clinton, is expected to advise BP through its long-term response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but stressed the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.


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White House: Don't post more secret war papers (AP)
AP - The White House is imploring the website WikiLeaks not to post any more classified documents about the Afghanistan war, saying U.S. national security and Afghan lives are at risk.
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Bill Clinton emerges on Chelsea's NY wedding eve (AP)

Temporary parking regulation signs are posted in front of the Beekman Inn Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in Rhinebeck, N.Y.  Chelsea Clinton and her parents have not yet confirmed that the former first daughter's wedding  is being held in Rhinebeck Saturday. Still, signs congratulating her hang in shop windows, residents are talking to TV crews and officials are bracing for crowds. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Former President Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.


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