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• Anti-graft police probe Nigerian stock exchange head over Obama fundraiser

• Panama creates controversial police, intelligence forces to respond to drug crime

• Prosecutor clears officers of criminal wrongdoing in death of NY woman at Phoenix airport

• Man who authorities say wore 'World's Greatest Dad' T-shirt to sex meeting gets 3-20 years

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• Some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan

• Jury finds sex offender guilty of second-degree murder of Fla. teen 3 years ago

• Ky. Supreme Court won't rehear case of inmate seeking to be executed in killings of 2 children

• French actor Jean Reno released from Martinique hospital

• White South African farmer who threw black worker to lions freed from prison

• Spanish couple get to airport late, just miss boarding doomed airliner by minutes

• NY panel investigates lawmaker over claims of sexually explicit e-mails with state employee

• Saudi women get behind the wheel and begin to erode a ban on female drivers

• Man held in 1985 killing of Pa. teen; police say death followed dispute over marijuana plants

• US Virgin Islands man receives life sentence for strangling 12-year-old girl

• Christian groups defy Chinese ban, call quiet missionary work during Olympics a success

• Mexicans call for death penalty against police involved in deadly kidnappings

• NATO says Russia calls halt to military cooperation in response to tensions over Georgia

• Nations exporting nuclear materials discuss lifting India trade ban

• Lawyer Alan Dershowitz to summon Radovan Karadzic in related war crimes case

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AP Washington

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• Congressional committee wants investigation into alleged mismanagement of terror database

• Minnesota poll finds Obama ahead of McCain in Midwestern battleground state

• The administration's evolving rhetoric on timetables for pulling US troops out of Iraq

• Former Sen. Nunn appears dropped from Obama VP consideration; out of country until Monday

AP Business

• Heinz sees gains in quarter, Hormel takes hit, both affected by commodity costs

• Gap's 2nd-quarter profit rises 51 percent, helped by cost-cutting, inventory control

• Economy languishes as July's leading indicators fell sharply, weekly jobless claims improved

• GM announces $500M US investment for small car to be built in Lordstown, Ohio

• FDA allows food producers to zap spinach, lettuce with radiation to kill food-poisoning germs