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Hurricane Earl was downgraded to Category 2 today, but forecasters warned it was still “large and strong.” Rain bands have moved onto the coast of North Carolina.

The latest round of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians is starting off much like similar endeavors in the past, but the Obama administration hopes that this time, the outcome will be different.

“Resistance operations” will continue against Israelis despite the arrests of Hamas activists in the West Bank, a Hamas official said Thursday.

An Ohio death row inmate who has repeatedly claimed his innocence was spared execution, after the state’s governor Thursday noted “legitimate questions” about evidence used to convict the man.

A fire on an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico is out and there is no indication of an oil sheen, the Coast Guard said. There were no serious injuries.

Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the oil disaster, said crews are expected to begin efforts Thursday to remove the blowout preventer on BP’s ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Cammie King Conlon, who played the ill-fated Bonnie Blue Butler in “Gone With the Wind,” used to joke “that I peaked at age 5.”

After a week mostly focused on Iraq and Mideast diplomacy, it’s back to the economy for President Barack Obama, who will deliver remarks Friday on the August unemployment numbers.

It’s back-to-school time, which means some in the media have gone back to asking: “What’s wrong with our schools? And how can we fix it?”

A survivor of a massacre in Mexico that left 72 dead advised other would-be migrants to stay at home to avoid a fate like the one he and his companions met.