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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
AUSTIN, Texas â€" George W. Bush's successor as Texas governor, Rick Perry, says he may run for president, as Republicans sift through an increasingly crowded field of contenders for a standout candidate to take on President Barack Obama in next year's election.
HONDURAS-ZELAYA RETURN
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras â€" The 2009 coup that was staged to maintain the interests of Honduras' political and business elite in the end may have created a window for change in one of the Americas' poorest countries, where more than 65 percent of the people live in poverty. By Freddy Cuevas. AP Photos.
CANADA-GENDERLESS-BABY
TORONTO â€" A Canadian couple says it's none of the world's business to know their baby's gender despite a firestorm of criticism over their controversial decision to keep the infant's sex a secret. By Rob Gillies. AP Photos.
PORN INDUSTRY-CONDOMS
LOS ANGELES â€" Porn performers in California would be required to use condoms in sex scenes if draft rules from state workplace safety officials advance out of the proposal phase. By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer.
PHIL SPECTOR
LOS ANGELES â€" An appeals court refuses to reconsider music producer Phil Spector's appeal of his murder conviction, saying there was overwhelming evidence of his guilt. By Linda Deutsch.
SPACE SHUTTLE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida â€" NASA completes its part in the construction of the International Space Station, with the final spacewalkers in the 30-year shuttle program attaching an extension boom. By Marcia Dunn. AP Photos.
PERU-ANTI-MINING PROTEST
PUNO, Peru â€" Heavily outnumbered police hole up in their barracks in this paralyzed regional capital during a second day of rioting by indigenous protesters opposed to a planned silver mine in Peru's southern highlands. By Carlos Guerrero. AP Photos.
JAMAICA-JAMAICAN JIHADIST
KINGSTON, Jamaica â€" U.S. diplomats have expressed concern that an Islamic cleric convicted of whipping up racial hatred among Muslim converts in Britain might do the same thing in his homeland of Jamaica, according to a leaked cable from the island's U.S. Embassy. By David McFadden.
CHILE-ALLENDE AUTOPSY
SANTIAGO, Chile â€" A dental review has confirmed that the remains pulled from Salvador Allende's tomb in Chile are those of of the deposed president, a judge says. By Federico Quilodran and Eva Vergara. AP Photos.
MEXICO-PRISON DEPORTATIONS
MEXICO CITY â€" Mexico's border mayors say they are worried about a possible surge in deportations of criminals to their cities after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordered California to reduce its prison population by 33,000. By Mark Stevenson.
BLACKBEARD'S SHIP
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina â€" Archaeologists recover the first anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship off the North Carolina coast Friday, a move that might change plans about how to save the rest of the almost 300-year-old artifacts from the central part of the ship. By Martha Waggoner. AP Photos.
DEMJANJUK
CLEVELAND â€" Convicted of Nazi war crimes, in failing health at age 91 and lacking a country to call home, John Demjanjuk lives in a world with few allies, save for the fellow Ukrainians who are determined to help a man many of them say was a victim. By Thomas J. Sheeran. AP Photos.
OBIT-JEFF CONAWAY
LOS ANGELES â€" Jeff Conaway, who starred in the TV comedy series "Taxi," played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical "Grease" and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on the reality show "Celebrity Rehab," dies at 60. By Lynn Elber. AP Photo.
OBIT-GIL SCOTT-HERON
NEW YORK â€" Gil Scott-Heron, the author of the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" â€" which helped pioneer sounds that would fuse to become rap â€" has died in New York City at 62.
BUSINESS:
GOOGLE-PAYPAL
SAN FRANCISCO â€" Google Inc.'s ambitious plan to supplant credit cards with smartphones has thrust the Internet search leader into a legal tussle with online payment pioneer PayPal, which contends Google stole its ideas by hiring away two key executives. By Michael Liedtke.
FACEBOOK LAWSUIT
BUFFALO, New York â€" Attorneys for Facebook Inc. are calling a man's federal lawsuit claiming part ownership of the company "a fraud on the court." In their latest legal response, Facebook attorneys accuse Paul Ceglia of doctoring a 2003 contract that he says proves he bought into Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's idea for the site when Zuckerberg was a Harvard University freshman. By Carolyn Thompson.
CANADA-HUFFINGTON POST
TORONTO â€" Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the popular news hub The Huffington Post, is expanding to Canada in the first of several planned openings abroad. By Charmaine Noronha. AP Photo.
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