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• Goats rescued after 2 days on 6-inch ledge in Mont (AP)

  AP - Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from their perch, hungry but safe.

  
  

• Gibbs Defends Obama's Efforts to Help House Democrats (CQPolitics.com)

  CQPolitics.com - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Thursday defended President Barack Obama's track record of campaigning for House Democrats as new polling shows their party taking a nose dive.

  
  

• Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? (LiveScience.com)

  LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.

• Federer beats Beck to move into Open's 3rd round (AP)

  AP - Five-time champion Roger Federer has breezed into the third round at the U.S. Open, serving 15 aces in beating 104th-ranked Andreas Beck of Germany 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

  
  

• Climate change puts China harvests at risk (AFP)

  AFP - Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.

  
  

• Verizon to sell smart phones for prepaid service (AP)

  AP - Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced it's opening up access to smart phones for customers who prepay for service, such as people with poor credit and those who don't want to be tied down by long-term contracts.

• Earl weakens but still powerful as it passes NC (AP)

  AP - The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 mph winds early Friday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and perhaps most destructive stop on the storm's projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.

  
  

• Illegal Immigration Has Declined: Why? (The Atlantic Wire)

  The Atlantic Wire - A new study from the Pew Hispanic Center finds that illegal immigration is down. Annual inflow between 2007 and 2009 was roughly two-thirds less than between 2000 and 2005, report Pew authors Jeffrey Passel and D'Vera Cohn. Furthermore, "the most marked decline in the population of unauthorized immigrants has been among those who come from Latin American countries other than Mexico."

  
  

• Obama Unpopular Ahead of Midterms: Will the GOP Benefit? (Time.com)

  Time.com - Nine weeks before the midterm elections, Barack Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the polls. Where did all that adoration go -- and is a Republican sweep next?

  
  

• Axl Rose tries Dublin's patience, sends crowd home (AP)

  AP - Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience - and a much louder alarm clock.

• Mexico: Soldiers kill 25 in troubled border state (AP)

  AP - Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected cartel members Thursday in a raid and gunbattle in a Mexican state near the U.S. border that has become one of the most dangerous battlegrounds in the country's drug war.

  
  

• Can home cooking be hazardous to your health? (AP)

  AP - Could your kitchen at home pass a restaurant inspection?

• Canadian parents more lenient than Italians and French (Reuters)

  Reuters - Canadian parents are more lenient with their children than mothers and fathers in France and Italy, according to a new study.

• Top Obama ally: Democrats will hold the US Congress (AFP)

  AFP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies will defy glum forecasts of a rout in November elections and keep control of the House and Senate, one of the party's congressional leaders said Thursday.

  
  

• No sign of oil leak after Gulf of Mexico rig blast: company (AFP)

  AFP - There is no sign of an oil spill after a rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for rig operator Mariner Energy said.

  
  

• Appeals court rules against Ravens in logo dispute (AP)

  AP - A federal appeals court has ruled against the Baltimore Ravens and the National Football league in a copyright dispute over the team's original logo.

• Hurricane Earl rakes U.S. East Coast with wind, rain (Reuters)

  Reuters - Hurricane Earl raked North Carolina's barrier islands with gusting winds, pounding surf and rain on Thursday as it took a swipe at the U.S. East Coast on an offshore path toward New England and Canada.

  
  

• Summary Box: Burger King agrees to $3.26B buyout (AP)

  AP - THE DEAL: Burger King Holdings Inc. is selling itself to investment firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion.

  
  

• More Dems buck plan to let taxes increase for rich (AP)

  AP - Congress seems increasingly reluctant to let taxes go up, even on wealthier Americans.

  
  

• OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM (Ann Coulter)

  Ann Coulter - The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.