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The agency that oversees offshore drilling will investigate the fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Authorities say an airport screener spotted something suspicious in a checked back, and a police bomb squad spent hours scouring the airport.

The Coast Guard says there are no immediate signs of a spill from an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.

Engineers have removed the temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing from BP's ruptured well into Gulf of Mexico.

A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to the founder of a local steel company who was believed to be among the dead.

Both supporters and opponents of a proposed Islamic cultural center are being asked to stand against rallies planned for the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

World War II veterans, their families and officials marked the 65th anniversary of the end of that war on board the same ship where Japan formally surrendered in 1945.

Federal authorities are accusing six people of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work in what the FBI calls the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan says an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The military says a chaplain who died in Afghanistan is the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War.