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• AP IMPACT: Wal-Mart pulls jewelry over cadmium (AP)
• State dinner chef tweets about 'day of creation' (AP)
• Frederick Douglass' church joins endangered list (AP)
• Attorney seeks to combine 100-plus oil lawsuits (AP)
• Death in Detroit raises questions about reality TV (AP)
• US missionary returns to Idaho after Haiti ordeal (AP)
• Mo. auto dealer pleads guilty to aiding al-Qaida (AP)
• 4th member of Midwest militia gets out of jail (AP)
• Consumer inflation vanishes, a boon for borrowers (AP)
• Suspect in Texas sect slayings pleads not guilty (AP)
• Spacewalking 'superhero' untangles cable on boom (AP)
• US top scientists urge coal, oil use penalties (AP)
• Piracy suspect pleads guilty in NY court to hijack (AP)
• La.'s state bird, brown pelican, imperiled by oil (AP)
• Novartis hit with $250M punitive damage award (AP)
• Dems unite for Pa. Senate nominee who beat Specter (AP)

AP IMPACT: Wal-Mart pulls jewelry over cadmium (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT AP - Wal-Mart said Wednesday it is pulling an entire line of Miley Cyrus-brand necklaces and bracelets from its shelves after tests performed for The Associated Press found the jewelry contained high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.

State dinner chef tweets about 'day of creation' (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:19 PM PDT AP - "Got my fingers crossed there are no hitches."

Frederick Douglass' church joins endangered list (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 03:00 PM PDT AP - When chunks of plaster began falling from the ceiling of the national cathedral of African Methodism last year, one of Washington's oldest black congregations nearly had to abandon its sanctuary.

Attorney seeks to combine 100-plus oil lawsuits (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 01:45 PM PDT AP - An attorney wants more than 100 lawsuits filed against BP and other companies involved in the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill combined quickly in a single federal court to avoid what he called legal chaos that could delay potential payments of billions of dollars in damages.

Death in Detroit raises questions about reality TV (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 02:12 PM PDT AP - When police burst into a home in search of a murder suspect, a reality TV crew documented the raid — and may have recorded the death of a 7-year-old girl accidentally killed by an officer.

US missionary returns to Idaho after Haiti ordeal (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 12:53 AM PDT AP - An Idaho businesswoman accused of trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the deadly January earthquake has been returned to her family after three months in a foreign jail.

Mo. auto dealer pleads guilty to aiding al-Qaida (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 05:13 PM PDT AP - A Kansas City auto parts dealer who had sworn allegiance to al-Qaida pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking part in a conspiracy to provide financial support to the terrorist group.

4th member of Midwest militia gets out of jail (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 12:53 PM PDT AP - A fourth member of a Midwest militia accused of plotting to overthrow the government was released from jail Wednesday after prosecutors said they were confident that the strict conditions under which he was set free would ensure the public's safety.

Consumer inflation vanishes, a boon for borrowers (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - Inflation has essentially disappeared, and that gives the Federal Reserve more room to keep interest rates at record lows.

Suspect in Texas sect slayings pleads not guilty (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 10:28 AM PDT AP - A polygamist sect leader's daughter who was a fugitive for nearly 20 years pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges alleging that she helped orchestrate the shotgun killings of three former sect members and an 8-year-old girl.

Spacewalking 'superhero' untangles cable on boom (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 02:02 PM PDT AP - A spacewalking astronaut freed a snagged cable on the inspection boom for shuttle Atlantis on Wednesday, accomplishing the job in a matter of minutes and earning a "superhero" title.

US top scientists urge coal, oil use penalties (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 02:43 PM PDT AP - Ditching its past cautious tone, the nation's top scientists urged the government Wednesday to take drastic action to raise the cost of using coal and oil to slow global warming.

Piracy suspect pleads guilty in NY court to hijack (AP) Posted: 18 May 2010 06:46 PM PDT AP - A Somali suspect who became the boyish face of 21st-century piracy by staging a brazen high-seas attack on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Africa pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges he hijacked the ship and kidnapped its captain.

La.'s state bird, brown pelican, imperiled by oil (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 03:13 AM PDT AP - Hounded by hunters and fishermen, driven to near-extinction by chemical pollution, the brown pelican has survived a century of human abuse â€" only to face another challenge from the giant oil spill threatening to devastate the Gulf of Mexico marine environment.

Novartis hit with $250M punitive damage award (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 11:12 AM PDT AP - A jury that found Novartis discriminated against women by paying them less than men, promoting fewer of them and allowing a hostile workplace awarded $250 million in punitive damages on Wednesday.

Dems unite for Pa. Senate nominee who beat Specter (AP) Posted: 19 May 2010 04:31 PM PDT AP - Democratic Party leaders and labor unions began lining up Wednesday behind the party nominee whom they had fought to defeat in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate primary as the Republican opponent attacked him as too liberal for the state's voters.

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