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American Muslim organization is asking the U.S. Army to deny a Muslim soldier's request for conscientious objector status, accusing him of treason and urging the military to punish him to the full extent of law

Fox News Poll: Obama Approval Up From Summer Low

Gates: 'Tough Days Ahead' in Afghan South | VIDEO

Fox News Poll: Americans Say Iraq War Worth It

Second fire at an offshore oil facilities in less than five months has spurred some to press the Obama administration to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling, but critics of that plan say the arguments fall flat.

BP Removes Blowout Preventer From Well

New employment figures renew GOP's call for Obama to replace his economic team, as the president sought to put the best face on what many say is just more evidence of an economy stuck in neutral | VIDEO

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Fox News Poll: Low Confidence That Obama Can Fix Economy

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Fact-Checking Dems on Jobs

After weakening to Category 1 storm, a hurricane warning remains in effect for southeastern Massachusetts, where forecasters say fierce winds and heavy rains pose a threat to the region | |

FULL COVERAGE: Hurricane Earl

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Bethany Storro doesn't usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later.

When the month of Ramadan began, I received a letter from Laura Fattal, the mother of one of the three young American hikers detained in Iran. In it, Fattal appealed to me, the first Muslim scholar she had contacted, to intervene on behalf of her son and his two friends.

Hurricane Earl weakened to a Category 1 storm Friday with winds of 85 mph, but the Northeast was still preparing to feel its fury.

An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak has shed some light on the dark practice of installing stealth-mode P2P clients during game downloads and using unsuspecting gamers' PCs as 'bandwidth slaves.' The clients operate in the background and largely go unnoticed until problems arise that are caused by overactive uploading/seeding. While the Akamai NetSession Interface and Pando Media Booster are specifically called out, there appear to be other offenders as indicated in the comments left by TorrentFreak readers. A publisher called Solid State Networks is putting out a call for an industry-wide 'best practices' effort to promote transparency, control and privacy on behalf of gamers who are otherwise being abused for their bandwidth without their consent."

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