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A group of religious leaders joined Muslims in denouncing what they call "derision" and "bigotry" being directed at American Muslims as a result of the proposed Ground Zero mosque and Islamic cultural center.

As of Sunday, Sept. 5, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a backlog of fugitive illegal aliens of 506,232 people. This is slightly larger than the entire population of the city of Sacramento, California, currently at 466,687.

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Despite the rise in unemployment to 9.6 percent, the U.S. economy is doing better and President Barack Obama is introducing further measures for long-term growth, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday.

A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.

The White House says an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops serving overseas, and the State Department denounced the plan as "un-American."

President Barack Obama used the terms "invest," "investing" or "investment" seven times in his Labor Day speech to describe federal spending and special-interest tax breaks.

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie said as businesses sit back and wait to see what happens next in Washington, people remain unemployed.

American movie star Angelina Jolie met flood victims in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday and appealed to the international community to provide aid needed to help the country recover from its worst natural disaster.

The president will outline the proposal during a speech on the economy in Cleveland Wednesday.

David Limbaugh's new book, Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list on Sunday.

President Barack Obama, who has been campaigning for months, told a Labor Day gathering in Milwaukee on Monday that he has a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads and rails and runways.

Abbas has said he'll quit peace talks with Israel unless the restrictions remain in place.

One of the risks is that Islamist militants could seize on growing anger to increase support for their war against the state.

At a Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, Obama said Republicans are betting that between now and the Nov. 2 elections, Americans will forget the Republican economic policies that led to the recession.

Daisy Khan said her husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, planned to comment later this week on plans for a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero.

The fire broke out Monday morning in Four Mile Canyon northwest of Boulder and spread rapidly amid erratic 45-mph wind gusts, which sometimes sent the fire in two directions at once.

Global automakers seeking to offset lagging sales elsewhere have benefited hugely from China's fast-growing market, where sales this year are expected to rise by about 20 percent.

This year's volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle for control of Congress amid looser but still fuzzy campaign finance rules.