AP News

AP News

- Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding

- Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion

- Data shows jobless claims drop, retail sales rise

- Rapper T.I., wife arrested on drug charges

- Axl Rose tries Dublin's patience, sends crowd home

- Schnabel movie chronicles Mideast conflict

- American teen Capra upsets 18th-seeded Rezai

- US pulls away in 2nd half to rout Tunisia 92-57

- Wozniacki rolls to a double bagel at US Open

- Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks

- Karzai: Afghan govt will back Kabul Bank

- Afghan president says airstrike killed civilians