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Avon Products Inc., a direct seller of beauty products, agreed to buy Silpada Designs in an effort to expand its jewelry business.

Gay NASCAR Driver Evan Darling Likes Living on the Edge

By John Blanchette | Sep 9
The only openly gay NASCAR Grand Am driver, Evan Darling has been going full bore since the time he was a boy racing big wheels and BMX bikes.

Quran Book Burning Backlash

Thursday Sep 9, 2010
Religious and political leaders are voicing their outrage against Rev. Terry Jones’ plans to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Kelly Cobiella reports.
Protesters hold a banner reading "Stop to Racism" in Serbian Latin letters during a protest in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Dozens of Roma held a protest march in support for the Roma in France in central Belgrade on Saturday. The protesters chanted anti-racist slogans and held banners calling for an end to expulsions of Roma in France.

Serbian Gays Plan First Pride March In Years

By Associated Press | Wednesday Sep 8, 2010
Organizers are planning Serbia’s first gay pride march in nearly a decade next month - after the one last year was canceled amid threats of violence by extremists.
In this Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman speaks in Folsom, Calif.

No recession here: Election spending sets records

By Jim Kuhnhenn | Tuesday Sep 7, 2010
Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry.
Gen. David Petraeus

Top US commander: Burning Quran endangers troops

By Kimberly Dozier | Tuesday Sep 7, 2010
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church’s threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.

Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon

By Mark Sherman | Tuesday Sep 7, 2010
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.
Rich LaPierre, a Hallmark Cards Inc. designer for the Peanuts line, works on artwork during a 100-year anniversary reception at the company’s headquarter Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online.

Greeting Card Giant Hallmark Heads Into Second Hundred Years

By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Tuesday Sep 7, 2010
Hallmark Cards Inc., a $4 billion empire built on a demand for printed sentimentality, enters its second century facing a weak economy and what could be an even greater challenge: a generation that has grown up posting its sentiments online.
Delaware Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del. is seen at the Festival Hispano in Millsboro, Del., in this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010

Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains

By David Espo | Monday Sep 6, 2010
In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It’s the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate.
In this Sept. 1, 2010 picture, construction continues at the World Trade Center site in New York.

9 years gone, everyone’s a ground zero stakeholder

By Samantha Gross | Monday Sep 6, 2010
It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It’s a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site - which is also what it is.

’Dancing Shrimp’ In Pain : Removed from Menu

By Associated Press | Sunday Sep 5, 2010
A Sacramento restaurant agreed to stop serving live shrimp after an animal-rights group said the practice was cruel to the shellfish.
In this Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 file photo, hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters march through San Francisco celebrating a federal judge’s decision overturning California’s same-sex marriage ban on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay rights supporters by urging a federal judge to allow gay couples to resume marrying in the state without further delay.

Court Won’t Force Calif Officials to Defend Prop 8

By Associated Press | Saturday Sep 4, 2010
A California court has refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a ruling that overturned the state’s gay marriage ban.