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1. Spiders create giant web AP - Thu Aug 30, 7:02 AM ET Sent 4,194 time

   WILLS POINT, Texas - Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

2. Judge: Same-sex couples can wed in Iowa AP - 42 minutes ago Sent 609 times

   DES MOINES, Iowa - A county judge struck down Iowa's decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples.

3. China kung fu monks seek apology for ninja affront Reuters - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago Sent 168 times

   BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an Internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported on Friday.

4. China says one-child policy helps protect climate Reuters - Thu Aug 30, 5:27 PM ET Sent 165 times

   VIENNA (Reuters) - China says its one-child policy has helped the fight against global warming by avoiding 300 million births, the equivalent of the population of the United States.

5. Europeans back Hillary Clinton for US president: poll AFP - Wed Aug 29, 7:53 PM ET Sent 162 times

   MONTREAL (AFP) - More than four in 10 French and Germans would like to see Democratic candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton elected US president in 2008, a survey by a Canadian pollster showed on Wednesday.

6. Sen. Craig to police: 'I'm not gay' AP - 51 minutes ago Sent 119 times

   WASHINGTON - Minutes after he was arrested for lewd conduct, Sen. Larry Craig denied soliciting an undercover officer for sex in a men's bathroom and pleaded, "I'm not gay. I don't do these kinds of things."

7. Boy, 9, charged in baby's fatal beating AP - Thu Aug 30, 11:42 PM ET Sent 104 times

   TRENTON, N.J. - An 11-month-old boy was fatally beaten at a home day center, and authorities have charged a 9-year-old boy also attending the day care with the death and the center's owner with putting the child in harm's way.

8. Texas governor spares getaway driver AP - Thu Aug 30, 6:03 PM ET Sent 96 times

   HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Gov. Rick Perry, longtime head of the nation's busiest death penalty state, spared an inmate Thursday hours before he was to have been executed for being a killer's getaway driver.

9. Big Oil did not manipulate U.S. gasoline prices: FTC Reuters - Thu Aug 30, 3:11 PM ET Sent 67 times

   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big oil companies did not conspire to raise U.S. gasoline prices last summer, as it was high crude oil costs and supply problems that caused the spike in pump prices, government investigators said on Thursday.

10. Study predicts more severe U.S. storms AP - Thu Aug 30, 6:58 PM ET Sent 66 times

    WASHINGTON - As the world warms, the United States will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests.