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

- Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail

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

- Wozniacki rolls to a double bagel at US Open

- American teen Capra upsets 18th-seeded Rezai

- Afghan president says airstrike killed civilians

- UN to release Congo 'genocide' report in October

- Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown