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Rep. Todd Akin raises $1.6 million for Senate bid

By HENRY C. JACKSON and KEVIN FREKINGAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Missouri Rep. Todd Akin raised about $1.6 million for his Senate bid in the months after Republican Party officials sought to distance themselves from his comments on "legitimate rape," according to his filings with the

Gallup study: 3.4 percent of US adults are LGBT

By DAVID CRARYAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A new Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The findings, released Thursday, were based on interviews with more than 121,000 people.

''Obama" filmmaker out at NY evangelical college

By RACHEL ZOLLAP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The conservative scholar behind a high-grossing film that condemns President Barack Obama resigned Thursday as head of an evangelical college following a report about his engagement to a woman while still legally married to his wife. The board of

US sees potential for wider anti-Taliban uprising

By ROBERT BURNSAP National Security Writer AB BAND, Afghanistan (AP) - Fed up with the Taliban closing their schools and committing other acts of oppression, men in a village about 100 miles south of Kabul took up arms late last spring and chased out the insurgents with no help from the Afghan