About AP (Associated Press)

Founded in 1848, The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video for more than one billion people a day. The Associated Press has received 47 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in the categories for which it can compete. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with 3,700 employees working in more than 240 worldwide bureaus.

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An armed band involved in an overnight standoff with police outside the showboat casino in Atlantic city has surrendered peacefully. Police recalled after security reported a man on the shuttle bus with a gun ,three people were briefly held hostages on the bus, no one was hurt.

The NY Times reported that FBI agents found no evidence that Blackwater security guards were fired on during the the September incident that let 17 Iraqi civilians dead. The FBI report finds the guards were unjustified in killing at least 14 of the civilians.

Congressional Democrats say President Bush will not get any more money for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unless he agrees to end all combats in Iraq by December of the next year. For the House of Senate will vote by the end of the week on the 50 billion dollar plan. Bush promises veto of any bill containing of a timetable for withdraw.

A Globe that once belong to Adolf Hitler has sold at an auction for 100,000 dollars. An Amercian soldier found the globe among the rooms of Hitler's eagle's nest in May of 1945. John Barsamian took it home and kept it for more than 60 years.

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