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Jays hammer Twins with 6 more HRs

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477059&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Jose Bautista hit home runs No. 53 and 54, including a grand slam, and the Toronto Blue Jays went deep six times in a 13-2 victory over the stumbling Minnesota Twins on Thursday night.

Japan jobless rate falls to 5.1 percent in August

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477057&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Japan's jobless rate improved in August, but prices fell for the 18th straight month as a strong yen extended deflation's hold on the economy.

Giants sweep Arizona, clinch tie for NL West title

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477043&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bruce Bochy has said all along the NL West race would probably come down to the season's final weekend — and it will.

NJ student’s suicide illustrates Internet dangers

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477041&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast over the Web illustrates yet again the Internet's alarming potential as a means of tormenting others and raises questions whether young people in the age of Twitter and Facebook can even distinguish public from private.

Blue Jays 13, Twins 2

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477040&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK

Death toll in southern Mexico mudslides up to 32

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477039&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A rain-soaked hillside crumbled and crushed an elderly couple in their home Thursday, and rescuers found more bodies buried by earlier landslides, raising the death toll from a series of slides in southern Mexico to at least 32.

Boehner urges congressional reform as vote nears

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477038&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Jettisoning partisan campaign-season rhetoric, if only for a moment, House Republican leader John Boehner said Thursday that both parties bear the blame for "dysfunction in Congress" and urged lawmakers to adopt a cut-as-you-go-rule to curb their appetite for spending on new federal programs.

AP sources: Emanuel leaving White House on Friday

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477004&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is set to give up his influential national post Friday to begin a run for Chicago mayor, a job he has long coveted but won't win unless he persuades voters he's still one of them.

Calif. governor’s race upended by immigrant maid

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477002&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Meg Whitman's campaign for governor was thrown into turmoil Thursday as the Republican sought to fend off new evidence that she knowingly had an illegal immigrant housekeeper on her payroll for nearly a decade.

McGehee, Hart reach 100 RBIs, Brewers beat Mets

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=84477000&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Casey McGehee got to 100 RBIs in the ninth inning on one of several sloppy plays by the Mets and Corey Hart reached 100 RBIs two batters later as the Milwaukee Brewers beat New York 9-2 Thursday night.