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• AP Top News at 8:30 a.m. EDT

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A second House Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters of California, could face an ethics trial this fall, further complicating the election outlook for the party as it battles to retain its majority. People familiar with the investigation, who were not authorized to be quoted about charges.…

• Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law

  A federal appeals court has decided not to step into the controversy over Arizona's tough immigration law until November, leaving state officials to consider other steps they might take in the meantime.

• The big day: Chelsea Clinton to wed in upstate NY

  Chelsea Clinton was poised to marry her longtime boyfriend at an exclusive estate along New York's Hudson River after weeks of intrigue, secrecy and buzz that caused hundreds to crowd into this small village hoping to catch of a glimpse of a former president, a secretary of state or their...

• Gore will not be charged over masseuse allegations

  

  The case of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and the massage therapist has been closed.
  Former Vice President Al Gore was cleared Friday of allegations he groped and assaulted a masseuse in a luxury Portland hotel room in 2006.

• Air tanker drops fire retardant, slows LA wildfire

  

  Water-dropping aircraft slowed the progress of a wildfire that was bearing down on hundreds of homes in the high desert north of Los Angeles.
  The blaze had consumed 20 square miles of brush, jumped an aqueduct and menaced power lines that deliver electricity to Southern California.

Washington News

• California Rep. Waters may face fall ethics trial 15 min ago
• Obama: Rangel case troubling; some Dems say resign 7:16 AM
• Obama decries GOP over small business lending bill 7:14 AM
• Paperwork nightmare: A struggle to fix new law 6:16 AM
• House approves oil spill bill; stalled in Senate
• Obama visits spy museum
• NY reps. bicker over 9/11 responder bill's defeat
• Obama calls charges against Rangel 'troubling'
• Obama visits spy museum
• Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration

Business news

• ICICI Bank profit up 17 percent on better loans 7:18 AM
  
• Obama decries GOP over small business lending bill 7:14 AM
  
• Debris in relief well sets back work on gusher 7:14 AM
  
• Poles hope deadly knights will now bring some good 7:03 AM
  
• Paperwork nightmare: A struggle to fix new law 6:16 AM
  

AP Entertainment

• Veteran Italian screenwriter Cecchi D'Amico dies 16 min ago
• Snooki of 'Jersey Shore' arrested in NJ beach town 7:16 AM
• Germany: memorial service for Love Parade victims 6:31 AM
• Snooki of 'Jersey Shore' arrested in NJ beach town
• Heidi Montag files for divorce from Spencer Pratt

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