“The Associated Press” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is suing a digital news distributor, claiming it infringed on AP copyrights. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video and another porn producer for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The White Stripes are done. (more)

A moment of silence will be held before the Bowl Championship Series title game on Monday night in honor of the victims of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, a two-hour drive from the game’s site in Glendale, Ariz. (more)

More mediocre teams than ever filling out too many bowl games for more than three weeks has turned college football’s postseason into a blur for just about everyone but family, friends, alumni and NFL scouts. (more)

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Navy might want to bring a dry dock. (more)

Transgender golfers will now be allowed to compete in the LPGA, after members voted to remove the organization’s requirement that players be “female at birth” to compete. (more)

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country’s post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – David Beckham plans to play out the final year of his contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2011 while continuing to hope he’ll play for England again. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — After a summer in the spotlight, the Jets are under scrutiny again. (more)

Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said. (more)

A Las Vegas woman who had been missing for four months was found buried beneath a mountain of garbage and clutter in her own home. (more)

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions. (more)

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke this morning in opposition to plans to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center terror attacks. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — A man wielding a knife killed three children and a teacher in a kindergarten in eastern China, residents said Wednesday as the government muted information in a bid to allay public fears and forestall more school attacks. (more)

A Waterloo man faces a disorderly conduct charge after he retaliated against noisy neighbors by blasting an air horn in their direction. (more)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 1,000 people have died in northwest Pakistan after record-breaking rainfall over the past week sent rivers over their banks, officials said Sunday. The flooding has also leveled thousands of homes, washed away riverfront hotels and drowned livestock, they said. (more)

In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded Journolist, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources. (more)

Surprise U.S. Senate nominee Alvin Greene frequently mentions his 13 years of military service, but records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show that the veteran who has called himself an “American hero” was considered a lackluster service member at best. (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sources tell The Associated Press that Carte Goodwin will be Gov. Joe Manchin’s temporary appointee to the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s seat. (more)