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By Associated Press

Headlines from some of the top news stories on The Associated Press wire the week before the Sept. 11 attacks:

Tuesday, Sept. 4:

• GOP Sen. Phil Gramm won't run for fourth Senate term

• Bush opens door to future cut in capital gains tax rate

• Jimmy Carter returns to China to promote democracy

• Hewlett-Packard, Compaq hooking up in computer mega-merger

• In garb of Orthodox Jews, suicide bomber detonates near a schoolyard

Wednesday, Sept. 5:

• Mexican president presses Bush to overhaul immigration this year

• Budget chief, Democrats spar over Social Security, defense

• Oklahoma City DA decides to try Terry Nichols state murder charges

• Most existing stem cell lines not ready for research

• European nations threaten to pull out of U.N. racism meeting

Thursday, Sept. 6:

• A switch on Microsoft: Bush administration won't seek breakup

• Colombian president calls for examination of global drug war

• Bush to invoke executive privilege to keep documents secret

• China, N.Korea making loud statement of friendship

• Legendary GE chief executive wraps up his career

Friday, Sept. 7:

• Unemployment rate climbs to 4.9 percent in August, Dow sinks

• Bush calls emergency GOP meeting on the economy

• European Union issues what it calls an apology for slavery

• Gays face tough battle to repeal Florida adoption ban

• Williams sisters in U.S. Open tennis final

Saturday, Sept. 8:

• Aid workers make first court appearance in Afghanistan

• Rumsfeld: Congress must accept base closures

• Religious violence rages in Nigeria; dozens killed

• Russian operation to lift sunken Kursk enters final phase

Sunday, Sept. 9:

• Bomb blast at Israeli train station kills four

• National health snapshot shows trouble in small towns, cities

• Unemployment woes hitting manufacturing towns harder

• Four dead in second mass-slaying in Sacramento in a month

• News of shark attacks doesn't deter scuba thrill-seekers

Monday, Sept. 10:

• Lawmakers consider cuts in capital gains, payroll taxes

• Peres, Arafat agree to hold high-level talks

• Japan's first suspected case of mad cow disease found

• GOP source says Elizabeth Dole to announce Senate run

• With 63 homers, Bonds drawing closer to McGwire's record 70