WASHINGTON, D.C.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was first and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty tied for second in a GOP presidential straw vote among religious conservatives held Saturday at the annual Values Voter Summit. About one-third of the 1,800 registered attendees cast ballots. Huckabee had 28 percent of the vote. Coming in second with about 12 percent each were Pawlenty, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

FCC to propose Net neutrality rules FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will propose rules Monday to prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks. The proposals would bar providers such as Verizon, Comcast or AT&T from slowing or blocking certain services or content flowing through their vast networks.

WASHINGTON

Union says it warned about field trip danger Two days after a killer escaped from a field trip organized by his mental hospital, the union that represents hospital workers says it had become concerned about the type of patients allowed to participate in such outings. Police began searching for Philip Arnold Paul, 47, after he walked away from the Spokane County Fair. He was committed to Eastern State Hospital after he was acquitted by reason of insanity in the 1987 slaying of an elderly woman.

Colorado

Charges soon in FBI terror investigation Federal authorities were preparing to file criminal charges against a 24-year-old Denver shuttle bus driver and two others as part of a federal terrorism investigation stretching from New York to Colorado to overseas. The news came on a day of dizzying twists after the shuttle driver, Najibullah Zazi, declined to sit for a fourth day of intense questioning by FBI agents in Denver, choosing instead to consult with his lawyer. In addition to Zazi, at least one other man in Denver and one in New York were expected to be facing charges.

VIRGINIA

Police arrest suspect in four killings A 20-year-old man suspected of killing four people in central Virginia is in custody, police said. Richard Alden Samuel McCorsky III was arrested at Richmond International Airport, apparently trying to catch a flight to California. He is charged with murder, robbery and grand larceny. Police found four bodies Friday in a home near the Longwood University campus, about 50 miles west of Richmond.

CHINA

French tourist injured in Beijing knife attack A man attacked a French tourist with a knife near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, in the second knife attack in the area in two days. The female tourist was slightly injured and was taken to a hospital, the official Xinhua News Agency said. There was no immediate indication that the two attacks were related.

COLOMBIA

Captured rebel extradited to U.S. A captured leftist rebel who unwittingly helped officials rescue 15 hostages -- including three American military contractors -- was flown to Florida to face charges of terrorism in a U.S. federal court. Prosecutors say Nancy Conde Rubio, 37, led a finance and supply operation for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. She is also the former girlfriend of rebel Gerardo Aguilar, who helped guard the hostages. Colombian security agents started monitoring Conde's phone in 2003, a few weeks after the Americans' surveillance plane crashed. That squeezed rebel supply lines and led to the stunning July 2008 operation in which Colombian soldiers rescued 15 hostages.

PAKISTAN

Charges are expected in Mumbai attacks Officials are planning to announce charges against seven suspects in the Nov. 26-28 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. But he added that India must provide more evidence before Pakistan would charge the leader of a banned Islamist group who India suspects was tied to the attacks, in which militants raided hotels and other targets, killing 163 people.

THAILAND

Government protests occur in two areas Nationalists clashed with police in Sisaket Province, demanding that the government seize a border area claimed by both Thailand and Cambodia. In Bangkok, meanwhile, anti-government demonstrators marked the third anniversary of a coup that continues to create political turmoil.

NIGERIA

Official: 'District 9' not welcome here One of the summer's biggest blockbusters -- a sci-fi morality tale about aliens and apartheid -- is not welcome in Nigeria because of its portrayal of Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals, Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili said. Akunyili has asked movie houses in the capital of Abuja to stop screening "District 9" because he said the movie makes Nigerians look bad.

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