Soul Train fans bop on Broadway in Cornelius fete (AP)

AP - Fans of "Soul Train" boogied down Broadway wearing afro wigs and bell bottoms on Saturday while others recounted their favorite episodes at a Harlem meeting hall in tribute to the show's late creator, Don Cornelius.

AP - Democrats controlling the Senate are vowing that any deal this summer to cut the deficit won't cut back benefits for people enrolled in Medicare.

AP - The Republican presidential contest executed a soft launch this weekend, with eager but unofficial contenders focusing all their criticisms on President Barack Obama at a New Hampshire dinner — and none on each other.

AP - It was just after midnight when armed men in military uniforms came to the hospital bed of Ali Mansour Abdel-Karim Nasser, who was injured by pellets fired during a clash with riot police. He said what came next was worse: he was bound, beaten and mocked in the hallway of Bahrain's main state-run hospital.

AP - Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had a plan to overcome Republican objections and finally repeal the military's 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops. The White House also expressed optimism that Congress would overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, despite key GOP senators giving no indication that they would agree.

AP - Directly challenging the Pentagon's top leadership, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday snubbed a military study on gays as flawed and said letting gays serve openly would be dangerous in a time of war.

AP - Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries.

AP - Two coyotes attacked a Canadian woman while she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries. The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a promising singer-songwriter from Toronto who was touring her new album on the East Coast.

AP - France's military says French soldiers have fired on pirates in the Indian Ocean to protect two fishing boats from attack.

AP - NASA's new boss said Tuesday he will be "incredibly disappointed" if people aren't on Mars — or venturing somewhere beyond it — in his lifetime.

AP - The Pakistan army readied a major assault to rid the main town in the Swat Valley of entrenched Taliban militants, who the military said were shaving their beards in order to mingle undetected with fleeing civilians.

file photo, actress Lynda Carter shows off her Wonder Woman bracelet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York. Carter says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)" border="0" />AP - The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington.

AP - Oil prices rose sharply Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf. Retail gas prices as expected rose further into record territory, nearing $3.60 a gallon.

AP - The price of oil rose to a new record above $96 a barrel Thursday after a surprise drop in U.S. crude stockpiles raised concerns about supplies for coming winter demand. Other energy futures also gained.

AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday it's time to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, no matter how optimistic an assessment President Bush's leading advisers give of the war there.

AP - Listen up, "CSI" fans: It's not as easy as it looks on TV. An expert testified in record producer Phil Spector's murder trial Wednesday that latent fingerprints rarely are found on guns used in crimes and that none was found on the gun that killed actress Lana Clarkson.