Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, died from complications of pneumonia in South Korea at age 92. Moon founded media outlets across the world to promote freedom of the press. He began the church in South Korea in 1954, and was a lifelong supporter of anti-Communist causes. Moon also founded several newspapers, including The Washington Times, as well as electronic media outlets and digital publications in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, and throughout Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Calling himself a “controversial person” in his 2009 biography, he was jailed six times throughout his life and once sent to a North Korean labor camp.

Louisiana authorities have lifted the evacuation order for St. Tammany Parish on Saturday—but they warned that troubled West Pearl River is expected to crest at five feet past the flood point on Monday in the nearby town of Pearl River.  In St. Tammany Parish, engineers have stabilized a key lock on the Pear River Diversion Canal. The high water on West Pearl is a separate issue, with structural flooding expected as the West Pearl could reach 19.5 feet by 7 p.m. on Monday. “It’s going to be a long couple of days,” said St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister. Meanwhile, more than half of Jefferson and Orleans counties had restored power by Sunday evening, with Entergy Corp. reporting that 242,000 of its Louisiana customers without electricity—down from a peak of 769,000.

Nearly 1,000 people marched through Charlotte's business district on Sunday—two days before the start of the Democratic National Convention in that city—in protest of the influence of corporate money in politics. The crowd railed against the bailouts that big businesses received in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and carried signs that read, "Banks got bailed out. We got sold out." The marchers planned to pass by Bank of America's corporate headquarters and a Wells Fargo office. Many of the activists said they were there to protest other concerns like the government's inaction on climate change and the human rights abuses. At least two people were arrested, Charlotte police said.

At least 13 police officers were injured on Sunday in clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Police fired water canons while protesters threw bottles and stones at the officers. The clashes began after a Catholic Irish nationalist band marched in an area where pro-British Protestants have been prohibited. After three decades of violence known as “the Troubles,” Northern Ireland has been relatively peaceful since the Good Friday peace accords in 1998, but its capital city, Belfast, has remained divided along religious lines. Sunday’s disturbances came after seven police officers were injured last weekend in the same area when a Protestant band marched past a Catholic church, playing music in defiance of a ban from the parades commission.

Mormon moment indeed. J.W. Marriott used Sunday services at a Mormon temple in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, to praise Republican nominee Mitt Romney for lifting the church “out of obscurity.” “There has never been as much positive attention to the church, thanks to the wonderful campaign of Mitt Romney and his family,” said Marriott, the son of the founder of the hotel chain—a family friend of the Romneys who Mitt was named after. Prior to Romney’s speech on Thursday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, several Mormons spoke about Romney’s devotion to the church—and the ways Romney has helped them.

On the eve of Labor Day, United Steelworkers have reached a tentative agreement with U.S. Steel that will give a new three-year labor contract to its 16,000 workers. The union has been in negotiations for collective bargaining since June and they will be casting deciding votes in the coming weeks. The union workers will continue to operate under the terms of its 2008 contract that expired on Saturday.

Well this doesn't happen everyday. Suzanne Barr, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security and longtime aide to department secretary Janet Napolitano, resigned on Saturday after being accused of making the office culture hostile to men. Barr called the accusations against her "unfounded" but still resigned, after a lawsuit accused her of creating “a frat-house-type atmosphere that is targeted to humiliate and intimidate male employees." New York Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has vowed to scrutinize the matter when Congress returns from vacation.

Andy Roddick has put retirement off for at least another two days, surviving a tough third-round match against Fabio Fognini of Italy on Sunday. Roddick, who announced his retirement on Thursday, won 7-5, 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-4. An enthusiastic—and clearly emotional—Roddick was elated by his victory, throwing kisses to the crowd as well as a number of souvenirs including a shirt, towel, wristbands, and a racket. The crowd returned the affection with a standing ovation. Roddick beat Bernard Tomic of Australia in the previous round.

At last, some details. One woman who reportedly wound up kissing Prince Harry during his now infamous drunken trip to Las Vegas spilled the details in Sunday’s Mirror. Carrie Reichert says she was picked with a handful of other women to hang out with Harry in his suite at the Wynn Hotel, but that he quickly turned his attention to her. The naked prince kissed Reichert, but was a “gentleman.” Reichert insisted that “it was not like there was an orgy going on, it was just sexy naked” and that Harry was screaming “everybody get naked” during the party.

Now this is a record you don't want on your repertoire. Oogieloves In The BIG Balloon Adventure has made its mark on history as the lowest grossing wide-release film of all time. The film comes from Kenn Viselman, the man behind the American versions of The Teletubbies and Thomas the Tank Engine, but Oogieloves only earned $448,000 in 2,160 theatres—a per-screen average of $207. The Possession won the weekend box office, bringing in $17.7 million from Friday to Sunday, with Lawless coming in second with $9.7 million. Rounding out the top five were The Expendables 2 with $8.8 million, The Bourne Legacy fell 22 percent to $7.2 million and ParaNorman made $6.6 million.

A young man’s family is in mourning after Daniel Fernandez was killed en route to a sweet 16 in New Jersey on Friday evening. Fernandez died after sticking his head out of a double-decker bus’s emergency-escape hatch as the vehicle was going under a highway overpass. The resident of Woodside, Queens, was said to be a popular, hardworking student. A security guard on the bus told reporters that he had repeatedly asked the 65 partygoers aboard to leave the security hatch closed as the bus grew warmer.

Terrence Malick’s new film, To the Wonder, was screened at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday and received boisterous applause from the audience. But the filmmaker’s latest take on love and religion left moviegoers lamenting the fact that there wasn’t “more of a story” or more “real characters” as in The Tree of Life, Malick's last picture, Deadline reports. Instead of dialogue, the movie relies on narration to move the story along. Ben Affleck, one of the movie’s biggest stars, has 10 lines. Several other stars, including Rachel Weisz and Amanda Peet, reportedly didn’t even make it into the final edit of the movie.

Mitt Romney may have to win Ohio—and the president’s reelection team is determined not to let him. Most maps of the Republican nominee’s road to the White House require a win in Ohio, and so his campaign has cranked up efforts in the state, increasing advertising funds and stump stops during the Labor Day weekend. “It’s possible to win without Ohio,” said the head of Romney’s campaign in Ohio, Sen. Rob Portman. “But I wouldn’t want to risk it.” While Romney and Obama look about even nationally, Obama leads in a number of states that have the power to decide the election in November.

At a disadvantage in the skies, Syrian rebels have begun to mount assaults on air bases to stop attacks from planes and helicopters. On Saturday opposition forces reported that they had seized an air base near the Syrian border with Iraq. The rebels are also reportedly seeking antiaircraft missiles. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used their air superiority to considerable effect as they battle the lesser-equipped rebels. Now, the attacks mounted by opposition forces seem to be targeting bases from which planes take off to attack rebel territory. Meanwhile, Syrian TV says an explosion has hit an Army post in central Damascus.

A dozen private equity firms are the subject of a new inquiry by the New York attorney general into the legitimacy of a tax strategy the companies used to save potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. Bain Capital, Apollo Global Management, and Silver Lake Partners are among the companies being looked at. The subpoenas issued seek to get at the extent to which the companies used what are known as management fee waivers to tax income from some fees as capital gains, which are taxed at only about 15 percent.

A Christian girl in Pakistan accused of burning pages of the Quran—a crime in the country—may have been set up by a Muslim cleric, according to police. The 14-year-old was accused by a neighbor of incinerating pages from the Muslim holy book. Police say an imam named Khalid Jadoon Chishti added two pages of the Quran to bags of evidence to make the girl more likely to be charged successfully with blasphemy—an allegation the imam denies. Blasphemy can be a capital offense in Pakistan.

After receiving multiple requests over the last few weeks, the White House finally agreed to release the recipes for the microbrews President Obama has whipped up in the executive branch’s first-ever experiment with at-home hooch-making. Following a Freedom of Information Act request (which has no impact on the White House), an online petition, and pleas from enthusiasts across the nation, anyone can now use the president’s own recipe to make White House Honey Ale or White House Honey Porter.

One of President Obama’s closest friends and advisers, Valerie Jarrett has cemented her role in the White House as the administration fights for four more years. In a new profile, the extent to which the president leans on “VJ” is made clearer than ever, with one close adviser calling her “effectively the chief of staff.” Jarrett, herself the child of a family with a long history of political involvement in Chicago, met Obama before he entered politics in the Windy City more than two decades ago and has been at his side virtually ever since.

The 270 miners who stood accused of the deaths of fellow strikers under an apartheid-era law have had their charges provisionally dropped, prosecutors say. Under the controversial law, the miners were charged with the deaths because they had allegedly provoked the police into opening fire during a protest at the Marikana mine, where workers demanded increased pay and the right to form a new union. “Final charges will only be made once all investigations have been completed,” prosecutors said. Six of the miners who were to be charged remain in the hospital.

The U.S. has suspended training for police recruits in Afghanistan after a series of attacks on NATO soldiers by Afghan police and military personnel. American special forces will vet new recruits to the Afghan local police for ties to the Taliban while training is suspended. “While we have full trust and confidence in our Afghan partners, we believe this is a necessary step to validate our vetting process,” said U.S. Army spokesman Col. Thomas Collins. A system already in place to screen police candidates will be made more thorough, the Army said, and the sale of uniforms worn by the Afghan police and military will be made illegal.

The press and Mitt Romney have figured out a way to keep the candidate healthy while keeping the American public informed. Also, Romney never actually has to talk. Desperate to figure out whether Ohio Sen. Rob Portman would play President Obama in a round of debate prep, reporters on Romney’s campaign plane rolled him the question written on an orange. The fruit and scribbled answer “Shh! Don’t tell Sununu! But yes ...” came rolling back from Romney. The Republican nominee did not, however, take up the reporters’ invitation to “come chat.”

At least 1,600 people were killed this past week in what UNICEF is calling Syria’s deadliest to date. The count included children killed in the escalating violence, according to Patrick McCormick of the United Nations’ children’s fund. Seventeen people were killed in the country Sunday, according to opposition forces. An explosion rocked the capital of Damascus when a bomb went off near a security building, wounding four people in what state television called an act of “terrorism.”

About 1,200 homes near Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana were evacuated Saturday as worries mounted over the possible failure of a canal lock that could flood neighborhoods. Emergency officials tried to take some of the pressure off the lock Saturday night, but people were kept from their homes, and a flash-flood warning remained in effect. According to the National Weather Service, a wall of water resulting from the failure of the first of two canal locks would be 11 feet high. The parish’s website said Saturday that the failure of the second lock was “imminent.”

The Church of Scientology reportedly vetted dozens of potential leading women for Tom Cruise after his divorce from Nicole Kidman—and had decided on actress Nazanin Boniadi before Katie Holmes ever came along. The audition process for the costarring role in Tom Cruise’s love life is said to have included taped meetings with Scientology officials, a makeover, and confidentiality agreements, all before Boniadi even got to meet Cruise. Scientology has denied the account. Boniadi has since gone on to a career with appearances in Iron Man and several television series.

President Obama says in a new interview that his status as the nation’s first black president has kept him “attuned” to America’s difficult racial past. “I’m sure it makes me more determined in assuring that everybody’s getting a fair shot,” he said in the interview with Parade magazine, “in the same way that being a father of two daughters makes me want to make sure that every woman is getting equal pay for equal work.” Obama also said that being born into “modest means” has helped him and first lady Michelle Obama remember that “equal opportunity doesn’t just happen on its own; it happens because we’re vigilant about it.”

The international community needs to draw a “clear red line” against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israeli Prime Miniser Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday. Differences have emerged on how to deal with the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions between Israel and countries like the United States, with Israel growing increasingly hawkish as its leaders suggest that Iran is nearing the ability to build nuclear weapons. The United States has favored a program of sanctions and diplomatic pressure over military options. Iran “will not stop its advancement of the Iranian nuclear program,” Netanyahu said in the Sunday address to his cabinet. “Iran must not have a nuclear weapon.”