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• A throwback Fourth of July for many Americans
• Mexico to recount ballots from more than half of polling stations
• Yasser Arafat's body set to be exhumed
• Lifeguard fired for trying to save drowning man outside of his zone
• Human head belongs to Chinese student: Canadian police
• Vatican gets report card on financial transparency
• Who are the most compatible Supreme Court judges?
• Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle
• Chestnut wins 6th straight title, downs 68 dogs
• Five killed in German hostage standoff
• Firefighters save dog stuck in 200-foot deep quarry
• Hawking loses $100 bet over Higgs discovery
• A bus driver's caffeine defense for groping girls
• South Korea to start 'scientific' whaling
• Utah mayor puts his 18-inch mustache up for a vote

A throwback Fourth of July for many Americans Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:24 PM PDT George Washington never had air conditioning, but he knew how to keep cool: a mansion with lots of windows elevated on the banks of a wide, rolling river and lots of ice cream, maybe with a little brandy.

Mexico to recount ballots from more than half of polling stations Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:33 PM PDT Mexico's national election authority Wednesday announced a recount of ballots cast at more than half of the polling stations in the country's weekend presidential election in which Enrique Pena Nieto claimed victory.

Yasser Arafat's body set to be exhumed Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:36 AM PDT Arafat's Wife Suha Demanded His Body Be Exhumed Following al Jazeera Report

Lifeguard fired for trying to save drowning man outside of his zone Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT Tomas Lopez Left His Zone to Help a Drowning Man

Human head belongs to Chinese student: Canadian police Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT The human head discovered in a Montreal park during the weekend belongs to a Chinese student allegedly dismembered by a porn actor in one of Canada's most gruesome slayings in recent memory, police said on Wednesday. A Montreal police spokeswoman said medical tests showed the remains were those of Jun Lin and confirmed local media reports saying the body part in question was a head. Lin's hands and feet were mailed to the offices of political parties in Ottawa and to schools in Vancouver, while his torso was found in a pile of garbage. ...

Vatican gets report card on financial transparency Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT The Vatican got a report card Wednesday on its efforts to be more financially transparent — but it's a secret for now.

Who are the most compatible Supreme Court judges? Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT Do you remember compatibility tests you'd do in junior high or high school to see which of your classmates you were best suited to be your significant other? Yeah, the Washington Post took that idea and applied it to the Supreme Court.

Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:24 PM PDT Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, or "God particle," which could help explain why all matter has mass and crack open a new realm of subatomic science.

Chestnut wins 6th straight title, downs 68 dogs Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:38 PM PDT Joey Chestnut won his sixth straight Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest at Coney Island, downing 68 dogs and buns on Wednesday to tie his personal best in a sweaty, gag-inducing spectacle.

Five killed in German hostage standoff Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:39 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - A 53-year-old German gunman facing eviction shot dead four people before committing suicide in an apartment in the southern city of Karlsruhe on Wednesday, police said. The unemployed man killed a bailiff and locksmith who tried to evict him from his flat, as well as the new owner. Police found the man's 55-year-old partner dead in bed and said he had shot her as well. "Special forces broke into the apartment at 11.48 after smelling something burning and found four dead bodies. One of them was the gunman," said Karlsruhe police chief Roland Lay. ...

Firefighters save dog stuck in 200-foot deep quarry Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:03 PM PDT A 2-year-old pit bull mix who disappeared from its home one week ago was found and rescued Tuesday by firefighters who repelled down a steep quarry to save her.

Hawking loses $100 bet over Higgs discovery Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:17 AM PDT Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking said Wednesday the Nobel Prize should be given to Peter Higgs, the man who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle.

A bus driver's caffeine defense for groping girls Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:44 PM PDT We have heard of temporary insanity, diminished capacity, the abuse excuse and even the Twinkie defense but a caffeine defense might be pushing it.  Nevertheless, that is what Kenneth Sands, 52, is attributing his incident involving him groping five females...

South Korea to start 'scientific' whaling Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:33 PM PDT South Korea said Wednesday that it would start whaling under a loophole in a global moratorium that allows scientific research, outraging conservationist nations by using the same tactic as Japan.

Utah mayor puts his 18-inch mustache up for a vote Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:08 PM PDT The mayor of Murray has put all 18 inches of his handlebar mustache up for a Fourth of July vote.

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