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• GOP governor calls on Romney to release more tax returns
• Ron Paul's delegate insurgency ends
• Doctor wins Green Party's presidential nod
• U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition
• Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis
• Obama rallies supporters in battleground Virginia
• Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight
• NYC seaport fire doused without any injuries
• Florida election officials to get access to citizen database
• Penn Staters tire of unhappy scandal in the valley
• Spain austerity measures will raise $69 billion
• Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family
• Poles honor Reagan, John Paul II with new statue
• Suicide bomber kills 23 at Afghan wedding
• Indiana father accidentally shot dead by 3-year-old son
• U.S. crops wilting despite scattered Midwest rains
• Is it just the economy? Other issues may play role

GOP governor calls on Romney to release more tax returns Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:34 PM PDT ABC News' Michael Falcone and Arlette Saenz report: WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — In an interview with ABC News on Saturday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley called on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to release additional years of his tax returns in order to show voters that he...

Ron Paul's delegate insurgency ends Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:18 PM PDT Ron Paul's delegate insurgency has come to an end. Supporters of the libertarian GOP presidential candidate fell short at the Nebraska GOP convention, where they had hoped to out-organize Mitt Romney's delegates and push Paul over a critical threshold that would have ensured him an...

Doctor wins Green Party's presidential nod Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT A doctor who ran against Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor a decade ago won the chance to challenge him again on Saturday, this time as the Green Party's presidential nominee.

U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm activists' reports that about 220 people were massacred in an attack that prompted international outrage. The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after the assault by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed. ...

Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of preserving the country's transition to democracy.

Obama rallies supporters in battleground Virginia Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:32 PM PDT President Barack Obama, soaked to the skin as he rallied supporters during a downpour in the election battleground state of Virginia on Saturday, kept up his attack on Republican Mitt Romney as the rhetoric hardened on both sides

Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:41 PM PDT An Oregon gas station owner and an Iraqi adventurer trying to fly from Central Oregon to Montana have been forced to abort their flight to Montana due to thunderstorms.

NYC seaport fire doused without any injuries Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:33 PM PDT A fire on a tourist-friendly New York City pier that sent a huge cloud of smoke billowing above the Manhattan skyline was doused without any injuries on Saturday, fire officials said.

Florida election officials to get access to citizen database Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:17 PM PDT Florida election officials will have access to a federal database to help purge its voter rolls of non-citizens under an agreement reached between state and federal officials and welcomed on Saturday by Florida's Republican governor. The Department of Homeland Security will allow state officials to access the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Florida and federal officials have been battling over access to the database for several weeks. Florida filed a lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department to gain access to the database. ...

Penn Staters tire of unhappy scandal in the valley Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:22 PM PDT They've had to reconcile the school whose sports programs vow "success with honor" with one of the worst scandals in sports history.

Spain austerity measures will raise $69 billion Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:11 PM PDT The Spanish government's most recent reforms will slash 56.4 billion euros ($69 billion) from the public deficit in the next two and a half years, an official document showed on Saturday, leaving a gap to be filled by taxes on energy. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged 65 billion euros of savings from tax hikes and spending cuts on Wednesday in a painful package aimed at convincing the EU and investors his government is serious about reform. The 8. ...

Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:44 AM PDT Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members.

Poles honor Reagan, John Paul II with new statue Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:50 AM PDT Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helping to topple communism 23 years ago.

Suicide bomber kills 23 at Afghan wedding Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:30 AM PDT A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who was the father of the bride.

Indiana father accidentally shot dead by 3-year-old son Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:55 PM PDT An Indiana father watching television with his children was accidentally shot to death by his 3-year-old son after the boy found a loaded handgun nearby, police said on Saturday. Michael Payless, 33, was found dead in the southern Indiana town of Salem on Friday night. Payless was watching television with two of his children when the other child, a 3-year-old boy, found the gun. "The child accidentally discharged the loaded handgun ... Michael A. Payless was pronounced dead at the scene," an Indiana state police statement said. ...

U.S. crops wilting despite scattered Midwest rains Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:28 AM PDT Scattered rains over the last 24 hours provided little relief for U.S. Midwest corn and soybean crops that are rapidly deteriorating in the worst drought since 1988, and the forecast is for scant rain for the next two weeks, meteorologists said on Saturday. "Overall the rain yesterday won't put a dent in the drought because they were spotty hit or miss kind of rains. Certainly some isolated areas will benefit, but it was not a significant drought buster," said AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Pydynowski. Thunderstorms on Friday left from 0.25 inch to 0. ...

Is it just the economy? Other issues may play role Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:37 AM PDT As the economy colors and polarizes voters' attitudes, the Election Day outcome for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney may be decided on the margins by narrower issues that energize small but crucial slivers of the population.

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