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• Double negative: Romney in attack mode
• Obama 'won't be apologizing'
• Kidnapper threatens to kill U.S. hostages
• Fiercest fighting yet reported inside Damascus
• Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes
• Lawyer: Sage Stallone had no serious health problems
• Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies at 95
• Shell drill ship slips moorings, drifts toward Alaska shore
• Feds to reroute S.F. Bay ships to protect whales
• Massive search for two missing Iowa girls
• Hurricane Fabio churns in the Pacific
• FDA surveillance operation draws criticism from lawmakers
• 'Rafting Gone Wild' results in river brawl, 12 arrests
• California cities eye plan to seize mortgages
• Polish rescuers of Jews celebrated as heroes
• Putting an end to Hawaii's oil addiction

Double negative: Romney in attack mode Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT Mitt Romney is responding to what he calls President Barack Obama's "negative" campaigning with a new negative ad of his own.

Obama 'won't be apologizing' Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:50 PM PDT Republicans continue to call on President Obama and his campaign to give an apology for questioning Mitt Romney's role at Bain Capital. They won't be getting one. "No, we won't be apologizing," the president said in an interview aired today. "Sometimes these games are played...

Kidnapper threatens to kill U.S. hostages Posted: 15 Jul 2012 06:33 AM PDT Kidnapper said he will capture more people.

Fiercest fighting yet reported inside Damascus Posted: 15 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT Opposition fighters battled Syrian government forces in Damascus on Sunday in what residents described as the fiercest fighting yet inside the city limits of the capital. As night fell, activists said the fighting was spreading from the south of the city to a second area, and government troops had closed the airport road. Numerous residents contacted by Reuters said they could hear loud explosions, persistent gunfire and sirens wailing, and described the fighting as the worst so far of the 17-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes Posted: 15 Jul 2012 02:10 PM PDT Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton's delegation in the port city of Alexandria. A senior state department official said that neither Clinton nor her vehicle, which were around the corner from the incident, were struck by any of the projectiles. ...

Lawyer: Sage Stallone had no serious health problems Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:22 AM PDT An autopsy will be conducted in the next several days.

Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies at 95 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:47 PM PDT Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday, a relative said. She was 95.

Shell drill ship slips moorings, drifts toward Alaska shore Posted: 15 Jul 2012 02:51 PM PDT One of the drill ships that Royal Dutch Shell plans to use in a controversial Arctic drilling program slipped off its moorings and drifted to the edge of shore in Alaska's Aleutian islands, a U.S. Coast Guard representative said on Sunday. The 500-foot (152-meter) Noble Discoverer, contracted by Shell to drill exploration wells in the remote Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska, drifted in windy conditions on Saturday afternoon to within 100 yards of shore in an Aleutian bay, Coast Guard Petty Officer Sara Francis said. ...

Feds to reroute S.F. Bay ships to protect whales Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT Scientists studying the carcass of a 47-foot fin whale that washed up on a beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore last month found the creature's spine and ribs severed, likely from the propeller of one of the huge cargo ships that sail those waters.

Massive search for two missing Iowa girls Posted: 15 Jul 2012 10:39 AM PDT Police and hundreds of volunteers are dragging a lake and fanning out across the Evansdale, Iowa, area, searching for two Iowa girls who haven't been seen for two days. Elizabeth Collins, 8, and her cousin, Lyric Cook, 10, were last seen around midday Friday, riding...

Hurricane Fabio churns in the Pacific Posted: 15 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT Hurricane Fabio formed in the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, as expected. The slow-moving storm--packing winds of 105 mph and moving west-northwest at 9 mph--is not expected to make landfall. But that hasn't stopped meteorologists from cracking Fabio jokes. "As soon as those of us at The Weather Channel saw that Fabio would be the [...]

FDA surveillance operation draws criticism from lawmakers Posted: 15 Jul 2012 02:47 PM PDT The Food and Drug Administration's secret monitoring of its staff raised hackles in Congress on Sunday after lawmakers learned their own offices were apparently targeted by the surveillance operation.

'Rafting Gone Wild' results in river brawl, 12 arrests Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:22 PM PDT It began as a peaceful--if boozy--float down a California river for thousands of rafters. But according to the Sacramento Bee, Saturday's "Rafting Gone Wild" event on the American River "degenerated into a series of brawls this afternoon with dozens of rafters fighting each other with oars and rocks and hurling stones at deputies on the [...]

California cities eye plan to seize mortgages Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:21 PM PDT In the foreclosure-battered inland stretches of California, local government officials desperate for change are weighing a controversial but inventive way to fix troubled mortgages: Condemn them.

Polish rescuers of Jews celebrated as heroes Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:47 PM PDT For decades, nobody really talked about them: the thousands of Poles, mostly Roman Catholics, who risked their lives during World War II to save Jewish friends, neighbors and even strangers.

Putting an end to Hawaii's oil addiction Posted: 15 Jul 2012 03:31 AM PDT When you think of the most innovative places around the world for clean-tech, Denmark, where 50 percent of the energy comes from wind, might come to mind. Or maybe you'd think of Iceland, which is almost nearly 100 percent powered off geothermal.

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