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• Holder appoints two U.S. attorneys to lead leak investigations
• Obama clarifies: ‘The economy’s not doing fine’
• Pole climbing students and more top photos
• Wall Street ends best week of the year
• Giants coach knocks Congress as team visits White House
• Mob attacks women at Egypt anti-sex assault rally
• Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke gets 23 years
• Iraq ambassador nomination jeopardized by racy emails to journalist
• Limbaugh, Morrissey, Perry: This week's dumbest political quotes
• Lindsay Lohan released from hospital after car accident
• Digging into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• 'It is an outrage’: Christie knocks Obama job growth comments
• I'll Have Another is out of the Belmont Stakes
• NPR 'Car Talk' duo retiring; reruns to continue
• Similarities we can believe in: RNC 2012 ‘private sector’ ad nearly identical to anti-McCain 2008 video
• Approval of the Supreme Court plummets
• Nightmare: Man gets George Zimmerman’s cell number
• Waiting for a plane? Some airports offer free iPads to pass the time
• Casino robbery suspect: ‘I was sleepwalking’
• Hungry Jack syrup truck spills onto Buttermilk Pike

Holder appoints two U.S. attorneys to lead leak investigations Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:27 PM PDT Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead investigations into the possible unauthorized disclosure of classified information. A statement from the Justice Department says the prosecutors assigned to direct criminal probes already being conducted by the FBI are Ronald C. Machen Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod [...]

Obama clarifies: ‘The economy’s not doing fine’ Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:11 PM PDT On defense over the defining issue of his reelection fight, President Barack Obama clarified Friday that "the economy is not doing fine" and accused Republicans of playing "political games" by turning his own earlier words against him. Obama had triggered the onslaught a few hours beforehand by telling reporters that "the private sector is doing [...]

Pole climbing students and more top photos Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT Students participating in Pacific Gas and Electric's (PG&E) PowerPathway Pole Climbing Capstone course climb utility poles at the PG&E pole climbing training facility on June 8, 2012 in Oakland, California. Students who are aspiring utility workers from Oakland's Cypress Mandela Training Center and Workforce Institute, a Division of San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, are participating in PG&E's PowerPathway program Pole Climbing Capstone course, a three week course that teaches skills to better prepare individuals to compete for jobs such as pre-apprentice lineworker within the utility industry. The free course is held at the new pole climbing training facility at PG&E's Oakport Service Center. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Wall Street ends best week of the year Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:48 PM PDT The S&P 500 ended its best week in 2012 on Friday as investors returned to stocks after sources told Reuters that Spain was expected to request aid for its troubled banks.

Giants coach knocks Congress as team visits White House Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:27 PM PDT If President Barack Obama plans to run against Congress this year, he might be able to enlist Giants head coach Tom Coughlin, who poked fun at squabbling lawmakers as his Super Bowl champion team visited the White House on Friday. Coughlin paid homage to his players, saying they set aside "pettiness" and came together as [...]

Mob attacks women at Egypt anti-sex assault rally Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:07 PM PDT A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke gets 23 years Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:54 AM PDT The Jamaican drug lord whose extradition sparked a minor civil war on the island country that took more than 70 lives was sentenced today to 23 years in an American prison.

Iraq ambassador nomination jeopardized by racy emails to journalist Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:13 AM PDT As a former national security staffer for President George W. Bush, President Obama's nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Brett McGurk, was supposed to garner bipartisan support for his confirmation. That support has suffered after emails of his wooing a female Wall Street Journal...

Limbaugh, Morrissey, Perry: This week's dumbest political quotes Posted: 08 Jun 2012 10:50 AM PDT Each week, the Daily Caller picks the dumbest political statements and ranks them (just for Yahoo! readers) on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the worst). Who do you think said the dumbest thing?

Lindsay Lohan released from hospital after car accident Posted: 08 Jun 2012 05:13 PM PDT Lindsay Lohan has been released from the emergency room at an LA hospital after a terrible car accident. She is already back to work!

Digging into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:30 AM PDT A visit to the "island of garbage" near the Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

'It is an outrage’: Christie knocks Obama job growth comments Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:03 AM PDT ROSEMONT, Ill.—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unleashed a fiery response to President Barack Obama's call to increase the amount of government workers to help the economy, calling his remarks "an outrage." "It is an outrage to have the president of the United States stand up and say to hardworking governors—Democrats and Republicans in this country—that [...]

I'll Have Another is out of the Belmont Stakes Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:06 AM PDT A leg injury has taken I'll Have Another out of the Belmont Stakes and out of the running for the Triple Crown.

NPR 'Car Talk' duo retiring; reruns to continue Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:56 AM PDT The comic mechanics on NPR's "Car Talk" are pulling in to the garage.

Similarities we can believe in: RNC 2012 ‘private sector’ ad nearly identical to anti-McCain 2008 video Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:29 PM PDT Except for the music and the headline, the Republican National Committee response video to President Barack Obama's remark that "the private sector is doing fine" is a near replica of a video that Obama's campaign used to attack John McCain in 2008 for saying that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." First, here's the [...]

Approval of the Supreme Court plummets Posted: 08 Jun 2012 07:38 AM PDT Over the past quarter century, Americans' esteem of public institutions in general has fallen, but the Supreme Court has especially lost favor.

Nightmare: Man gets George Zimmerman’s cell number Posted: 08 Jun 2012 06:10 AM PDT An Orlando man says his life has been turned upside down since May 7th when T-Mobile reportedly assigned him the cell phone number formerly used by accused Florida gunman George Zimmerman.

Waiting for a plane? Some airports offer free iPads to pass the time Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:10 AM PDT Stuck waiting in an airport terminal thanks to a flight delay? We've all been there. Airport restaurant operator OTG wants you to spend that time buying waiting over-priced hamburgers and $10 beers, and they've got a new tool to lure you … Continue reading →

Casino robbery suspect: ‘I was sleepwalking’ Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:44 AM PDT A Connecticut man accused of robbing an 81-year-old woman outside a casino at knifepoint says he was sleepwalking and has no memory of the alleged incident. An attorney for Winston A. Riley says he will enter a "medical defense" for his client, the Norwich Bulletin reports. 27-year-old Riley was arrested back on the morning of [...]

Hungry Jack syrup truck spills onto Buttermilk Pike Posted: 08 Jun 2012 10:41 AM PDT A highway truck accident never sounded so delicious. A semitrailer hauling Hungry Jack pancake syrup collided with a highway median at the Buttermilk Pike overpass in northern Kentucky, causing the truckload of syrup to spill all over the highway. "Every lane of southbound I-75 was covered in pancake syrup," Fort Mitchell Police Officer Mark Spanyer [...]

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