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Report: N. Korea army chief removed from all posts

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 04:24 PM PDT

North Korea's military chief of staff Ri Yong-HoNorth Korea's army chief has been relieved of all his posts due to illness, state media said Monday, in a surprise development that removes one of new leader Kim Jong-Un's inner circle.

Pitchfork: Lady Gaga spotted but doesn't perform

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 04:38 PM PDT

Fans were inundated with hype all weekend, which built to a fever pitch late Sunday when Lady Gaga was rumored to be in the house, ready to join Southern California hip-hop MC Kendrick Lamar.

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. ...

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...

Obama 'won't be apologizing'

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:50 PM PDT

Obama 'Won't Be Apologizing' for Bain Attacks on RomneyRepublicans 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...

Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 02:10 PM PDT

Egyptian military chief Field Marshal Tantawi meets with U.S. Secretary of State Clinton at the Defence Ministry in CairoProtesters 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. ...

Feds to reroute S.F. Bay ships to protect whales

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:59 PM PDT

Map shows endangered whale density along the San Francisco coast as well as current and proposed cargo shipping lanes.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.

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.

Fiercest fighting yet reported inside Damascus

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

In this citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Friday, July 13, 2012, Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria. On Sunday Syria denied U.N. claims that government forces used heavy weapons during a military operation that left scores dead. Partial translation of Arabic on the banner reads, "a horrible regime, killing and destruction." (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALIST IMAGEOpposition 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. ...

Double negative: Romney in attack mode

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 19, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks about the vetting of a vice presidential running mate in Holland, Mich. With the campaign entering a six-week period before the national nominating conventions kick off the fall campaign, how Romney takes advantage of his assets and seeks to overcome his hurdles against President Barack Obama will partly determine whether he's able before then to break out of what polls show is a close race. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Mitt Romney is responding to what he calls President Barack Obama's "negative" campaigning with a new negative ad of his own.

'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 [...]

Obama: 'Washington feels as broken as it did four years ago'

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 11:19 AM PDT

President Obama said in a taped interview he was frustrated that he had failed to change the toxic political atmosphere in Washington after he was elected in 2008.

Lawyer: Sage Stallone had no serious health problems

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 08:22 AM PDT

Sage Stallone Didn't Have Any Serious Health Problems: LawyerAn autopsy will be conducted in the next several days.

Rahm Emanuel to Mitt Romney: 'Stop whining' about Bain attacks

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 09:42 AM PDT

Rahm Emanuel to Mitt Romney: 'Stop Whining' About Bain AttacksChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said this morning on "This Week" that presumptive GOP nominee for president Mitt Romney should "stop whining" about attacks on his Bain record and just defend himself.

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

Dozens of elderly Poles who helped save Jews during World War II were celebrated and praised for their heroism at a lunch in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday July 15, 2012. The meeting, over a kosher lunch Sunday in an upscale hotel, comes amid a growing appreciation in Poland for the thousands of people who risked their lives to help Jews during the brutal six-year-long Nazi occupation of Poland. Such people, almost all of them Roman Catholics, deny that they are heroes and say they only did what needed to be done. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)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.

Kidnapper threatens to kill U.S. hostages

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 06:33 AM PDT

Egyptian Kidnapper Threatens to Kill Two American Hostages If ArrestedKidnapper said he will capture more people.

Obama says he won't apologize to Romney

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 10:40 AM PDT

President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election in the heavy rain at Walkerton Tavern & Gardens in Glen Allen, Va., near Richmond, Saturday, July 14, 2012. The tavern is in the Congressional district represented by Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and is a key county in a crucial swing state of the presidential election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)President Barack Obama says he will not apologize to likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for an aide's comment last week that false filings to a government regulator could bring a felony charge.

Putting an end to Hawaii's oil addiction

Posted: 15 Jul 2012 03:31 AM PDT

Changing Cities: Ending Hawaii's Oil AddictionWhen 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.