Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1760 Most Recommended en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:07 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1760 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/france_crash_investigation ap/20090703/france_crash_investigation AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:12:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/france_crash_investigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.e44d509703804f24ad3faceeb7c4ab55.brazil_plane_bsbx102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hE4iFavdOjLJDDBaWm.HnQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Workers unload debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy's Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, Sunday, June 14, 2009. A burst of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)" border="0" /></a>AP - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/france_crash_investigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.e44d509703804f24ad3faceeb7c4ab55.brazil_plane_bsbx102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=hE4iFavdOjLJDDBaWm.HnQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Workers unload debris, belonging to crashed Air France flight AF447, from the Brazilian Navy's Constitution Frigate in the port of Recife, northeast of Brazil, Sunday, June 14, 2009. A burst of last-minute automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but that does not explain what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, an aviation expert said. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_madoff_scandal ap/20090703/us_madoff_scandal AP business Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:17:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_madoff_scandal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.aa9ec6026a624c6885651f6357b90a8e.madoff_scandal_nybz166.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=uPyI_d4GXIuO0pofmxa.xQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="FILE - In this March 22, 2009 file photo, the building in midtown Manhattan in New York where Bernard Madoff and wife Ruth own a penthouse apartment is seen in this aerial view. The U.S. Marshals Service have taken possession of the $7 million Manhattan penthouse Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_madoff_scandal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.aa9ec6026a624c6885651f6357b90a8e.madoff_scandal_nybz166.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=uPyI_d4GXIuO0pofmxa.xQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this March 22, 2009 file photo, the building in midtown Manhattan in New York where Bernard Madoff and wife Ruth own a penthouse apartment is seen in this aerial view. The U.S. Marshals Service have taken possession of the $7 million Manhattan penthouse Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_missile ap/20090703/as_nkorea_missile AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:41:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_missile"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.9e05dd872ef14ff18e96066c3c2ccc89.south_korea_north_korea_missile_ljm112.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=oCaHTaQAwuh_LoV1y0m1zw--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="South Koreans watch a television broadcasting undated image a North Korea launch missile at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 2, 2009. North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment. The Korean read 'North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)" border="0" /></a>AP - North Korea fired a barrage of short-range missiles off its east coast in a possible prelude to the launch of a long-range missile toward Hawaii over the U.S. Independence Day holiday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_nkorea_missile"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.9e05dd872ef14ff18e96066c3c2ccc89.south_korea_north_korea_missile_ljm112.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=oCaHTaQAwuh_LoV1y0m1zw--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="photo" title="South Koreans watch a television broadcasting undated image a North Korea launch missile at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 2, 2009. North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, a move that aggravates already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment. The Korean read 'North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles.' (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_britain_sugden nm/20090702/us_britain_sugden Reuters entertainment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:49:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_britain_sugden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r322289537.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=NLCLBr7PDwNLC6zwYT20Yg--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="British actress Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe from the BBC television comedy series "Are You Being Served?" is pictured in this 1983 publicity photo. REUTERS/BBC/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - British actress Mollie Sugden, best-known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?," has died at the age of 86.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_britain_sugden"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r322289537.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=NLCLBr7PDwNLC6zwYT20Yg--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="photo" title="British actress Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe from the BBC television comedy series "Are You Being Served?" is pictured in this 1983 publicity photo. REUTERS/BBC/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy ap/20090702/us_economy AP business Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:29:07 GMT AP - Americans lucky enough to still have a job are noticing something unpleasant in their paychecks: They're making less money. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_ap_interview ap/20090703/us_obama_ap_interview AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:33:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_ap_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.5592b3ec1672423b9b2a23048c39cb45.aptopix_obama_ap_interview_dcpm107.jpg?x=130&y=74&q=85&sig=AKT4iWmfgCQfHrOjXGqTGQ--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0" /></a>AP - Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_ap_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.5592b3ec1672423b9b2a23048c39cb45.aptopix_obama_ap_interview_dcpm107.jpg?x=130&y=74&q=85&sig=AKT4iWmfgCQfHrOjXGqTGQ--" align="left" height="74" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, July 2, 2009, in the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonvideo afp/20090702/entertainmentusmusicjacksonvideo AFP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:23:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonvideo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.3d95ac4ea214414ab8c62cd31147ab6a.michael_jackson_rehearsal_nyet832.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=fbhWUsev7wr_7rcvFfb3mA--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="In this handout photo provided by AEG, pop star Michael Jackson rehearses at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Mazur, AEG/Getty Images)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A video released Thursday showed Michael Jackson vigorously practicing a song-and-dance routine days before his death, supporting accounts he had been in good health.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonvideo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.3d95ac4ea214414ab8c62cd31147ab6a.michael_jackson_rehearsal_nyet832.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=fbhWUsev7wr_7rcvFfb3mA--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="In this handout photo provided by AEG, pop star Michael Jackson rehearses at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Mazur, AEG/Getty Images)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_saddam_fbi_interviews ap/20090703/us_saddam_fbi_interviews AP world Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:13:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_saddam_fbi_interviews"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.6ab375e3e53e45c89bea9caa967c656c.saddam_fbi_interviews_ny113.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=rQOgO1YwM4Bh5ACPEVxG4g--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="FILE - In this image released by the U.S. Army on Dec. 14, 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home. Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a U.S. detention center show new details about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run - both before and after he was ousted.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)" border="0" /></a>AP - After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_saddam_fbi_interviews"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.6ab375e3e53e45c89bea9caa967c656c.saddam_fbi_interviews_ny113.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=rQOgO1YwM4Bh5ACPEVxG4g--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this image released by the U.S. Army on Dec. 14, 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is shown in custody after he was arrested near his Tikrit home. Unclassified FBI interviews conducted during his incarceration at a U.S. detention center show new details about the late Iraqi dictator's life on the run - both before and after he was ousted.(AP Photo/U.S. Army)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/24435 politico/20090702/24435 Politico politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:37:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/24435"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.e2da6973aa75488eb36f800b1163302f.aptopix_sc_governor_scmc110.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=Nosfp_GOLyaPxd2jvLR7RQ--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks during an interview with The Associated Press about his relationship with an Argentine mistress, in his Columbia, S.C., Statehouse office on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. During the interview Sanford said that he 'crossed lines' with a handful of women other than his mistress but never had sex with them. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)" border="0" /></a>Politico - The sex scandals that have tarnished Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) don’t appear to have much in common. Yet there is one thread that binds them together: Both Ensign and Sanford were members of the famed Republican House class of 1994, as well as its latest casualties.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/24435"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.e2da6973aa75488eb36f800b1163302f.aptopix_sc_governor_scmc110.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=Nosfp_GOLyaPxd2jvLR7RQ--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="photo" title="South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford talks during an interview with The Associated Press about his relationship with an Argentine mistress, in his Columbia, S.C., Statehouse office on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. During the interview Sanford said that he 'crossed lines' with a handful of women other than his mistress but never had sex with them. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam afp/20090702/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam AFP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:31:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246530698434-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=URsI3y6pVobkjZizuzo70w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0" /></a>AFP - People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246530698434-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=URsI3y6pVobkjZizuzo70w--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A vegetarian salad. Australian researchers have said that people who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_state_budgets ap/20090702/us_state_budgets AP business Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:32:44 GMT AP - An across-the-board drop in tax collections, coupled with a prolonged recession, has states facing their worst fiscal crisis in decades. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_screaming_sex_arrests ap/20090703/us_screaming_sex_arrests AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:37:48 GMT AP - A 16-year-old girl thought she heard her mother being assaulted by her boyfriend and rounded up some friends who beat him up, only to learn later that the couple actually were having sex, the woman and police said. The girl misinterpreted the woman's amorous screams, and she and four other teens went to the woman's bedroom in the Torrington home on June 6, police Lt. Bruce Whiteley said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_jackson_investigation ap/20090703/us_michael_jackson_investigation AP entertainment Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:19:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_jackson_investigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090627/capt.17f0f56f0a9043908fa7b2a23b635b7a.michael_jackson_la102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KytqFYe5B8iOB0_wqX2l_Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Los Angeles Police officers stand by a moving van outside the home rented by Michael Jackson in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 27, 2009. Janet Jackson arrived at the Holmby Hills estate Saturday, where moving vans arrived earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0" /></a>AP - The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_michael_jackson_investigation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090627/capt.17f0f56f0a9043908fa7b2a23b635b7a.michael_jackson_la102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KytqFYe5B8iOB0_wqX2l_Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Los Angeles Police officers stand by a moving van outside the home rented by Michael Jackson in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles Saturday, June 27, 2009. Janet Jackson arrived at the Holmby Hills estate Saturday, where moving vans arrived earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/somuchforwiselatinas ucac/20090702/somuchforwiselatinas Ann Coulter opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:15:27 GMT Ann Coulter - With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iran_saddam nm/20090702/us_iran_saddam Reuters world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:01:03 GMT Reuters - Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_election ap/20090702/ml_iran_election AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:43:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/ra3167750443.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=jCZ4_ND7P5DrkxhxvcWkZg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="Supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi take part in a protest in front of Iran's Embassy in Kuwait City June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee" border="0" /></a>AP - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_election"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090701/i/ra3167750443.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=jCZ4_ND7P5DrkxhxvcWkZg--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="Supporters of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi take part in a protest in front of Iran's Embassy in Kuwait City June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_madoff_sec nm/20090702/us_madoff_sec Reuters business Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:48:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_madoff_sec"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r2955653956.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=2PeLHEHOnnqTpmoEc3BE9A--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A woman holds up a T-shirt with a message referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission outside the United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan, June 29, 2009, during the sentencing hearing for convicted swindler Bernard Madoff. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer warned about irregularities at Bernard Madoff's financial management firm as far back as 2004, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_madoff_sec"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090702/i/r2955653956.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=2PeLHEHOnnqTpmoEc3BE9A--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman holds up a T-shirt with a message referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission outside the United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan, June 29, 2009, during the sentencing hearing for convicted swindler Bernard Madoff. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_internet_suicide ap/20090702/us_internet_suicide AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:35:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_internet_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.8ff71e4788f64f68bdc356c47b021b47.correction_internet_suicide_la109.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=oKFvkCadtbiSI9zjCWrxcA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="FILE - In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo Lori Drew leaves Federal Court after a hearing in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge George Wu on Thursday, July 2, 2009, tentatively threw out the convictions of the Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_internet_suicide"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.8ff71e4788f64f68bdc356c47b021b47.correction_internet_suicide_la109.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=oKFvkCadtbiSI9zjCWrxcA--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Monday, May 18, 2009 file photo Lori Drew leaves Federal Court after a hearing in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge George Wu on Thursday, July 2, 2009, tentatively threw out the convictions of the Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/24441 politico/20090702/24441 Politico politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:04:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/24441"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246557660332-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_ECIBXBJLQCVCNEkl3d8uQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.(Washington Post)" border="0" /></a>Politico - Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" &mdash; Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/24441"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246557660332-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_ECIBXBJLQCVCNEkl3d8uQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.(Washington Post)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Politico) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/tinynewbatteryisprintable livescience/20090702/tinynewbatteryisprintable LiveScience.com science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:11:05 GMT LiveScience.com - A new battery, small and thin, weighs almost nothing and can be printed in a process similar to silk-screening shirts.