Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1776 Most Viewed en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:14 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1776 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl425 ynews/20090702/ynews_pl425 The Yahoo! Newsroom politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:50:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl425"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090624/capt.ac9fc29650a14e63937ef792086fa3a1.obama_whre102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=b5Mo2pi3gKVSL1t9AU4yBA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks to reporters, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, during his daily press briefing in the White House Pressroom at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)" border="0" /></a>The Yahoo! Newsroom - In the spirit of transparency, the Obama Administration posted on its White House blog a detailed list of who makes what at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090702/pl_ynews/ynews_pl425"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090624/capt.ac9fc29650a14e63937ef792086fa3a1.obama_whre102.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=b5Mo2pi3gKVSL1t9AU4yBA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks to reporters, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, during his daily press briefing in the White House Pressroom at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (The Yahoo! Newsroom) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ennew_afp/entertainmentusmusicjacksonvideo afp/20090702/entertainmentusmusicjacksonvideo AFP entertainment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:23:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ennew_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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/ennew_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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_saddam_fbi_interviews ap/20090702/us_saddam_fbi_interviews AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan ap/20090702/as_afghanistan AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.849837accf364bffa10b504214197e40.aptopix_afghanistan_xdg103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_LA2j7NMGlRvYAc1rafK3g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines move in formation through farm fields after landing by helicopter in an overnight night air assault near the Taliban stronghold of Nawa in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday July 2, 2009. Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages of southern Afghanistan Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.849837accf364bffa10b504214197e40.aptopix_afghanistan_xdg103.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_LA2j7NMGlRvYAc1rafK3g--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines move in formation through farm fields after landing by helicopter in an overnight night air assault near the Taliban stronghold of Nawa in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday July 2, 2009. Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages of southern Afghanistan Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_ot/us_michael_jackson_investigation ap/20090703/us_michael_jackson_investigation AP entertainment Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:15:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_ot/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_ot/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor ap/20090702/us_sc_governor AP us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:44:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090626/capt.ba1c91eb997140c3a4b171ebc74c2f48.sc_governor_wife_scak110.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=ZURY_dd3T1hQDdTpsZ8nlQ--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's recent affair admission at the family beach house in Sullivans Island, S.C., on Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)" border="0" /></a>AP - The wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his affair with an Argentine woman "inexcusable" but said Thursday she is willing to forgive him.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090626/capt.ba1c91eb997140c3a4b171ebc74c2f48.sc_governor_wife_scak110.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=ZURY_dd3T1hQDdTpsZ8nlQ--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, speaks about her husband's recent affair admission at the family beach house in Sullivans Island, S.C., on Friday, June 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_us/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_bi_ge/us_madoff_scandal ap/20090703/us_madoff_scandal AP business Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:55:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_bi_ge/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_bi_ge/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_en_ot/us_michael_jackson ap/20090702/us_michael_jackson AP entertainment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:11:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_en_ot/us_michael_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.201861715486439dae5929bcf76cd2a9.michael_jackson_nyet735.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=TO2fLpU.IrLxKXJwR9mb1g--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 27, 2003 file picture, Michael Jackson thanks the audience during the Radio Music Awards at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Deborah Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson and the mother of two of his children, has not reached a final decision on whether to seek custody of the children, a lawyer said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_en_ot/us_michael_jackson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.201861715486439dae5929bcf76cd2a9.michael_jackson_nyet735.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=TO2fLpU.IrLxKXJwR9mb1g--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 27, 2003 file picture, Michael Jackson thanks the audience during the Radio Music Awards at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20090703/us_health_care_overhaul AP politics Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:13:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090617/capt.f0d7662016b54cf785e1de572b331e7f.us_health_overhaul_dccd108.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=bMikm3z.8bIZU2DKx48qhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee ranking Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., preside over the markup of the health care reform bill and its amendments, seen on documents before them, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090617/capt.f0d7662016b54cf785e1de572b331e7f.us_health_overhaul_dccd108.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=bMikm3z.8bIZU2DKx48qhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="photo" title="Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee ranking Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., preside over the markup of the health care reform bill and its amendments, seen on documents before them, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090702/en_tv_eo/132423 eonline/20090702/132423 E! Online entertainment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090702/en_tv_eo/132423"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/eonline/20090703/capt.7f06d64d0fe9a5e1bc80ceb146810bf9.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=CMNXAQ492IU1Qb6w0svZfQ--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Jermaine Jackson Talks Michael: "I Wish It Was Me"(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Exactly one week after Michael Jackson's death, brother Jermaine Jackson became the first member of the still-mourning musical family to sit down for an in-depth interview about the late icon, speaking to the Today show this morning from the grounds of Neverland Ranch.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20090702/en_tv_eo/132423"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/eonline/20090703/capt.7f06d64d0fe9a5e1bc80ceb146810bf9.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=CMNXAQ492IU1Qb6w0svZfQ--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jermaine Jackson Talks Michael: "I Wish It Was Me"(E! Online)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (E! Online) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research ap/20090702/us_med_swine_flu_research AP health Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0" /></a>AP - With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu_research"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090701/capt.911dc8a160b04620868479cfeba3d71e.argentina_swine_flu_bai108.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=_LBWDcYtKsk_iK_7cbH2gw--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="A physician holds samples of patients suspected of being infected with swine flu at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Health authorities have warned that while the swine flu peak has passed in Mexico, the Southern Hemisphere is at risk as it heads deeper into its winter flu season as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Pontoriero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_aeg ap/20090702/us_michael_jackson_aeg AP entertainment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:02:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_aeg"><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>AP - The footage of Michael Jackson's last rehearsal may be coming to a theater near you.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_en_mu/us_michael_jackson_aeg"><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"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_interview ap/20090702/us_obama_ap_interview AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:43:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.bc36e76f5f73429c8fd4906e711790c0.obama_ap_interview_dcpm101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FivDK8oHkKzJDTwG_xNU4Q--" align="left" height="86" 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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_ap_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.bc36e76f5f73429c8fd4906e711790c0.obama_ap_interview_dcpm101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FivDK8oHkKzJDTwG_xNU4Q--" align="left" height="86" 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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/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/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_mu/us_jackson_portrait ap/20090703/us_jackson_portrait AP entertainment Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:08:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_mu/us_jackson_portrait"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.0a4839dc6e284fa7ae428746794eb6ef.michael_jackson_portrait_nydg109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=ltAcLvVidLl8PzMoMYW49g--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="A rarely seen portrait of Michael Jackson is displayed by owner Marty Abrams, left, and Rick Kaplan, co-owner of Dancy-Power Automotive Group, a showroom that sells luxury cars to celebrities, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Thursday July 2, 2009. Abrams says the oil painting titled 'The Book' is the only portrait Jackson sat for because he was friends with Australian painter Brett-Livingstone Strong. The 40-inch-by-50-inch portrait was sold for $2.1 million in 1990. Abrams chose the showroom because it is near the Apollo Theater, where the Jackson 5 won Amateur Night in 1967. (AP Photo/David Goldman)" border="0" /></a>AP - A rarely seen portrait of Michael Jackson is on display inside a New York City showroom that sells luxury cars to celebrities.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_en_mu/us_jackson_portrait"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.0a4839dc6e284fa7ae428746794eb6ef.michael_jackson_portrait_nydg109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=ltAcLvVidLl8PzMoMYW49g--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="A rarely seen portrait of Michael Jackson is displayed by owner Marty Abrams, left, and Rick Kaplan, co-owner of Dancy-Power Automotive Group, a showroom that sells luxury cars to celebrities, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Thursday July 2, 2009. Abrams says the oil painting titled 'The Book' is the only portrait Jackson sat for because he was friends with Australian painter Brett-Livingstone Strong. The 40-inch-by-50-inch portrait was sold for $2.1 million in 1990. Abrams chose the showroom because it is near the Apollo Theater, where the Jackson 5 won Amateur Night in 1967. (AP Photo/David Goldman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090702/wl_time/08599190840600 time/20090702/08599190840600 Time.com world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:05:00 GMT Time.com - India's High Court decriminalizes homosexuality, winning applause from activists, the ire of conservatives, and possibly opening the way for gay rights groups in neighboring countries http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep ap/20090702/us_sci_shrinking_sheep AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246561787308-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=9md6RMfZwpJTXcPB7XudFA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/us_sci_shrinking_sheep"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090702/capt.photo_1246561787308-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=9md6RMfZwpJTXcPB7XudFA--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Soay sheep are seen in France in 2004. Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday. The wild Soay sheep live on Hirta, in the St. Kilda archipelago in the storm-battered Outer Hebrides, and have been closely studied for nearly a quarter of a century.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_af/yemen_plane_crash ap/20090702/yemen_plane_crash AP world Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:27:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_af/yemen_plane_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.554ea038262e43908b47dca58016c229.france_yemen_plane_crash_lon805.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=7.uu3P7NzyPREFt8R_o0Rw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="In this picture made from video broadcast, Thursday, July 2, 2009 by France 2/20 Minutes, Bahia Bakari, aged 14, believed to be the only survivor of the Yemenia Airbus 310 crash is brought back to France on a French Government plane. Bahia was a passenger on a Yemenia Airbus 310 jet which crashed flying the last leg of a journey taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to the remote Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros via Yemen when it crashed into the Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Faustine Vincent/France 2/20 Minute)" border="0" /></a>AP - A severely bruised young girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back Thursday to Paris, where she was embraced gently by her father, who tried to lift her spirits with a joke.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostviewed/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_re_af/yemen_plane_crash"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.554ea038262e43908b47dca58016c229.france_yemen_plane_crash_lon805.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=7.uu3P7NzyPREFt8R_o0Rw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this picture made from video broadcast, Thursday, July 2, 2009 by France 2/20 Minutes, Bahia Bakari, aged 14, believed to be the only survivor of the Yemenia Airbus 310 crash is brought back to France on a French Government plane. Bahia was a passenger on a Yemenia Airbus 310 jet which crashed flying the last leg of a journey taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to the remote Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros via Yemen when it crashed into the Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Faustine Vincent/France 2/20 Minute)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)