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Two fires still raging along California's central coast
(AP)
AP - Cool, damp weather early Saturday helped crews gain ground on the huge wildfire that wiped out this coastal retreat's holiday tourist trade, allowing some personnel and gear to be shifted to a growing blaze farther south
Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
(AP)
AP - Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything but end the war if he is elected.
Employers use federal law to deny benefits
(AP)
AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
(AP)
AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
Iran indicates it has no plans to halt enrichment
(AP)
AP - Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
(AP)
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'
(AP)
AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book-drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
(AP)
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
(AP)
AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
Venus beats Serena for her 5th Wimbledon title
(AP)
AP - This time, big sister put little sister in her place. Advantage, Miss Venus Williams. She defeated Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and second in a row.
Colombia foils bomb plot after rescue
(Reuters)
Reuters - Colombia found explosives set to be used
in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue
of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid
Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.
Mississippi River reopens as flooding wanes
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Mississippi River, the most
important U.S. commercial waterway, reopened to water
navigation on Saturday after much of it was closed for nearly a
month due to the worst flooding in 15 years.
Film seen to show Zimbabwe vote rigged
(Reuters)
Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe
prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent
of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential
run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.
Venus downs Serena to win Wimbledon
(Reuters)
Reuters - Venus Williams survived a fierce
onslaught from Serena Williams to win her fifth Wimbledon
singles title on Saturday, finally subduing her younger sister
7-5 6-4.
Iran vows to pursue nuclear work
(Reuters)
Reuters - Iran vowed on Saturday to pursue its
uranium enrichment program, a day after delivering its response
to an incentives package by world powers trying to curb its
nuclear ambitions.
