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• Forecast: 'Hot and hotter'
• North Korea aims for new image, allows platform shoes, earrings
• Best proof yet of 'the God particle'
• White House mum on cartels after call to Mexican president-elect
• Mississippi's only abortion clinic survives -- for now
• Amelia Earhart 75th anniversary prompts new expedition
• McCain most mentioned senator in broadcast media coverage
• Anderson Cooper: ‘The fact is, I’m gay’
• Pharma giant GSK to pay $3B in largest ever healthcare fraud case
• Killer crocodile sets record as world’s largest in captivity
• Brad Pitt’s brother gets a moment in the spotlight
• Book printed with disappearing ink eventually goes blank
• Drive a tank, crush a car, at Minn. firm

Forecast: 'Hot and hotter' Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:21 PM PDT A heat wave continued to scorch the eastern half of the United States on Monday, as more than 2.2 million customers remain without power following the deadly "super derecho" storm that ripped through the nation's midsection over the weekend, killing at least 15 people. While the triple-digit temperatures that baked [...]

North Korea aims for new image, allows platform shoes, earrings Posted: 02 Jul 2012 01:03 PM PDT Attempting to forge a new image for himself and his country, North Korea's youthful supreme leader Kim Jong Un is allowing women to wear pants, platform shoes and earrings, making more mobile phones available, endorsing previously banned foods like pizza, French fries and hamburgers — and he's giving kids free trips to zoos and amusement parks.

Best proof yet of 'the God particle' Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:53 AM PDT After decades of careful experiment, physicists say they have found the "strongest indication to date" to prove the existence of the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle so important to the understanding of space, time and matter that the physicist Leon Lederman nicknamed it "the God particle."

White House mum on cartels after call to Mexican president-elect Posted: 02 Jul 2012 12:24 PM PDT President Barack Obama telephoned Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto to congratulate him on his victory in last weekend's elections, the White House said in a statement Monday. While the release listed several topics that the two men discussed, it made no explicit mention of the two countries' fitful efforts to combat ultra-violent drug cartels. Obama "reiterated [...]

Mississippi's only abortion clinic survives -- for now Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:04 AM PDT A federal district judge in Mississippi prevented the state's only abortion clinic from being shut down on Sunday by putting a temporary restraining order on a law that would require the clinic's doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. If the law, which...

Amelia Earhart 75th anniversary prompts new expedition Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:04 AM PDT A group is launching an expedition to search for signs of Amelia Earhart at Nikumaroro island.

McCain most mentioned senator in broadcast media coverage Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:15 AM PDT It's been nearly four years since John McCain lost his second bid for the presidency, but the Arizona senator is still getting more media attention than any of his Senate colleagues. According to a study by the University of Minnesota's Smart Politics blog, McCain was the most mentioned member of the Senate in national television [...]

Anderson Cooper: ‘The fact is, I’m gay’ Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:45 AM PDT "Always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," Cooper wrote in an email to Daily Beast blogger Andrew Sullivan.

Pharma giant GSK to pay $3B in largest ever healthcare fraud case Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:04 AM PDT In one instance, a drug was widely promoted to help treat depression even though the FDA had never tested it for such a use, according to the Department of Justice.

Killer crocodile sets record as world’s largest in captivity Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:21 AM PDT Bunawan Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde stands over Lolong, the giant crocodile. Click image to see more photos. (AP) Lolong, a man-eating beast feared by locals, has set a Guinness Book of World Records mark as the world's largest saltwater crocodile in captivity. The giant crocodile measures 20.24 feet, weighs more than a ton and was [...]

Brad Pitt’s brother gets a moment in the spotlight Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:56 AM PDT Like us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: @Knowlesitall and @YahooTrending. Being the sibling of an A-list Hollywood movie star certainly has its perks. Just ask Brad Pitt's younger brother, Doug. As the star of a new Virgin Mobile Australia commercial, Doug is getting the celebrity treatment normally reserved for his brother. Using the tagline 'The [...]

Book printed with disappearing ink eventually goes blank Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:59 AM PDT We hope you read fast, because this book completely goes blank two months after you open it and expose it to sunlight and air. An ad agency called Draftcb recently won a gold medal award at the Cannes PR Lions for its innovative … Continue reading →

Drive a tank, crush a car, at Minn. firm Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:36 AM PDT What better way to release a little frustration than by driving a war tank over a car? For those looking to let out their inner Rambo, you might want to head to Minnesota. Drive-A-Tank in Kasota, Minn., gives customers the opportunity to drive old Cold-War...

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