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Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Many Americans still without power on Independence Day Romney calls individual mandate a tax Axelrod hits Romney for 'Bermuda tax shelter' Photos: Your Fourth of July Yasser Arafat's body set to be exhumed Rain cools Colorado fires, other wildfires grow Mexico to recount ballots from more than half of polling stations Canadian police: Human head belongs to Chinese student Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle Peru protest leader arrested as emergency imposed Five killed in German hostage standoff Firefighters save dog stuck in 200-foot deep quarry Hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut equals record Lifeguard fired for trying to save drowning man outside of his zone Many Americans still without power on Independence Day Wed,4 Jul 2012 03:24 PM PDT Associated Press - George Washington never had air conditioning, but he knew how to keep cool: a mansion with lots of windows elevated on the banks of a wide, rolling river and lots of ice cream, maybe with a little brandy. Full Story Top Romney calls individual mandate a tax Wed,4 Jul 2012 10:46 AM PDT ABC OTUS News - Mitt Romney steered his campaign message back in line with other top Republicans today, insisting that the health care law's individual mandate that requires most Americans to buy health insurance was  "a tax."  "The majority of the court said it is a tax, and therefore it is... Full Story Top Axelrod hits Romney for 'Bermuda tax shelter' Wed,4 Jul 2012 12:47 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - Senior Obama strategist David Axelrod on Wednesday offered something of a fireworks display on Twitter, launching a barrage of messages meant to draw attention to two reports that highlight Mitt Romney's stake in a Bermuda company that has never been listed on his state or federal... Full Story Top Photos: Your Fourth of July Wed,4 Jul 2012 03:00 PM PDT s Full Story Top Yasser Arafat's body set to be exhumed Wed,4 Jul 2012 08:36 AM PDT ABC News - Arafat's Wife Suha Demanded His Body Be Exhumed Following al Jazeera Report Full Story Top Rain cools Colorado fires, other wildfires grow Wed,4 Jul 2012 04:27 PM PDT Associated Press - Rains cooled Colorado's wildfires Wednesday, but more than a dozen wildfires elsewhere in the West continued chewing through bone-dry pine and brush as firefighters working through the holiday kept a nervous eye for fireworks and other hazards. Full Story Top Mexico to recount ballots from more than half of polling stations Wed,4 Jul 2012 07:37 PM PDT AFP - Mexico's national election authority announced a recount of ballots cast at more than half of the polling stations in the country's presidential election in which Enrique Pena Nieto claimed victory. Full Story Top Canadian police: Human head belongs to Chinese student Wed,4 Jul 2012 01:10 PM PDT Reuters - The human head discovered in a Montreal park during the weekend belongs to a Chinese student allegedly dismembered by a porn actor in one of Canada's most gruesome slayings in recent memory, police said on Wednesday. A Montreal police spokeswoman said medical tests showed the remains were those of Jun Lin and confirmed local media reports saying the body part in question was a head. Lin's hands and feet were mailed to the offices of political parties in Ottawa and to schools in Vancouver, while his torso was found in a pile of garbage. ... Full Story Top Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle Wed,4 Jul 2012 02:24 PM PDT Associated Press - Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, or "God particle," which could help explain why all matter has mass and crack open a new realm of subatomic science. Full Story Top Peru protest leader arrested as emergency imposed Wed,4 Jul 2012 04:45 PM PDT Associated Press - Police arrested and roughed up a prominent anti-mining activist in a northern provincial capital Wednesday, further inflaming tensions as the government imposed a state of emergency to quell increasingly violent protests against Peru's biggest mining project. Full Story Top Five killed in German hostage standoff Wed,4 Jul 2012 11:39 AM PDT Reuters - A 53-year-old German gunman facing eviction shot dead four people before committing suicide in an apartment in the southern city of Karlsruhe on Wednesday, police said. The unemployed man killed a bailiff and locksmith who tried to evict him from his flat, as well as the new owner. Police found the man's 55-year-old partner dead in bed and said he had shot her as well. "Special forces broke into the apartment at 11.48 after smelling something burning and found four dead bodies. One of them was the gunman," said Karlsruhe police chief Roland Lay. ... Full Story Top Firefighters save dog stuck in 200-foot deep quarry Wed,4 Jul 2012 03:03 PM PDT Good Morning America - A 2-year-old pit bull mix who disappeared from its home one week ago was found and rescued Tuesday by firefighters who repelled down a steep quarry to save her. Full Story Top Hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut equals record Wed,4 Jul 2012 05:57 PM PDT Yahoo! Sports - On an 82-degree day in Coney Island, Brooklyn, some 40,000 people gathered at the corner of Surf and Stillwell for the 2012 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Wednesday had potential for history, and Joey Chestnut delivered. He tied Takeru Kobayashi's record of six consecutive victories in this classic Fourth of July event. Full Story Top Lifeguard fired for trying to save drowning man outside of his zone Wed,4 Jul 2012 09:52 AM PDT Good Morning America - Tomas Lopez Left His Zone to Help a Drowning Man Full Story Top

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