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Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Jobs report looms over Obama campaign bus trip Is Quora the un-Twitter? Today's top photos Obama camp: Romney's fundraising news an elaborate smokescreen Man acquitted beating of priest he said sexually abused him Sweltering heat may wreak havoc on corn crops Art historians claim to find new Caravaggio works Lifeguard fired for saving man outside his zone turns down job reoffer Mexican vote recount confirms Pena Nieto win Obama declines offer to arm wrestle Ohio man for his vote Expert: Air France Flight 447 crash 'didn't have to happen' Father, son arrested in Texas shooting of immigration agent Former Argentine dictators convicted in baby thefts 2 boys die from electrical shock in Tennessee lake Jobs report looms over Obama campaign bus trip Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:06 PM PDT Associated Press - Campaigning by bus through swing state Ohio, President Barack Obama cast his re-election bid as a bet on the American worker Thursday, even as he braced for a Friday unemployment report that will help set battle lines for the hot summer to come. Full Story Top Is Quora the un-Twitter? Thu,5 Jul 2012 01:28 PM PDT Man. The smarties at Quora can class up even the lowest partisan bickering. Quora kids don't ask, Is Mitt Romney a nutcase? That would be too much like normal people. Instead, these Jesuitical know-it-alls ask "Does Mitt Romney have psychopathy?" Full Story Top Today's top photos Thu,5 Jul 2012 03:00 PM PDT Ten-year-old Lilly Hwang-Geddes (L) of Ithaca, New York, plays in a fountain at the Yards Park July 5, 2012 in Washington, DC. A record heat wave has been in the area for more than a week. Weather forecast predicted the hot weather will last through Sunday with possible daily triple-digit temperature. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Full Story Top Obama camp: Romney's fundraising news an elaborate smokescreen Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:15 PM PDT President Barack Obama's reelection campaign charged late Thursday that Mitt Romney hoped to use word of his eye-popping $100-million June fundraising haul as, essentially, a staggeringly expensive and carefully orchestrated smokescreen. The remarkable total, if confirmed, was sure to fan the flames of fears, frequently and publicly expressed by team Obama, that Romney will out-raise [...] Full Story Top Man acquitted beating of priest he said sexually abused him Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:31 PM PDT ABC News - William Lynch, the 44-year-old California man who admitted he pummeled a Jesuit priest who he said abused him as a boy, has been found not guilty of felony assault and elder abuse charges. Full Story Top Sweltering heat may wreak havoc on corn crops Thu,5 Jul 2012 05:30 PM PDT ABC News - The blistering heat behind the bone dry soil is creating major problems for farmers across the corn-belt states. "We're in a critical point, could be the beginning of the end," said Dave Kestel, a   farmer. In Manhattan, Ill., where Kestel is a fourth-generation corn farmer,... Full Story Top Art historians claim to find new Caravaggio works Thu,5 Jul 2012 05:50 PM PDT Associated Press - Two Italian art historians claim to have discovered as many as 100 works, most of them drawings, by a very young Caravaggio in a collection long attributed to a master Milanese artist he studied under while a boy in the late 1500s. Full Story Top Lifeguard fired for saving man outside his zone turns down job reoffer Thu,5 Jul 2012 07:06 PM PDT Good Morning America - The Hallandale Beach, Fla., lifeguard who got fired after saving a man outside his coverage zone was offered his job back, said the private contractor that employed him. Full Story Top Mexican vote recount confirms Pena Nieto win Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:13 PM PDT Reuters - A recount on Thursday showed Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto as the clear winner of Sunday's presidential election, but the runner-up still refused to concede, alleging Pena Nieto's party bought millions of votes. The results set up a return to power for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which governed Mexico from 1929 to 2000, when it was frequently accused of vote-rigging. With 99 percent of polling stations counted or recounted, Pena Nieto held 38.2 percent of the vote, 6.7 points ahead of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. ... Full Story Top Obama declines offer to arm wrestle Ohio man for his vote Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:41 PM PDT President Barack Obama will shake your hand, kiss your babies, visit your diner, tour your school, headline your ice cream social, drop by your bar. If federal red tape has you snagged, he'll try to help slice through it. But he draws the line at arm wrestling you for your vote. (He also won't pretend [...] Full Story Top Expert: Air France Flight 447 crash 'didn't have to happen' Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:31 PM PDT ABC News - The Air France Flight 447 crash, considered one of the worst aviation disasters in history, could have been avoided, a top-ranking aviation safety expert said. Full Story Top Father, son arrested in Texas shooting of immigration agent Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:23 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A father and son face federal charges after investigators say they opened fire and wounded a U.S. immigration special agent near the U.S.-Mexico border during an early-morning chase, federal officials said Thursday. The father and son, along with an unidentified minor, are accused of opening fire and chasing after Kelton Harrison, an Immigration Customs Enforcement special agent working a narcotics investigation before dawn on Tuesday in Hargill, Texas, a community of about 900 residents about 30 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, Kenneth Magidson, the U.S. ... Full Story Top Former Argentine dictators convicted in baby thefts Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:54 PM PDT Associated Press - Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to 50 years Thursday for a systematic program to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta's war on leftist dissidents three decades ago. Full Story Top 2 boys die from electrical shock in Tennessee lake Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:09 PM PDT Associated Press - Investigators say a second boy has died after being shocked by a suspected faulty cord from a houseboat as they swam in a Tennessee lake. Full Story Top

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