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    Mike Wolfe's pickup truck lies under a fallen tree in front of his house after a severe storm in Falls Church, Va., Saturday, June 30, 2012. Wolfe's daughter created the "for sale" sign as a joke. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

    Storm power outages could last for days

    It could be several more days before electricity is restored to areas hit by vicious storms that killed at least 13 people and left 3 million power customers to negotiate sweltering temperatures without air conditioning. More »Storm power outages could last for days

    Supporters of the Affordable Healthcare Act celebrate after the court upheld the legality of the law in Washington

    Ruling ups support for health care law

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voter support for President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul … More »Ruling ups support for health care law

    Russian space agency rescue team carry U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit, center, shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-03M space capsule at the south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, July 1, 2012. The Soyuz capsule, which carried two astronauts and Russian cosmonaut safely returned to Earth on Sunday after a half-year stint on the international space station, with a landing on the Kazakh steppe. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, pool)

    Space crew returns safely home

    A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man multinational crew touched down safely Sunday … More »Space crew returns safely home

    • A fallen tree blocks the sidewalk and damages a park vehicle in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, Saturday, June 30, 2012. Violent evening storms following a day of triple-digit temperatures wiped out power to more than 2 million people across the eastern United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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      Photos: Storms pound mid-Atlantic region 17 hrs ago

      Millions across the mid-Atlantic region sweltered Saturday, June 30, in the aftermath of violent storms that pummeled the eastern U.S. with high winds and downed trees, killing at least 13 people and leaving 3 million  … More »Photos: Storms pound mid-Atlantic region

    • More nuanced view of Roberts after health care law
      New view of John Roberts after health care ruling AP - 2 hrs 38 mins ago

      Chief Justice John Roberts could have taken down the entire, massive health care law that his fellow Republicans deride as "Obamacare." He could have prevented the Supreme Court decision that ... More »New view of John Roberts after health care ruling

      More nuanced view of Roberts after health care law

      Chief Justice John Roberts could have taken down the entire, massive health care law that his fellow Republicans deride as "Obamacare." He could have prevented the Supreme Court decision that ...

    • The remains of a burned structure are left in the Mountain Shadow neighborhood devastated by raging wildfires, Friday, June 29, 2012, in, Colorado Springs, Colo. After declaring a "major disaster" in the state early Friday and promising federal aid, President Obama got a firsthand view of the wildfires and their toll on residential communities. More than 30,000 people have been evacuated in what is now the most destructive wildfire in state history. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
      Short visits home allowed after Colorado wildfires AP - 6 hrs ago

      People who fled the most destructive fire in Colorado's history are being allowed temporary visits to the most devastated neighborhoods, and many will find that their homes were among the nearly 350 burned to the ground … More »Short visits home allowed after Colorado wildfires

      The remains of a burned structure are left in the Mountain Shadow neighborhood devastated by raging wildfires, Friday, June 29, 2012, in, Colorado Springs, Colo. After declaring a "major disaster" in the state early Friday and promising federal aid, President Obama got a firsthand view of the wildfires and their toll on residential communities. More than 30,000 people have been evacuated in what is now the most destructive wildfire in state history. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

      People who fled the most destructive fire in Colorado's history are being allowed temporary visits to the most devastated neighborhoods, and many will find that their homes were among the nearly 350 burned to the ground.

    • First Japan reactor goes online since crisis AP - 1 hr 15 mins ago
      A participant holds a slogan and a photo of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during a rally protesting the restart of Ohi nuclear power plant, in Tokyo, Sunday, July 1, 2012. Noda ordered the restarts of the plant's two reactors last month, saying people's living standards can't be maintained without nuclear energy. Protesters were against a return to nuclear power because of safety fears after the Fukushima accident and demanded the resignation of Noda. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

      Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted Sunday, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

    • Syrian opposition group: 800 killed in past week AP - 2 hrs 22 mins ago
      In this Thursday, June 28, 2012 photo, embers of the Free Syrian Army are seen in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. Much of the violence that has gripped Syria has been sanctioned by the government to crush dissent. But rebel fighters are launching increasingly deadly attacks on regime targets, and several huge suicide bombings this year suggest al-Qaida or other extremists are joining the battle. A bomb blast rocked central Damascus on Thursday near a busy market and the country's main justice complex, wounding at least three people and sending a cloud of black smoke into the air. (AP Photo)

      Syria's main opposition group says nearly 800 people have been killed in escalating violence across the country in the past week.

    • No universal approach to wooing Hispanic voters AP - 1 hr 24 mins ago
      In this Friday, June 29, 2012 photo, Carissa Valdez, left, a volunteer for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, listens to Ruben Gallardo, who she registers to vote, as a group of volunteers work to register new voters as they canvass a heavily Latino neighborhood in Phoenix. Across the country both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

      In New Mexico, Tomasita Maestas says she will pick the presidential candidate who has the best plan to fix education and the economy.

    • Turkey scrambled jets to check Syrian border AP - 51 mins ago
      In this Thursday, June 28, 2012 photo, embers of the Free Syrian Army are seen in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. Much of the violence that has gripped Syria has been sanctioned by the government to crush dissent. But rebel fighters are launching increasingly deadly attacks on regime targets, and several huge suicide bombings this year suggest al-Qaida or other extremists are joining the battle. A bomb blast rocked central Damascus on Thursday near a busy market and the country's main justice complex, wounding at least three people and sending a cloud of black smoke into the air. (AP Photo)

      Turkey's military says it scrambled fighter jets to its border on Saturday after Syrian helicopters flew too close to the frontier.

    • France says Geneva Syria plan implies Assad must go Reuters - 2 hrs 48 mins ago
      Hillary Clinton

      PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday that a text agreed to by members of the U.N. Security Council in Geneva on a political transition for Syria implied that President Bashar al-Assad would have to step down. World powers agreed in Geneva on Saturday that a transitional government should …

    • Syrian opposition rejects UN transition plan AP - 3 hrs ago
      Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria speaks during a news conference following the Action Group on Syria meeting in the Palace of Nations, Saturday, June 30, 2012, at the United Nations' Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini, Keystone)

      Syrian opposition groups on Sunday rejected a U.N.-brokered peace plan for a political transition in Syria, calling it ambiguous and a waste of time and vowing not to negotiate with President Bashar Assad or members of his "murderous" regime.

    • Iran vows to confront 'malicious' embargo Reuters - 2 hrs 27 mins ago
      Iran's Oil Minister Qasemi talks to journalists before a meeting of OPEC oil ministers at OPEC's headquarters in Vienna

      DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran pledged to counter the impact of a European Union oil embargo which took full effect on Sunday, saying it had built up $150 billion in foreign reserves to protect itself. The EU ban on crude imports is part of a push by Western countries aimed at choking Iran's export earnings and forcing it to curb …

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