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Today's Most Popular News: Florida highrise has 32 stories, but just 1 tenant Austrian has Indiana Jones moment in Mongolia Welcome to the bottom: Housing begins slow rebound King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty 2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon Few hurdles for Canada smugglers to get choppers Sands hid fate of Gulf War pilot lost since '91 AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed Warship christened at Maine shipyard for NY Marine US Marshals seize sanitizer for bacteria problems Pentagon eyes accelerated "bunker buster" bomb LaHood: Car rebates will stop unless Senate acts American with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran Putin dives to bottom of world's deepest lake Pair of longtime Mich. fast-food workers retire UBS not to pay fine in U.S. tax settlement: reports 2 new Mozart works presented in Austria Nissan rolls out electric car at new headquarters Jackson estate confronts fake merchandise dealers Florida highrise has 32 stories, but just 1 tenant Sun, 2 Aug 2009 02:39 am PDT AP - The Vangelakos' southwest Florida condominium has marble floors, a large pool overlooking a river and modern furnishings that speak of affluence and luxury. What they don't have in the 32-story building is a single neighbor. Full Story Top Austrian has Indiana Jones moment in Mongolia Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:30 pm PDT AFP - Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an Indiana Jones film. For Austrian-born Michael Eisenriegler, it was a real-life adventure. Full Story Top Welcome to the bottom: Housing begins slow rebound Sun, 2 Aug 2009 02:26 am PDT AP - It was — note the past tense — the worst housing recession anyone but survivors of the Great Depression can remember. Full Story Top King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty Sun, 2 Aug 2009 06:22 pm PDT AP - Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon — long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters. But they're mostly empty. Full Story Top 2 Obama officials: No guarantee taxes won't go up Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:27 pm PDT AP - President Barack Obama's treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit, and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul. Full Story Top New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon Sun, 2 Aug 2009 08:15 pm PDT AP - A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine. Full Story Top Few hurdles for Canada smugglers to get choppers Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:23 pm PDT AP - Colin Martin was on bail, appealing his sentence for leading a U.S.-Canada drug conspiracy involving aircraft. But he was still able to obtain three helicopters, two of which ended up being flown by drug smugglers. Full Story Top Sands hid fate of Gulf War pilot lost since '91 Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:58 pm PDT AP - Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991, and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world's mightiest military. Full Story Top AP sources: Military-civilian terror prison eyed Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:22 pm PDT AP - The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. Full Story Top Warship christened at Maine shipyard for NY Marine Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:21 pm PDT AP - In a solemn ceremony punctuated by talk of courage, service and sacrifice, the mother of a Marine corporal on Saturday christened a warship honoring her son, who died after covering an exploding grenade to protect his comrades in Iraq. Full Story Top US Marshals seize sanitizer for bacteria problems Sun, 2 Aug 2009 02:37 am PDT AP - Officers with the U.S. Marshals Service have seized all skin sanitizers and skin protectants, including ingredients and components, at Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory's facility in Roy, Utah, the Food and Drug Administration said. Full Story Top Pentagon eyes accelerated "bunker buster" bomb Sun, 2 Aug 2009 01:52 pm PDT Reuters - The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large "bunker-buster" bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran. Full Story Top LaHood: Car rebates will stop unless Senate acts Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:25 pm PDT AP - The Obama administration will suspend the "cash for clunkers" program unless the Senate provides $2 billion more for the popular car incentive plan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Sunday. Full Story Top American with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:21 pm PDT AP - An American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he had a cold — a twist of fate that prevented him from mistakenly wandering into Iran where his three friends were reportedly detained. Full Story Top Putin dives to bottom of world's deepest lake Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:15 am PDT AFP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Saturday dived to the bottom of the world's deepest lake aboard a mini-submarine, in a highly mediatized stunt unusual even by the standards of the Russian hardman. Full Story Top Pair of longtime Mich. fast-food workers retire Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:54 am PDT AP - When Marlene Wickerink and Janet Chapman decided to retire from the McDonald's restaurant in North Muskegon, more than four decades of experience walked out the door with them. Full Story Top UBS not to pay fine in U.S. tax settlement: reports Sun, 2 Aug 2009 03:01 am PDT Reuters - Switzerland's UBS(UBS.N)(UBSN.VX) will not have to pay a fine as part of the settlement of a tax evasion dispute with the United States, two Swiss newspapers reported on Sunday. Full Story Top 2 new Mozart works presented in Austria Sun, 2 Aug 2009 03:19 pm PDT AP - Technically demanding and at times furiously paced, two newly identified Mozart works unveiled Sunday are helping scholars complete their assessment of the maestro's very early achievements. Full Story Top Nissan rolls out electric car at new headquarters Sun, 2 Aug 2009 12:42 am PDT AP - Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn drove quietly out of the Japanese automaker's soon-to-open headquarters Sunday in the first public viewing of its new zero-emission vehicle. Full Story Top Jackson estate confronts fake merchandise dealers Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:35 am PDT AP - Down a crowded merchant-lined street in downtown Los Angeles called Santee Alley, a handful of vendors are selling Michael Jackson T-shirts. Two shirts memorialize his passing, but one gets the date of his death wrong. The other has no collar tag. Full Story Top

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