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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: How the health care ruling could affect hiring Jaw-dropping switch saves 'Obamacare' 1 dead, estimated 346 homes burned in Colo. fire White House: Holder contempt vote 'a transparently political stunt' European leaders agree on long-term union Army battalion commander killed in Fort Bragg shooting GOP: Ruling will hurt swing-state Dems in November Chinese astronauts parachute land after mission Michael Sokolski, creator of Scantron, dies at 85 Gruesome killings by Mexican drug cartel DA: No charges in leak of Rihanna beating photo Body of missing 4-year-old Mich. boy found Rep. Gutierrez uses Bieber to rip Ariz. immigration law How the health care ruling could affect hiring Thu,28 Jun 2012 04:34 PM PDT Yahoo! Finance - For American businesses, uncertainty over the health care law is anything but over. Full Story Top Jaw-dropping switch saves 'Obamacare' Thu,28 Jun 2012 01:01 PM PDT In his White House memoir, "Courage and Consequence," Karl Rove recalls being the lone non-lawyer among the group of George W. Bush aides who initially interviewed John Roberts for the Supreme Court in 2005. Rove asked Roberts to go back in history to name the justice whom he most revered. Roberts' answer, Robert Jackson, intrigued and reassured Rove. When appointed in 1941, Jackson was serving as Franklin Roosevelt's attorney general and had been expected to be a pro-New Deal rubber-stamp on the court. But, as Rove put it, Jackson "instead demonstrated a fidelity to the Constitution that Roberts admired." Full Story Top 1 dead, estimated 346 homes burned in Colo. fire Thu,28 Jun 2012 10:08 PM PDT Associated Press - A raging Colorado wildfire that forced tens of thousands to flee has left at least one person dead and has destroyed an estimated 346 homes this week, making it the most destructive fire in the state's history, officials said Thursday. Full Story Top White House: Holder contempt vote 'a transparently political stunt' Thu,28 Jun 2012 02:31 PM PDT The White House denounced the Republican-led House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, accusing President Barack Obama's foes of looking to score political points. Full Story Top European leaders agree on long-term union Thu,28 Jun 2012 09:09 PM PDT Associated Press - After tough all-night bargaining, European leaders appeared to salvage what had seemed to be a summit teetering toward failure by agreeing early Friday to use the continent's bailout fund to funnel money directly to struggling banks, and in the longer term to the idea of a tighter union. Full Story Top Army battalion commander killed in Fort Bragg shooting Thu,28 Jun 2012 07:38 PM PDT Good Morning America - A U.S. Army battalion commander was killed by a fellow soldier on Thursday in a shooting incident at Fort Bragg, N.C.  The alleged gunman then shot himself and is in custody; a third soldier was slightly injured in the shooting. Full Story Top GOP: Ruling will hurt swing-state Dems in November Thu,28 Jun 2012 11:22 AM PDT The Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold the individual mandate in the president's health care law solidified health care as the cornerstone for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign. But it remains a tricky issue for Democrats running for Senate in conservative and competitive states. Already facing attacks over their ties to and alleged support for "Obamacare," [...] Full Story Top Chinese astronauts parachute land after mission Thu,28 Jun 2012 10:02 PM PDT Associated Press - China's first female astronaut and two other crew members emerged smiling from a capsule that returned safely to Earth Friday from a 13-day mission to an orbiting module that is a prototype for a future space station. Full Story Top Michael Sokolski, creator of Scantron, dies at 85 Thu,28 Jun 2012 04:46 PM PDT The name Michael Sokolski might not be of the household variety, but if you've ever filled in the little bubbles of a standardized test with a No. 2 pencil, you're familiar with his work. Sokolski, the man who invented the Scantron test format, died earlier this month at the age of 85 of congestive heart [...] Full Story Top Gruesome killings by Mexican drug cartel Thu,28 Jun 2012 09:25 AM PDT ABC News - 'This Is How All Your Filthy People Are Going to End,' Vows Narrator Full Story Top DA: No charges in leak of Rihanna beating photo Thu,28 Jun 2012 09:14 PM PDT Associated Press - Two Los Angeles police officers won't face criminal charges alleging they leaked a photo of pop star Rihanna's bruised and beaten face after she was assaulted by singer Chris Brown, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said. Full Story Top Body of missing 4-year-old Mich. boy found Thu,28 Jun 2012 09:08 PM PDT Associated Press - The body of a 4-year-old boy missing for a week was found buried Thursday at his home, a family spokesman said. Full Story Top Rep. Gutierrez uses Bieber to rip Ariz. immigration law Thu,28 Jun 2012 12:18 PM PDT Justin Bieber is many things: Singer, actor ... Canadian? It's true! And Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) used the Bieb's Canadian ancestry to make a point about the controversial Arizona immigration law. [Related: Arizona implements immigration law as feds push back] Gutierrez, who is against the law that allows Arizona law enforcement officials to ask [...] Full Story Top

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