http://ap.google.com – RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. Read more »

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – AP - John Pont, who guided Indiana to its only Rose Bowl appearance 40 years ago and also coached at Northwestern, Yale and Miami of Ohio, died Tuesday. He was 80. Read more »

http://www.mixx.com – John Stagliano says anecdotes aren't enough to paint adult entertainment as an industry rife with abuse. Barry McDonald says the government needs to use all available tools to rein in the industry. Read more »

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – Reuters - Roger Federer sauntered into the men's singles final at Wimbledon on Friday with a 6-3 7-6 6-4 defeat of outclassed Russian Marat Safin. Read more »

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – AP - The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future. Read more »

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – AP - Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high. Read more »

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. Read more »

http://us.rd.yahoo.com – AFP - Beijing's notoriously foul-smelling and poorly tended public toilets will feature some rarely seen luxuries during the Olympics -- toilet paper and soap, state media reported on Friday. Read more »