Scores of Demonstrators Killed in Egypt  —  CAIRO — The police and armed civilians opened fire Saturday with live ammunition on protesters against Egypt's new military government, witnesses said, killing scores of people as hopes faded that the Egyptian military would reach any political accommodation …

She did the right thing despite her prejudices.  —  Sometimes life imitates the Onion.  Last week the satirical newspaper ran an “op-ed” by “Juror E6,” a fictitious member of the panel that acquitted George Zimmerman.  Here's the nut, and pardon our F—ch: “Now, I realize …

FDA set to overhaul food safety rules for imported fruits, veggies  —  The Food and Drug Administration on Friday unveiled new rules to combat safety threats in imported foods - an overhaul that represents a sea change in U.S. treatment of food shipped from other countries.

Concord: Half of Affordable Care Act call center jobs will be part-time  —  CONCORD — Earlier this year, Contra Costa County won the right to run a health care call center, where workers will answer questions to help implement the president's Affordable Care Act.

New $444 million hockey arena is still a go in Detroit  —  Detroit's financial crisis hasn't derailed the city's plans to spend more than $400 million in Michigan taxpayer funds on a new hockey arena for the Red Wings.  —  Advocates of the arena say it's the kind of economic development needed …

Wall Street wants Yellen, not Summers, as next Fed chief  —  Wall Street overwhelmingly believes President Obama will and should pick Janet Yellen to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, according to a survey.  —  Preliminary results of the CNBC Fed Survey for July show 70 percent …

Sarah Palin: I Was Banned From Talking About Jeremiah Wright By The McCain Campaign  —  “I wasn't allowed to talk about things like that because those elitist, those who are the brainics in the GOP machine running John McCain's campaign at the time said that the media would eat us alive if we brought up these things.”

Terminally Ill ‘Simpsons’ Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune  —  Sam Simon faces down his terminal cancer diagnosis by spending his vast fortune (how much?  “I don't know") on animal rights and feeding the hungry: “I get pleasure from it.  I love it.”  —  Called both “brilliantly funny” …

Assuming the Distance Learning Can Opener  —  While conceding that Johnathan Rees's argument against MOOC's focuses too much on the self-interest of faculty members and not enough on the massive problems of distance learning, Jon Chait's touting of the promise of MOOCs is suffers from two major flaws.

Archbishop Tutu ‘would not worship a homophobic God’  —  South Africa's Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will never worship a “homophobic God” and will rather go to hell.  —  The retired archbishop was speaking at the launch of a UN-backed campaign in South Africa to promote gay rights.