New interviews with witnesses detail the shootings in Norway that killed more than 90 people. When many people tried to swim to safety, the gunman shot at them from the shore. One witness said, “I heard shots right behind me. He was standing by the water, using his rifle, just taking his time, aiming and shooting. It was a slaughter of young children.” At one point, the gunman convinced several of those in hiding that he was a police officer and that they should come to him; he then shot at them. One member of Parliament said, “He shot a boy in the back. I saw that some people were falling, and we turned around and ran.” Police said the death toll might climb. At least four people are still missing from the attack on Utoya Island.

Anders Behring Breivik has admitted to his crimes, according to his lawyer. He has also told police the circumstances of the killings. Police called the attacks acts of terrorism, which are punishable by up to 21 years in prison in Norway. Hours before the attacks, Breivik released a YouTube video in which he called on conservatives to “embrace martyrdom.” The death toll from the attacks may rise to 98.

House Speaker John Boehner wants to have a plan to avoid default in place by Sunday afternoon, in order to avoid panic in Asian markets. Boehner also warned GOP lawmakers that they may lose leverage if nothing is enacted by Aug. 2. The speaker said he does not want to resort to the “McConnell plan,” which would allow President Obama to raise the debt ceiling over the next year and a half. A spokesman for Boehner said the speaker is “working with congressional leaders on a path forward that will prevent a default. He is aware of the White House’s concerns about the Asian markets.” According to The New York Times, the plan Republicans are considering will cut $3 trillion to $4 trillion from the federal budget.

Meet the new bosses, same as the old ones. Protesters in Cairo calling for a faster transition to democracy were attacked by knife-wielding men Saturday on their way to the headquarters of the military government. A crowd of 10,000 people marched from Tahrir Square but was stopped at a line of army barricades. Men armed with sticks and knives charged at them from side roads, beginning pitched street battles. Former ruler Hosni Mubarak often used gangs of thugs to put down protests. The army denies it used force against the protesters.

Singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London apartment, according to Sky News. An ambulance was called to the apartment by police just after 4 p.m. Saturday. She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a police statement. The 27-year-old singer has battled with drug and alcohol use over the course of her career. Police say they're treating her death as unexplained.

The death toll in a high-speed train crash in eastern China on Saturday has risen to 32 people; more than 90 others were injured. The train was traveling from Hangzhou to Wenzhou when it was struck by lightning and lost power. Another train then hit the stalled train, knocking two of its cars off a bridge. Earlier this month, a storm caused a power failure on the brand-new line between Beijing and Shanghai; that train was delayed for 90 minutes without lights or air conditioning.

Iran announced that the person killed in a shooting on Saturday was a student and not a nuclear physicist, as previously reported. It had initially been thought that gunmen on motorcycles had killed Darioush Rezaei, a physics professor whom reports linked to the country’s nuclear program. But the victim was later revealed to be Darioush Rezaeinejad, a student at Khajeh Nasir University. The original report sounded similar to several recent assassinations of scientists, which Tehran accused the U.S. and Israel of orchestrating.

A congressional commission has finished its three-year evaluation of the U.S.'s contracting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it doesn't look good. The U.S. wasted or misspent $34 billion on contracts for wasteful or failed services during its decade in the battlefield. Some of that figure comes from projects that were poorly conceived, like an agricultural-development project that paid Afghan farmers to plow their own fields. Part of the figure also comes from funds diverted to insurgents, such as when a subcontractor pays 20 percent of a contract for “protection.” The report singles out private security guards as especially problematic, and calls for an overhaul of the way the U.S. employs them.

The heat wave that has spread from the Midwest to the Northeast continued hitting record-high temperatures on Saturday. The National Weather Service warned of “oppressive heat,” meaning temperatures above 90, in several states. In New York’s Central Park the temperature rose above 100 degrees, the highest ever. Newark, N.J., experienced temperatures of 102, the highest July 23 since 1955. In the New York metropolitan area, 22,000 customers were without power on Saturday. Chicago cooled off a bit, but the heat was replaced by rain, as the city experienced its wettest calendar day ever, with 6.86 inches of rainfall.

No wonder so many politicians tout their close relationship to God. A Public Policy Polling survey finds most Americans approve of the deity's performance. Fifty-two percent of Americans say that if God exists, they approve of its performance. Nine percent disapprove, and 40 percent aren't sure. Half those polled approve of the divinity's handling of natural disasters. God's most popular move by far is its creating of the universe, with 71 percent approving and 24 percent unsure how they feel about it.

After more than a century serving wounded U.S. troops, Walter Reed Army Medical Center is closing its doors. To save money, the historic hospital will merge its operations with the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, and a hospital at Fort Belvoir, VA. A scandal in 2007 over the quality of living conditions for injured troops began the process of leading to the shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of wounded troops from World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan have been treated at Walter Reed. President Dwight Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas MacArthur both died there.

Police in Norway have charged a 32-year-old man they say is a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing affiliations of the murder of at least 92 people. Anders Behring Breivik is suspected of bombing a government center and then, dressed as a police officer, opening fire at a youth camp on an island outside Oslo. “He said it was a routine check in connection with the terror attack in Oslo,” said a witness at the camp. At least 84 people, some as young as 16, were killed on the island as they tried to hide or swim away. Breivik was captured by police and is apparently cooperating.

Sexual harassment may need to be added to the list of Oregon Rep. David Wu's well-documented erratic behavior at the time of last year's November election. A young woman left a voicemail at Wu's office accusing him of aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior last Thanksgiving. When confronted by senior aides, Wu confirmed the encounter but said it was consensual. Around the same time, Wu sent strange emails and pictures of himself wearing a tiger costume to his staff. Shortly after the election, half his staff resigned.

Steven Spielberg knows how to please a Comic-Con audience. The director announced that he is working on Jurassic Park 4, a new installment to the 1993 franchise he based on the Michael Crichton books. “We have a story, I can happily announce,” Spielberg told cheering crowds in San Diego. “We have a writer who is writing the treatment and hopefully we are going to make ‘Jurassic Park 4′ in all of your foreseeable futures—all of our foreseeable futures–hopefully, in the next two or three years.”

Syrian protesters aren't backing down. They held one of the largest demonstrations in their four-month uprising, with hundreds of thousands of people marching against President Bashar al-Assad. The protests were in honor of the city of Homs, where some 40 people have been killed in the past few days. The Friday protests themselves appear to have been unusually peaceful for how large they were, with 11 people reported dead. State television blamed saboteurs for derailing a train in central Syria.

The youngest son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver was severely injured in a surfing accident in Malibu last weekend. The 13-year-old crashed into an object on the beach and was swiftly taken to intensive care, though he is expected to make a full recovery. "While it has been a very scary week, Christopher is surrounded by his family and friends," his parents said in a joint statement. "On behalf of our entire family, we want to sincerely thank the paramedics and lifeguards who responded so swiftly as well as the doctors, nurses, emergency room and hospital staff who have cared for our son." He has since been transferred out of the ICU.

Better use those gift cards while you can. Borders has begun liquidating its remaining 399 stores as it prepares to end operations. More than $700 million of inventory will be sold. Then come store fixtures, furnishings, shelves, and even café equipment. The sale starts at 40 percent off and will likely last eight to 10 weeks. "This marks the end of an era," said Borders Group president Mike Edwards. A few stores may get a new lease on life, with the chain Books-A-Million bidding for 30 Borders branches.

Rebecca Leighton has been charged in connection with the deaths of five patients at a U.K. Hospital. The 27-year-old nurse is accused of putting lives at risk by tampering with saline and other medicines. Five patients at the hospital where she worked have died after being poisoned by contaminated saline, and several others are seriously ill. Leighton had been passed over for a promotion at the hospital. She faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.

A major scoop by The Telegraph that involved Rupert Murdoch may have been blown by one of its editors who now works for News Corp., Telegraph editors say. In December, that paper had a bombshell audio recording of Vince Cable, the government's business secretary, boasting that he had “declared war” on Rupert Murdoch and planned to block News Corp.’s bid for BSkyB. But while The Telegraph was preparing the story, it was broken instead by BBC editor Robert Peston, who had obtained a copy of the recording. His story caused Cable to lose his job. Now The Telegraph has a “strong suspicion” that its former chief editor William Lewis and another ex-Telegraph employee leaked the story to Peston. Lewis is currently in charge of News Corp.'s campaign to clean up the hacking scandal, and Peston is being accused by M.P.s of using his clout at the BBC to distract the public from News International's current leadership.

Here's a novel budget-cutting strategy: Ask people to work free of charge. Congress failed to approve a stop-gap funding measure for the FAA when House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FL.) tacked a budget cut onto the normally straightforward bill. He proposed ending federal subsidies for air service to small airports in rural areas. The Senate refused to pass the bill and then Congress adjourned. More than 4,000 FAA workers and tens of thousands of airport construction workers face immediate furlough or work without pay. The FAA says the furlough won't affect the safety of air travel, but that many of the agency's functions and its ability to collect tax revenue will grind to a halt. “This is no way to run the best aviation system in the world.” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.