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Levittown - Seoul, South KoreaN. Korea says it hasexpanded atomic arsenalNorth Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal.The announcement underlined Pyongyang's impatience over securing one-on-one talks with Washington, as well as the difficulties in dealing with a regime that resorts to threats and provocations to get what it wants.The timing - a day after Pyongyang warned it would beef up its nuclear arsenal if the U.S. refused to agree on bilateral talks - shows the communist regime is flexing its atomic might to push Washington to act, analysts said.CairoClinton makes stop in Egypt U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a hastily arranged stop in the Egyptian capital Tuesday to consult with a longtime Arab ally amid indications of a shifting U.S. strategy for getting Israel and the Palestinians back to peace negotiations.Instead of returning to Washington, as scheduled, after attending an international conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Clinton flew to Cairo and held late-night talks with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian intelligence chief. She was due to meet today with President Hosni Mubarak before returning to Washington to brief President Barack Obama.Egypt and other Arab nations reacted with strong concern to remarks Clinton made in Jerusalem on Saturday. She caused a stir when she said with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at her side that his government's offer to restrain - but not stop - settlement activity in Palestinian areas was unprecedented.Tehran, IranIran warns oppositionbefore anti-US rallyThe head of Tehran's anti-riot police threatened opposition protesters Tuesday with a full-scale assault if they return to the streets during government-backed events marking the takeover of the U.S. Embassy.Reformist leaders, however, have shown no sign of backing off their calls for marches to compete with today's state-sanctioned gatherings - which include an annual anti-American rally outside the brick walls of the former embassy compound.Both sides have much on the line for an anniversary that is among the most potent symbols of the Islamic Revolution three decades ago.Dickinson, N.D.Police: 3 college students found dead in pondThree missing North Dakota college softball players were found dead Tuesday in a Jeep pulled from a pond, and police said they believed the women were in the vehicle when they made two desperate calls to friends for help.Police Lt. Rod Banyai said officers are investigating the cause of the deaths and autopsies are planned. He said he believes the women were in the Jeep when they called for help, but he didn't know whether it already was under water when those calls were made."At this time, foul play is not suspected," Banyai said Tuesday night.Authorities had been searching since late Sunday night for Kyrstin Gemar, 22, of San Diego; Afton Williamson, 20, of Lake Elsinore, Calif.; and Ashley Neufeld, 21, of Brandon, Manitoba.Baton Rouge, La.Justice resigns after interracial wedding flapA Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor.Keith Bardwell quit with a one-sentence statement to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne: "I do hereby resign the office of Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, effective November 3, 2009."Gov. Bobby Jindal called Bardwell's resignation "long overdue."Beth Humphrey, who is white, has said she and her now-husband, Terence McKay, who is black, received their marriage license from the parish clerk of court, where they also got a list of people qualified to perform the ceremony. When she called Bardwell's office on Oct. 6 to ask, Humphrey said Bardwell's wife told her that the justice wouldn't sign their marriage license because they were a "mixed couple."ClevelandPolice: 4 more bodies found at rapist's homeRemains of four more people were unearthed from the backyard of a rapist's home Tuesday, raising to 10 the number of bodies found in and near the house, as police also searched boarded-up homes in the neighborhood where residents complained for years of a stench that one even said "smelled like a dead body."Anthony Sowell, 50, a registered sex offender who lives in the home, was charged Tuesday with five counts of aggravated murder."It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill," police Chief Michael McGrath said.The search was to continue through the night and into today, with fire department crews planning to search in the walls and ceiling of the home, McGrath said.Associated Press

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