Some 44 people are dead and dozens more injured after two car bombs in Damascus, Syria on Friday that the government is blaming on Al Qaeda. The Duke of Edinburgh, husband to Queen Elizabeth II, underwent successful heart surgery for a blocked artery. President Obama signed the two-month payroll tax cut and unemployment benefit extension into law Friday before joining his family on vacation in Hawaii. LA city officials calculate it cost the city some $2.35 million in police overtime and clean-up costs to evict Occupy LA from their camp around City Hall last month. Under intense pressure from a near-instant internet-fueled boycott, domain host service GoDaddy has dropped its support for the controversial SOPA anti-piracy legislation in Congress.