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Key developments in the sex abuse trial of former Penn State football ...

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KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Testimony from three more accusers Thursday included some of the most graphic details of the trial's four days and gave the term “tickle monster” a dark, almost nefarious meaning.
Jerry Sandusky trial: Last accuser testifies of sexual abuse - by Michael Muskal
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Obama speech reveals Romney economic plan

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President Obama reveals the details of Mitt Romney's economic plan in a speech in Ohio. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell assesses Obama and Romney's back-to-back speeches with MSNBC's Alex Wagner and Ari Melber.
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Blow to Transition as Court Dissolves Egypt's Parliament

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CAIRO - A panel of judges appointed by Egypt's ousted president, Hosni Mubarak, threw the nation's troubled transition to democracy into grave doubt Thursday with rulings that dissolved the popularly elected Parliament and allowed the toppled ...
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NBA Finals: Miami leads, 78-67, after three quarters

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Miami Heat still led Oklahoma City through three quarters, 78-67, in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade were pushing the Heat, trying to even up the series at one game each.
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Cruise 'Ages'; Vile 'Boy'; Scott Thomas's 'Fifth': Review

Bloomberg Businessweek -
By Greg Evans and Craig Seligman on June 14, 2012 No hair is thick enough to tease much joy from “Rock of Ages,” a disposable adaptation of Broadway's hackneyed 1980s jukebox musical.
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Tiger passes first Olympic test

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By Gene Wojciechowski | ESPN.com SAN FRANCISCO -- Bubba Watson looked like he couldn't wait to leave courtesy car tire tracks out of the players' parking lot.
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UN Monitors find stench of death in Syrian town

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The monitors were only just able to get to the town of Haffa after a week of attempts. By Bassem Mroue and Diaa Hadid, The Associated Press / June 14, 2012 Protesters outside the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, on June 14.
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Russia coverage of Syria conflict echoes Damascus' view

Los Angeles Times -
MOSCOW - News stories on Syria in many parts of the world often focus on reports of government assaults against insurgents and civilian populations.
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Chinese officials apologise to woman in forced abortion

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City officials in China has apologised to a woman who was forced to have an abortion and suspended three people responsible, state media reports.
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Sewing the flags that fly

Philadelphia Inquirer -
In the pantheon of holidays, Flag Day doesn't usually register much more than a stitch in the fabric of everyday. No sequined parades or beer-drenched cookouts, no fireworks, no gift-giving, and definitely no day off.
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Obama vows "we remember, we rebuild" at World Trade Center

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By Laura MacInnis | NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday toured the soaring skyscraper being built to replace the twin towers destroyed on September 11, 2001, in a poignant visit to mark a new chapter of ...
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UK fights euro zone threat with £100 billion credit boost

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By Matt Falloon and Sven Egenter | LONDON (Reuters) - The government and central bank will flood Britain's banking system with more than 100 billion pounds ($155.43 billion), seeking to pump credit through an economy struggling to escape recession ...
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Stanford gets 110 years in "epic" fraud

Houston Chronicle -
By Ronnie Crocker Stanford delivers an unrepentant statement at his sentencing before US District Judge David Hittner. Photo: Ken Ellis / HC William "520 Percent" Miller: of Brooklyn, NY, claimed insider stock information, promised interest of 10 ...
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President Obama visits Sarah Jessica Parker's Manhattan brownstone for ...

New York Daily News -
This is one fund-raiser that Carrie Bradshaw would love. The first stop on President Obama's latest fund-raising stopover in Manhattan was the West Village brownstone of Sarah Jessica Parker, the actress who made Bradshaw's "Sex and the City" character ...
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Scott Walker urges Romney to offer bold economic plan

Los Angeles Times -
WASHINGTON - Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker, fresh from his victory in last week's recall election, has been on something of a victory lap, making the circuit of Washington newsmaker venues and offering public advice to Mitt Romney's campaign ...
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Microsoft reportedly in $1 billion deal for Yammer

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After rumors began to spread that such an acquisition was imminent, the tech giant has agreed to acquire the business software company, a source tells The Wall Street Journal.
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Vizio Launches First PCs; Pricing Starts At $898

Wall Street Journal -
(Updates with additional details and analyst comments in the 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 19th and 20th paragraphs.) By Shara Tibken NEW YORK--Vizio Inc. Thursday unveiled a line of laptops and all-in-one desktop computers, marking the electronics maker's ...
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Apple wins order for hearing on Motorola Mobility

San Francisco Chronicle -
PATENTS Apple wins hearing order Apple won a US judge's order scheduling an injunction hearing in a patent lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility unit one week after the same jurist canceled a trial scheduled for Monday.
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Chris Brown Talks To Cops -- Lawyer Presents Evidence Against Drake in ...

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Chris Brown has spoken with New York Police Dept. detectives about the bar fight that left a gash in his chin ... and law enforcement sources tell us his lawyer has given the NYPD "physical evidence" which allegedly shows Drake was involved in the ...
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'Game of Thrones,' HBO apologize for depicting decapitated George W. Bush head

Washington Post -
HBO has apologized for commentary on the “Game of Thrones” first-season DVD release, in which the executive producers note that one of several decapitated heads on sticks is that of ex-POTUS George W. Bush.
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Kevin Costner vs. Stephen Baldwin Courtroom Judgment: "The Bigger Celebrity Won"

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Emma's Sexy in Seoul! Plus, Zoe Saldana, Florence Welch and more. Rate all the highs and lows! Kevin Costner vs. Stephen Baldwin Courtroom Judgment: "The Bigger Celebrity Won" Less than two hours after closing arguments concluded Thursday, ...
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Player in His Third Major Diverts Attention From Marquee Group

New York Times -
SAN FRANCISCO - With its sloping fairways and slanted greens, the Olympic Club calls to mind a wood labyrinth maze game, with the golf ball replacing the steel ball as the object to be maneuvered around the pitfall-filled Lake Course.
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Croatia Holds On as Spain Roars On

New York Times -
POZNAN, Poland - Group C of the European Championships is going to the wire, but it might be the Italians who rue the day they were drawn in it.
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Watney's double eagle only 3rd in US Open history

Chicago Tribune -
SAN FRANCISCO - Birdies were hard to come by Thursday. Eagles? Even harder, of course. Then there was Nick Watney, who pulled off the rarest of the rare.
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Mets Get Just Enough Hitting for Three-Game Sweep of Rays

New York Times -
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Even amid the air-conditioned confines of Tropicana Field, it was surprising how little the Mets were made to sweat this week.
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Who you calling dumb? Neanderthals possibly cave artists: study

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talk about image rehab: once the poster children for nasty, brutish, short, and caveman-dumb, Neanderthals are now being hailed as contenders for the title of prehistory's first Michelangelos.
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Asteroid zips past Earth

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By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor • Get more from this author An asteroid spotted by Australian astronomers early in the week missed Earth by just 5.3 million kilometres.
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Trillions of ways to good health

Albany Times Union -
For years, bacteria have had a bad name. They are the cause of infections, of diseases. They are something to be scrubbed away, things to be avoided.
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White House, lawmakers prepare for Supreme Court ruling on Obama's health-care law

Washington Post -
In this city of rumors and leaks, it has been an excruciating lead-up to the Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health-care law.

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