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Greek Voting Past, Europe Returns to Fiscal Rescue

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BERLIN - After Greek elections eased fears that the country's exit from the euro zone was imminent, attention turned Monday to an even bigger challenge: restoring the economic body to health with Greece still in it.
Spain Back in Cross Hairs - by Charles Forelle
Greece election gives Europe scant breathing room
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Mitt Romney: 'Michigan is a state we can win'

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MOLINE, Ill.—Mitt Romney just felt like chatting. Just after wrapping up his final event in Iowa on day four of his five-day bus tour through battleground states, the Republican nominee briefly made an appearance in the back of his campaign plane to ...
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Chinese Astronauts Dock with Orbiting Tiangong 1 Module

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By Damon Poeter China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft successfully docked with the country's orbiting Tiangong 1 space station test platform on Monday, pulling off a space maneuver previously only accomplished by the US and Russian space agencies.
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Clemens Is Found Not Guilty of Lies About Drug Use

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WASHINGTON - Roger Clemens, who intimidated even the toughest batters while becoming one of the best pitchers in baseball history, was acquitted Monday of all charges that he lied to Congress in 2008 when he insisted he never used steroids or human ...
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G20 welcomes EU aims on banking, fiscal coordination -draft

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LOS CABOS, Mexico, June 18 (Reuters) - The communique to be issued at a G20 summit sets out in detail the European Union's aims of bringing about closer integration of its banking system and steps toward tighter fiscal coordination, a draft seen by ...
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Obama and Putin say Syria violence must end, no plan agreed

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By Matt Spetalnick and Gleb Bryanski | LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Monday that the violence in Syria has to end but they offered no new solutions and showed no signs of healing ...
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Uncertainties Underlie the Celebrations in Cairo

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CAIRO - The first celebrations for the new president were joyous but spare, a party overwhelmed by traffic and heat. In Tahrir Square, flags waved and boys set off fireworks that disappeared in the midday sun.
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Canada needs to show environmental leadership, Charest tells Earth Summit in Rio

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It is being billed as a "once in a generation" chance to design a blueprint for the Earth's future. But negotiators at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development here in Rio de Janeiro are clearly struggling to live up to that billing.
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Experts cast doubt on Sandusky's disorder defense

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By KEVIN BEGOS, AP - 1 minute ago The defense in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial is suggesting that a personality disorder explains some of the charges against the former Penn State assistant football coach, but one expert says that may be a ...
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Zimmerman gave instructions in phone call with his wife, records show

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By FRANCES ROBLES MIAMI -- George Zimmerman's wife, Shellie, is facing perjury charges of lying under oath about money her husband raised online, but bank records and recorded jailhouse phone calls released Monday show it was George Zimmerman who ...
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Two Alaska militia members convicted of conspiracy to commit murder

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| ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The leader of an Alaska militia group and one of his followers were found guilty on Monday of conspiracy to commit murder and various weapons offenses in a plot to kill government officials and law enforcement officers.
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Oracle releases forecast-beating results early as exec departs

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* Shares up 3 percent after-hours * New software sales climb 7 pct * Global tech spending outlook still uncertain (Adds analyst comments, details of earnings) SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp (ORCL.
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Facebook stock closes up for 3rd straight day

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AP The stock increased $1.40, or 4.7 percent, to close Monday at $31.41. That's still down 17 percent from Facebook's IPO price of $38.
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top WV Dems, plan to skip Democratic convention

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(CBS News) Three Democrats from West Virginia, including first-term Sen. Joe Manchin, are skipping the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC this September, where President Obama will formally receive the party's presidential nomination.
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Road Trip Helps Romney Brush Up on Banter

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JANESVILLE, Wis. - Mitt Romney's English is direct and to the point, useful for attacking President Obama on the stump or dismantling his Republican opponents in primary debates.
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Government Censor Requests Are Alarming, Says Google

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Unlike the traffic and copyright sections of its Transparency Report which are refreshed in near-real time, the government's section is only updated in six-month increments because "it's a people-driven manual process.
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Facebook buys facial-recognition startup

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by Don Reisinger | 19 June 2012 9:11am SGT The Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup offers application programming interfaces (API) for third-party developers to incorporate Face.
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Shia LaBeouf Band -- We're PROUD of His Penis

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Shia LaBeouf's wang is getting some major support after it made its debut in a new music video for Sigur Ros -- with the band telling TMZ, "Icelandic people are not prudish about people being naked.
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Katy Perry's 'Wide Awake' Video: Through The Looking Glass

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Perry's fairy-tale clip closes the book on her Teenage Dream story and finds her living happily ever after. By James Montgomery (@positivnegativ) Katy Perry certainly isn't the first artist to get all Lewis Carroll-ian with a video - Tom Petty's iconic ...
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Bieber tries new sounds on 'Believe'

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Justin Bieber, Believe Pop **½ At 18, Canada's luckiest and pluckiest lad enters a treacherous career phase with his second studio album.
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Dickey Pitches Another One-Hitter

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RA Dickey this season has been modest about his emergence as a stopper in the Mets rotation, playing down his obvious dominance. He can no longer do so with any credibility.
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St. John's assistant named Bobcats' head coach

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By Rick Bonnell St. John's interim head coach Mike Dunlap directs his team during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game won 81-59 by Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.
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Ex-Prosecutor Presents NFL's Findings in Bounty Case

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The four New Orleans Saints players suspended for what the NFL says was their roles in a bounty system met with Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday in Manhattan and were given the opportunity to respond to the league's evidence against them.
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Young Thunder not feeling down -- yet

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MIAMI -- They're supposed to be distraught and emotionally drained, a young team that has been pushed to the breaking point by the pressure that comes with The Finals and the non-stop physical assault of the Miami Heat.
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Misbehaving particles poke holes in reigning physics theory

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The reigning theory of particle physics may be flawed, according to new evidence that a subatomic particle decays in a certain way more often than it should, scientists announced.
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Feds file lawsuit to get tyrannosaur skeleton sent back to Mongolia

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Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor.
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Jack Osbourne's form of multiple sclerosis is 'very treatable'

New York Daily News -
THE MOST common form of multiple sclerosis is known as “relapsing-remitting MS.” It's an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system.
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'Dream Team' sets up HIV/AIDS health plan in Miami

MiamiHerald.com -
A Medicaid HMO, Magic Johnson and UM doctors are combining to provide healthcare for HIV/AIDS patients. By Anna Edgerton And John Dorschner Billing themselves as a new “Dream Team,” leaders of the University of Miami medical school, a Coral Gables ...

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