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Tropical Storm Debby makes landfall on Fla. coast

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Updated 5:18 PM ET (CBS/AP) ST. GEORGE ISLAND, Fla. - Tropical Storm Debby has made landfall on the northwest coast of Florida. The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon that Debby made landfall near Steinhatchee with top winds of 40 mph.
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U-Va. reinstates Teresa Sullivan after weeks of protests

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The university's governing board voted unanimously to reinstate Teresa Sullivan, whose ouster as president plunged the campus into turmoil and prompted a student protest.
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Trayvon Martin's killer never identified himself: police

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By Kevin Gray | MIAMI (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the man charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin, failed on at least two opportunities to identify himself as a neighborhood watch volunteer before he shot the unarmed teenager, a police investigator ...
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Egyptian court curbs military's power to arrest civilians

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CAIRO - An Egyptian court on Tuesday suspended a recent decree giving military police and intelligence officers the authority to detain civilians, a bold ruling by a court that has played a maverick role during the country's post-revolutionary period.
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New Zynga game, The Ville, allows virtual sex

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by Rafe Needleman Things are beginning to get freaky in The Ville (screenshot from video presentation at Zynga press conference). In a first for a Zynga casual game, users can now have virtual sex in a new game, The Ville.
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Syrian downing of Turkish jet serves as warning

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The Syrian government's downing of a Turkish fighter jet has served as a stark warning that its military is capable of mounting a sophisticated defense against potential enemies, complicating a Libya-style intervention.
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Syria in state of war, says Bashar al-Assad

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his country is in "a state of war", more than a year after the uprising against his rule began.
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Aung San Suu Kyi: No grudges against jailers, building democracy needs ...

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PARIS - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday that she holds no grudges against the military regime that kept her under house arrest for some 15 years and, instead, views it as a group she can work with as the country moves toward ...
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Arizona Small Businesses Fret After Immigration Ruling

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By EMILY MALTBY Monday's Supreme Court ruling is igniting fresh fears among some local officials that Arizona might be boycotted, dealing an economic blow to local business and employees.
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UPDATE 1-Rielle Hunter says she has split with John Edwards

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(Changes first paragraph, adds effort to contact Edwards' lawyers) NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - Rielle Hunter, the woman who had an affair with former US Senator John Edwards during his US presidential bid, said on Tuesday that she was no longer in a ...
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Appeals court upholds EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

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By NEELA BANERJEE WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court here ruled unanimously to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, dealing a setback to fossil-fuel industries, ...
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News Summary: Consumer confidence declines in June

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NEW YORK (AP) - THE NEWS: The Conference Board, a private research group, said its Consumer Confidence Index stands at 62.0 for June, down from a revised 64.4 reading in May and below the 63.2 economists were expecting.
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Stocks up, euro dips as technicals offset Spain worry

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By Richard Leong | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks rose and the euro fell to its lowest level versus the US dollar in over two weeks on Tuesday, as technical buying offset a near tripling in Spanish debt costs on doubts a European summit can ...
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Obama and Biden strike at Romney on overseas jobs

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By KEN THOMAS, AP - 1 minute ago MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden unleashed a back-to-back assault Tuesday on Republican challenger Mitt Romney, re-emphasizing Democratic assertions that Romney as a venture ...
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President Obama arrives in Miami for fundraisers

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The president will attend two fundraisers on Miami Beach: a small, private one and a larger one aimed at Hispanic voters and headlined by salsa singer Marc Anthony.
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McCaskill to skip Democratic National Convention

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By HENRY C. JACKSON, AP - 1 minute ago WASHINGTON (AP) - Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election in 2012, plans to skip the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC McCaskill said Tuesday she will ...
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Google slate takes on Amazon, Microsoft, Apple

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SAN FRANCISCO - Google is expected to counter the upcoming Microsoft Surface tablets with one of its own on Wednesday. Tablets running Google's Android mobile operating system will carry the Nexus name and take center stage at Google I/O, the company's ...
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FBI Says 24 Are Arrested in Credit Card Theft

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Authorities in the United States and overseas arrested 24 people Tuesday in a crackdown on Internet credit card fraud after an extensive undercover operation.
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What's really, truly going on with Facebook?

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(CNN) -- Every week, there's a new Facebook thing to gripe about. This week, there have been two -- and it's only Tuesday.
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Bioware Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut is released

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For those who still haven't found their closure with Mass Effect 3, even after Bioware took the unprecedented move of creating a new ending, there's a new hope.
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Spice Girls unite to launch musical 'Viva Forever'

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LONDON (AP) - The Spice Girls gave fans what they want - what they really, really want - Tuesday, reuniting onstage to announce the details of a musical based on their songs.
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PHOTO: Brian Austin Green Cradles Megan Fox's Pregnant Belly!

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By Evan Lambert There's no more staying mum for Megan Fox: The 26-year-old is visibly pregnant in new photos. The Transformers actress and her husband Brian Austin Green have remained tight-lipped about rumors that she's expecting, but in new images of ...
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JENKINS: Serena all business in win

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WIMBLEDON, England -- We may never know what happened to Serena Williams in Paris, nor is there much to be learned from a routine first-round victory at Wimbledon.
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Presidents Approve College Football Playoff

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College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead. A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners' plan for a four-team playoff to start in the 2014 season.
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Olympic Spotlight: Missy Franklin

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OMAHA, Neb. -- Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps stayed on course for their second showdown at the US Olympic swimming trials on Tuesday.
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2012 Hall inductees: Sundin, Sakic, Oates, Bure

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By Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer Joe Sakic vividly remembers attending his first NHL game at Pacific Coliseum and seeing the Vancouver Canucks play host to the Atlanta Flames.
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California Condors Face Menace of Carcasses Laden with Bullet Lead

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By Meera Subramanian and Nature magazine | June 26, 2012 Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm?
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Meteorite Hunter Discovers New Mineral

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By Adam Mann The new mineral was found embedded in the Allende meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1969. Since 2007, geologist Chi Ma of Caltech has been probing the meteorite with a scanning electron microscope, discovering nine new materials, ...
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Researchers twist light, not wires, generate terabit data speeds

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by Matthew Francis - Jun 26, 2012 7:40 pm UTC Microscopically, it probably doesn't appear like this. But you get the idea—light, twisted.
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Low-carb diets may burn the most calories

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"Burn more calories than you eat" remains the golden rule of weight loss, but a new study finds that the human body burns calories more efficiently while on certain diets than on others.
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Doctors Should Screen All Adults for Obesity, US Panel Says

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By Alice Park | @aliceparkny | June 26, 2012 | + With more American adults qualifying as obese than ever before, doctors should be screening all adult patients for unhealthy weight, says a government panel.
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Two cups of coffee per day may decrease odds of developing heart failure

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(CBS News) Could two cups of coffee a day keep the heart doctor away? A new study shows that your daily cup of joe might provide that health benefit.

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