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Obama calls for tax-cut extension for middle-class

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Jul. 9, 2012 - President Obama called for a one-year extension of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the middle-class on Monday. (The Associated Press/The Washington Post) Correction: Clarification: AP Top Stories 0:57 SuperFan badge holders ...
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Justice unseals indictment charging 5 in Brian Terry's death, offers $1M ...

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The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Monday charging five people in connection with Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's death -- a move that drew praise as well as skepticism from lawmakers laser-focused on the case.
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UPDATE 3-Texas rejects key provisions of Obama's health law

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* Perry joins five other governors in objecting * Says won't be party to 'socializing healthcare' * A quarter of Texas residents have no health insurance By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas, July 9 (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas ...
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Katie Holmes' next move: Fashion, films or both?

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TomKat didn't have nine lives. Tom Cruise, 50, and Katie Holmes, 33, settled their divorce Monday,less than two weeks after Holmes stunned Hollywood with the news that she planned to divorce one of the most famous men in the business.
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Egypt's President, Military Power Struggle

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CAIRO - Egypt's newly elected president Mohamed Morsi appears on a collision course with the country's powerful military generals after ordering the parliament to reconvene, in defiance of a high court decree last month that dissolved the legislature.
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Surveillance requests to cellphone carriers surge

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WASHINGTON - Law enforcement agencies in the US made more than 1.3 million requests for consumers' cellphone records in 2011, an alarming surge over previous years that reflected the increasingly gray area between privacy and technology.
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Taliban Kill 5 Afghan Police Officers With Roadside Bomb

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KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban struck multiple targets across Afghanistan on Monday, killing five police officers with a roadside bomb in a relatively peaceful province but failing to inflict heavy casualties with their multipronged assault in ...
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Russia suspends new arms shipments to Syria

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(CNN) -- Russia will not deliver new weapons to Syria so long as the situation in that country is unstable, an official at the body in charge of monitoring Russia's arms trade said Monday, state media reported.
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NH man has close encounter with shark on Cape Cod

Atlanta Journal Constitution -
By DENISE LAVOIE AP New Hampshire resident Walter Szulc Jr. laughed it off when his teenage daughter told him they should watch out for sharks when the family went to a Cape Cod beach over the weekend.
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Parents of Illinois toddler who drowned in lake accused of endangerment ...

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ST. LOUIS - The parents of an Illinois toddler who drowned in a lake were charged with child endangerment Monday, accused of allowing the boy and his twin brother to routinely wander from home through a basement window and having them live in what one ...
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Wall Street slips on global economic worries

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By Caroline Valetkevitch | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slipped in light trading on Monday, weighed down by weak economic data from Asia and signs of economic trouble in Europe, underscored by higher Spanish and Italian bond yields.
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Alcoa Inc. Posts 2Q Net Loss in Slowing Economy

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Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. opened the second-quarter earnings season Monday by posting a $2 million loss. Revenue dropped 9 percent mainly because of weak prices for aluminum in the slowing global economy.
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European Dispute Emerges Over Bank Liability

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By MATINA STEVIS BRUSSELS—Disagreement emerged Monday between euro-zone states and the European Commission over how far the currency union needs to go to prevent banking problems from dragging down the finances of entire countries.
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Romney rides big donors to outpace Obama's fundraising

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By Alina Selyukh and Jeff Mason | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised $106 million in June, far surpassing President Barack Obama's $71 million haul in the record-setting money race leading to the November 6 ...
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Texas Voter ID Case Begins, Stirs Debate

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WASHINGTON - Texas and the Justice Department began their federal court fight on Monday in a trial over Texas' new voter ID law, which requires all voters to show a government-issued photo ID in order to vote.
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DNS Changer virus threat passes; no significant outages

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The threat posed by DNS Changer, the headline-grabbing Internet doomsday virus, has fizzled. But tech security analysts warn that there are even more sinister viruses around.
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New RIM exec says BlackBerry delay is not a death blow

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Research in Motion Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins holds up a prototype of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone at the BlackBerry World event in Orlando May 1, 2012 .
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Amazon to take on iPhone: report

Sydney Morning Herald -
Amazon.com is developing a smartphone that would vie with Apple's iPhone and handheld devices that run Google's Android operating system, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Usher's family friend under investigation for jet ski accident that left ...

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Usher's reportedly brain-dead stepson remained in the hospital Monday as officials released the name of the man who allegedly struck him with a jet ski.
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Michael Fassbender: Can He Kill the Video Game Movie Curse With Assassin's Creed?

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Michael Fassbender is a man of many talents: He's a superhero (as bad boy Magneto in X-Men: First Class), he's an android (a handsome one to boot, in Prometheus) and he's well endowed (do we even need to say?
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Ernest Borgnine won a new generation on 'SpongeBob SquarePants'

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Ernest Borgnine, who died on Sunday of apparent kidney failure at age 95, may have won an Oscarand may be remembered for his roles in the film "Marty" and the sitcom "McHale's Navy," but to an entire generation of kids, he's Mermaid Man from "SpongeBob ...
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Kate Upton dating Justin Verlander? All-Star rumor

Kansas City Star -
And now, for some All-Star coverage off the field ... Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, the American League's starting pitcher at Tuesday's All-Star game, might be dating Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton.
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2012 Home Run Derby live blog

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By Mark Townsend By Mark Townsend | Big League Stew - 1 hour 3 minutes ago Defending champion Robinson Cano is among the 2012 favorites.
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Hope Solo gets warning after drug test

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Hope Solo sits down with FOXSports.com to talk about the London Olympics and much more. US national team goalkeeper Hope Solo received a public warning Monday from the US Anti-Doping Agency after she tested positive for the banned substance Canrenone ...
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Report Card: Grading the best, worst of an eventful Wimbledon 2012

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Roger Federer and Serena Williams proved why they can never be ruled out with historic Wimbledon wins. (Getty Images) WIMBLEDON, England - It was an eventful Championships here at the All England Club.
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NASA: Arsenic-life saga isn't done

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"Arsenic life" researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon is flanked by Mary Voytek, director of NASA's Astrobiology Program, as well as chemist Steven Benner and astrobiologist Pamela Conrad during a NASA news conference on Dec. 2, 2010.
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A Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe

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ASPEN, Colo. - Last week, physicists around the world were glued to computers at very odd hours (I was at a 1 am physics “party” here with a large projection screen and dozens of colleagues) to watch live as scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, ...
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Health insurer WellPoint to buy Amerigroup for about $4.5B

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - WellPoint, the nation's second-largest health insurer, will get a bigger chunk of the expanding market of people covered by Medicaid with its $4.46 billion acquisition of a provider of the program for needy and disabled Americans.
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Sitting less could extend your life

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Sitting less could lead to a longer life, a new study says. If most people spent less than three hours a day sitting, it would add two years to the average life expectancy in this country.
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Mysterious deadly illness in Cambodian children tied to hand, foot and mouth ...

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(CBS/AP) A mysterious deadly disease striking children in Cambodia may be a virulent strain of a common childhood illness called hand, foot and mouth disease.

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