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Obama Takes His Tax Message to Iowa

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Sitting at a kitchen table here with a middle-income couple and speaking later at a community college to a buoyant crowd of 1600 supporters, President Obama on Tuesday took his message of tax fairness to Iowa, the battleground ...
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UK police: Eva Rausing, wife of billionaire TetraPak heir, found dead in west ...

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LONDON - One of Britain's richest women, American-born Eva Rausing, was found dead in her west London home and a man was arrested in connection with the case, British police said Tuesday, adding that an autopsy had failed to uncover a formal cause of ...
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Unions, Scranton clash over minimum wage pay cuts

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Updated 7:15 pm ET (CBS News) SCRANTON, Pa. - Amid a dispute with the City Council about raising funds for their cash-strapped Pennsylvania city, the mayor of Scranton faces a lawsuit from union workers after he cut their pay to minimum wage.
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Selig excited by KC's All-Star reception

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By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com | 07/10/12 4:15 PM ET KANSAS CITY -- Commissioner Bud Selig is so upbeat about the All-Star Game experience here in Kansas City this week that he told a group of economic educators on Tuesday that the Royals would be back in ...
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iPad Mini and iPhone 5 pre-production models appear in China

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Both the fabled iPad Mini and the iPhone 5 from Apple appear to have been leaked today from a manufacturing plant in China, with prefab models being leaked in blurry photo form.
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Katie Holmes Used Disposable Cell Phone To Hire 3 Lawyers

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Tom Cruise may have gotten up to some secret agent shenanigans in the Mission Impossible series, but apparently, all that time playing Ethan Hunt didn't make him an expert in monitoring the movements of his own wife.
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Egypt's president flexes power, but cautiously

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By HAMZA HENDAWI, AP - 1 minute ago CAIRO (AP) - The faceoff between Egypt's new Islamist president and the old guard military sharpened Tuesday, with parliament defying orders to disband and the highest court slapping back at Mohammed Morsi in what ...
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Israel ex-Premier Ehud Olmert cleared of most corruption charges

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JERUSALEM - An Israeli court on Tuesday cleared former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of the most serious corruption charges against him, including fraud, concealing cash gifts and double billing, but convicted him on a lesser count of breach of trust.
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Envoy Kofi Annan presses Iran and Iraq over Syria crisis

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UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan has met officials in Iran and Iraq in an attempt to shore up support for his peace plan on Syria.
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Model plane plot: Physics grad intent on attacking US 'snake' to plead guilty

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The Massachusetts resident, who planned to use explosive-laden model planes to attack the US Capitol and Pentagon, told undercover FBI agents he hoped to 'severely disrupt … the head and heart of the snake.
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Penn State Official Denies Key Claim

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By KRIS MAHER And JOHN W. MILLER Former Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier told investigators he never was informed that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was seen molesting a boy in a school shower, Mr. Spanier's ...
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Episcopal Church becomes biggest US church to bless gay unions

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By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com The US Episcopal Church became the biggest church in the United States to approve a provisional rite for blessing gay unions after its House of Deputies gave its final approval Tuesday.
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Euro slides to 2-year low vs dollar, $1.20 in focus

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By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The euro plunged to a two-year low against the dollar on Tuesday and further declines were likely as euro zone ministers failed to calm fears about the debt crisis and investors awaited a German court ...
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Chief of troubled brokerage left suicide note

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By DANIEL WAGNER, AP - 10 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) - Employees of an Iowa-based brokerage firm that has been unable to account for $220 million in customer money found their boss in his car at company headquarters, with a tube connecting the ...
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GOP, OMB discuss staving off sequester

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Amid all the chatter on Capitol Hill about looming defense cuts, there's one thing no one's saying out loud: The cuts will probably never happen.
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Romney meets with Colorado wildfire victims, helps volunteers

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COLORADO SPRINGS -- Mitt Romney met privately with victims who have been displaced by the fires that have ravaged this state in recent weeks, and helped food bank volunteers pack supplies like applesauce, macaroni & cheese and ramen noodles for ...
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Obama hoping to continue love affair with Iowa

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Four years ago, Iowa launched President Obama toward the White House, and it has been a special place for him ever since.
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San Francisco plans to ban officials from buying Apple Macs

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City officials in San Francisco plan to block local government agencies from buying new Apple Macintosh computers. The move follows the firm's decision to pull out of a green certification scheme designed to identify which electronic devices pose the ...
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Source: Google to Pay $22.5M Fine in Privacy Case

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Google is poised to pay a $22.5 million fine to resolve allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking millions of Web surfers who rely on Apple's Safari browser, according to a person familiar with settlement.
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Elijah Wood hints at big "Hobbit" show for Comic-Con

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By Piya Sinha-Roy | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic-Con International rolls into San Diego this week for its annual pop culture convention, and high on the list of must-see events is film footage of what actor Elijah Wood promises is a bigger "Hobbit" ...
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Final "Hunger Games" film to be split in two parts

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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Mockingjay," the final film installment of the blockbuster book series, "The Hunger Games," will be split into two parts, with the movies to be released in 2014 and 2015, the Lionsgate studio said on Tuesday.
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Nolan-free 'Justice League' raises questions for Warner DC films

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Warner Bros. will need a new hero to invigorate its DC Comics brand on the big screen, now that director Christopher Nolan's successful Batman trilogy comes to an end with next week's "The Dark Knight Rises.
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Sofia Vergara Engaged

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Sofia Vergara is getting married. The Modern Family star got an early birthday present yesterday when she got engaged to her longtime businessman boyfriend, Nick Loeb.
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Veteran forward Rashard Lewis decides to sign with Heat

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MIAMI (AP) - Rashard Lewis has decided to join the Miami Heat, becoming yet another shooting option for the reigning NBA champions.
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Dwight Howard deal: Cavaliers out of picture, Bobcats in?

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By Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY LAS VEGAS -- As of now, center Dwight Howard remains with the Orlando Magic, but the team is still searching for the best deal to make in trading him and remains active in doing that.
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Lance Armstrong refiles lawsuit vs. US Anti-Doping Agency

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Attorneys for Lance Armstrong refiled on Tuesday a lawsuit seeking to stop the US Anti-Doping Agency from stripping the cyclist of his seven Tour de France titles.
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Tony Stewart penalized six points for cooling-hose violation

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CHARLOTTE (AP) - NASCAR on Tuesday penalized two championship contenders - including suspensions for Nationwide Series driver Austin Dillon's team - for problems found during qualifying at Daytona International Speedway.
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Gnarly tribute to Bob Marley: Parasite named for reggae star

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By Alan Boyle The late Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley is the latest celebrity to be honored with a scientific species name. It's not the most glamorous species - in fact, it's a blood-feeding fish parasite - but there's no question that Gnathia ...
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Higgs boson gets set to music

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Scientists generate a musical picture of so-called `God particle' by attaching musical notes to each data point. by Charles Cooper You may not be able to see the Higgs boson but now you can hear it.
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Scientists attribute extreme weather to man-made climate change

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Climate change researchers have been able to attribute recent examples of extreme weather to the effects of human activity on the planet's climate systems for the first time, marking a major step forward in climate research.
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Can spending less time sitting down add years to life?

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By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Limiting the time we spend sitting to just three hours a day could add an extra two years to our life expectancy, scientists calculate.
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Pets boost infant immunity to infections

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A Greek voter and her dog arrives to vote in today's Greek election in Athens Greece,on Sunday June 17,2012. UPI/Hugo Philpott KUOPIO, Finland, July 10 (UPI) -- Infants, who had contact with dogs at home had fewer respiratory tract symptoms or ...

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