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Mitt Romney To Harry Reid On Tax Dodge: 'Put Up Or Shut Up' (UPDATE: Reid ...

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For the first time on Thursday, Mitt Romney addressed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's claim that Romney spent a decade not paying taxes, denying the charge and telling Fox News' Sean Hannity that it was time for the majority leader reveal the ...
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Chick-fil-A supporters talk trash to Menino

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By Erin Smith As gay rights activists hope to fill Chick-fil-A with kissing couples today, the fast-food chain's supporters are angling to fill Boston and Chicago city halls with their receipts and rubbish from Wednesday's Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, ...
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UN General Assembly resolution to tell Syria to lock down chemical weapons ...

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UNITED NATIONS - With the UN Security Council deadlocked over the Syrian crisis, the General Assembly prepared Friday to denounce Syria for unleashing tanks, artillery, helicopters and warplanes on the people of Aleppo and Damascus, and demand that the ...
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Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte raised the bar for each other

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Gold medallist Michael Phelps (R) of the United States shakes hands Silver medallist Ryan Lochte of the United States on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Men's 200m Individual Medley final on Day 6 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the ...
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Romney Resets Focusing on Jobs, Chatting With Reporters

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By John McCormick on August 03, 2012 Mitt Romney, seeking to silence concerns that his campaign isn't ready to take on President Barack Obama, made his first appearances since returning from a gaffe-plagued overseas trip and moved to shift attention ...
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Shares, euro fall as ECB delays action

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By Chikako Mogi | TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares and the euro fell on Friday as investors shunned risk after the European Central Bank took no immediate action and only hinted at future steps to tackle the euro zone's fiscal woes, following similar ...
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Putin: Band's sentence for 'hooliganism' mustn't be too hard

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LONDON (AP) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized the feminist punk rockers facing trial for performing a "punk prayer" against him at Moscow's main cathedral, but said that a punishment for them shouldn't be too severe.
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UN: North Korea in immediate need of food aid after floods

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North Korea needs immediate food assistance after heavy rains killed scores of people and submerged vast swaths of farmland, according to a United Nations report.
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As Conflict Continues, Assad's Arms Under Strain

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With diplomatic efforts dead and the future of Syria playing out on the battlefield, many of the Syrian government's most powerful weapons, including helicopter gunships, fighter jets and tanks, are looking less potent and in some cases like a ...
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Iraq: Turkey Accused of Interference

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Iraq on Thursday accused Turkey of interfering in its internal affairs after Turkey's foreign minister paid a surprise visit to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where an estimated 850000 Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs uneasily coexist.
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APNewsBreak: Rassier, person of interest in Minn. abduction case, complains ...

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MINNEAPOLIS - A man who has been publicly identified as a person of interest in a Minnesota boy's 1989 abduction told The Associated Press on Thursday that he sent a letter to 14 state officials and agencies, complaining about how he has been treated ...
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Republican Roadblock Leaves Long Odds for 2012 Cybersecurity Law

Businessweek -
By Eric Engleman on August 03, 2012 The Senate's failure to move forward on a bill to strengthen US computer defenses leaves little chance that Congress can find a compromise this year, as lawmakers turn their attention to November's election.
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Drought Assistance for Livestock Producers Passed by US House

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By Derek Wallbank on August 03, 2012 The US House voted to extend federal aid to ranchers who have lost cattle and sheep because of the drought and other natural disasters, though the Senate may not take up the measure for at least a month.
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Joyce Struggles to Keep Knight Afloat After Profit Erased

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By Inyoung Hwang and Lu Wang on August 02, 2012 Thomas Joyce, the chief executive officer of Knight Capital Group Inc. who turned around the hobbled market maker a decade ago, is now fighting to keep the firm afloat after a trading breakdown spurred ...
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Identity Theft May Cost IRS $21 Billion Over Next Five Years

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By Jeremy Kirk, IDG-News-Service:Sydney-Bureau The dead can't speak for themselves. But they can apparently file US tax returns.
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GOP Governors Gather to Rally Around Romney

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BASALT, Colo. - After a rocky trip to Europe and Israel in which his remarks drew complaints from British and Palestinian leaders, Mitt Romney flew Thursday to Colorado, an important swing state, to try to regain his footing and refocus his campaign on ...
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Obama's birthday wish: Florida's electoral votes

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President Barack Obama told voters in Florida that he wanted the state's 29 electoral votes for his upcoming 51st birthday. The president's birthday is Saturday August 5th, during which he will attend a campaign event in Northern Virginia, ...
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Baseball: San Francisco Giants, other teams have Facebook pages hacked

San Jose Mercury News -
The Giants were among several major league teams that had their Facebook pages hacked Thursday afternoon. In some cases, existing content was replaced with status updates ranging from mildly amusing to downright vulgar.
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Judge denies Apple's sanctions request following Samsung rebuttal

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By Mikey Campbell In a ruling issued late Thursday in the Apple v. Samsung trial, Judge Lucy Koh denied an Apple motion filed earlier in the day which requested the Court hand down sanctions against Samsung for providing excluded case evidence to the ...
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Activision Q2 report: Diablo III captures 10 million players

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Activision's financial results for its second quarter have landed, and things are looking pretty good for the massive publisher.
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Amex didn't sign on to Google Wallet's major app upgrade

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It seems some toes may have been stepped on with Google's debut of its new Wallet app -- American Express never agreed to be included in the upgrade.
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The Kristen Stewart scandal: Why it hurts her image, and helps it

Entertainment Weekly -
by Owen Gleiberman Even before she admitted to a “momentary indiscretion” with the married director of a movie she was starring in (the first time, incidentally, that such an indiscretion has ever taken place in the history of show business), ...
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Is a TV host like Jimmy Fallon a good idea for the Oscars?

Los Angeles Times -
The page was barely loaded on my colleague Nicole Sperling's scoop about Jimmy Fallon potentially hosting the Oscars when the debate began.
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From Mars to Earth: The Tech of Total Recall

PC Magazine -
Both the now-classic Schwarzenegger film of 1990 and the modern remake debuting today are filled with sci-fi tech, some of which we've come to actually use.
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Douglas Shatters Glass Ceiling With Historic Win

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Gabby Douglas believed two years ago, when she convinced her mother to let her move halfway across the country. Martha Karolyi became a convert over the winter, when the bubbly teenager with the electric smile developed the tenacity required to be a ...
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Can't-miss Americans rewrite the record book

Minneapolis Star Tribune -
Article by: TOM WITHERS , AP Carmelo Anthony led the impressive shooting display as the US seemed to send a message to the other teams.
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For Judo Champion, a Painful Path to Gold

New York Times -
LONDON - In November 2007, a man pleaded guilty in a federal court in Dayton, Ohio, to illicit sexual conduct involving a 13-year-old girl.
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Mars landing draws near

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PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover are set to land shortly after 1 am ET Monday on the most advanced, most ambitious and most adventurous mission ever sent to the Red Planet.
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India to launch mission to Mars in 2013

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Hot on the heels of China's announcement of its plan to launch a lunar rover in 2013 comes this news from India: in 2013, it'll be launching a mission of its own, not to the Moon, but all the way to Mars.
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Greenland ice: Less vulnerable to climate change than feared

Christian Science Monitor -
Fluctuations in ice melting over time in Greenland may mean that the trajectory towards a complete melt is less direct that previously thought.
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Professors: Komen overstating benefits of mammograms

CNN -
(CNN) -- A national breast cancer charity is being accused of using misleading statistics to convince women to have mammograms, according to a paper published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.
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'Spray-on Skin' May Someday Heal Stubborn Leg Ulcers

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By Randy Dotinga THURSDAY, Aug. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A pharmaceutical company says preliminary findings support a spray-on treatment that uses skin cells to speed the healing of venous leg ulcers, a condition that often strikes the elderly.

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