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Al Gore Won't be Prosecuted in Sexual Assault... Prosecutors in the US state of Oregon Friday concluded there are no grounds for charging former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore with sexual assault. Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said in an e- mailed statement that he concurs with the recommendation by investigators that there be no criminal prosecution. ...

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Death Toll Tops 400 in Pakistan flooding The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan topped 400 Friday as rains swelled rivers, inundated villages and triggered landslides, officials said. The toll was expected to increase because many people were reported missing, Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn reported....

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Snooki Arrested for Disorderly Conduct "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has been arrested for alleged disorderly conduct, police told TMZ Friday. "She's still in custody," an officer in Seaside Heights, N.J., told UsMagazine.com Friday afternoon. MTV, which airs the popular reality show, said, "No comment" when UsMagazine.com contacted the cable network about the 22-year-old's brush with the law. ...

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Deadly Wildfires Hit Russia Deadly wildfires have killed more than 20 people in central Russia this week, officials said Friday. The fires come in a summer of unusual heat and drought, The New York Times reported. In Moscow, the temperature reached 100 degrees Thursday, making it the hottest day in the city since the first records 130 years ago. In the region around Nizhny Novgorod, whole villages have burned....

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Why Ellen DeGeneres was a Bad Fit for 'American... Ellen DeGeneres pulled the plug on her brief, ill-advised career as "American Idol" judge on Thursday and it's safe to say that fans are shedding few tears. DeGeneres, who arrived on a tidal wave of hype, just never found her groove, never hit the high notes....

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Obama: Faith in Auto Industry 'Vindicated' U.S. President Barack Obama Friday said helping the auto industry was the right thing to do and that belief has been "vindicated." Obama traveled to Detroit and sat in a new Jeep Cherokee before addressing Chrysler workers Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly Plant....

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Ethics Panel Recommends Rangel Reprimand U.S. House ethics investigators Friday recommended a reprimand be issued against Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., for violating House rules or federal law. A subcommittee for the House Ethics Committee, which included Reps....

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Worries Outweigh Profit Reports Investors may be fretting over the chance of a double-dip recession, but companies' earnings are coming in with sprinkles on top. More than half of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 have reported quarterly earnings, 304, and 75% of them have beaten earnings estimates....

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Firefighters Attack L.A.-Area Blaze Nearly 750 firefighters battled one of California's worst wildfires of the year Friday, getting an initial containment line around the 3,200 hectare Crown wildfire near Antelope Valley some 100 kilometres north of Los Angeles....

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BREAKING NEWS: Blast at Los Angeles Welding... One person was killed and another injured Friday in an apparent explosion at a welding shop in Los Angeles, firefighters reported. The LA fire department said search dogs had been dispatched to the business at 911 E....

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Los Angeles Auto Show to Debut 20-Plus New Cars The organizers of this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, one of the major international automobile exhibitions to be held in November on the U.S. western coast, said on Thursday that the premiere event will stage the world debut of more than 20 new vehicles....

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Midyear Movie Report Card: The 10 Best (So Far)... July 30--After a more than slightly disappointing beginning to this movie year, we've been on a real roll of late. The winning streak started with "Toy Story 3," the perfect ending to a great movie trilogy, and continued with the surprisingly charming ...

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Leonardo DiCaprio Drops Out of Mel Gibson... Leonardo DiCaprio will not star as planned in a Viking picture Mel Gibson is to direct, a source close to the actor was quoted as saying. MTV News said the "Titanic" and "Inception" actor decided to distance himself from the project after audio clips surfaced of Gibson allegedly speaking in an abusive manner to his ex-girlfriend....

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Microlenders Seeing a Rise in Demand from the... Microlenders are seeing a rise in demand, as small businesses still require credit to keep their businesses afloat. Elvita Francois proudly shows off a shiny new buffet counter at her tiny restaurant inside the Opa-locka Flea Market, where she serves Haitian and Latin specialties like goat, oxtail and congris....

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Rangel Says Panel Violated His Constitutional... Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., says a House ethics panel violate his constitutional rights by not giving give him enough time to rebut charges against him. Rangel said the subcommittee that brought 13 charges against him violated his right to due process under the Fifth Amendment because it did not allow him to repudiate the accusations point-by-point, The Hill reported Thursday....

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Rep. Rangel Faces 13 Ethics Charges A House investigative panel formally charged longtime Rep. Charles Rangel with 13 ethics violations Thursday, setting the stage for a politically thorny trial months before the midterm elections. In a ...

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Shadow Economies on the Rise Around the World It turns out that countries have two economies: the official one and a shadow version. The official economy is the one that governments and banking institutions measure with gross domestic product, tax receipts, social security contributions, employment identification numbers, and the like....

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President Barack Obama Appears on 'The View': A... 'We're making American history!" cried the announcer on ABC's The View. And they were. President Barack Obama, the first sitting president to make a personal appearance on a daytime TV talker. The audience was pumped, the political tension was palpable, and behind it all boiled the vitriolic political year of 2010....

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U.S. GDP Slows to 2.4 Percent The U.S. economy (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 2.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2010, down from 3.7 per cent in the first three months of the year, according to an initial estimate by the US Commerce Department on Friday. ...

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Disney Sells Miramax Studio for $660 Million Disney (NYSE:DIS) said Friday that the Hollywood studio Miramax will be sold for more than 660 million dollars to a group of investors led by Californian developer Ron Tutor. The announcement followed months of haggling over the studio, which has generated blockbusters such as The English Patient, Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love....

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Obama to Visit Auto Plants in Detroit Area President Barack Obama travels to Detroit Friday to tour two auto plants and speak to workers, the White House said. Obama will visit a DaimlerChrysler AG facility in Detroit and a General Motors Co....

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Cheesecake Factory Offering Any Slice at Half... In commemoration of National Cheesecake Day and its spirit of sharing, The Cheesecake Factory invites guests who dine-in on July 30 to enjoy a slice of any of its more than 30 varieties of legendary cheesecake for half price....

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Plain Talk on Afghan War WikiLeaks The Obama administration reacted to the thousands of so-called secret documents about the Afghanistan war released this week on the Swedish website WikiLeaks by saying they tell us nothing new. That's right....

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Fed Official Warns of Japan-style Deflation Risk In an unusual move, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis released a paper Thursday warning that the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates near zero during the economic crisis may lead to Japanese-like deflation in coming years....

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Synthetic Pot Debate Lights up Indiana Council... A Fort Wayne, Indiana, city ordinance that would ban sales of a legal incense sometimes smoked for its psychoactive effects wasn't scheduled for discussion Tuesday night, but intensely interested constituents began their own sharply divided debate on the topic....

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Arizona Appeals Immigration Law Block; Dozens... Lawyers for the state of Arizona lodged an appeal Thursday against an injunction blocking much of the state's controversial new immigration law as about 50 demonstrators were arrested. The injunction blocked the most controversial sections of the law from taking effect as the rest of the law came into force on Thursday....

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Citigroup Settles Charges of Misleading... Washington (dpa) - US banking giant Citigroup on Thursday agreed to pay 75 million dollars to settle charges that it misled investors about its exposure to the 2008 financial crisis. The US government's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged ...

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BP Says They are Close to Killing the Well The first step toward permanently stopping the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may begin as soon as next week, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said Thursday. "It's been thirteen days since we've had any new oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico," Suttles said on CBS's "Early Show." "But, ultimately, we've got to make sure this well can never flow again....

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Chris Tucker Owes the IRS $11 Million According to E! Online, Comedian Chris Tucker owes more than $11 million in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. Can you say "Rush Hour 4?" What about "5," "6" and "7." And if Jackie Chan doesn't want to do it, Tucker will play his part, too....

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Report: 2 Out of 5 Small Businesses Can't Get... CHICAGO - Small businesses are facing the most difficult business climate in three years, according to a report released Wednesday. Among the most troubling signs: Four out of every 10 small business owners are unable to secure adequate financing, according to the National Small Business Association's mid-year economic report....

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SB 1070 Foes, Backers React to Injunction Before a painting of Martin Luther King Jr., a photograph of Cesar Chavez and a poster of a Mexican child with the words "We are humans," "Stop SB 1070" and "End 287-G now," a group of Hispanic leaders from around the state reacted with a sense or relief to a federal judge's decision to put the heart of the state's immigration law on hold and vowed vigilance until it's completely quashed....

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Fed's Beige Book Provides a Unique Economic... The U.S. Federal Reserve's Beige Book report, if nothing else, provokes serious, wide-ranging discussions of the shape of the economy. The report, issued 10 times a year, is considered too broad for an economist to sink teeth into, yet it is so all-encompassing it is impossible to ignore....

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Obama to Discuss Education Reform Education reform is the thrust of a speech U.S. President Obama will deliver Thursday at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington. Obama will discuss how the "Race to the Top" ...

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Obama, Small-Business Owners Meet President Obama met with small-business owners in New Jersey Wednesday and then called for tax cuts and loans legislation he called "as American as apple pie." After meeting with the business owners at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, Obama said the U.S....

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Google Hangs Out 'Help Wanted' Sign In a county with more than 100,000 people looking for work and an unemployment rate above 11 percent since June 2009, Google has gone on a hiring spree, increasing the size of its global work force by nearly 2,000 people during the first six months of 2010....

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Apple Upgrades Safari with Extensions from... Apple rolled out an upgraded version of its Safari Web browser Wednesday, adding a site to download extensions from Amazon.com, Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Twitter and other developers. Third-party software writers can use Internet tools such as HTML5 and JavaScript to create add-on features for Apple's Web browser....

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Toyota Recalls 373,000 Avalons in U.S. over... Toyota (TM) is recalling 373,000 cars in the United States over fears that the steering system could be defect, the company said Thursday. The recall involves Toyota Avalons sold between 2000 and 2004....

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Amazon Kindle Third Generation Unveiled Amazon.com will unveil today its answer to Apple's iPad and other devices seeking to replace its Kindle as the premiere digital book reader. It's a third-generation Kindle that's lighter, smaller and faster than the current model -- and also has a sharper display, longer battery life and twice the storage....

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Top iTunes Song Downloads Top 10 songs on iTunes Music Store for July 28: 1. "Love the Way You Lie," Eminem (feat. Rihanna) 2. "Dynamite," Taio Cruz 3. "Teenage Dream," Katy Perry 4. "I Like It," Enrique Iglesias (feat....

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California to Send Notice of Health Premium... The State Department of Insurance has begun alerting customers by e-mail whenever health insurance providers submit planned rate hikes to the agency. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said the new program will help bring more transparency to escalating premiums, which have come under intense public scrutiny in recent months....

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Boosting Awareness of Healthcare Tax Credit July 27--It's money for the taking -- but will there be any takers? Not if nobody knows about it. While most provisions of the federal health care overhaul will take years to roll out, tax credits for small businesses providing health insurance to their workers take effect this year....

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Shell 2Q Profits Nearly Double BP rival Shell saw second quarter profits almost double thanks to a restructuring programme and a rise in oil prices triggered by an improving global economy. Profits from April to June climbed to 4.5 billion dollars from 2.3 billion dollars in the same period a year ago, Europe's biggest oil concern said Thursday in a statement released in The Hague and London....

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Raul Transfers from Real Madrid to Schalke Raul has completed his move from Spanish giants Real Madrid to Schalke 04 on a two-year deal, the German Bundesliga club confirmed Wednesday. The 33-year-old still had one year left on his contract with Real but comes on a free transfer to Gelsenkirchen and will be presented to the club's fans later Wednesday following a medical....

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Eminem's 'Recovery' is No. 1 on the U.S.... Eminem's 'Recovery' is No. 1 on the U.S. album chart for a fifth week, Billboard.com reported Wednesday. Coming in at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 is Rick Ross's "Teflon Don," followed by Sheryl Crow's "100 Miles From Memphis" at No....

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Porsche 918 Spyder Gets Green Light In its session today, the Supervisory Board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, gave the green light to series development of the Porsche 918 Spyder. Reflecting the overwhelming response from the public and customers to the Concept Study, the Supervisory Board gave Porsche's board of Management the mission to develop a production model based on the car already presented....

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Campus Party 2010 Begins in Valencia Past Monday was the beginning of the 2010 Campus Party Spain. The event, which is being held in the city of Valencia, brings together thousands of people and their computers from all over the World in order to share and debate experiences and information, as well as carrying out a range of different activities related to information technology, communications and entertainment....

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Melissa Rycroft Expecting Baby Reality television personality Melissa Rycroft Strickland announced she is pregnant Wednesday on "Good Morning America." Rycroft Strickland -- a "GMA" correspondent who competed on "The Bachelor" and "Dancing with the Stars" -- married insurance agent Tye Strickland last December....

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Firefighters Battle California Blaze as Fire... A crew of local firefighters assembled at a Watsonville, Calif., firehouse Wednesday morning and headed south to battle the 1,440-acre West Fire burning near a small community in Kern County. The strike team, comprised of firefighters from Aptos, Central, Scotts Valley, Branciforte and Zayante fire districts, was called up around 1:40 a.m....

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California Fights Outbreak of Whooping Cough Because of the severity of the whooping cough epidemic in California, the state now recommends that anyone over the age of 7 be immunized for the disease. Whooping cough, or pertussis, can be fatal in infants under six months, and in the past seven months, six infants have died in the state, and more than 1,500 cases have been confirmed....

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Pace of Recover Slowing, Says Fed Washington (dpa) - The pace of the US economic recovery has slowed or even stopped in parts of the country over the past few months, the Federal Reserve found in a survey of businesses released Wednesday....

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Aretha, Condoleezza Duet Raises Money for Music... Soul singer Aretha Franklin and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed together at an event Tuesday to raise money for music education. The Philadelphia Orchestra backed Rice on piano and Franklin on vocals at the Mann Music Center fundraiser, ABC News reported....

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Continental Airlines Tests 'Self-Boarding' Boarding a plane without an agent to inspect or take your pass has arrived in the USA. Continental Airlines has confirmed it's testing the procedure at a gate in its hub at Houston Intercontinental....

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Study Points to Sharp Plankton Decline Due to... New research published in "Nature," a premier scientific journal, points to a sharp decline in the worldwide population of oceanic phytoplankton....

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Federal Judge Blocks Key Portions of Ariz.... U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled Wednesday that key portions of Arizona's controversial immigration law should be put on hold, pending a determination of the constitutionality of requiring immigrants to carry documentation, and of requiring law enforcement to make immigration status checks part of their regular policing duties....

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Durable Goods Orders Dropped in June The U.S. Commerce Department said new orders for durable goods dropped 1 percent in June, following a 1.1 percent drop in the previous month. In May, excluding volatile transportation orders, the durable goods figure rose....

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No Verdict Yet, But Blagojevich Trial Has Its... After closing arguments Monday, the fate of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich will finally be in the hands of his jury. If you're betting on what tape jurors would most like to hear during deliberations, go with the one where Blago expresses his feelings about the voters (who make up federal juries)....

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Senators Grill Google, Facebook, Apple Over... In a sign of Congress' seriousness in passing legislation to shield consumers' personal Web browsing history and other online information from misuse, members of a key Senate committee on Tuesday questioned representatives of Google, Facebook and Apple about recent high-profile privacy lapses and expressed alarm about the state of privacy protections on the Web....

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Harley-Davidson Introduces Three New Cycles for... Harley-Davidson Inc. has introduced three new motorcycles for 2011, including a Sportster meant for shorter and inexperienced riders. The bikes were unveiled Tuesday at the company's summer dealership meeting in Las Vegas....

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Boeing Q2 Profits Down on Lower Sales U.S. airplane giant Boeing reported Wednesday a 21 per cent drop in earnings in the second quarter of 2010, to 787 million dollars or 1.06 dollars per share in said was a "solid" performance. The earnings, down from 998 million dollars in the second quarter last year, came on sales revenues of 15.57 billion dollars, down 9.2 per cent year-on-year....

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Real Madrid's Raul Completes Transfer to Schalke Raul has completed his move from Spanish giants Real Madrid to Schalke 04 on a two-year deal, the German Bundesliga club confirmed Wednesday. The 33-year-old still had one year left on his contract with Real but comes on a free transfer to Gelsenkirchen....

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Market Researchers Get New Tool in iPad The struggling world of consumer market research appears on the brink of getting a serious shot in the arm from an unexpected new tool: the iPad. The $20 billion market research industry was hit hard by the economic downturn, but the rectangular tablet computer from Apple is emerging as an unlikely benefactor....

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Large Companies Are Sitting on a Pile of Cash Anyone wondering where all the economy's jobs are might want to look into piggy banks of the world's biggest companies. Cash is gushing into companies' coffers as they report what's shaping up to be the third-consecutive quarter of sharp earnings increases....

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