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Shriver files for divorce from Schwarzenegger

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Maria Shriver is asking for spousal support and joint custody of the children in her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger.There's no going back for Maria Shriver. The former first lady of California has filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger after 25 years of marriage and who knows how many unsettling revelations. The estranged power couple have four children together, ages 13 to 21.




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Judge blocks Kan. abortion licensing law

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:29 PM PDT

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked Kansas from enforcing new abortion regulations  that would have prevented two of the state's three abortion providers from continuing to terminate pregnancies.

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FDA probes new death, infections from wipes

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:13 PM PDT

Federal health officials are investigating whether contaminated alcohol prep products from a shuttered Wisconsin firm led to the death of a 66-year-old man who developed a bacterial infection after being treated for skin cancer and diabetes.

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Wall Street wraps up best week in two years

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 01:41 PM PDT

Stocks started July with a bang on Friday with Wall Street scoring its best week in two years on strong manufacturing data that eased concerns about slowing growth.

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Much of Minnesota shuts down over budget

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Minnesota's state government began a broad shut down on Friday going into the July 4 holiday after Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders failed to reach a budget deal.

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Gross-out cigarette labels drive spike in quit-line calls

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

The new gross-out cigarette warning labels may already be having the intended effect: Calls to a national smoker's quit line more than doubled the day the graphic warnings were unveiled to the public.

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Posted: 01 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Red Tape: Moms get MAD over spending

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 10:02 AM PDT

Mothers Against Debt are on the hunt for government debt they don't want their children to inherit.

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Gadhafi threatens attacks in Europe

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 04:00 PM PDT

A defiant Moammar Gadhafi threatens to carry out attacks in Europe unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.

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Massive protests grip Syria's major cities

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Demonstrators march through the streets after Friday prayers in the Hajar Al Asswad district in Damascus on Friday.Hundreds of thousands of protesters flood cities around Syria in what activists described as the largest outpouring against the regime of President Bashar Assad.




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Spray tanning's golden moment

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:01 AM PDT

Television personality Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi turned her ochre tint into a deal as the face of Sunlove self-tanning accessories.Will orange-hued politicians, celebrities and aspiring princesses turn the faux-tanning industry into a billion-dollar business?




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Hulu in talks with dozen potential buyers

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Online video site Hulu has begun preliminary sales talks with about a dozen potential buyers, including Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc, according to a source.

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'Social media trial of the century' nears climax

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:15 AM PDT

As for Casey, she will sit in her jail cell and wonder if she did the right thing. Should she have testified? Should she have tried to tell her story herself? Did she or didn't she? Casey Anthony decided she will let the jury in her murder trial decide that without hearing directly from her.




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Prince Albert of Monaco weds Charlene Wittstock

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 09:03 AM PDT

Prince Albert II of Monaco kisses Princess Charlene of Monaco on the balcony after their civil wedding at the Prince's Palace on July 1, 2011 in Monaco. Monaco's reigning prince, Albert II, has wed South Africa's Charlene Wittstock in a long-awaited civil ceremony that transformed the one-time Olympic swimmer into the Princess of Monaco.




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Factory activity picked up pace in June

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 08:21 AM PDT

The pace of growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector picked up for the first time in four months in June, a sign of optimism for the sputtering economy, according to an industry report.

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Good Graph Friday: We'll all have jobs ... in 2016

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:29 AM PDT

Life Inc.: A new graph from the Council on Foreign Relations shows that if current trends continue, job levels will not be back to where they were prior to the Great Recession until 2016.

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Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:29 AM PDT

'Dr. Beach' picks top 5 Great Lakes beaches

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 05:49 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 29, 2011, visitors enjoy a sunny afternoon on Glen Haven beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Glen Haven, Mich. Sleeping Bear Dunes received the top spot in the first ranking of the five best Great Lakes beaches by professor Stephen Leatherman, otherwise known as Partly because of this splendid isolation just a short drive from a busy resort town, Stephen Leatherman — nicknamed "Dr. Beach" — has awarded Sleeping Bear Dunes the top ranking in his initial survey of Great Lakes beaches.




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Visitors flock to 'the cradle' of the Chinese Communist Party

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 07:37 AM PDT

A sleepy city of two million that is regularly overrun by millions of visitors paying homage to the CPC's founding fathers, Yan'an is near the final destination of the legendary Long March the Communists undertook from late 1934 to late 1935 to escape the tightening grip of the Nationalist Party and its army. And in recent months, it's been THE place to visit.

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Not all Chinese embrace Communist Party's 90th birthday

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 06:11 AM PDT

Party flags, celebratory posters, revolutionary movies. You can't escape the reminder every second that today is the 90th birthday of the Communist Party of China. But for some younger Chinese people, it's not a joyful occasion; it's just another day of endless propaganda.

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