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California court upholds gay marriage ban

California's supreme court backed a ban on gay marriage on Tuesday, upholding a voter-approved proposition defining marriage as between a man and a woman, but said the marriages last year of 18,000 same-sex couples were still legal.
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Russia breaks wall into U.S. nuclear market

Russia signed a landmark deal to supply nuclear fuel directly to U.S. companies on Tuesday, setting itself up to control 20 percent of the U.S. uranium market and extending its global reach in the nuclear sector.
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Wall Street gains, led by multinationals

Stocks rose on Friday, breaking a three-day losing streak, as investors sought to benefit from a fall in the dollar by buying shares of multinationals and commodity companies.
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Ethanol industry sees havoc in land-use formula

The U.S. biofuels industry would be hamstrung if government regulators choose to use unfair and untested formulas that hold it responsible for greenhouse gases from crops overseas, ethanol groups said on Thursday.
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Federal judge weighs DVD copying case

A Federal District Court judge in California weighed arguments in a contentious DVD copyright case between Hollywood movie companies and RealNetworks Inc on Thursday, but did not indicate when she might rule.
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U.S. federal judge weighs DVD copying case

A Federal District Court judge in California weighed arguments in a contentious DVD copyright case between Hollywood movie companies and RealNetworks Inc on Thursday, but did not indicate when she might rule.
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Hard Times for Nursing Hires Doesn't Signal End to Shortage

In spite of fewer openings for new nurses at hospitals -- a result of the economic recession -- there is still a nursing shortage, according to Deloras Jones, RN, MS, executive director of the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care (CINHC).
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Geithner says consumers need financial protection

The Obama administration is mulling a new agency to better protect consumers who buy financial products or take out mortgages from practices like those that led to the current financial crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday.
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Geithner says mulling new consumer protections

The Obama administration is mulling a new agency to better protect consumers from practices like those that led to the current financial crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday.
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Geithner says mulling new U.S. consumer protections

The Obama administration is mulling a new agency to better protect consumers from practices like those that led to the current financial crisis, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday.
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Cisco Acquired Tidal Software

On Wednesday, Cisco Systems Inc., completed its acquisition of Tidal Software, Inc. the creator of intelligent application management and automation solutions based in in Palo Alto, California and Houston
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NetApp buying Data Domain

Data storage equipment maker NetApp Inc said it will buy another storage-related firm, Data Domain , for $1.5 billion, even as it reported a decline in quarterly profit and avoided giving an outlook due to the weak economy.
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Facebook CEO says IPO a few years out

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that the world's largest online social network is in no immediate need of capital.
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Obama takes aim at climate-warming car emissions

U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse gases on Tuesday and obliged the struggling auto industry to make more efficient cars by imposing tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage.
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Barack Obama takes aim at climate-warming car emissions

U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse gases on Tuesday and obliged the struggling auto industry to make more efficient cars by imposing tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage.
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Obama to unveil most aggressive auto fuel standards

President Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose the most aggressive increase in U.S. auto fuel efficiency ever in a policy initiative that would also directly regulate emissions for the first time and resolve a dispute with California over cleaner cars.
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Disney launches site selling parks merchandise

Walt Disney Co on Tuesday launched a new website offering merchandise from its theme parks and resorts as the entertainment group seeks new revenue sources during a slump in business at Disneyland and other parks.
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U.S. to unveil new policy on auto fuel standards

The White House will unveil an auto fuel efficiency proposal on Tuesday to resolve a dispute between California and the U.S. government over emissions and accelerate the timeframe for sharply improving mileage performance, industry and other sources said.

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