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Gold prices held steady Monday, as concerns about Europe's sovereign debt crisis, its weak financial sector and divisions among leaders about how to solve the crises drove investors into safe-haven securities like the U.S. dollar.

The Occupy Wall Street protest is disrupting Wall Street for a third consecutive day -- this time when the stock market will open. New York City police are limiting access to Wall Street Monday morning, requiring residents and workers in blocks surrounding the New York Stock Exchange to show identification.

President Barack Obama will unveil a plan to cut the U.S. deficit by about $3 trillion over the next decade with nearly half of the savings coming from tax increases.

So how worse can bad get? In the news for all the wrong reasons, Lindsay Lohan has done it again! A report in the New York Post said that Lindsay Lohan and her friends were initially refused entry to the Marc Jacobs event at the Dream Downtown hotel in New York City on Thursday, but then she called the hotel's owner, Vikram Chatwal, who arrived to walk Lohan and her friends into the event in person.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have proposed an auction of the right to broadcast the baseball team's games in a bid to bring in billions of dollars to stabilize its finances and end its bankruptcy.

It could almost be scripted. A U.S. politician threatens to take China on if he makes the White House. The official Chinese press level a barrage of criticism laced with sarcasm. Beijing's Foreign Ministry steps in offering a milder diplomatic response.

Residents of a village in east China accused riot police of heavy-handed tactics after a three-day protest against a solar panel factory accused of dumping toxic waste was brought to an end on Sunday.

Protesters have camped outside an east China-based solar panel manufacturer accusing it of dumping toxic waste into a river, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

President Barack Obama will once-again try to right the nation's fiscal ship of state by proposing a new tax levy for U.S. taxpayers whose income exceeds $1 million per year. Congressional Republicans have already said they're opposed to the levy, but it remains to be seen whether that latter view will hold amid a public that wants upper-income groups to pay more in taxes.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Kennedy Krieger Institute for knowingly exposing black children to lead paint and dust during a 1990s study.

Wall Street was blocked off by the New York City Police Department for a second day in a row as demonstration organizers targeting Wall Street financial firms tried to keep up protests.

Argentina beat holders Serbia 3-2 in their Davis Cup semi-final after world number one Novak Djokovic retired with a rib and lower back injury against Juan Martin Del Potro on Sunday.

The Green Bay Packers erased a 13-point deficit to beat the Carolina Panthers 30-23 on Sunday and maintain their perfect start to the National Football League (NFL) season.

Wall Street was blocked off by the New York City Police Department for a second day in a row as demonstration organizers targeting Wall Street financial firms tried to keep up protests.

Protesters congregated in New York's Financial District on Saturday for a global Day of Rage movement called Occupy Wall Street to protest corporate greed in a demonstration set to last days.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett misses the mark more often than most people realize, but his view, shared by President Barack Obama, that the richest Americans should be taxed at the same rate as middle-class Americans, is on the money.

Seven states, including California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New York, have joined the lawsuit to stop AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA, the Justice Department said Friday. Previously, AT&T had proposed a $39 Billion deal to purchase T-Mobile.

Sen. Chuck Schumer calls for national arsenic standard.

Kate Moss reveled at London Fashion Week on Saturday, taking in the Mulberry show with her friends Kristen Stewart and Romola Garai.

New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera equaled the Major League Baseball (MLB) saves record on Saturday when he clinched a 7-6 win for the Bronx Bombers over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Apple is a couple of steps away from announcing the arrival of the most anticipated iPhone 5 to the U.S smartphone market after a long cacophony of rumors about its release date and expected specifications.