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Five Precious Metals Miners Bucking Stock Market Downdraft

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With gold and silver prices down Monday and the bulk of safe-haven investors opting for U.S. Treasuries instead of precious metals, shares of companies that mine for gold and silver were nearly all down along with the broader stock market.
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Lindsay Lohan and Pals Thrown Out of Marc Jacobs Party

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.
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Los Angeles Dodgers seek media rights auction

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.
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China centre stage in long-running US campaign show

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.
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China Quells Village Solar Pollution Protests

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.
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China villagers protest solar plant pollution

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.
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Obama’s Buffett Tax: A Warranted Tax on Millionaires or ‘Class Warfare’?

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.
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Occupy Wall Street: Protests Continue on Day 2

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.
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Argentina Reach Final After Djokovic Retires

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.
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Seven States Join AT&T-T-Mobile Merger Lawsuit

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.

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