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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — The Washington Post asked lobbyists and business leaders to pay $25,000 to attend a dinner discussion with government officials and journalists at the home of its publisher, and then canceled the event after the invitations became public.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Dallas said he will consider a modest request for money to pay lawyers and accountants to look through R. Allen Stanford\'s personal assets to find money untainted by an alleged $7 billion fraud.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('TYNGSBORO, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts company says the federal government has approved a $43 million loan guarantee to help finance a 20-megawatt energy storage system for New York\'s electrical grid.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama\'s top domestic priority.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('LOS ANGELES (AP) — Concert promoter AEG Live\'s chief executive said Thursday that insurance will help cover any losses on the now-canceled Michael Jackson concert series if the pop star died accidentally — including of a drug overdose — but not if he died of natural causes.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff\'s $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NEW YORK (AP) — In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don\'t have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('SEATTLE (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett has donated $1.25 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Six Illinois banks and one bank in Texas were shuttered Thursday as government regulators proposed new rules for private equity firms seeking to take over failed banks.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('TORONTO (AP) — Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. has claimed the top spot in Canadian vehicle sales in June for the first time in 50 years, the company reported Thursday.
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