Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming (AP)

AP - A gunman police shot to death after he took hostages at Discovery Channel’s headquarters said he hated the company’s shows such as “Kate Plus 8″ because they promote population growth and its environmental programming because it did little to save the planet.

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Obama challenges GOP on campaign finance ruling (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads.

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Haiti council: Wyclef Jean can’t run for president (AP)

AP - Haiti’s electoral commission said Friday that hip hop artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president of this Caribbean nation, ending his outsider’s bid to lead a country struggling to recover from the Jan.

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ABC programming chief McPherson abruptly resigns (AP)

AP - ABC programming chief Stephen McPherson has abruptly resigned from the network after a six-year tenure in which the network aired such provocative series as “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” but ended last season in third place among the big four networks.

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Afghan gov’t: Taliban kills 1 US sailor, 1 held (AP)

AP - The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy member they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday

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Death toll from German music festival rises to 19 (AP)

AP - Police say the death toll has risen to 19 from the stampede that occurred at a German music festival and that 342 were injured.

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Foxy Brown arrested in NY over order of protection (AP)

AP - Police say rapper Foxy Brown has been arrested in New York City for allegedly violating an order of protection.

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Director Polanski appears at Swiss jazz fest (AP)

AP - The film director Roman Polanski, free after nine months of detention, arrived Saturday at the Montreux Jazz Festival in his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest.

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Randy Jackson hospitalized for chest pains (AP)

AP - Randy Jackson, brother of the late pop legend Michael Jackson, was hospitalized Tuesday in Southern California.

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‘Red,’ a play about art, is big winner at Tonys (AP)

AP - “Red,” the anguished two-man drama about painter Mark Rothko and the timeless tug of war between art and commerce, was a big winner Sunday at the 2010 Tony Awards, receiving the best play prize and five other honors.

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