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July 28, 2011
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Markets Swoon on Debt Fear
Financial investors grew increasingly worried about lawmakers' failure to reach accord on raising the debt ceiling, pushing U.S. stocks to their worst one-day drop in two months and weakening the demand for Treasury securities.
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Technology
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Groupon's Accounting Lingo Gets Scrutiny
Groupon has attracted scrutiny from regulators over a newfangled accounting metric it is using to market itself to investors ahead of its IPO.
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China News
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China's Banned Churches Defy Regime
The struggle between China's underground Protestant churches and the government is shaping up as the tensest standoff over religious freedom in China since a brutal crackdown on Falun Gong in 1999.
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Racers at Bonneville Salt Flats Pepper Potash Firm With Complaints
Are the Bonneville Salt Flats turning into the Bonneville Mud Flats? Hot rodders who race on them think they are. But the potash mine they blame has a different view.
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The debt stalemate in Washington is creating stress in the so-called repo market, increasing the risk that banks, hedge funds and other investors will have to pay billions of dollars in additional costs if the U.S. defaults or is downgraded.
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Investors pushed U.S. stocks to their worst one-day decline in two months and demand for Treasury securities weakened amid worries about the standoff.
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Warnings that Europe's debt crisis isn't over reignited concerns about contagion risks, boosting borrowing costs for high-debt governments and pressuring the euro.
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Banks and investors relying on credit-default swaps to protect themselves against a European government reneging on its debt are finding the insurance isn't a sure thing.
WORLD-WIDE
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The Boehner debt plan was headed for a cliffhanger vote. The speaker scrambled to stem defections by conservatives dissatisfied with his plan's spending cuts ahead of a House vote scheduled for Thursday. At least 18 House Republicans have said they would oppose the plan. If the Boehner bill passes, the Senate may hold quick votes on both it and Reid's rival plan.
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S&P; was awaiting details of final debt plans before weighing a change in the U.S.'s rating, the firm's president said.
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A suicide bomber killed Kandahar's mayor, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks on top officials in Afghanistan's second-largest city.
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Norway's prime minister said his government would set up a panel to review authorities' response to last week's deadly attacks.
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Health Industry
Judge Backs Obama Order on Stem Cells
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by scientists challenging U.S. government funding of embryonic stem-cell research, a victory for Obama administration efforts to expand this area of study.
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Air Subsidies Hit Turbulence
The Essential Air Service program is at the center of a partisan dispute in Congress that led to the partial shutdown last week of the FAA.
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Technology
Study Sees No Cellphone-Cancer Ties
A European study involving nearly 1,000 participants has found no link between cellular-phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents, a group that may be particularly sensitive to phone emissions.
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Health Industry
Government to Foot Half of U.S. Health Bill
Almost half the nation's health-care spending will come from government coffers by 2020, up four percentage points from 2010, according to new federal spending figures.
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The Man on the Mat With Boehner
As House Speaker John Boehner struggles to line up colleagues behind his debt-ceiling plan, his leading Republican opponent is Rep. Jim Jordan, from the district next door in Ohio.
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Capital
Would a Credit Downgrade Matter?
A ratings downgrade to AA would put the U.S. in the company of Slovenia. But, David Wessel asks, how much will it really matter?
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Economy
Fiscal Mess Tough on Alabama County
Residents of Jefferson County, Ala., whose commissioners could decide to file the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, are well-acquainted with their local government's financial mess.
THE DEFICIT FIGHT
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Debt-Crisis Vote Goes Down to Wire in House
The House was headed for a cliffhanger vote on a revised debt plan from Boehner that could go a long way in determining if the government's borrowing limit is raised in time to avoid a possible default next week.
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Treasury Crafts a Plan: Who Gets Paid, Who Doesn't
The Treasury Department will detail how it will handle the government's 100 million monthly payments if Congress doesn't raise the federal debt ceiling, pulling back the curtain on a closely held plan that could have dramatic consequences for the economy, the U.S. credit rating and America's political standing.
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Beijing Calls for Train-Crash Probe
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao ordered a "swift, open and transparent investigation" into a deadly bullet-train crash and one expert alleged a lack of certain safety systems may have played a role in the accident.
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Pyongyang Seeks Peace Pact Ahead of Meeting
North Korea repeated its long-held desire for the U.S. to sign a peace treaty that ends the Korean War of the 1950s, underlining the fundamental issue that divides the two countries on the eve of their first diplomatic meeting since 2009.
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China: Carrier Won't Alter Naval Strategy
China said its first aircraft carrier would be used for "research, experiments and training" in an apparent attempt to ease concerns it could be used to enforce Chinese territorial claims.
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India, Pakistan Officials Move to Thaw Relations
The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan agreed on measures to promote increased travel and trade across their border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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Suicide Bomb Kills Kandahar Mayor
A suicide bomber with explosives hidden under his turban killed the mayor of Kandahar, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks that showcase the government's slipping control over Afghanistan's second-largest city.
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Iran's Pick for Oil Post Signals Power Shift
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated a sanctioned senior official from the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to take the role of oil minister, his latest push to tighten control over the country's most strategic sector.
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U.K. Recognizes Libyan Opposition
The U.K. recognized Libya's rebel council as the country's legitimate government, and said Britain was expelling the last remaining pro-Gadhafi diplomats from the Libyan Embassy in London.
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Europe Probes Far-Right Parties
European authorities are investigating possible links between the man who has confessed to last week's massacre in Norway and right-wing elements across the region, putting Europe's recently ascendant far-right movements on the defensive.
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Norway to Review Attack Response
Norway's prime minister said his government would set up an independent panel to review authorities' response to the attacks that took 76 lives last Friday, as he affirmed the country's intent to respond with "more democracy."
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IMF Warns on France Deficit, Bank Sector
The International Monetary Fund urged France to prepare contingency measures to reach its deficit targets, warning that its triple-A rating was key to keeping borrowing costs low.
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Warnings Feed Europe Debt Fears
Sober warnings that the European debt crisis didn't end with last week's summit of European Union leaders reignited concerns of contagion risks.
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Aides Urge Medvedev to Run Again
Two prominent advisers to Russian President Medvedev publicly called on him to announce he plans to seek re-election next year, warning that the alternative—the return of Putin—would bring "national catastrophe."
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Russia Decries U.S. Move to Deny Visas
Russia denounced a U.S. decision to deny visas to dozens of officials suspected of involvement in the imprisonment and death of a corruption-fighting lawyer and warned that it would act to protect "the rights of Russian citizens from illegal actions by foreign states."
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