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• Billionaire Harold Hamm Made News, Money Tuesday Backing American Independence

  Continental Resources Chairman Harold Hamm talks up the possibility of U.S. energy independence and gets half billion boost to his fortune. [...] more>>

  Claire Peracchio, Contributor

• Sheldon Adelson Tops Romney Donor List That Now Includes 32 Billionaires

  With casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson's $10 million gift, the tally of America's richest people donating to Mitt Romney-backing super PAC Restore Our Future is 32 -- or, 8% of the Forbes 400. Read on to see who joins Adelson on this growing list. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor, Forbes Staff

• Zombie Cannibal Apocalypse- CDC Weighs In, But Is ABC's Castle to Blame?

  

  Zombie Pandemic Imagery, courtesy of the CDC http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies/#/page/1 As of late Friday there were nearly 1,000 news stories about cannibals featured on Google News.  Stories about zombies [...] more>>

  Greg McNeal, Contributor

• America's Richest Women Got $550 Million Richer As Wal-Mart Hit 10-Year High

  Today's big billionaire stock market winners: Christy and Alice Walton, sisters-in-law and heiresses to the Wal-Mart fortune, who remain two of the three richest women in the world despite reports putting Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart at the top of the list. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor, Forbes Staff

• Count 'Em: 30 Billionaires Now Backing Romney's Super PAC

  It's well known that super-rich donors tend to write their checks to right-leaning candidates. Still, the number of billionaires who've given to Restore Our Future, a Mitt Romney-backing super PAC, is staggering: 30, or 7.5% of the Forbes 400 list. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor, Forbes Staff

• Where Are the Female Billionaires?

  When I look at the Forbes list of billionaires worldwide, one thing jumps out at me. Sadly, it’s not surprising — most of the billionaires have one thing in common: their gender. Women make up less than 2% of the world’s billionaires. Moreover, many of those women inherited their wealth [...] [...] more>>

  Clara Knutson, Contributor

• Wal-Mart Clan Recovers $2.1 Billion, Adelson Down $780 Million

  

  S. Robson Walton's Wal-Mart stake gained $516.47 million on Thursday. In our third day of tracking the wealth of 50 global billionaires via the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, casino king Sheldon [...] more>>

  Edwin Durgy, Forbes Staff

• 5 Deadliest Diet Trends: Pills That Really Can Kill

  Beware: The latest diet fads are not only dangerous, they could be deadly. If a weight loss pill sounds too good to be true, it probably is. [...] more>>

  Melanie Haiken, Contributor

• 40 Behind-The-Scenes Billionaires Funding The 2012 Election

  First casino magnate Sheldon Adelson came out swinging against Obama, saying he'll spend $100 million to see him unseated. Today, investor Harold Simmons pledged to give big. Meet 40 billionaires who're doing it on the down-low. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor, Forbes Staff

• Adelson to give Kochs another $10 million to defeat Obama and Democrats

  of money he largely made in Chinese off-shore casino's. I think most folks would see it as obscene and very wrong. I mean Meg Whitman spent $100M of her own money and it largely backfired. Try to lure this guy out to try to defend himself on television - these [...] more>>

• 6 game-changing cultural attractions to check out now

  home of America’s most omnipresent big-box retailer — will win over even the most skeptical Manhattanite. Why? Founded by Alice Walton, daughter of Sam, the collection spans five centuries of American art, from the Colonial era to the present, with top artists [...] more>>

• Walmart Cuts Funds to Conservative Group, Flow to GOP Continues

  analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics. Ninety percent of those donations went to support GOP presidential candidates. Jim Walton, the son of Walmart founder Sam Walton and the eighth richest man in America according to Forbes, initially put his money [...] more>>

• Wal-Mart's annual meeting dogged by investor ire

  Slaton / Reuters Jim Walton (L), Alice Walton, and Rob Walton speak during the annual Wal-Mart shareholders' meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas, June 1, 2012. By Martha C. White Wal-Mart brought in Aerosmith and Cheap Trick to perform at its annual meeting [...] more>>

• Wal-Mart CEO says co. committed to compliance

  meeting in Fayetteville, Ark., Friday, June 1, 2012. Timberlake hosted the annual event. (AP Photo/April L. Brown) — AP Jim Walton, left,, Alice Walton, center, and Robson Walton, right, greet each other during the beginning of the Walmart Stores Inc. shareholders' [...] more>>