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Investors tending to sit on sidelines with worries about effectiveness of social net's ad platform

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook continued to plunge as its stock dropped 8% at the start of trading Tuesday, then pulled back to a 3% loss by late morning.


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A force still dogged by harsh image from 1968 convention shows patience at latest event

CHICAGO (AP) -- The sight of Chicago police raising billy clubs against demonstrators Sunday was the kind of image that has dogged the city's police force longer than most of those who clashed with protesters have been alive.


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Longtime incumbents in Dallas, Detroit, NYC face young, African American rivals who think it's time for a change

DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf.


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24-year-old guard killed during incident at facility run by private company

(CNN) -- Authorities said early Monday they had put down a prison riot that claimed the life of a guard as it continued into the late evening Sunday.


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September 2010 death of Tyler Clementi pushed cyberbullying, gay relations into spotlight

(CNN) -- A New Jersey judge on Monday sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail for spying on and intimidating his gay Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi, who then killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge in September 2010.


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G-8 leaders seemed intent on trying to inspire confidence by agreeing on a broad strategy no matter their differences

CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge.


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Legal observers say don't count on the Supreme Court reconsidering its decision

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.


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'We want the world to focus on NATO - they're not important and have no mandate anymore,' said Micah Philbrook, an Occupy Chicago spokesman

CHICAGO (AP) -- Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet.


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Alexandria residents bought the most books, mags per capita; Cambridge, Mass., is second

(CNN) -- Virginia is for lovers, so the slogan goes -- but more specifically, it seems to be the state many book-lovers call home.


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Joshua Komisarjevsky was convicted last year of heinous crime that put him on death row

SOMERS, Conn. (AP) -- The Connecticut killer who once called himself one of the most hated men in America said in a death row interview that he tries not to think about the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters, suffers no nightmares and has nothing to say to the only survivor of the brutal 2007 attack.


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