Japan Wins Women’s World Cup Final

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Sunday, July 17, 2011 -- 5:25 PM EDT
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Japan Wins Women’s World Cup Final

Japan outshot the United States in penalty kicks to win the Women’s World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany. The Japanese twice rallied to tie the score before the shootout.

It was Japan’s first title and its first time in the final. The United States had been hoping to win its third world title.

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Betty Ford Dies at 93

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Friday, July 8, 2011 -- 9:12 PM EDT
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Betty Ford Dies at 93

Betty Ford, the outspoken wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the most famous rehabilitation centers in the nation, has died at 93, according to a statement from Nancy Reagan.

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Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants Who Aided Bin Laden Raid

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Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants Who Aided Bin Laden Raid

Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials.

Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars visiting Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the weeks before the raid, is the latest evidence of the fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan. It comes at a time when the Obama administration is seeking Pakistan’s support in brokering an endgame in the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

The fate of the C.I.A. informants arrested in Pakistan is unclear, but American officials said that the C.I.A. director, Leon E. Panetta, raised the issue when he travelled to Islamabad last week to meet with Pakistani military and intelligence officers.

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Dow Closes Below 12,000 for the First Time Since March

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Dow Closes Below 12,000 for the First Time Since March

The Dow Jones industrial average closed under the 12,000-point mark on Friday for the first time since March 18. Analysts attributed the decline to a general sense that the global economy was slowing and to fresh reminders that European debt problems were entrenched.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011 -- 3:32 PM EDT

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Gingrich’s Senior Campaign Aides Resign

Newt Gingrich’s campaign manager and a half-dozen senior advisers resigned on Thursday, two aides said, dealing a significant setback to his bid to seek the Republican presidential nomination and severely complicating his plan to make a political comeback.

The campaign manager, Rob Johnson, along with advisers in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, joined together to step down after a period of deep internal disagreements about the direction of the campaign.

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Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker who has been fighting to regain his political footing after a rough campaign announcement last month, had been absent from the campaign trail for about two weeks on what aides had described as a pre-planned vacation. He made his first return to the campaign trail on Wednesday in New Hampshire, one day before the resignations were announced.
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Yemen’s President Is Taken to Saudi Arabia

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Saturday, June 4, 2011 -- 1:46 PM EDT

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Yemen’s President Is Taken to Saudi Arabia

 Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, injured in an attack on his compound in Sana on Friday, has arrived in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, Saudi officials said Saturday.
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Li Na of China Beats Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4, 7-6 to Win the French Open

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Li Na of China Beats Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4, 7-6 to Win the French Open

Li Na became the first person from China to win a singles Grand Slam title after beating Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4, 7-6 at Roland Garros in Paris.
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Advocate for Assisted Suicide, Is Dead

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Friday, June 3, 2011 -- 9:02 AM EDT
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Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Advocate for Assisted Suicide, Is Dead, His Lawyer Tells the A.P.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in Royal Oak, Mich., his lawyer told the Associated Press. He was 83 and had been hospitalized with pneumonia and a recurring kidney condition. Dr. Kevorkian, a medical pathologist who challenged social taboos about disease and dying, defied prosecutors and the courts to help terminally ill patients end their lives at times of their own choosing. He spent eight years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of the last of the more than 100 patients whose suicides he assisted starting in 1990. His stubborn and often intemperate advocacy for the right of the terminally ill to choose how they die is widely credited with sparking a boom in hospice care in the United States, and with making physicians more sympathetic to their pain and more willing to prescribe medication to relieve it.

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Thursday, June 2, 2011 -- 10:36 AM EDT

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Abramson to Replace Keller as The Times’s Executive Editor

The New York Times announced that Jill Abramson, a managing editor, will succeed Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer. Dean Baquet, the paper’s Washington bureau chief, was named a managing editor.
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In Showdown Over Debt Ceiling, Neither Party Is Blinking

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By JACKIE CALMES
With House Republicans set to vote against raising the debt ceiling Tuesday, there is concern that Congress is engaging in unusually risky brinkmanship.

Two New York City Officers Acquitted of Rape

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Thursday, May 26, 2011 -- 11:29 AM EDT
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Two New York City Officers Acquitted of Rape

Two New York City police officers were acquitted on Thursday of the most serious charges in the rape of a drunken woman who had been helped into her apartment by the officers while on patrol.

The verdict provides some measure of vindication for the officers, Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, and brings to an end a criminal case that drew outrage across the city when the officers were indicted in 2009.

Still, the jury convicted both officers of official misconduct for entering her apartment, but found them not guilty of all other charges, including burglary and falsifying business records.
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G.O.P. on the Defensive as Voters Resist Medicare Plan

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By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
The Republican defeat in a special election is a reminder that voters like the idea of budget cuts, but often recoil when the cuts threaten programs that touch their lives