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NFL Lockout Is Over - The NFLPA executive board and 32 team reps voted to unanimously to end four-month lockout, the longest work stoppage in league history.

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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West to Highlight Obama's "Failings" - PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West will begin a 15-city "Poverty Tour" to bring attention to what they say are President Obama's failings with regard to the nation’s neediest. Starting Aug. 5, the two plan to visit soup kitchens, housing projects, farms, families and low-wage workers, in hopes of creating momentum for large-scale job creation programs and putting poverty on the 2012 election agenda, the Associated Press reports. According to Smiley, "poor people have been rendered invisible" during the budget debate taking place on Capitol Hill, and both Congress and Obama need to give them greater consideration.(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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DSK Accuser Speaks Out - In recent interviews, Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who has accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, spoke out about her allegations in a Newsweek cover story that went online Sunday and in an ABC News interview to air Monday evening. Strauss-Kahn has denied the charges and his lawyers call the interviews "an unseemly circus."(Photo: AP Photo/Newsweek)

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Norway's Deadly Terror Attacks - On Friday, Anders Behring Breivik committed a string of deadly attacks in Norway that has left at least 76 people dead. The first attack was a bomb explosion in Oslo in the vicinity of government buildings that killed seven people. Then, less than two hours later, Breivik, disguised as a policeman, allegedly opened fire at a youth camp organized by the Norwegian Labour Party on the island of Utoya, killing at least 68 people. Breivik had previously published a manifesto online ranting against Muslim immigration to Europe. (Photo: AP Photo/via Scanpix)

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Amy Winehouse Dies - On Saturday, British singer Amy Winehouse was pronounced dead at her London home. She was 27. Police say the cause of death is currently "unexplained." Winehouse recently left a British rehabilitation program to prepare for a European concert in June 2011. But the tour was cut short in Belgrade when she reportedly staggered around the stage and stumbled through songs.

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Ronald "Butch" Lewis Has Died - Legendary boxing promoter, film and music producer Ronald "Butch" Lewis passed away after suffering a massive heart attack at his home in Delaware early Saturday morning. He was 65.

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Medical Panel Recommends Free Birth Control - The Institute of Medicine presented eight recommendations in hopes of strengthening President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for women. One of the most talked-about IOM recommendations is that birth control should be free. The IOM stated that this measure could result in less unintended pregnancies, which account for almost half of all pregnancies each year in the U.S.(Photo: Kelsey Snell/MCT/Landov)

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Record-High Temps - Last week, the nation saw sizzling record high temperatures, characterized by high humidity and higher-than-usual nighttime temperatures. On Friday, New York City hit 99 degrees, and the Weather Channel reported that it felt like 111 degrees because of the humidity. More than floods, lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes combined, heat is the number-one weather-related killer in the United States.(Photo: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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PETA Exhibit Compares Animal Cruelty to Slavery - Making its national debut Thursday, an exhibit unveiled by PETA in Washington D.C., entitled "Glass Walls," displayed images of animal cruelty next to images of human cruelty. One panel includes Dr. Martin Luther King's quote "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," and some images show elephants in shackles and overcrowded conditions for pigs and animals next to images of Black slaves in similar conditions.(Photo: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

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Is Rosa Parks' Estate Being Robbed? - Stephen Cohen, the lawyer representing late civil rights icon Rosa Parks' caretaker as well as the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, is accusing lawyers appointed to oversee Parks' estate of "corrupting" it by overcharging the estate for a large amount of "unnecessary administrative work." The lawyers, John Chase Jr. and Melvin Jefferson Jr., have allegedly received $243,000 in legal fees -- almost two-thirds the cash value of Park's estate. Chase has said everything he and Jefferson have done has been court-approved.(Photo: CBS/Landov)

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Waters Demands Ethics Case Be Dropped - In the aftermath of a Politico report this week that suggested the case against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California) may have been tainted by the alleged improper behavior of two key Ethics Committee attorneys, the California lawmaker is calling for the charges to be dropped. Her counsel, Stanley Brand, said on Tuesday that "misconduct and partisanship in the committee made a fair ethics proceeding impossible."(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Mrs. Obama Announces Initiative to Aid Food Deserts - As part of her "Let's Move" initiative, which aims to fight childhood obesity and promote a healthy lifestyle, First Lady Michelle Obama announced on Wednesday that several major retailers, foundations and small businesses have made a commitment to bring healthier food to neighborhoods where supermarkets are few and far between.(Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Landov)

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University of Connecticut: 13-Year-Old Girl Was Never Accepted - Autum Ashante—the 13-year-old whiz kid who made headlines after the Daily News reported she was accepted to the University of Connecticut only to have the offer rescinded because she wasn't "academically ready"—was never accepted in the first place, according to a UConn official. "She applied, and her application was denied. It was not accepted. Nothing was 'rescinded,'" Kirk wrote in an email to News One. "When the Daily News called me, I spoke to Lee Melvin, our vice president for enrollment management, and he told me that Autum had not enrolled at the university. I passed that information to the Daily News."