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    Top Stories: Hospitals are concerned about cuts that would come under the Affordable Care Act to funding they use to help the uninsured like illegal immigrants. The story of Gu Kailai matches a familiar trope in Chinese lore of the conniving powerful woman, but "many wonder if party leaders are using her case to deflect public disgust over the kind of corruption and abuse of power that critics say was embodied by her husband." 

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    World: Venezuela, with its tensions with the U.S., continues to be a center for cocaine movement — despite their government's claims of success in curbing traffickers.

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    New York: The curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden "is in the vanguard of a national movement to identify and promote rose varieties that will thrive without chemical intervention." 

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    Media & Advertising: A movie star in India is now the host of a weekly television show that combines "Oprah-style interviews on a couch with short reports from the field" and draws attention to social issues in the country. 

    Sports: Irish gymnast Kieran Behan is at the Olympics despite a series of medical hardships, including being told he would never walk again.  

    Art & Design: Ken Johnson reviews the exhibit “Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000" at the Museum of Modern Art, which he calls a "rich and thought-provoking study of a great subject." 

    Movies: LGBT film festival NewFest begins Friday at Lincoln Center where it "has finally come in from the rain."

    Opinion: Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky on England, crisis, and spectacle. 

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    • Kim and Kanye's Baby Name Is Not That Strange

      It's being reported that rapper Kanye West and his reality star girlfriend Kim Kardashian have named their brand-new baby, born this weekend, Kaidence Donda West. Donda was Kanye's late mother's name, so that makes sense, but, um, Kaidence? What's going on with Kaidence?

    • Man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship

      SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy.

    • Suit: McDonald's wages put on costly debit card

      Would you like fees with that? A Pennsylvania woman has filed suit to avoid fees she may be charged to get her McDonald's wages from a debit card. Single mom Natalie Gunshannon has filed suit over bank ...

    • Hoffa mystery still fascinates after 4 decades

      OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers.

    • Justin Bieber Maybe Shouldn't Drive Cars Anymore

      Oh lord. Another day, another incident involving teen menace Justin Bieber and one of his expensive vroom-vrooms. It seems that Justin Bieber was involved in a traffic incident last night that had police questioning him about a possible a hit-and-run situation. Justin was leaving the Laugh Factory last night in his Ferrari and apparently hit a dude who was standing in the street. Bieber didn't stop to check on him, leading police to think it might have been a hit-and-run. ...

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    • Can fetuses masturbate?

      To rally support for his anti-abortion bill, Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas tells Congress that fetuses can feel pleasure

    • Rick Perry Goes to War Against Connecticut

      Rick Perry, the Texas governor and 2012 "oops" presidential candidate, is spending the beginning of this week in Connecticut. Perry, as the governor of Texas, has little on-its-face reason to be in Connecticut. Except, of course, for one: Texas's unemployment rate, which at 6.4 percent in April is significantly lower than the national average, is still not quite ideal. Perry wants to bring jobs to his state. And, as he sees it, some of those jobs could come from Connecticut.

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