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- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: The complete transcript -- Part 2
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- Canada to require visas for Mexicans following surge in refugee claims
- Payard serving up sweet scents
- Volleyball: AAU Junior Beach national championships this weekend
- Opinion: Pujols to Obama: 'Don't bounce it'
- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: Morning session wrap-up
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- Justice Department probes credit-default swaps
- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: Orrin Hatch brings up New Haven firefighters case
- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: Feinstein paints conservative jurists as ‘activist judges’
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- Michael Jackson page inline
- Monster Mash: Conductor Edward Downes commits suicide; support for Paul Williams tract; big bucks for Peter Gelb
- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: Judge says affirmative action still needed
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- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: Steering the debate in opposite directions
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- The Morning Fix: The teen view on media use; ABC's Jackson deal; HBO and Comcast's deal, Bruno gets close shave
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- Gale Storm memorial service set
- Opinion: Sotomayor hearings: Looking back in court history -- to when the first Jewish nominee was considered by the Judiciary Committee
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- Put pressure on Honduras
- Cher's Malibu estate back on the market for $41 million
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- Boom in Ginnie mortgage bonds
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- Ducks sign James Wisniewski to a one-year contract
- Live: Ray LaMontagne at the Hollywood Bowl
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- Billboards' OK riles Trutanich
- Swat Valley refugees begin going home
- Brian Fuentes baffles even teammates
- Format shift in Jackson sales
- Stocks rise ahead of busy earnings week
- Head of U.S. auto task force to leave post
- Warning: New drug commercials may cause drowsiness
- Obama addresses Jewish fears
- Mexico aid should be withheld, Human Rights Watch says
- Healthy choice
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- 'So You Think You Can Dance': Final thoughts from Phillip Chbeeb and Caitlin Kinney
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