Miley Cyrus Had 'No Input' on Her Engagement Ring

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Miley Cyrus Had 'No Input' on Her Engagement Ring

Monday August 06, 2012
Miley Cyrus is used to being in control, but when it comes to the sparkler she's wearing from fiancé Liam Hemsworth, she admits it was all him.

"I had no input," she tells Marie Claire in the September issue cover story, of her 18-karat Neil Lane bauble, hand-cut in the late 1800s. "I saw it online at one point and thought it was really pretty. I just love that it's old and has a story. And I'm happy because it doesn't look like anything else I wear."

Cyrus, 19 – whose engagement was announced by PEOPLE on June 6 – has no reservations about her decision to tie the knot, but notes that she isn't walking down the aisle soon.

"Life is too short not to be with the person you want to be with," she explains. "I don't really care about the wedding or the piece of paper as much as I do the promise we've made to each other. And we want to have a long engagement."
Part of what makes Hemsworth, 22, "the one" for the former Disney starlet is the couple's mutual trust.

Amanda Bynes accused of a hit-and-run

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Amanda Bynes accused of a hit-and-run

Published August 06, 2012
TVGuide
Amanda Bynes' car trouble continues.

The actress has been accused of a hit-and-run after allegedly rear-ending a woman in the San Fernando Valley and then driving away without giving the woman her insurance information, TMZ reports.

Natalie Portman is now married to Benjamin Millepied

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Natalie Portman is now married to Benjamin Millepied

By Jen Chaney
08/06/2012
In case you missed the news, Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied — longtime fiance, choreographer of “Black Swan” and the guy Portman thanked during her 2011 Oscar acceptance speech — got married over the weekend.

People reported the wedding news Sunday afternoon; because Portman is a private person who doesn’t tweet compelling anecdotes about her personal life, only a few details are known. We know the wedding happened Saturday night in Big Sur, Calif. We know that Portman, 31, and Millepied, 35 — who have a 14-month-old son, Aleph, together — were wed in a Jewish ceremony. And we know that, apparently, Ivanka Trump was there.

In terms of other details, really, the best we can do to fill them in is to borrow from the titles on Portman’s filmography.

Samsung launches Galaxy Note 10.1, 4G LTE version later this year

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The device comes with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), according to Samsung.

by Don Reisinger August 6, 2012
After a long wait, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 is finally launching.
The device, which was first unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, comes with a 1.4GHz quad-core processor and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The most notable advancement over its predecessor, however, is the device's screen, which measures 10.1 inches. The

Romney raises $101 million in July

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Romney raises $101 million in July

By Leigh Ann Caldwell
CBS News) Mitt Romney's campaign and a joint fundraising committee with the Republican National Committee raised a combined $101.3 million during July, the Romney campaign announced Monday. This is the second consecutive month that Romney has raised more than $100 million in a month, having first broken his own monthly fundraising record in June by bringing in $106 million.
"Americans are clearly looking for a change in the White House," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement Monday morning. "Mitt Romney has a plan that will create jobs, grow the economy, and build a stronger middle class - that is why he is seeing such strong support."

Best Buy founder submits bid to buy the company

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Best Buy founder submits bid to buy the company

By Staff and wire reports
2012/8/06
Best Buy's founder, Richard Schulze, said Monday that he wants to take the electronics retailer private by buying up all the outstanding shares he doesn't already own for $24 to $26 each.
Best Buy shares (BBY) jumped 22% on the news.
Schulze stepped down as Best Buy's chairman in May after an investigation found that he knew CEO Brian Dunn was having a relationship with a female employee. Dunn resigned in April.
MORE: Schulze statement, letter to Best Buy board
Schulze's buyout offer represents a 36% to 47% premium over Best Buy's Friday closing stock price

Hillary Clinton Meets with Nelson Mandela

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Hillary Clinton Meets with Nelson Mandela

By BAZI KANANI (@bazikanani)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Aug. 6, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first order of business on her three day visit to South Africa is a trip to Nelson Mandela's ancestral village of Qunu for a private meeting with the anti-apartheid hero and former president.

The State Department said she is going to "pay her respects" to Mandela before a series of meetings focused on strengthening the U.S. trade relationship with South Africa.

IOC defends NBC for tape-delayed coverage of Usain Bolt winning Olympics 100-meter final

IOC defends NBC for tape-delayed coverage of Usain Bolt winning Olympics 100-meter final

By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, August 6, 5:40 AM

LONDON — The International Olympic Committee has defended NBC for not showing the men’s 100-meter final live on its main network.

Usain Bolt dashed to victory in the signature event of the London Olympics on Sunday at 4:50 p.m EDT. NBC broadcast the race hours later on tape-delay in prime time.
IOC spokesman Mark Adams says “it’s certainly not for us to tell them how to reach their audience.” Adams says NBC live-streamed the race for online viewers, so “if you wanted live, you could get it

Baby-picture zapping plug-in is well Liked on Facebook

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Baby-picture zapping plug-in is well Liked on Facebook

Unbaby.me performs the useful social task of removing baby pictures that narcissistic parents post on your Facebook newsfeed. In less than four days, it has 44,000 Likes. Next stop: a reduced birth rate?
by Chris Matyszczyk August 4, 2012 12:51 PM PD
People generally have children in order to reproduce their own imperfect selves and try to make them more perfect.
This is a legitimate, if slightly warped, activity -- yet we tolerate it for what we imagine is a social good.

Iran Says Test-Firing Of Missile a Success

Iran Says Test-Firing Of Missile a Success

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 4, 2012
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran said Saturday that it had successfully test-fired an upgraded version of a short-range ballistic missile with improved accuracy, increasing its capacity to strike land and naval targets.

Iran’s defense minister, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, said the solid-fueled Fateh-110 missile had a range of 185 miles. He also said the weapon could strike with pinpoint precision, making it the most accurate weapon of its kind in Iran’s arsenal.

“By reaching this generation of the Fateh-110, a new capability has been added to our armed forces

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wins 100 meters, seizes Jamaica’s spotlight, at least for a day

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By Rick Maese, Saturday, August 4, 6:05 PM

LONDON — Back home in Jamaica, when Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce visits the neighborhood supermarket, inevitably the questions will arise. Sure, she’s recognized across the small island, but they don’t ask about her Olympic gold medal from the Beijing Games.

Southwest Airlines customers billed many times for half-price tickets due to computer glitch

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By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, August 4

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines’ attempt to thank its Facebook friends with a half-price ticket sale backfired when customers were inadvertently billed multiple times for a single flight — they’re not feeling the “luv.”

“No, it wasn’t a hack, it was just a technology glitch in our system that caused that,” duplicate bookings and billings to customers’ debit and credit cards, Ashley Dillon, a Southwest spokeswoman said Saturday.
The company became aware of the problem around 5 p.m. Friday, she said, when they experienced website slowdowns and saw that customers were having to repeatedly refresh pages to take advantage of the airlines’ one-day “luv2like” promotion.

Phelps ends Olympic career with 18th gold

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Phelps ends Olympic career with 18th gold

Originally published: August 4, 2012 9:12 PM

By JEFF WILLIAMS jeff.williams@newsday.com
Michael Phelps made one last climb to the top of the Olympic podium Saturday, made one last bow to have a gold medal ribbon wrapped around his neck and made one long, last glorious goodbye to the adoring fans at the London pool where he became the greatest Olympian of all time.
The Americans' 4x100 medley team won the gold medal Saturday with Phelps, competing in the final event of his career, swimming his typically dominant butterfly leg.
That gold medal was Phelps' 18th in the three Olympic Games beginning in 2004, and boosted his medal total to 22. Both are records for any Olympic sport and athlete.

Mars rover hunts for signs of life

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Mars rover hunts for signs of life

AFP
August 05, 2012
By news.com.au
ARE we alone? Or was there life on another planet? NASA's $2.4 billion Mars rover Curiosity aims to find out.

The $US2.5 billion ($2.4 billion) dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding out when it nears Mars's surface tomorrow.

Kate Middleton - Kate Middleton Stars As Team Gb's Lucky Charm Throughout Olympics

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Kate Middleton - Kate Middleton Stars As Team Gb's Lucky Charm Throughout Olympics

04 August 2012

Kate Middleton Stars As Team Gb's Lucky Charm Throughout Olympics
Kate Middleton has been popping up everywhere at this years London Olympics, cheering on Team GB at the equestrian, rowing and tennis events, often with Prince William by her side.
Yesterday though, she went solo for most of the events and looks as though she could very well be Great Britain's lucky charm as she cheered on two impressive and victorious runs for our nation's athletes.

Retired porn star Jenna Jameson supports Mitt Romney

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Retired porn star Jenna Jameson supports Mitt Romney

By Chris Moody
August 3, 2012
Retired adult film actress Jenna Jameson voiced support for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a strip club Thursday, CBS San Francisco reports:

"I'm very looking forward to a Republican being back in office," Jameson said while sipping champagne in a VIP room at Gold Club in the city's South of Market neighborhood. "When you're rich, you want a Republican in office."

Jameson was being interviewed "exclusively" by a CBS reporter who was "on assignment" at "an event marking the 8th anniversary" of the San Francisco-area strip club.

Obama praises Olympic athletes

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Obama praises Olympic athletes

By REID J. EPSTEIN | 8/4/12 7:03 AM EDT

President Barack Obama morphed into the first fan in his weekly radio address broadcast Saturday, praising the nation’s Olympic athletes competing in London.

The flag-waving continues the president’s effort to tether himself to popular winning Olympians — he congratulated gold medalists Michael Phelps and Gabby Douglas from the campaign stump this week during stops in Ohio and Virginia.

U.S. Men's Basketball Coach Denies Running Up Score in 156-73 Rout

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By ALON HARISH
Aug. 3, 2012


 After the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team crushed Nigeria by more than doubling its score, the Americans found themselves playing defense against accusations that their record-setting 156-73 rout was unsportsmanlike. Coach Mike Kryzewski denied that the Americans intended to embarrass their opponents. Instead, he said that the Nigerians could reasonably have been offended had his team had not played their hardest. "You have to take a shot every 24 seconds, and the shots we took happened to be hit," Kryzewski told reporters after the game. On top of scoring more points than any other Olympic team in a single game, the NBA players eclipsed the 79-point record of the largest margin of

Jackson siblings deny money at root of family dispute

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Aug 3, 2012
(Reuters) - Three of Michael Jackson's siblings vowed on Friday to keep up their fight to have the pop star's will thrown out, but denied their efforts were motivated by money.
Janet, Randy and Rebbie Jackson said in an attorney's statement issued on their behalf that their aim was only to replace the executors of their brother's multimillion-dollar estate, who they accuse of mismanagement.

The statement followed two weeks of Jackson clan infighting, including a trip by family matriarch Katherine Jackson, 82, to Arizona in which she has said she was cut off from the outside world and was reported missing.

Schwarzenegger says sports enthusiasm landed him in jail

Schwarzenegger says sports enthusiasm landed him in jail

Published August 03, 2012
Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Arnold Schwarzenegger says he was so eager to pursue bodybuilding success that he briefly ended up in an Austrian military jail.
The Austrian-born actor said Friday he was 18 and serving a mandated year with the army when he snuck out of camp for the Junior Mr. Europe contest in Germany.
Schwarzenegger says he won the contest but also earned two or three days in the brig. But he says military officials felt "uncomfortable" and released him.

Bakery won't make cake for gay wedding

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Bakery won't make cake for gay wedding

By Laura Hautala
August 3, 2012
A gay couple took their story viral after a Denver-area cake shop turned down their order for a wedding cake last week. Supporters of same-sex marriage have been calling the shop, and protesters plan to gather in front of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., on Saturday.

Jobs report provides little to sway voters either way

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Jobs report provides little to sway voters either way

The Labor Department's statistics indicate an economy that's improving but still tepid — in other words, not dramatic enough to make a difference for the crucial few voters who haven't yet made up their minds.
By David Lauter, Washington Bureau
August 3, 2012
WASHINGTON — The latest jobs report means the economic shape of the presidential battlefield is now largely set, with an economy that no longer appears headed back toward recession, but in which growth continues at a sputtering pace.

U.N. Condemns Syria's Campaign

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U.N. Condemns Syria's Campaign

August 3, 2012 

By MARGARET COKER and JOE LAURIA

The United Nations General Assembly reprimanded Syria for its use of heavy weaponry against its civilians in a largely symbolic vote that comes as relief agencies warn of a growing humanitarian catastrophe inside the Arab country.

The U.N. resolution condemns Syria's use of heavy weapons in Aleppo, Damascus and other cities. It calls for implementation of a six-point international peace plan that calls for a political transition away from President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel struggle with the past, as well as the present script, in ‘Total Recall’

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Remake of Arnold Schwarezenegger film suffers from muddled story and one-dimensional characters
AUGUST 2, 2012 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
There’s something sadly poetic about a movie dealing with disappearing memories that vanishes from your mind while you watch it.
Yet that’s the only memorable thing about “Total Recall,” a remake of a schlocky 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle that, like this new version, was based on a 1960s Philip K. Dick short story.
Where that previous film had cartoonish effects and a Mars-set conclusion, this new one is filled with future-industrial grit and “Blade Runner”-esque squalor. Yet nothing sticks.
Colin Farrell is Quaid, an industrial worker at the end of the 21st century, when chemical warfare has

Obama’s 51st birthday wish: Florida’s electoral votes

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Obama’s 51st birthday wish: Florida’s electoral votes

by Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press | August 3, 2012
WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama has a simple wish for his upcoming 51st birthday: Florida’s 29 electoral votes.

Obama was serenaded to the tune of “Happy Birthday” on Thursday during the start of a campaign rally in battleground Florida, an early nod to his birthday on Saturday. The Democratic president, locked in a tight re-election campaign against Republican Mitt Romney, was not too bashful about suggesting potential gifts.

US Stock Futures Climb After Upbeat Jobs Data

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August 3, 2012

US Stock Futures Climb After Upbeat Jobs Data

--Stock futures extend gains after closely watched July jobs report

--Europe rebounds sharply as investors reassess ECB comments

--Nonfarm payrolls top expectations; unemployment unexpectedly ticks up

By Matt Jarzemsky and Tomi Kilgore

NEW YORK--U.S. stock futures rose, signaling a rebound from a recent string of losses, after data showed better-than-expected domestic job growth last month.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures ran up 129 points, or 1%, to 12960 less than an hour before the opening bell. The Dow fell 92.18 points, or 0.71%, on Thursday to stretch its losing streak to four sessions.

Prince William & Kate Do the Wave at the Olympics

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Prince William & Kate Do the Wave at the Olympics

BY ALISON SCHWARTZ

Friday August 03, 2012
have become regular fixtures at the 2012 Summer Olympics, were caught up in the spirit of the London Games Thursday as they lent their hands to the stadium tradition.

All smiles, the royal couple, both 30, joined the crowd to raise their arms in the air (which creates a crest-like visual effect).