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Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a trailblazing co-founder of an addiction center in California that bears her name, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

Greece, tiny Mediterranean nation plagued by debt problems, still bears watching by U.S. investors/readers. The reason? Bond vigilantes who have driven up Greece's interest rates could do the same in the United States, if Washington doesn't eliminate its budget deficit.

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled CEO of News International, said she will not resign from her post in defiance of massive pressure on her from many quarters, in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the demise of her tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW).

San Diego Comic-Con is over two weeks away, but celebrities and studios alike are already announcing screenings and appearances.

In order for Google+ to supplant Facebook, it will have to appeal to at least one crucial segment of the online population – college students.

The American tennis tournament begins in late August.

A sum of the parts (SOTP) analysis by RBC Capital Markets says HP is trading materially below its SOTP price of $52 to $55 a share.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is investigating whether the National Football League violated antitrust laws with its current labor lockout.

ESPN reports that the deal to sell a minority share in the New York Mets to hedge fund manager David Einhorn will likely not close until August. Both sides are confident that the deal will get done, but the details are dragging out the process.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Travelers Companies, Chesapeake Energy, Analog Devices, Frontier Communications, TJX Companies, Marathon Petroleum, United Technologies, MEMC Electronic Materials, Google, Kohl's and Denbury Resources.

Paris prosecutor's office said on Friday it had opened a preliminary inquiry into a complaint filed by French writer Tristane Banon

A not guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony sentencing has resulted into four states drafting legislation affectionately known as Caylee's Law to create tight requirements for the reporting missing or dead people.

Despite speculation that the French presidential race might have an intriguing new entrant, a poll taken in the country that Dominique Strauss-Kahn should rule out running in the election.

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 and held by a Salt Lake City preacher for nine months in 2002 and 2003, has joined ABC News as a paid contributor.

They're getting there. That, in a few words, perhaps best characterizes the state of the nation's debt ceiling talks. President Barack Obama said Thursday Congressional Democrats and Republicans are making progress toward deficit reduction and raising the debt ceiling, but big gaps remain.

Queens Democratic leaders on Thursday announced their nomination of State Assemblyman David I. Weprin to fill Anthony D. Weiner's position.

The New York Knicks will search the free agent market when the lockout ends.

Mets ownership will need to walk a tightrope in the next few weeks, as the team teeters on contending for a wild card berth and payroll continues to loom large for the financially strapped franchise.

Casey Anthony could possibly taste freedom in late July or early August. Will her freedom lead to heaven or hell? The life ahead of Casey Anthony is surrounded by countless speculations.

President Barack Obama has shifted his strategy in debt talks with Republicans, offering a substantially larger deficit reduction package that would include cuts to Medicare and Social Security in exchange for eliminating tax breaks.

The British public is demanding justice after popular tabloid magazine News of the World was found hacking the cell phones of the dead.