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Los Angeles Dodgers seek media rights auction

The Los Angeles Dodgers have proposed an auction of the right to broadcast the baseball team's games in a bid to bring in billions of dollars to stabilize its finances and end its bankruptcy.

Melissa McCarthy wins best comedy actress Emmy

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First-time Emmy nominee Melissa McCarthy won the award for best comedy actress on Sunday for her role in Mike & Molly, capping a breakout year in which she also wowed movie audiences in comedy Bridesmaids earlier this year.
Obama jobs bill

Obama’s Buffett Tax: A Warranted Tax on Millionaires or ‘Class Warfare’?

President Barack Obama will once-again try to right the nation's fiscal ship of state by proposing a new tax levy for U.S. taxpayers whose income exceeds $1 million per year. Congressional Republicans have already said they're opposed to the levy, but it remains to be seen whether that latter view will hold amid a public that wants upper-income groups to pay more in taxes.
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Cast members Moss and Hamm pose during a photocall to promote their television series "Mad Men" at the annual MIPCOM television programme market in Cannes

Mad Men Tries to Fend Off Boardwalk at Emmys

Television's Mad Men will bid for a fourth straight Emmy on Sunday, hoping to fend off the Prohibition-era gangsters of Boardwalk Empire and the warring kings and knights of Game of Thrones for the industry's top honors.
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Emmy Awards 2011: Full List of Nominees

The 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards will air live on Fox Sunday, September 18 from 8-11 p.m. ET from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles with Jane Lynch as the host.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), speaks at the California Republican Party fall convention in Los Angeles

Bachmann Woos California, Flaunts Business Savvy

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California convention on Friday, raising hopes the Tea Party favorite might be able to put a faltering campaign back in gear.
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Ron Artest Name Change: Metta World Peace

Despite once famously being part of the Palace Brawl during the closing minutes of a 2004 Pacers-Pistons game, Ron Artest is now striving for peace. World Peace. And thus he has changed his name.
"The Biggest Loser" trainer Bob Harper conducts a fitness seminar sponsored by a health insurance company in Santa Monica, California

Bob Harper of Biggest Loser talks diet, fitness

Health and fitness guru Bob Harper shot to fame as a trainer on The Biggest Loser reality TV series, which beings is 12th season on Tuesday on NBC, after becoming an improbable hit for its network.
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Contract reveals Beatles' anti-segregation stance

A soon-to-be-auctioned Beatles contract for a 1965 California concert reveals that the Fab Four took a firm stand in support of the era's civil rights movement, refusing to play before a segregated audience.

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