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The First Lady is in Southern California today, and she kicked off the morning with a panel discussion on how to improve integration of military family stories into film and TV. The event was hosted at the Writers Guild Theater in Bevery Hills,

More than 200 foreign migrant workers were discovered on a truck bound for the United States.

In a racially charged case, white ex-police officer Johannes Mehserle, whose killing of a 22-year old unarmed black man on a train platform was caught on video from multiple cameras, was released from prison after 11 months.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: VF Corp, Hartford Financial, Caterpillar, Adobe Systems, Gilead Sciences, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Devon Energy, Regions Financial, Harley Davidson and Ford Motor Co.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Ness Technologies, A123 Systems, Vodafone Group, Deckers Outdoor, Melco Crown Entertainment, ARM Holdings and Melco Crown Entertainment. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Zion Oil & Gas, Silgan Holdings and Gilead Sciences.

Katy Perry released her fifth single from her third studio album, Teenage Dream, known as Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).

Laura Ziskin, who produced 'Pretty Woman' and the Spider-Man films, died of breast cancer on Sunday at the age of 61 in Santa Monica, California.

Harold Camping, president of Family Radio, a Christian radio ministry, suffered a severe stroke on Thursday night and had to be hospitalized, triggering concerns as to whether his followers will ever be able to hear his famous gravelly voice broadcast over 66 stations anymore.

Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour de France winner, will ride in this year's Tour de France, despite an ongoing doping case into his alleged use of clenbuterol, a banned substance.

NASA launched a satellite featuring an brand-new instrument which will be able to measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans.

Two new elements are joining the periodic table since their discovery by U.S. and Russian scientists, said a top U.S. chemistry expert on Friday.

California's voting district maps were redrawn and released Friday by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, leaning favorably towards Democrats.

Trevor Harwell, who was hired to fix clients computers, was arrested by police on suspicion of installing spyware software to take candid photos of his women clients showering and undressing in their homes.

NASA launches an instrument which will be able to measure salt in the ocean.

These celebs have entered the world of fashion with their own lines.

California based game developer Infinity Ward has previewed the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3- Spec Ops mode at the E3 and hopes that it can add to the already attained fame of the game.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Google Apps as the agency-wide e-mail and collaboration platform for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates working across the country and around the world.

Steve Jobs says he would like Apple to break ground next year on a 'spaceship'-type campus in the company's home town of Cupertino, California and move in by 2015 in a building the iPad-maker's CEO described as having a shot at being the best office building in the world.

The reward for any information, which would lead to the safe return of missing Hayward nursing student Michelle Hoang Thi Le, has been hiked from $20,000 to $65,000.

First hand account of moving to New York City and finding that very first apartment.

ThinkEquity has lowered its profit estimates of Google Inc., saying that its checks suggest slowing click growth in the second quarter.