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Investors Cheer Europe DealA1
European leaders' new measures to tackle the euro zone's debt crisis were welcomed as a rare bold step in the right direction.
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Health Industry
Health-Law Battle Enters Next RoundA1
A new front opened in efforts to reshape how the government implements Obama's health-care overhaul. Employers, insurers, hospitals, drug makers and others are angling for an advantage.
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Telegenic Candidate Stars in Mexican Election A1
Enrique Peña Nieto, who overcame tragedy, is favored to win Mexico's presidential election on Sunday. How Mexico's dominant broadcaster Televisa merged marketing with politics to create the country's likely next president.
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NFL Scrambles to Sell More TicketsA1
Professional football, America's most popular and profitable sport, is preparing to tackle a glaring weakness: Stadium seats are increasingly empty.
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Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?
People who scythe put up with a lot of Grim Reaper cracks. Then again, long-handled, crescent-bladed scythes don't use gas, don't get hot, don't make noise, do make for exercise, and do cut grass.

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U.S. stocks surged to end a weak second quarter on a strong note, scoring their best June in more than a decade as investors cheered European progress to stem a series of financial crises. The Dow Jones industrials on Friday rose 277.83 points, or 2.2%, to 12880.09, but ended the quarter down 2.5%.
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European markets not only rallied Friday on the EU news, but they also held their gains. Spanish and Italian borrowing costs fell. European stocks were broadly higher. The euro surged against the dollar.
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Oil soared 9.4% Friday, its biggest gain in more than three years. Gold futures jumped 3.5% to $1,603.50.
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Peter Madoff admitted committing crimes that allowed his brother, Bernard, to perpetuate the Ponzi scheme but said he knew nothing of the fraud itself.

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A burst of lobbying greeted the health law's affirmation. Hospital owners, medical-device makers, drug firms, insurers and other interests scrambled to stake out their positions as the White House signaled openness to improvements.
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States struggled with the question of whether to opt out of Medicaid expansion as Republicans have urged.
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Student loans' 3.4% rate will be maintained after Congress passed funding that is part of a $120 billion transportation package.
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The Turkish warplane that Syria shot down in late June was likely in Syrian airspace, U.S. intelligence indicates, a finding at odds with Turkey's assessment.

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Justice Won't Pursue Holder ChargesA2
The Justice Department said its prosecutors won't pursue criminal charges against Holder over his refusal to turn over documents sought by House Republicans.
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Touch Graphic: Up in the Sky
The U.S. military is preparing for the maiden flight of a football-field-size airship laden with surveillance gear designed to do the work of a dozen drones—and destined for Afghanistan.
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Wildfire Destroys Nearly 350 HomesA2
Firefighters made headway against a wildfire that has become the most destructive in state history, killing two people and consuming nearly 350 homes on the edge of the state's second-largest city.
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Statistically Speaking: Browser Wars Escalate A2
The new round of Internet-browser wars is accompanied by a battle over browser statistics. At stake: which Web browser, Microsoft's or Google's, is the most popular around the world.
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Army Preps Spy BlimpA3
The U.S. military is preparing for the maiden flight of a football-field-size airship laden with surveillance gear designed to do the work of a dozen drones—and destined for Afghanistan.
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UVa Reappoints Board MemberA3
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell reappointed the University of Virginia board member whose ouster of the school's president was reversed.
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Play of the Week
Your Health Ruling Is My Health RulingA4
Mitt Romney and the GOP try to turn the health-care ruling against the president, in Play of the Week.
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Politics
The Murky Calculus of Job ExportsA4
The Obama and Romney camps are fighting about whether Mitt Romney helped send U.S. jobs overseas. The claims show how hard it is to tell whether corporate growth abroad translates into fewer jobs at home.
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On the Stump
Fighting Words, Passing the Hat, Drilling DuelA4
Some Democrats appear to be relying on the occasional expletive, Michele Bachmann's congressional re-election bid and more in On the Stump.
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THE HEALTH-LAW DECISION

Health Industry
Figuring Out the Effect of a Watershed LawA6
The Wall Street Journal tracked the stories of four people who stand at the health-care law's junctions of policy and performance and looked at what the high court's decision means for them.
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Court's Ruling Puts Reins on Federal ReachA7
The landmark health-care ruling laid down new markers in constitutional law, confronting policy makers with potential future constraints on federal programs.
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Hospitals Urge Medicaid ExpansionA7
Hospitals are urging states to expand Medicaid under the new health-care law, bringing a potent political force to bear on governors who face pressure from Republicans to opt out of the beefed-up program.
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Congress Passes Student Loan, Highway BillA8
Congress passed a $120 billion highway bill that would extend highway funding and includes funds to prevent student-loan rates from doubling.
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Doubts Cast on Turkish Account of Jet IncidentA9
The Turkish warplane that Syria shot down in late June was likely in Syrian airspace, U.S. intelligence indicates, a finding at odds with Turkey's assessment.
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Afghan Phaseout of Security Firms Draws ConcernsA9
The Afghan government's plan to phase out private security firms has "increased the uncertainty over security" for U.S.-funded aid projects and increased the cost of guarding them, an audit found.
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Egypt Leader Channels RevolutionA9
Egypt's president-elect defied the ruling military council in a speech ahead of his swearing-in on Saturday.
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Morsi Promises to Free 'Blind Sheik' from U.S. PrisonA9
Egypt's President-elect Mohammed Morsi made a nod to his base in a speech when he pledged to seek the release of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman from U.S. custody.
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Tensions Derail Japan-Korea PactA11
In a sign of how historical tensions between South Korea and Japan continue to hamper efforts at improving relations, Seoul suddenly deferred plans to sign a modest military cooperation pact in Tokyo.
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Hong Kong Bonds With China DeltaA11
Hong Kong and its neighboring Pearl River Delta—south China's industrial hub in Guangdong province—are moving toward tighter integration, aided by new transportation links and efforts by both sides to bolster stronger economic ties.
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World WatchA11
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Young Mexicans Tweet the VoteA12
The Middle East had its Twitter revolutions, and now ahead of Sunday's election, once-apathetic Mexican youths are using hashtags and YouTube videos in a bid to shake up the political landscape.
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Markets
Europe's Stocks, Debt Get ReliefA10
News that the euro zone would eventually authorize its rescue fund to directly aid troubled banks helped propel a huge rally in Spanish and Italian bonds, the banks of Southern Europe, stock markets across the continent and the common currency itself.
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Germany Approves Bailout FundA10
Germany's parliament ratified the euro zone's permanent bailout fund, after approving rules that enshrine German-style budget discipline in euro-zone countries.
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In Ireland, Hope of Retroactive ReliefA10
Deals struck by European leaders early Friday elicited perhaps the loudest cheers from Ireland, which more than any other euro-zone nation has suffered the ill effects of a tight embrace between a country and its banks.
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Italy's Monti Hopes to Gain From Summit WinA10
Over the course of the round-the-clock summit in Brussels, the Italian premier deployed the kind of hard-nosed negotiating tactics that belie his public image as a mild-mannered economics professor.
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SPORTS

Olympics
It Only Took 40 Years to Catch UpA16
Steve Prefontaine's last significant running record is finally broken.
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Heard on the Field
The Roof Almost Claims Another Upset VictimA16
Unlike Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer survives at Wimbledon. Italy tries to solve the unsolvable in the Euro 2012 final.
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Why This Tour de France Will Be DifferentA16
The time-trial stages will be a bigger factor than before.
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China Facing 'Strategic Opportunity' to Open Capital Account

China currently faces a "strategic opportunity" to remove restrictions on investment flows, a central bank official said, while stressing that opening up the capital account will be a gradual process.
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