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'Dancing With Stars' Beats NBA in Ratings

NEW YORK – More television viewers were interested in B-list stars learning how to dance and Diane Sawyer interviewing Brad Pitt (search) than either of the first two games of the NBA Finals (search). Fortunately for ABC, the network televised all of those events. The summer series “Dancing With the …

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Wynn Resorts Shares Jump, Other Casinos Rally

LOS ANGELES – Shares of Wynn Resorts Ltd. (WYNN) rose as much as 11 percent Wednesday and other casino operators also rallied as investors bet on continued growth in Las Vegas, analysts said. “Some of the Las Vegas-centric names may have bottomed out,” said William Schmitt, an analyst at CIBC …

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Car Bombs, Attacks Kill 38 in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents killed 38 people in a series of rapid-fire attacks Thursday, including three homicide car bombings within an hour and a drive-by shooting at a busy Baghdad (search) market that ratcheted up the bloody campaign to undermine Iraq’s government. Iraq’s interior minister, meanwhile, claimed the government offensive …

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