Stocks ease on earnings results

The stock market sank in early trading Friday after Visa and Amazon posted weaker results than Wall Street expected. If the declines continue, the market would erase almost all of its gains from earlier in the week. The stock market sank in morning...

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Seattle Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch expected to hold out of training camp

The usually reserved Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch is planning on making a big statement Friday by not attending the first day of the Seahawks' training camp, according to one of his former teammates. Lynch, 28, is set to make $5.5 million this...

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Brazil makes contact with members of isolated tribe in Amazon

The government says that it has had a rare contact with members of one of a few isolated indigenous tribes along the border with Peru in the Amazon region, and that the group has suffered violent attacks and exposure to disease. The Amazon region, especially...

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Lakers unlikely to pay luxury tax for 2014-15 season

After paying $9 million in luxury-tax penalties last year, the Lakers are unlikely to pay any tax for the 2014-15 season. The Lakers have been one of the league's heaviest taxpayers, penalized each of the last seven years for the franchise's expensive...

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State sees surge in high-paying white-collar jobs

One of the fastest-growing employment sectors in California is also among the highest paying. Professional services jobs — engineers, architects, lawyers, accountants and consultants — are growing in California at more than twice the rate of overall...

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Italy tries to cope with crush of migrants seeking refuge in Europe

Down a dusty back street in this Sicilian port, a crowded former school houses participants in what some are describing as nothing less than a biblical exodus. Bashar, 17, fled the civil war in Syria and proudly showed off the bullet wound in his...

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Murdoch's Fox to sell European TV systems for $9.3 billion

21st Century Fox is selling its interest in pay-TV systems in Germany and Italy as part of a $9.3-billion deal that will give Rupert Murdoch's media company a big pile of cash. Analysts have speculated that proceeds from the sale, which had been expected,...

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'Lucy' set to soar. Satellite deal gives Fox lots of cash.

After the coffee. Before breaking this heat wave. The Skinny: It's Friday and I have to wear a suit today to tape a TV interview about the Dodgers TV mess. If that's not bad enough, the interview is in Universal City, where it will be even hotter. Yes,...

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Pac-12 football gets second red-carpet premiere at Paramount

Paramount Pictures presents "Pac-12 Media Day II" on Thursday. Oregon, the team the media have picked to win the conference, had its klieg-light moment Wednesday. Now UCLA, the team picked to lose to the Ducks in the Pac-12 title game, gets its chance....

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Erick Aybar double, Kole Calhoun walk key Angels' win over Orioles

Erick Aybar stepped to the plate in the eighth inning Wednesday night looking for a first-pitch fastball and got it, ripping Tommy Hunter's 96-mph offering into the gap in left-center field for a score-tying double. Five batters later, Kole Calhoun...

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Portia de Rossi joins 'Scandal'; Ellen DeGeneres breaks news on Twitter

"Scandal" fans will be seeing a new face when the series returns on Sept. 25: Portia de Rossi is joining the cast for a super-secret story arc, according to her publicist. "Scandal," starting its fourth season, left off with Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington)...

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In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months, thaw and hop away

Each September, the wood frogs of Alaska do a very strange thing: They freeze. They do not freeze totally solid, but they do freeze mostly solid. Two-thirds of their body water turns to ice. If you picked them up, they would not move. If you bent one...

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Sony delays next 'Spider-Man.' Sexual Harassment at Comic-Con.

After the coffee. Before yelling at Obama for Wednesday's traffic mess. The Skinny: It took me forever to get home Wednesday night, all because the president just had to have a party at producer Shonda Rhimes' Hancock Park house. Maybe if they had invited...

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Wal-Mart names new CEO of U.S. division

Wal-Mart U.S. chief Bill Simon is stepping down after being in the role since June 2010, the company said Thursday. The world's largest retailer named the head of its Asian business as his replacement. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer said...

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Stocks open higher as investors gauge earnings

The U.S. stock market is opening slightly higher as several big companies across industries report second-quarter earnings. The Dow Jones industrial average rose two points, or 0.02 percent, to 17,089 as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time Thursday. The Standard...

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Man City supporters might prefer to walk alone after scarf mix-up

Boosters who purchased fan packages for the soccer game between Manchester City and Liverpool on July 30 at Yankee Stadium got an unwelcome surprise when they discovered they received Liverpool scarves instead of the Man City scarves they were expecting. ...

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L.A.-bound Obama sticking to fundraising, event schedule amid protests

Angelenos, get those alternative traffic routes ready. President Obama  will arrive in Los Angeles this afternoon on the third stop of a three-day West Coast swing that has combined a heavy dose of fundraising and a few official duties. The commander...

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Pac-12 media day: Expanded event begins with commissioner's address

The Pac-12 Conference's annual preseason football media gabfest, which begins Wednesday morning, has been expanded from one day to two. That's still only half as long as the four-day Southeastern Conference marathon. The Pac-12 event also has rotated...

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Hollywood wary of 21st Century Fox's ambitions. Blake out at Sony.

After the coffee. Before figuring out who to torment today. The Skinny: Whenever "The Godfather" comes on I can't change the channel. I also then start tweaking the script to fit the media world. I may need more therapy, or at least a vacation. Today's...

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Some 'Downton Abbey' details to hold you over before Season 5

American viewers are still a ways off from having the upstairs-downstairs bunch of "Downton Abbey" over as guests in their homes through the telly, but we have some crumpets of information to hold you over before then. Executive producer Gareth Neame...

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Stocks mixed as earnings reports roll in

Stock indexes were little changed in early trading Wednesday as mostly positive earnings in the technology sector were outweighed by disappointing news out of aircraft giant Boeing. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 30 points, or...

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Chinese firm sues Paramount in 'Transformers' product-placement beef

The management of a scenic park in southwestern China featured in "Transformers: Age of Extinction" said Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures and one of the studio's Chinese partners seeking about $3.4 million in damages over...

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Tim Tebow isn't acting like someone who's settled into an analyst role

Tim Tebow is going to be ready when football season rolls around. He's been working out hard with a quarterback guru in L.A. and a trainer for NFL players in Scottsdale, Ariz. One little thing, though -- Tebow is not a quarterback by profession at this...

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China detains employees of suspect meat seller

BEIJING — Five employees of a company accused of selling expired beef and chicken to McDonald's, KFC and other restaurants in China were detained by police Wednesday after an official said illegal activity was an organized effort by the supplier. China's...

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Any white knights for Time Warner? Netflix hits 50-million mark.

After the coffee. Before the joy of giving my cat a pill. The Skinny: I watched Episode 3 of HBO's "The Leftovers" last night. I think I'm done. I'm just not getting hooked and last night I found myself fast-forwarding, which is never a good sign. Today's...

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Allergan to slash workforce by 1,500

Botox maker Allergan Inc. said Monday that it will cut 1,500 employees, most of them in Southern California, in a cost-cutting effort the Irvine company hopes will help it fight off a hostile takeover bid by a Canadian rival. Stung by criticism that...

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Albuquerque police: 3 teens held in attacks on homeless, 2 deaths

Three teenagers are being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, suspected by local police in as many as 50 attacks on homeless people, including beating two men to death over the weekend in what experts say is a growing type of assault against an especially...

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Toronto 2014: Reitman, Baumbach and Rock to premiere new films

New movies from veteran directors such as Jason Reitman, Noah Baumbach and Shawn Levy — not to mention the work of some less expected filmmaking types — will make their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival when it kicks off this...

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D.C. court ruling deals new blow to Affordable Care Act

President Obama's healthcare law was dealt a new blow Tuesday as a federal appeals court ruled that due to a wording glitch in the Affordable Care Act, some low- and middle-income residents are not entitled to receive government assistance to subsidize...

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