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A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google  —  Updated  —  Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.  —  The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …

Romney's new foe: Batman's ‘Bane’ … This summer's much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is getting an unusual boost from Democrats and other foes of Mitt Romney who are eager to tie the Gotham crushing villain to the GOP presidential candidate.

His Man in Macau: Inside the Investigation Into Sheldon Adelson's Empire  —  A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate spit of land in Macau and imagined a glittering strip of casinos, hotels and malls.  —  Where competitors saw obstacles …

Rush Limbaugh: Obama ‘hates this country’  —  President Barack Obama “hates this country,” and his philosophy appeals to “people with miserable, meaningless lives” and “people who don't count,” Rush Limbaugh said Monday.  —  “I think it can now be said, without equivocation …

Dick Cheney to talk sequester with House GOP  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney is flying to Washington from Wyoming to talk to top House Republicans about automatic cuts to defense spending, according to senior GOP sources.  —  Cheney will speak to Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's (Calif.) …

CNN's Burnett: Release tax returns, Romney  —  In a move that departed from CNN's traditional brand of journalism, host Erin Burnett called on Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns tonight.  —  “It's time, Mitt.  Time to put them on the table,” she said during tonight's edition of OutFront.

Jonah Falcon, Man With World's Largest Penis, Frisked By TSA At California Airport … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Anatomical Wonders, TSA, Video, 13.5 Inches, Jonah Falcon, San Francisco International Airport, Stop And Frisk, X-Ray Body Scanners, Airport Screening, Largest Penis …

Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court  —  Democrats now positive about both  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …

Kitty Wells, Trailblazing Country Singer, Dies at 92  —  The cause was complications of a stroke, said her grandson John Sturdivant Jr.  —  Ms. Wells was an unlikely and unassuming pioneer.  When she recorded “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” she was a 33-year-old wife …

Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S.  —  On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if pleasant, piece of news: For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American.  —  According to data from Environics Analytics WealthScapes published …

Obama switches off teleprompter  —  President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.  —  At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.

Hope, Growth and Opportunity Shows Limits of Disclosure Rules  —  WASHINGTON — In early 2010, a new organization called the Commission on Hope, Growth and Opportunity filed for nonprofit, tax-exempt status, telling the Internal Revenue Service it was not going to spend any money on campaigns.